Community Summer Reads 2020

We have created this webpage for members of our community - students, faculty and staff - to share their thoughts and recommendations about what they have read during the summer. Next week, we will also create a means for you share what you have read and what it means to you.

WMA Community Recommendations

From WMA Black Student Union

List of suggested literature

"Between The World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
"The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
"Kindred" by Octavia E. Butler
"There Is Confusion" by Jessie Redmon Fauset
"The Hate You Give" by Angie Thomas
"The Souls Of Black Folks" by W. E. B Dubois
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
"Quicksand" by Nella Larsen
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
"Splay Anthem" by Nathaniel Mackey
"The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes
"The Sport of the Gods" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Faculty Recommendations

From Director of Library Services Valeri Wallace

QUICK PICKS

Fiction

Memoirs

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

For faculty

From English Chair Meg Lenihan Hutcheson

Book name: "American Dirt"

Author: Jeanine Cummins

From Ms. Hutcheson: "JRoh recommended this book to me, and it was a page-turner. This novel was about a mother and son - who for terrible reasons beyond their control - had to flee Mexico and migrate to the U.S. The story covers their journey as they jump trains to travel up through Mexico, telling a harrowing tale of love, betrayal, desperation and survival. I think this book is a great read for anyone who wants to understand better people who might cross borders - even illegally - to save their life, and poses some great moral questions about what you would do if you were in the same situation."