Summer Book Recommendations 2021

Need a good read? Tufts faculty, staff, and alumni share their favorite books—timely and classic
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The past year has been hard in many ways, but if there’s one thing it’s been good for, it’s reading. We see that in the strong collection of books reviewed here by members of the Tufts community.

We have a wide range of fiction: historical, sci-fi, fantasy, literary, young adult, mystery. On the nonfiction side, our contributors bring us spies, questions about racial justice and injustice, heroic journalists, dogs, parenting, 9/11, memoirs, history, and more.

Be sure to also check out the recommendations from a lively group of Tufts authors—faculty and alumni—in our new Bookish series, as they chat about the books that they are reading and the ones they keep going back to.

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