Summer 2024

Books chosen to stretch the mind and feed the imagination—from the brutal beauty of the American frontier to the fall of the Romanovs, with Bertie Wooster's comic misadventures, the forgotten woman behind modern medicine, and a reckoning with America's long suspicion of ideas along the way.

Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
Historical Novel
  
The Code of the Woosters
PG Wodehouse
Comic Novel
  
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Bioethical Narrative
  
Anti-intellectualism in American Life
Richard Hofstadter
Sociological Philosophical Treatise
  
The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Historical Biography
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