Furman Library News


What We’re Reading – April 2025

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

Christy Allen
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus
Observations by Gaslight: Stories from the World of Sherlock Holmes by Lyndsay Faye

Robyn Andrews
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane

Samantha Bailey
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

Frances Choe
What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
The Man in the Banana Trees by Marguerite Sheffer
Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

Miles Dame
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries #2) by Martha Wells

Madeline Eastergard
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans by Michaeleen Doucleff
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

Lauren Lundy
Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire by Jennifer Wright Knust
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick
Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice by Alice Dreger

Jeffrey Makala
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo

Caroline Mills
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

Alyssa Nance
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters

Kathie Sloan
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

Kristina Switzer
Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men’s Gender Activism by Emily K. Carian
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England by Keith Thomas
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

Libby Young
Taiwan Travelogue by Shuangzi Yang

Alicia Zachary-Erickson
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
Water, Water: Poems by Billy Collins
The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

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.