Craig’s List: 2022 summer reading

Robert Briggs

• Andrew Blauner, The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life
• Craig Brown, 150 Glimpses of the Beatles
• Paul Goldberger, Ballpark: Baseball in the American City Baseball in the American City
• Mark Harris, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

Chris Capano

• John Kaag, American Philosophy: A Love Story
• Bill Lichtenstein, WBCN and the American Revolution: How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll
• The Offbeat Chefs, The Kitchen without Borders: Recipes and Stories from Refugee and Immigrant Chefs
• Jerry Thornton, From Darkness to Dynasty: The First 40 Years of the New England Patriots
• StanleyTucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

Jen Dick

• Charlie Jane Anders, Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories
• Fecilia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom
• Da'Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
• Miriam Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Sara Erdmann

• Huma Abedin, Both/And
• Elizabeth Brundage, All Things Cease to Appear
• Tana French, The Witch Elm
• Katherine May, Wintering
• Miriam Toews, Fight Night

David Fox

• Elizabeth Alexander, The Trayvon Generation
• Paul Bloom, Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
• Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
• Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
• Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
• Samantha Rose Hill, Hannah Arendt
• Kendra James, Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
• Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
• Kyla Schuller, The Trouble With White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

David Freilach

• Bram Stoker, Dracula

Anna Gesing

• Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness
• Angeline Boulley, The Fire Keepers Daughter
• Lucy Foley, The Paris Apartment
• Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

Jerry Hagler

• Jean Clottes, What is Paleolithic Art? Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
• Phillip Dettmer, Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive
• Johannes Kraus, A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
• Donald Prothero, Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas About Our Planet
• Matt Richtel, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System-A Tale in Four Lives

Sherri Hallgren

• Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

Terry Hartford

• David Benioff, City of Thieves
• John Kennedy O’toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
  

Chris Ishizuka-Wade

• N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

Tom Kane

• Sarah Ahmed, Complaint!
• Lauren Berlant, The Inconvenience of Other People
• Dan Charnas, Dilla Time
• Clifford Conner, The Tragedy of American Science
• Gil Scott Heron, The Last Holiday Mariame Kaba, We do This Til We Free Us
• Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was
• Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
• Jason Mott, One Hell of a Book
• Julie Schumaker, The Shakespeare Requirement

Joan Maguire

• Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

Caroline McCarthy

• Fredrik Backman, Anxious People: A Novel

Kate McQuade

• Jericho Brown, The Tradition
• Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
• Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals
• Elizabeth Kolbert, Under A White Sky: The Nature of the Future
• Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind
• Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
• Alexis Schaitkin, Saint X
• Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
• Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Caroline Odden

• Michael Brown, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
• Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
• Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
• Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
• Dava Sobel, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

Hayden Stinson

• David Graeber, Debt: the First 5000 Years

Dri Tattersfield

• Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
• Bell Hooks, All About Love
• Mariame Kaba, We Do This Til' We Free Us
• Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
• Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish
• Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
• Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis Rivers Solomon, The Deep
• Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother
• Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

Taylor Ware

• Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
• Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway
  

Laura Warner

• TJ Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea
• Sara Novic, True Biz
• Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home
• Alice Wong, Disability Visibility