Last year we suggested for your winter break some new books Emory’s librarians wanted to read, but this year we thought it would be fun to share what the university has been reading this year. Below is a list of Emory’s most heavily circulated American literature titles in 2016.
Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Borderlands/la Frontera, Third Edition by Gloria Anzaldúa
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Bellocq’s Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey; Trethewey
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens by Alice Walker
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville; Harrison Hayford; Hershel Parker
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Harold Bloom (Editor, Introduction by); Ken Kesey
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Afterword by)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Sherley Anne Williams (Foreword by)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love by Raymond Carver
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff