As we begin the official start to summer break, ZSR Librarians and staff members wanted to take this opportunity to share a few reading recommendations for all our summer readers out there. We have also included a special collection of digital audiobooks for your summer listening enjoyment. And please feel free to share your own reading recommendations in the comments! Have a safe and relaxing summer everyone!

Elizabeth Ellis, Teaching Librarian

• Intermezzo: A Novel by Sally Rooney
• Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna
• Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
• Wellness by Nathan Hill

Veronica Escamilla-Brady, Business Manager

• Vacationland by John Hodgman
• Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald
• Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Gray Hendrix
• Babel by R.F. Kuang
• The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

Craig Fansler, Preservation Librarian

• Three Minutes in Poland by Glenn Kurtz

Joy Gambill, Research & Instruction Librarian

• The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
• The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable

Jemma Johnson, Research Services Specialist

• Silver on the Road (The Devil’s West #1) by Laura Anne Gilman
• That Time I Got Drunk And Saved A Demon (Mead Mishaps #1) by Kimberly Lemming
• Wolfsong (Green Creek #1) by TJ Klune
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness by Pooja Lakshmin

Amanda Kaufman, Learning and Instructional Services Librarian

• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
• Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
• Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes
• The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
• New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James McBridle
• Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

Joddy Marchesoni, Data Services Librarian

• Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park

Kathy Martlock, Resource Maintenance Specialist

• My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Marcia Phillips, Metadata Specialist

• All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

Morgan Ritchie-Baum, Business & Social Science Librarian

• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Roz Tedford, Director for Research, Instruction, and Outreach

• House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune

Meghan Webb, Instruction & Outreach Librarian

• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
• The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
• How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks

Summer Audiobooks