My students often ask what to read over the summer. Here are this summer’s suggestions.

My favorite novel of all time is Thing Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. If you like it then turn to Arrow of God and Anthills of the Savanna.

No life is complete with out Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out, To the Lighthouse, and of course, Mrs. Dalloway.

Ursula Le Guin is a favorite of mine. If you are a science fiction type, try The Left Hand of Darkness. If you prefer fantasy, her recent Earthsea books are marvelous.

If you are looking for some perspective on 911 you should read Arundhati Roy’s essay “Come September” from her fabulous book War Talk. In fact, read the whole book.

If you are thinking about feminism, there is no better place to start than with the classics: Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own; Marilyn Frye The Politics of Reality; Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex. For something a little wilder, check out Sexing the Body by Anne Fausto-Sterling.

If you want to think about biology and culture try Richard Lewontin’s Biology as Ideology.