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Favorite Reads of 2018

December 12, 2018 By Kelley

The turbulent year of 2018 is finally coming to a close!

As we journey into winter break, the English Department wants to offer a few book recommendations for you to peruse on the plane and curl up with on the couch. Get ready to update your Goodreads page!

  • The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
  • The Education of British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe
  • The Female Persuasion by Meg Wollitzer (x2)
  • Educated by Tara Westover (x2)
  • The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
  • Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
  • M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang 
  • Martin Marten by Brian Doyle
  • Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
  • Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
  • An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green 
  • Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
  • Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
  • The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
  • Crux by Jean Guerrero
  • The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
  • Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
  • To Raise a Clenched Fist to the Sky by T. Thorn Coyle
  • Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  • Brief Cases by Jim Butcher
  • Daughters of the Winter Queen by Nancy Goldstone 

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