In last month's Kenyon News Digest we asked Kenyon alumni and parents to share what they were reading. Here are their recommendations. Enjoy!
“10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You (But Can’t, Because He Needs the Job),” by Oliver Thomas
From Jori McDevitt '91
“A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir,” by Kurt Eichenwald
From Gamber Tegtmeyer '55
“An American Marriage,” by Tayari Jones
From Simone Holzer '16
“Born a Crime,” by Trevor Noah
From Sheila Virgil P'22
“Buddenbrooks,” by Thomas Mann
“Children of Blood and Bone, Legacy of Orisha,” by Tomi Adeyemi
From Zoey Erdenebileg '14
“Einstein's Refrigerator and Other Stories from Flip Side Of History,” by Steve Silverman
From R. Michael Sly, M.D., '56,
“Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed The World,” by Eileen McNamara
“Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think”, by Hans Rosling
From Lisa Coney '78
“The Fifth Risk,” by Michael Lewis
From Betsy Schram '74
“Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America,” by Jill Leovy
From Ginger (Baran) Lyons '05
“Gnomon,” by Nick Harkaway
“Home Fire,” by Kamila Shamsie
From Jenna Wendler '17
”How to Write an Autobiographical Novel,” by Alexander Chee
“Killing the SS,” by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
From Glenn Fritz '71
“Liberty's Last Stand,” by Stephen Coonts
From David L. Dink ‘77
“Lincoln in the Bardo,” by George Saunders
From Dave Newell '75
“Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border,” by Porter Fox
From Schuyler Longmore '14
“Once upon a River”
From Mary Schwendener ‘85
“One Beautiful Dream,” by Jennifer Fulwiler
From Dawn Gardiner '04
“Pachinko,” by Min Jin Lee
From Clara Pinchbeck '18
“Seven Sorcerers,” by Caro King
From Becki Miller Rutsky '93
“The Anatomy of Melancholy,” by Robert Burton
From Lee Bauer '16
“The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu,” by Joshua Hammer
From Lamar Hill '60
“The Idiot,” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
From Karie Lombard-Bryce '93
“The Name of the Rose,” by Umberto Eco
From Becky Grajeda ‘05
“The Name of the Wind,” by Patrick Rothfuss
From Anna Livak Hale '08
“The Overstory,” by Richard Powers
“The Truth About Aaron: My Journey to Understand My Brother,” by Jonathan Hernandez
From David Mastrangelo '09
“The Veil of Veronica,” by Gertrud von Le Fort
“These Truths: A History of the United States,” by Jill Lepore
From Kaley Bell '06
“Unsheltered,” by Kate Atkinson
From Margery Artley Hoffman '75