Title:Hoya Holiday Reads Round-up: Winter 2024

With winter holidays fast approaching, you may have shopping on your mind–and there’s nothing better than giving the gift of a good book. If you, your friends, and your family are looking to support a Hoya author, here are 10 books to buy, give, or read right away: 

Fiction

Where to Carry the Sound by Nina Sudhakar (L’13, MSFS’13)

In this collection of nine magical short stories, characters in Prohibition-era Bombay, the Arctic Circle, or even a Lunar outpost excavate their own lives to forge a path of belonging that will carry them into the future.

My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson (B’01)

This coming-of-age story follows a young gay Black man who runs away from his wealthy family in Indiana to strike out on his own in 1980s New York City.

The Wild One by Colleen McKeegan (C’11)

When a deadly childhood secret binding three young women is revealed, it threatens to destroy their lives in this dark and twisted thriller.

Where All Is Brought To Light by Heather Anderson Grant (SFS’75)

In her poetry collection, Grant explores her connection to the natural world in Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Virginia.

Zoya by Alexandra Pugachevsky (MSFS’01)

When a twelve-year-old Soviet girl discovers a parallel reality and her multiverse double in Paris, her reality is forever changed in the first book of this young adult fantasy trilogy.

Nonfiction

Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin (C’99)

This historic account follows Alaric, a Gothic soldier denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, as his life moves forward during the fall of the Roman Empire.

Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre (SFS’03)

A ground-breaking history of Britain’s role in creating wine’s New World

Copycat: A fabulous (and slightly naughty) memoir of a life in fashion by Cristina Adams (SLL’83) and Victor Costa

Copycat follows the personal and professional journey of a boy whose love of haute couture led him to become the “greatest copyist in the world.”

Boxed Out of the NBA: Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League by Sylvan Sobel (C’77) and Jay Rosenstein (C’77)

Follow the story of pro basketball’s top minor league in the 1950s and ’60s, when many great players were kept out of the NBA by unwritten racial quotas.

The Examined Life: A Journal of Questions and Quotes by Jermaine Thomas (C’10)

A semi-guided self-help journal containing 100 thought-provoking questions and 300 insightful quotes aimed at enhancing psychological well-being and cultivating personal wisdom

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