Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

Imbued with Coco Mellors's signature combination of humor and heart, Blue Sisters is a story of what it takes to keep living after loss--and, ultimately, to fall in love with life again.

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts--from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and...

Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu

With Hannah and their two-year-old son back in Paris, Mamush sets out on an unexpected journey across America in search of answers to questions he'd been told never to ask. As he does so, he begins to understand that perhaps the only chance he has of saving his family and making it back home is to...

The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne

And yet, for all its boldface cast of characters and jaw-dropping scenes, The Friday Afternoon Club is no mere celebrity memoir. It is, down to its bones, a family story that embraces the poignant absurdities and best and worst efforts of its loveable, infuriating, funny, and moving characters--its...

The Threshold of Dissent by Marjorie N. Feld

Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews Throughout the twentieth century, American Jewish communal leaders projected a unified position of unconditional support for Israel, cementing it as a cornerstone of American Jewish identity. This unwavering position served to...

Loving Sylvia Plath by Emily Van Duyne

A nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century.

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Booker Prize

Booker Prize Winner

Samantha Harvey's novel Orbital, earned the 2024 Booker Prize. The book portrays six astronauts grappling with life in the isolation of space over the course of one day. Harvey described the novel as "space pastoral - a kind of nature writing about the beauty of space." It is the first Booker Prize...

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Book Club Pick

The SAS Book Club is diving into the mysterious world of Dan Brown's thrilling bestseller, The Da Vinci Code. This book promises suspense, mystery and intellectual intrigue. With its intricate puzzles and historical references, The Da Vinci Code has kept readers hooked for many years and has sparked...

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024

On October 10, 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her book, The Vegetarian According to the press release Kang was awarded "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." The Vegetarian also...

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Nigerian Independence Day Display

A new display is featured in the library this month. Gloria Oladejo '25 created a display for Nigerian Independence Day. Gloria selected books by some of her favorite Nigerian authors - Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ayobami Adebayo, and Helen Oyeyemi. These authors are deemed as some of...