Summer Reading, Reading Lists XVIII
The University of California publishes wonderful summer reading lists for their incoming students (found at http://reading.berkeley.edu). This summer’s list for the class of 2021 is grouped together under the heading “What Can We Change in a Single Generation?” Selected by students, faculty, these titles ask that question in a number of ways, and on this early August day there’s still time to work through a summer reading list:
- A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg
- Forked: A New Standard in American Dining by Saru Jayaraman
- Borderwall as Architecture by Ronald Rael
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Study Qu’ran: A New Translation and Commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- Nonsense the Power of Not Knowing by Jamie Holmes
- Hag-seed: The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood
- Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
- Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook
- Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales
- Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert Putnam
- Paying The Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream by Sara Goldrick-Rab
- Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin by Sara Goldrick-Rab
- The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
- Why I Write Books by George Orwell
- Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Brown
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
- Design When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Social Innovation by Ezio Manzini
Interlibrary loan those we don’t have! Happy California dreaming and reading…