We are pleased to bring you the 2019 Alumni Summer Reading List. Every year, New School alumni publish moving, insightful, entertaining books in a range of genres. Dive into the season with this year's exemplary collection of books by alumni, including
fiction, nonfiction, poetry, self-help, and literature for children and young adults.
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Do you have an upcoming book that you would like to have considered for next year's Alumni Summer Reading List? Contact us at alumni@newschool.edu.
Memoir
Ani DiFranco, BA Liberal Arts
No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir (Viking)
Lindsey A. Freeman, PhD Sociology and Historical Studies '13
This Atom Bomb in Me (Stanford University Press)
Mira Jacob, MFA Creative Writing '10
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations (One World)
Jason Rezaian, BA Liberal Arts '01
Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison - Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out (Harper Collins)
Fiction
Jennifer Baker, MFA Creative Writing '00
Everyday People: The Color of Life - A Short Story Anthology (Simon & Schuster)
Andrew Cotto, MFA Creative Writing '08
Cucina Tipica: An Italian Adventure (Black Rose Writing)
Lee Matthew Goldberg, MFA Creative Writing '06
The Desire Card (Fahrenheit Press)
Gina Marie Guadagnino, MFA Creative Writing '10
The Parting Glass (Atria Books)
Robert Haller, MFA Creative Writing '15
Another Life (Blackstone Publishing)
Alcy Leyva, MFA Creative Writing '16
And Then There Were Crows (Black Spot Books)
Christopher Shade, BA Liberal Arts '11
The Good Mother of Marseilles (Paloma Press)
Patrick Suraci, PhD Psychology '81
A Dream of Life (Archway Publishing)
Katharine Weber, BA Liberal Arts ’73
Still Life With Monkey (Paul Dry Books)
Self-Help
Lisa Marie Basile, MFA Creative Writing '12
Light Magic for Dark Times (Fair Winds Press)
Mollie West Duffy, MFA Transdisciplinary Design '15
No Hard Feelings: Emotions at Work (Penguin Publishing Group)
Claire Bidwell Smith, BA Liberal Arts '02
Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief (Da Capo Lifelong Books)
Social Sciences & History
Tanya Toft Ag, MA Media Studies '11
Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art (Intellect)
Rien Fertel, MA Historical Studies '08
The Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera (Bloomsbury)
Aleksandr Gevorkyan, MA Economics '08, PhD Economics '09
Transition Economies: Transformation, Development, and Society in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, 1st e dition (Routledge)
Sophie Lewis, MA Politics '13
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso)
Mariana Mazzucato, PhD Economics '99
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (Penguin)
Christina Proenza-Coles, MA Liberal Studies '98, MA Sociology '98, PhD Sociology and Historical Studies '04
American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World (NewSouth Books)
Kati Stevens, MFA Creative Writing '07
Fake (Bloomsbury)
Astra Taylor, MA Liberal Studies '03
Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone (Metropolitan)
Poetry
Dante Micheaux, BA Liberal Arts '02
Circus (Indolent Books)
Cate Peebles, MFA Creative Writing '07
Thicket (Lost Roads Press)
Charlotte Seley, BA Liberal Arts '07
The World is My Rival (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing)
Robert Siek, MFA Creative Writing '99
We Go Seasonal (Sibling Rivalry Press)
Allen Strouse, BA Liberal Arts '08
Transfer Queen (Punctum Books)
Literature for Children & Young Adults
Connor Coyne, MFA Creative Writing '07
Urbantasm (Gothic Funk Press)
Mia García, MFA Creative Writing '09
The Resolutions (Harper Collins)
Corey Ann Haydu, MFA Creative Writing '12
Eventown (Harper Collins)
Suzanne LaFleur, MFA Creative Writing '08
Counting to Perfect (Wendy Lamb Books)
Caron Levis, MFA Creative Writing '08
Stop That Yawn (Atheneum / Simon & Schuster)
Laura Silverman, MFA Creative Writing '15
You Asked f or Perfect (Sourcebooks Fire)
Duncan Tonatiuh, BFA Integrated Design '08 and BA Liberal Arts '08
Undocumented: A Worker's Fight (Harry N. Abrams)
Renée Watson, BA Liberal Arts '09, and Ellen Hagan, MFA Creative Writing '03
Watch Us Rise (Bloomsbury)
Faculty Book
Sigrid Nunez, Creative Writing Program faculty member
Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction
The Friend (Riverhead Books)