The staff at MU’s Engineering library is ecstatic to present our monthly book recommendation program: Reading Revelry!
Each month, our library staff will pick one or more books as recommendations for students to curl up and unwind from their studies with a good book or two (or more).
Please visit our Reading Revelry library guide to keep up with each month’s selections. Happy reading!
Our Selections for the month of June:
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
ISBN: 9781635570304
Publication Date: 2020-02-18
Dive into a fantasy world rich with adventure, political game, magic, and dragons in Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree. This book follows a Queen pressured with producing an heir to her throne, a lady-in-waiting tied to a secret society, a Lord banished from his kingdom by those looking to destroy it from the inside, and a young soon-to-be dragon rider willing to put her future on the line for an outsider.
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
ISBN: 9780374312718
Publication Date: 2020-04-28
George Johnson’s “Memoir Manifesto” is an honest, poignant recounting of their life experience as a black, queer person growing up in New Jersey and Virginia. The book follows Johnson from childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. Beautifully told, the story navigates finding one’s own intersectional identity out of trials, triumphs, pain, and joy.
Content Warnings: Sexual Assault, Racial Slurs and Violence, Homophobic Slurs and Violence, and Familial Violence
ISBN: 9780983875550
Publication Date: 2015-04-14
Medical student Amal creates a rift with his conservative parents by coming out to them. After a night of trying to handle his emotional distress with alcohol, he wakes up to man by the name of TJ frying eggs and singing Paul Simon in his kitchen. TJ reveals that the two had made a drunken pact to drive from Berkeley to Providence. Amal needs to get there to fulfill a promise to his younger sister that he will attend her graduation. TJ has his own reasons for making the trip. Thus ensues a road trip between the two that is sweet, sometimes serious, and almost always heartening.