Amherst Reads - Past Featured Books

In August of 2018, we celebrated 10 years of Amherst Reads features! We have shared more than 100 books from alumni, faculty and staff. Amherst is proud of our authors and we look forward to continuing this tradition.

We encourage the Amherst community to continue to explore each of our feature books. Click on a book below to read reviews and excerpts, listen to interviews and learn more about the authors.

May
2022

The Gambler's Wife

April
2022

Madam Book Cover

March
2022

Names for Light Cover

February
2022

The Necklace Cover image

January
2022

Image of Weekday Vegetarians

December
2021

Seeing Silicon Valley cover image

November
2021

Eye Mind Heart Cover Image

October
2021

cover of scripting the moves

September
2021

Cover of Spin

August
2021

Amherst in the World Cover

July
2021

Spark cover image

June
2021

HouroftheWitch

May
2021

The Math Campers cover image

April
2021

PriceYouPayForCollegeCover

March
2021

Cover image of The Angel in the Marketplace

February
2021

Pale Cover Image

January
2021

cover image of This Is Major

December
2020

Take Me Apart Cover image

November
2020

Hyper Education Cover Image

October
2020

Hungry_FrontCover

September
2020

A more perfect reunion cover

DeMott
2020

The Book of delights cover image

August
2020

Fast Carbs Slow Cards cover image

July
2020

One to Watch Cover Image

June
2020

Holding On To Nothing Cover Image

May
2020

Why We Act Cover Image

April
2020

AmherstCampusGuide Cover Image

March
2020

Veil and Vow cover image

February
2020

SaveMeFromDangerousMen_ cover

January
2020

Requiem Cover Image

December
2019

Doctor Birder cover

November
2019

Weather Machine Cover Image

October
2019

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September
2019

A Philosophy of Ruin: A Novel by Nicholas Mancusi

August
2019

Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business By Matt Lee and Ted Lee

July
2019

The World of Aufbau: Hitler's Refugees in America by Peter Schrag; Albert Einstein and others taking the oath of citizenship in America

 

June
2019

The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack

May
2019

Limits of the World: A Novel by Jennifer Acker

April
2019

The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges by Aatish Taseer

March
2019

The Study of Animal Languages: A Novel by Lindsay Stern; two birds on an umbrella

February
2019

The Value of Herman Melville By Geoffrey Sanborn; whale

January
2019

Last Looks by Howard Michael Gould; studio lot

December
2018

Florida by Lauren Groff; panther

November
2018

The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs its job by Emily Lakdawalla

October
2018

Iver and Ellsworth; an old gentleman and an inflatable polar bear

September
2018

How are you going to save yourself by JM Holmes; silouette of teenager

July
2018

Eager: The suprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb

June
2018

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

May
2018

Cartoon County by Cullen Murphy '74

April
2018

Our Beloved Kin: A new history of King Philip's War

March
2018

Without Precedent book cover

February
2018

Why Poetry book cover

January
2018

Spineless book cover

November
2017

Naughty Nineties book cover

October
2017

Gorbachev: His Life and Times cover

September
2017

Jaden Toussaint, The Greatest: Episode 1: The Quest for Screen Time

August
2017

Scott Turow Testimony

July
2017

LetUsWatchRichardWilbur Cover

June
2017

The Disruptors' Feast

May
2017

Nine to Five cover

April
2017

Dangerous Neighbors cover

March
2017

The Euro Cover

February
2017

TVSE Past Cover

January
2017

The Life of the World to Come cover

November
2016

Capture

October
2016

Blockchain revolution Cover

September
2016

September 2016 Featured Book Image

August
2016

Home Field cover

July
2016

Pastramni on Rye cover

June
2016

Midnight in Broad Daylight cover

May
2016

Catastrophic Happiness cover

April
2016

Andy Warhol was a Hoarder cover

March
2016

Quixote cover

February
2016

NYT Book of Science cover

January
2016

Amherst Reads - Past Featured Books

November
2015

Visiting Indira Gandhi's Palmist

October
2015

Amherst Reads - Past Featured Books

September
2015

Amherst Reads - Past Featured Books

August
2015

Amherst Reads - Past Featured Books

July
2015

Amherst Reads - Past Featured Books

June
2015

Amherst Reads - Past Featured Books

May
2015

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April
2015

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March
2015

Amherst Reads - Past Featured Books

February
2015

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January
2015

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December
2014

Amherst Reads - Past Featured Books

November
2014

Amherst Reads - Past Featured Books

October
2014

Amherst Reads - Past Featured Books

September
2014

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August
2014

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July
2014

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June
2014

Amherst Reads - Past Featured Books

May
2014

The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist

April
2014

Maybe One Day

March
2014

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

February
2014

Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age

January
2014

Full Upright and Locked Position: Not-So-Comfortable Truths about Air Travel Today

December
2013

This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made

November
2013

The Partner Track: A Novel

October
2013

The Forage House

September
2013

Inferno by Dan Brown

August
2013

Six Years by Harlan Coben


July
2013

The Gods of Heavenly Punishment: A Novel


June
2013

Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family

May
2013

Cadaver: A Bittersweet Love Story

April
2013

Masters of Disaster: The Ten Commandments of Damage Contro

March
2013

Schroder

February
2013
El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel
 

January
2013
Everything Under the Sun

December
2012
Arcadia

November
2012
The Hidden Europe

October
2012
The Price of Inequality

September
2012
Tubes: A Journet to the Center of the Internent

August
2012
Hitlerland 

July
2012
Dinner: A Love Story

June
2012

Vineyard at the End of the World: Maverick Winemaking and the Rebirth of Malbec

May
2012

God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World by Cullen Murphy

April
2012

Big Birthday by Kate Hosford

>March
2012

EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art by Kellie Jones

February
2012

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

December
2011 The Vices

November
2011Don't Cross your Eyes

October
2011Come on All you Ghosts

September
2011The Pale King

August
2011Scoundrels in Law

July
2011
Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age

June
2011
What Should I Do?

May
2011
Model Nazi

April
2011
A Thread of Sky

March
2011
Unlikely Allies

February
2011
Secret Historian

December
2010
he Best of Foxtrot

November
2010
Higher Education

October
2010
The Routes of Man

September
2010
The Facebook Effect

August
2010
Innocent

July
2010
Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavo

June
2010
Ballet's Magic Kingdom

May
2010
Ecological Intelligence

April
2010
Andean Express

March
2010
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

February
2010
Beautiful Creatures

December
2009
What to Read When

November
2009
On Poets and Poetry
 

October
2009
Julie & Julia
 

September
2009
Rules for Old Men Waiting

August
2009
The End of Overeating

July
2009
The Mirror Effect

June
2009
The Art and Politics of Science
 

May
2009
Hold Tight
 

April
2009
Passing Strange

March
2009
Skeletons at the Feat
 

February
2009
Loneliness as a Way of Life 

January
2009
The Painter from Shanghai

December
2008
The Monsters of Templeton

November
2008
The Most Famous Man in America

October
2008
The Thing Itself

September
2008
Are We Rome?

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Orphans of Canland by Daniel Vitale '15

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