Staff Picks: Our Country Friends
I don’t think it is a moral slip to feel fatigued by the pandemic after two-plus years of masks and distancing. So why would it be enjoyable to read an … Read More
Corona Reads
Reading for Recovery: Addiction and Literary Reflection
The below was first written for a project funded by the American Library Association, for a pilot project using reading as a way to address issues of addiction. For more … Read More
SEBS Little Free Library survived!
July 22, 2021, Rutgers Cook Campus (Facebook, Twitter): “Photo taken today in Foran Hall with an overflowing Little Free Library: the SEBS book exchange program has officially survived!” The SEBS Little … Read More
Staff Picks: Severance
Although published pre-COVID, Ling Ma’s brilliant debut novel Severance eerily mirrors the pandemic that has upended our world for the past year and a half. In Severance, Shen Fever is … Read More
New Resource: Guide to Poetry Books We Read
Celebrating Poetry Month in April 2021 inspired us at Books We Read to develop a new library guide called Books We Read: Poetry. The guide offers suggested poems as well … Read More
Covid-19 Books for Children
With no kids in the house for a long time, I can only imagine how difficult it is for parents with small children in these days. The first day my … Read More
What We (All) Have Been Reading
As a project and as a blog, we here at Books We Read have been very interested in what––and how––people are reading during the pandemic. Are people taking the time … Read More
125 Years of the New York Times Books Review
You have read the right titles. You even enjoyed many of them. But you still feel uncomfortable showing off in your own words how well read you are. Here is … Read More
Spring Break Responsibly
Spring break and books? The idea of reading recommendations is so obvious that it really annoys me that it didn’t occur to me. Following Julie’s lead, we decided that, instead … Read More
Spring Break Reads: Cannery Row
My pick for a spring break book isn’t something that was recently written, or even a book that I’ve recently read. Instead, John Steinbeck’s 1945 novel Cannery Row is the … Read More