As summer comes into full swing, it's the perfect time to sit poolside, head to the beach, or stay inside, cool and comfortable, with a good book. Join the YAA’s reading journey with our summer list featuring recent publications from Yale faculty. The list includes novels, historical nonfiction, and a collection of personal essays.
- Vermeer's Afterlives by Ruth Yeazell, Sterling Professor of English, Director of Graduate Studies
- Perverse Attachments: Reading Fiction Around 1800 by Anastasia Eccles, Assistant Professor of English
- After the Fall: From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke Our World by Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs
- America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History
- This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History by Beverly Gage, John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History
- Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion by Tisa Wenger, Professor of American Religious History
- Trump’s Ten Commandments by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies and Lester Crown Professor in Management Practice
- Frog And Other Essays by Anne Fadiman, Francis Writer-in-Residence; Professor in the Practice, English
- Estate by Cynthia Zarin, Senior Lecturer of English
- Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness by Jonathan Howard, Assistant Professor of English and Black Studies
Have more suggestions for this list? Tag us with your summer reading finds #YaleAlumni or @YaleAlumni on social!
