What We’re Reading – December 2024

Christy Allen
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
Clutches of a Fiend: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Adventure of The Illustrious Client” by Arthur Conan Doyle, with Annotations and Commentary edited, with an introduction, by Steven T. Doyle, BSI

Robyn Andrews
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy D. Wilson
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation by Naa Oyo A. Kwate

Ed Babinski
The Origins of Isaiah 24-27: Josiah’s Festival Scroll for the Fall of Assyria by Christopher B. Hays

Samantha Bailey
The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn
How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas by Jeff Guinn
The Great Santa Search by Jeff Guinn

Brittany Champion
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by Bell Hooks

Frances Choe
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 guest edited by N.K. Jemisin, series editor John Joseph Adams
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer

Miles Dame
Dust by Hugh Howey
American War by Omar El Akkad
Inverse Cowgirl by Alicia Roth Weigel
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Madeline Eastergard
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Mary Fairbairn
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
The Oh She Glows Cookbook: Over 100 Vegan Recipes to Glow from the Inside Out by Angela Liddon
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

Rebekah Lawrence
Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work by Robyn Gobbel

Dr. Jeffrey Makala
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson
A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Susanna Ashton
The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert A. Gross

Dr. Caroline Mills
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Kathie Sloan
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Kristina Switzer
Haunted by God by James McBride Dabbs
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England by Keith Thomas

Jean Thrift
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

Libby Young
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Alicia Zachary-Erickson
Hum by Helen Phillips
Midnight Library by Matt Haig
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams

Getting the books shown here

Each of the titles underneath the name of the person reading them are links to the closest place (or potentially easiest way) to borrow a copy of the book for yourself. The link selected is prioritized in the following manner:

  • Furman has the book in some format.
  • Another academic library in South Carolina has the book, and you can request it through PASCAL DELIVERS via the given link at no charge to you. Just login with your network username and password, then click the SELECT WITH PASCAL DELIVERS button. The info about the book will be auto-populated in the form. You just click the agreement checkbox at the bottom and press SUBMIT. The book will be delivered to the main library by the PASCAL courier, and you can pick it up at the Circulation Desk.
  • The Greenville County Library System.
  • WorldCat shows a record through which you can access our interlibrary loan request form. We will find a library that has the book and have it snail mailed here at no charge to you. If you’re on campus or connected to the Furman network via VPN, you’ll see a box to the right that says ACCESS FROM YOUR LIBRARIES and a button that says VIEW ACCESS OPTIONS. Click that button and a box will open saying GET IT FROM FURMAN UNIVERSITY. Under that box title, you should see a link that says REQUEST ITEM THROUGH INTERLIBRARY LOAN. Clicking that link will bring up a pre-populated interlibrary loan request form. Just scroll to the bottom and click the SUBMIT button.