What We’re Reading – November 2024

Christy Allen
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Anima/l by Fiona Owens

Robyn Andrews
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy D. Wilson
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation by Naa Oyo A. Kwate

Ed Babinski
The Origins of Isaiah 24-27: Josiah’s Festival Scroll for the Fall of Assyria by Christopher B. Hays

Samantha Bailey
The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn
How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas by Jeff Guinn
The Great Santa Search by Jeff Guinn

Brittany Champion
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by Bell Hooks

Frances Choe
The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg Device by Kevin Brockmeier
Edith Holler by Edward Carey
The Sympathizer by Viet Than Nguyen

Miles Dame
Dust by Hugh Howey
American War by Omar El Akkad
Inverse Cowgirl by Alicia Roth Weigel
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Madeline Eastergard
The Shining by Stephen King
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Mary Fairbairn
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin

Rebekah Lawrence
Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work by Robyn Gobbel

Dr. Jeffrey Makala
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson
A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Susanna Ashton
The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert A. Gross

Dr. Caroline Mills
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

Alyssa Nance
Acting the Part by ZR Ellor
The Maid by Nita Prose
Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards
The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

Kathie Sloan
The Lady Astronaut Series by Mary Robinette Kowal:
The Calculating Stars
The Fated Sky
The Relentless Moon

and
Redshirts by John Scalzi

Kristina Switzer
Gullah Culture in America by Wilbur Cross

Jean Thrift
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
All About Asset Allocation (2nd edition) by Richard A. Ferri

Libby Young
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
¡Santo!: Varieties of Latino/a Spirituality by Edwin David Aponte

Alicia Zachary-Erickson
We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O’Toole
How to Leave the House by Nathan Newman
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes

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.