Furman Library News


What We’re Reading – September 2025

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

Christy Allen
The Moor: A Mary Russell Novel by Laurie R. King
A Witch Awakens: A Fire Circle Mystery by Ellis Elliot
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Robyn Andrews
Dirty Truths: Reflections on Politics, Media, Ideology, Conspiracy, Ethnic Life and Class Power by Michael Parenti
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: Essays by Doris Lessing
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes

Ed Babinski
The Last Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison

Samantha Bailey
Murder Goes to Market by Daisy Bateman
Lessons from Plants by Beronda L. Montgomery

Frances Choe
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays by Maris Kreizman
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Lauren Lundy
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Jeffrey Makala
The Guest by Emma Cline
Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone by Marky Ramone with Rich Herschlag

Nashieli Marcano
The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield

Chris Marcum
They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel

Caroline Mills
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

Alyssa Nance
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
Genre and the New Rhetoric edited by Aviva Freedman and Peter Medway

Elizabeth Sanford Middleton
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
Bunny by Mona Awad

Kathie Sloan
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar

Kristina Switzer
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter
The Works of Rabelais by François Rabelais
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan J. Jeffers

Jean Thrift
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

Micah Wingard
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman
Citizen Illegal: Poems by José Olivares

Alicia Zachary-Erickson
Watermelon by Marian Keyes
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan

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.