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Bing-Shan Fazio

They are all in Chinese.

• 漫走在熊的國度裡 = Walking in the bear country
• Translation of: That's the way the cookie crumbles: 62 all new commentaries on the fascinating chemistry of everyday life.
• Also, Chinese fiction, most funny ones!

Cheyenne Stradinger

• The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich (Despite this saying it's an oral history, it is a book in translation.)
• Iceland's Bell by Halldór Laxness. 
• I read Independent People a few years ago and I LOVED it, so I thought I'd try another of Laxness' books. I'm not quite finished reading this one...

Teresa Neely

• Josephine Foard and the Glazed Pottery of Laguna Pueblo
• How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People by D. L. Hughley and Doug Moe

Glenn Koelling

• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce
• Rat Queens #4 by Kurtis J. Wiebe Illustrated by Owen Gieni

Monica Dorame

• I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories
• Then She Was Gone
• In Our Own Voices Redux: The Faces of Librarianship Today
• A Quilt of Words: Women’s Dairies, Letters & Original Accounts of Life in the Southwest 1860-1960

Arianne Avery

• Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times (edited by Carolina De Robertis)
• We Are Never Meeting In Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby
• I’m currently reading Calypso by David Sedaris.

Adrienne Warner

• I’m a huge audiobook fan, and listen to all my books these days. I get them through the public library and listen to them on my phone – it’s the only way I do the dishes anymore!
• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

• Educated by Tara Westover
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
• Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
• You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
• Ghosted by Rosie Walsh

Amy Jackson

Unfortunately most of my books haven’t been very fun. But here’s a sample:

• Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
• Artists in the university: positioning artistic research in higher education by Jenny Wilson
• The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas by Diana Taylor
• How we work : live your purpose, reclaim your sanity, and embrace the daily grind by Leah Weiss

And some of my son’s favorites that we read together:

• Bitty Bot's big beach getaway by Tim McCanna
• Take a kiss to school by Angela McAllister
• NanoBots by Chris Gall
• Night night, Groot by Brendan Deneen

Lucia Katz

• The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin- It is a science fiction/ fantasy novel about a post-apocalyptic world. It won a Hugo award for best novel in 2016.

Ed Padilla

• (A re-read of) Letters from Prison by Antonio Gramsci (remarkable)
• Classical Arab Islam by Tarif Khalidi
• How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
• Michelangelo: The Graphic Work (currently reading)
• Currently re-reading Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Anne Schultz

• The reappearing act – Kate Fagan
• The education of Will – Patricia McConnell
• Little fires everywhere – Celeste Ng
• The body in the boudoir – Katherine Hall Page
• The body in the piazza – Katherine Hall Page

Wendy Pederson:

• Life Reimagined by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
• The Broken Earth Trilogy (The Fifth Season; The Obelisk Gate; The Stone Sky) by N.K. Jemisin

Mary Wyant:

• The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies
• Faith: A Journey For All by Jimmy Carter
• Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim's Tale by Ian Morgan Cron

Mary Tuttle

• Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
• (A re-read of) The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.
• Just begun Creative Quest by Questlove

Alyssa Russo

For work I read a few books connected to fact-checking, including

• Objectivity in Journalism by Steven Maras.

For fun I read

• The Italian Party by Christina Lynch
• The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (because Glenn and Lori were raving about it, and now that I'm reading it I totally get it; what a captivating read.

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