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What We’re Reading – July 2025


In loving memory of Jenny Colvin, Associate Director for Outreach Services (2006-2022)

Christy Allen
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Robyn Andrews
Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct by P.M. Forni
Just A Job?: Communication, Ethics & Professional Life by George Cheney
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

Ed Babinski
The Last Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison

Samantha Bailey
Murder Goes to Market by Daisy Bateman

Frances Choe
A Saucer of Loneliness: the Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon Vol. 7 by Theodore Sturgeon
Dead Girls and Other Stories by Emily Geminder

Miles Dame
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

Lauren Lundy
Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Jeffrey Makala
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir by Mickey Leigh

Chris Marcum
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

Caroline Mills
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen

Alyssa Nance
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

Elizabeth Sanford Middleton
Hope for the Best (The Chronicles of St. Mary’s #10) by Jodi Taylor

Kathie Sloan
Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman
The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths

Kristina Switzer
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
Think to New Worlds : The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers by Joshua Blu Buhs

Jean Thrift
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

Libby Young
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire
James by Percival Everett
The Narrows by Ann Petry

Alicia Zachary-Erickson
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel
All Fours by Miranda July
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World by Leslie Kern
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
A Bit Much: Poems by Lyndsay Rush

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.

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