Staff, student picks for summer reading

Marc Fishman is a junior and an assistant editor for Inside magazine.
He plans to read:

“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”
Seth Grahame-Smith
What if the president who freed the slaves was motivated by vampires? This book makes history a little more interesting ... and supernatural.

“The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth’s Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe”
Anil Ananthaswamy
An exploration into the questions that keep physicists up at night.

“My Queer War”
James Lord
The author tells the story of one soldier’s sexual awakening during WWII.

Natalie Avon graduated in 2010 and is the former editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student.

She plans to read “Pride and Prejudice” for the fourth time.

She’ll also check out:

“The Help”
Kathryn Stockett
An uplifting novel set during the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.

“Outliers: The Story of Success”
Malcolm Gladwell
Another of Gladwell’s economic, social, and political fusion books that asks why some people are successful and others never achieve their potential.

Isak Nti Asare is a senior and the president of the African Students Association.
Isak plans to read a slew of Ernest Hemingway books.

“I started reading For Whom the Bell Tolls, and thought to myself, ‘I like the way this guy writes— maybe I can read everything he ever wrote,’” he said.

His ambitious list:
“For Whom the Bell Tolls”
“A Farewell To Arms”
“In Our Time”
“The Sun Also Rises”
“The Nick Adams Stories”
“Across the River and Into the Trees”
“The Torrents of Spring”

Nti Asare will also read Norman Fairclough’s “Language and Power” to prepare for an honors thesis in Linguistics.

Titilayo Rasaki is a sophomore and the founder and president of IU’s Amnesty International Association.

She plans to read:
“The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”
William Easterly
“Burden” explores the long-lasting effects of humanitarian aid.

“A Thousand Splendid Suns”
Khaled Hosseini
This book is the follow-up novel to bestseller “Kite Runner.”

“Riot: A Love Story”
Shashi Tharoor
Set in modern-day India, this work reveals the religious and cultural tensions on the subcontinent.