Summer Reading
Come May, students sometimes ask for summer reading suggestions.
Here are some of our favorites—books that have made big impressions on us, that we really like, or that we’re planning to read ourselves this summer. Enjoy!
Sarah Barkat
- Paul Hawken, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Ben Havey
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
- Julia Galef, “Rationally Speaking” (podcast)
- Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
- Kenny Werner, Effortless Mastery
Max Kupperberg
- Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- Plato, The Republic
- Assia Djabar, Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
Jennie Uleman
- Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
- John Dupré, The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science
- Avery F. Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
- Clarice Lispector, Água Vita
- Jill Stauffer, Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard
Emiliano Diaz
- Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- Plato, The Republic
- Assia Djabar, Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
Casey Haskins
- Naomi Orestes and Erik Conway, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future
- Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True
- Jeremy Lent, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- Mark Johnson, Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding
- Veronica Toumanova, Why Tango: Essays on Learning, Dancing, and Living
Morris Kaplan
- Hannah Arendt, Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-75
- Judith Butler, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power
- Ronan Farrow, War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
- Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia