Ah, summer… Long days, warm temperatures, and far too many mosquitoes.
Let’s go back inside and read!
Wherever you find yourself this summer, we at the Divinity Library hope you are getting an opportunity to rest and recharge, and rediscover the joy of reading without the pressure of class deadlines. To that end, what follows is a short list of recommendations for summer reading, compiled with the help of the faculty and staff at Duke Divinity School. Happy reading!
Novels:
C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
Spiritual Writings:
Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart
Pauli Murray: selected sermons and writings
Essays and Stories:
Wendell Berry, The art of loading brush: new agrarian writings
History:
Judith Herrin, Byzantium: the surprising life of a medieval empire
Harry S. Stout, Upon the altar of the nation: a moral history of the American Civil War
What else have you been reading this summer? Let us know in the comments!
