In loving memory of Jenny Colvin, Associate Director for Outreach Services (2006-2022)
Christy Allen
Whitechapel Horrors by Edward B. Hanna
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Robyn Andrews
To Fill a Yellow House by Sussie Anie
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon (Advance Readers Copy)
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
“Sadness can make us bitter or wise. We get to choose.”
― Allen Levi, Theo of Golden
Samantha Bailey
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
“Things don’t have to stay as what they started out as.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes
Frances Choe
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Bela Shayevich
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
The Flame: Poems, Notebooks, Lyrics, Drawings by Leonard Cohen
“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
Megan Doremus
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson
“Of all that we’re asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.”
― William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land
Lauren Lundy
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era by Michael S. Kimmel
“Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself: all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like all else, are expendable.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Jeffrey Makala
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography by Richard Hell
“All the most serious art is not only sad but hilarious. What other intelligent way to live is there but to laugh about it?”
― Richard Hell, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
Chris Marcum
Billie Holiday: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Billie Holiday
“There’s a lot of pain in my voice because there’s a lot of pain in my life.”
― Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Alyssa Nance
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love by Tori Dunlap
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
“Despite being out of uniform, he looked oddly formal, as if he was the sole person in serif font.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
Elizabeth Sanford Middleton
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Blackout by Connie Willis
“None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one’s never thought of does.”
― Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
Kathie Sloan
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
King Sorrow by Joe Hill
The Martian by Andy Weir
“No one needed a magic wardrobe that opened into Narnia if they had a library card; if you had a library card, you had a thousand magic wardrobes to choose from, ten thousand.”
― Joe Hill, King Sorrow
Jean Thrift
Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
“Oh, I was young then, and I walked in my body like a Queen.”
― Lee Smith, Fair and Tender Ladies
Micah Wingard
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown
Wintering: A Season with Geese by Stephen Rutt
“But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
Alicia Zachary-Erickson
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
The Rose Field by Philip Pullman
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
“I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light.”
― Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
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.