Cool Reads for Hot Weather: Durham Tech Summer Reads

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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
Discrimination and Disparities by Dr. Thomas Sowell
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
the paris wife by paula mclain
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
How Stella Learned to Talk by Christine Hunger
caste: the origins of our discontents by isabel wilkerson
Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
the book of eels by patrik svensson
a cook's tour by anthony bourdain
the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
a promised land by barack obama
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
salvage the bones by jesmyn ward
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

Are you curious about what Durham Tech faculty and staff have been reading and loving over the summer?

Click through for some favorites from this summer (and how to get a copy for yourself through the Durham Tech Library). 

And a few recent favorites from President JB Buxton (all available in the Durham Tech Main Campus Library): 

Want to make your reading "count" for something other than your own personal education and/or enjoyment and get some sweet Durham Tech Library swag in December?

Check out our Read Great Things 2021 Challenge categories. 

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