What UChicago is reading for fun.
Sometimes you just have to put the Durkheim aside. In 2022 the UChicago Library introduced Reg Reads, a collection of recently published fiction and nonfiction intended for recreational reading. This spring the Library also launched its quarterly Reg Reads Book Club; the inaugural book, Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez (Flatiron Books, 2024), follows a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the work of artist Anita de Monte decades after her mysterious death.
Looking for some midsummer reading inspiration? Here are the five most frequently circulated titles from and five new additions to the collection.
Most frequently circulated
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
By R. F. Kuang
Harper Voyager, 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By Gabrielle Zevin
Knopf, 2022
Trust
By Hernan Diaz
Riverhead Books, 2022
I’m Glad My Mom Died
By Jennette McCurdy
Simon and Schuster, 2022
Yellowface
By R. F. Kuang
William Morrow, 2023
New additions
The Hunter
By Tana French
Viking, 2024
The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
By RuPaul
Dey Street Books, 2024
Just for the Summer
By Abby Jimenez
Forever, 2024
James
By Percival Everett
Doubleday, 2024
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By Jonathan Haidt
Penguin Press, 2024