Looking for a smart beach read? The SLU library staff put together a list of some of our new and classic favorites. You can find all of these in the display area near the Browsing Collection in ODY:
Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
T.C. Boyle, Talk Talk
Claude A. Clegg, The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama
John Darnielle, Universal Harvester
Martin Duberman, Stonewall
Steve Erickson, Shadowbahn
Peter Evans and Ava Gardner, Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Bradley Garrett, Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, Grass
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, The Waiting
Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Joe Hill, Full Throttle
Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
Hiromi Kawakami, People from My Neighborhood: Stories
Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
Stephen King, Duma Key
Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
David Kushner, Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto
Stephen Markley, Ohio
John McPhee, Looking for a Ship
John McPhee, Uncommon Carriers
Alan Moore, Watchmen
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
Ogai Mori, The Wild Geese
Toni Morrison, Recitatif
Joyce Carol Oates, Carthage
Stewart O'Nan, Songs for the Missing
Susan Ouellette, An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman: The Journal of Phebe Orvis, 1820-1830
Marisha Pessl, Night Film
Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada
Tamara Santibanez, Could This be Magic?: Tattooing as Liberation Work
Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World
C.K. Steele, Digital Black Feminism
Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock
Michio Takeyama, The Harp of Burma
Mary M. and Brian Talbot, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
Osamu Tezuka, Buddha
Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary
Joff Winterhart, Days of Bagnold Summer
David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle