Rollins students, faculty, and staff weigh in on the favorite book they read this year.
Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes
Olivia Blackwood ’15
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
Nick Georgoudiou ’14MBA, director of admission
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein
Marc Bremmer ’17
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Larry Barrett, business services specialist
Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
By: Christopher McDougall
Katie Jones ’11, assistant director of admission
Boxers & Saints
Gene Luen Yang
Laura J. Cole ’04 ’08MLS, editorial director
Buck
M.K. Asante
Zakiya Brown, assistant director of student involvement and leadership
Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
Jill Jones, professor of English
Lorrie Kyle ’70, executive assistant to the president
A Casual Vacancy
J.K. Rowling
Billy B Williamson ’16
The Dalai Lama’s Cat
David Michie
R. Matilde Mésavage, professor of French
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple
Benjamin Balak, associate professor of economics
The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit
Susan H. Libby, professor of art history
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Andrea L. Schaumann ’11, admissions manager
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist
Paul D. Reich, assistant professor of English
Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World
Claire and Mia Fontaine
Carley Ray ’16
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
Taylor Wright ’15
The History of Love
Nicole Krauss
Ceraye Campbell ’15
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Sue Johnson
Kim Mendoza ’16MAC, graduate assistant
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
Bob Smither, dean of arts and sciences
In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy Vol. 1
Eugene Thacker
Adam Farcus, visiting assistant professor of art
Joyland
Stephen King
Chris Sarafian ’15
A Land Remembered
Patrick D. Smith
Daniel Green ’16
and Levi Whitten-Connolly ’18
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
Simon Sinek
Nathan Arrowsmith ’16MLS, director of athletic intramurals
Leadership & Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box
Arbinger Institute
Oriana Jiménez ’07MHR ’10MBA, human resources associate
Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg
Lindokuhle Ngwenya ’15
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
Ena Heller, director of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum
The Long Ships
Frans G. Bengtsson and Michael Meyer
Erin Gallagher, e-resources and serials librarian
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
R.D. Blackmore
Meredith Vance, assistant editorial director
Love in the Western World
Denis De Rougemont and Montgomery Belgion
Joe Prior ’17
Mr. G: A Novel About the Creation
Alan Lightman
Jenna Lindsey ’16
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
Kate Fleming ’17MBA, assistant director of alumni programs
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Agatha Christie
Elina McGill ’17
My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir
Brain Turner
Jacob Pippin ’16
Oreo
Fran Ross and Harryette Mullen
Louise Buyo, visitor services and education coordinator for the Cornell Fine Arts Museum
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Caroline Schneider Teague ’15MAT
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Near-Death Experience and Journey into the Afterlife
Eben Alexander
Sharon Carrier, special assistant to the president
Quicksand - Billy Brightpath Volume III
K.T. Dixon
Ken Dixon, shift supervisor for campus safety
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Janet Mock
Peter Ruiz ’15
Saga, vol. 1
Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Travis Ray ’11 ’13MPCU, IT senior technical support specialist
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr
Lee Lines, professor of environmental studies
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson and Linda Lear
Jason Wezgraj ’16, IT inventory coordinator
The Silver Linings Playbook
Matthew Quick
Penny Gilliotte ’17
The Sound of Things Falling
Juan Gabriel Vazquez
Susan Montgomery, acting head of public services for Olin Library
South of Broad
Pat Conroy
Nan Castino, director of development
Start Something that Matters
Blake Mycoskie
Keshav Choudhary ’18
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
Emily Russell, associate professor of English
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Naomi Klein
Eric A. Schutz, professor emeritus of economics
The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin
Joseph V. Siry, associate professor of environmental studies
The Varieties of Scientific Experience
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Bekki Charbonneau ’16
When Google Met Wikileaks
Julian Assange
Marten Mueller, EAMBA
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
David Shafer
Jonathan Miller, director of Olin Library
Wolf in a White Van
John Darnielle
Becca Robinson, director of annual giving
Woman on the Edge of Time
Marge Piercy
Heidi Limongi ’03, student care office coordinator
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One
Sylvia Earle and Bill McKibben
Fiona Harper, associate professor of biology
Yanni In Words
Yanni
Luke Saha ’16
Yes Please
Amy Poehler
Chelsea Hilend ’10, marketing and box office manager for Annie Russell Theatre