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41 Books to Read This Summer, Recommended by UATX Faculty
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UATX Faculty Reading Recommendations:
Carson Bay, Professor of Classics and Biblical Studies
Claire Brickman, Industry Expert in Residence
The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States, Stuart Banner
Courtwatchers: Eyewitness Accounts in U.S. Supreme Court History, Clare Cushman
Father Maximos Constas, Professor of Humanities
Up From the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times, Aaron Sachs
Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness, Vladimir Miskovic and Steven Jay Lynn
Who Owns Beauty?, Bénédicte Savoy
Phenomenology of the Icon, Stephanie Rumpza
Dorothy Dickmann, Professor of Accounting and Data Science
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Patrick Gray, Dean for the Center for Arts and Letters, Professor of Literature
Canzoniere, Petrarch (newly translated by A.M. Juster)
Clay Greene, Professor of Literature
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction, Roger Scruton
Phil Greenwald, Executive Director of the UATX Innovation Labs
Universal Principles of Design, William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler
Venture Deals, Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
The Innovators, Walter Isaacson
Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson
Kirsten Herlin, Professor of Literature
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Michael Hoffpauir, Professor of Political Theory
Washington: The Indispensable Man, James Thomas Flexner
The Red and the Black, Stendhal
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
“Everyone should read A Confederacy of Dunces at least twice. It’s hilarious, and it contains a beautiful portrayal of New Orleans and our attempt to find order and meaning.”
Arnold Kling, Visiting Professor (Winter 2026)
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, William Manchester
“This is the second volume of Manchester’s biography of Winston Churchill. Covers the 1930s, when Churchill’s views about the dangers of Hitler’s Germany made him very unpopular with the British establishment.”
