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6 New Books for Your Summer Reading List
Reading List Summer 2025
Books

6 New Books for Your Summer Reading List

From A'Lelia Bundles ’76JRN, John McWhorter, and other Columbia authors

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The Pacifist's Guide to Satanism
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The Pacifist's Guide to Satanism

La Carmina, an award-winning blogger, journalist, and author, offers a spirited defense of the often-misunderstood religion

The Best Way to Stop a Negative-Thought Spiral
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The Best Way to Stop a Negative-Thought Spiral

Psychologist Ethan Kross ’07GSAS suggests strategies to root out negative self-talk 

Genius at Work: How Franz Boas Created the Field of Cultural Anthropology
Archive photo of Franz Boas reenacting a Kwakiutl ceremonial dance to assist Smithsonian Institution sculptors building a diorama
Boas reenacts a Kwakiutl ceremonial dance to assist Smithsonian Institution sculptors building a diorama. (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives)

Genius at Work: How Franz Boas Created the Field of Cultural Anthropology

A century ago, when people believed that human potential was determined by race and gender, a maverick Columbia professor decided everyone was wrong

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Review: "The Accidental Investment Banker"
Cover of the Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street, by Jonathan A. Knee
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Review: "The Accidental Investment Banker"

Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street, by Jonathan A. Knee

Review: "Rough Crossings"
Benjamin West's 1812 portrait of John Eardly Wilmot, with West's allegorical painting "Reception of the American Loyalists in England"
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Review: "Rough Crossings"

Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution, by Simon Schama

Copland's Party Music
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Copland's Party Music

Shadowing Shakespeare
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Shadowing Shakespeare

Beauty and Artiste
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Beauty and Artiste

Deutschland After All
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Deutschland After All

Grand Central to All Points
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Grand Central to All Points

The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore, by Peter Pennoyer '80CC, '84APP and Anne Walker '00APP

Mixed-up Media
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Mixed-up Media

Letters to a Young Journalist, by Samuel G. Freedman

Whitman Sampler (& Dickinson, Poe, et al.)
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Whitman Sampler (& Dickinson, Poe, et al.)

The Oxford Book of American Poetry, edited by David Lehman

Fidel's Man in Manhattan
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Fidel's Man in Manhattan

The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times, by Anthony DePalma

In Denial
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In Denial

Buried by The Times:The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper, by Laurel Leff

Whites and Wrongs
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Whites and Wrongs

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, by Ira Katznelson

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