Furman Library News


What We’re Reading – November 2025

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

Christy Allen
A Knife in the Fog by Bradley Harper
Amari and the Despicable Wonders by B.B. Alston
Rip Van Winkle & the Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Robyn Andrews
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders
Silence, Civility, and Sanity: Hope for Humanity in a Digital Age by Stephanie Bennett
Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton

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 Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà, trans. by Mara Lethem
Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin

Lauren Lundy
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance by Paul Mason
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Gay Poems for Red States by Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr.

Jeffrey Makala
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Auctioneer: Adventures in the Art Trade by Simon de Pury

Nashieli Marcano
La Sociedad de la Nieve by Pablo Vierci

Chris Marcum
John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations with an introduction by Jelani Cobb

Caroline Mills
Macramé: the Art of Creative Knotting by Virginia I. Harvey
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

Alyssa Nance
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Genre and the New Rhetoric edited by Aviva Freedman and Peter Medway
The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio Marsh

Elizabeth Sanford Middleton
Plan for the Worst by Jodi Taylor
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Kathie Sloan
The Rose Field by Philip Pullman
The Cornish Christmas Pantomime Murder by Fiona Leitch
The Black Wolf by Louise Penny

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
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

Micah Wingard
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Alicia Zachary-Erickson
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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.