SPRING 2026
(Gathered from class notes submitted from June 2025 through November 2025)
Chasing the Scoria Lily: The Life, Letters, and Poetry of Colonel Paul Southworth Bliss (North Dakota State University Press, 2025) by Lillian Crook, MLS’85
The Art and Furniture of Tommy Simpson (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, to be published 2026) by Oscar P. Fitzgerald IV, BA’65
Eight Pieces of Eight (ScreenShot Publishers, 2025) by Rick Glaze, MS’76
From the City of Djinns to the Promised Land: An Immigrant’s Story (Archway Publishing— Simon & Schuster, 2025) by Suhas Ketkar, PhD’73
On the Side of ICE: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State (New York University Press, 2025) by Peter Mancina, PhD’16
City of Clans (University of Iowa Press, 2025) by Geoff Peck, BA’06
Poe Spaces: Within and Beyond the Spatial Turn (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) by Philip Edward Phillips, MA92, PhD’96
Somewhere in Between (self-published, 2025) by Sean Pirkle, BA’17
We Were Never Friends (Poisoned Pen Press/SourceBooks, to be published 2026) by Kaira Rouda, BA’85
Twist (Warren Publishing, 2025), River Crossed (Wisdom House, 2024), No Way Back: A Young Man’s Search for Home, to be published 2026, by Bruce Spang, MDiv’71, MA’75
Joy to the World! Devotions for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany (by Church Publishing, 2025) by Rob Slocum, BA’74, JD’77
Design Thinking (Mermaid Publishers, 2025) by Ralph Steele, MDiv’87
Serendipity by the Sea (Wild Rose Press, 2023) and Serenity by the Sea (Wild Rose Press, 2024), Simplicity by the Sea (to be published 2026) by Jennifer Plisky Vido, BS’90
FALL 2025
(Gathered from class notes submitted between December 2024 and May 2025)
Trials and Triumphs of a Plague Doctor (independently published, 2025) by Thomas C. Butler, MD’67
Living in the Light (Lighthouse Publishing, 2022) by Byron Edwards, PhD’77
Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion (University of Virginia Press, 2025) edited by Charles H. Ford, MA’88, PhD’92, and Jeffrey L. Littlejohn
Heroes and Other Mortals (University of Georgia Press, 2025) by Frye Gaillard, BA’68
Chasing the Wind (independently published, 2025) by Betty Rich Hendon, BA’56
Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism (Princeton University Press, 2025) by Mary Anne Hunting, BA’80, and Kevin D. Murphy, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and professor and chair in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture
All the Untils (Wipf and Stock, 2025) by Lee Abbott Kiblinger, BA’95, MEd’96
Songs of My Father and Other Essays (Atmosphere Press, 2025) by Gardner Landry, BA’85
Eliza, From Scratch (Quill Tree/Harper Collins, 2025) by Sophia Lee, BA’20
Freeing Black Girls: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering (Duke University Press, 2025) by Tamura Lomax, MA’09, PhD’11
Beyond the Game: Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Whetstone (Viking Books for Young Readers, 2025) by Andrew Maraniss, BA’92
Disrupt Everything—and Win: Take Control of Your Future (Hatchette Book Group/Little, Brown and Company, 2025) by James Patterson, MA’70, and Patrick Leddin, associate professor
Sparking Peace (Herald Press, 2025) by Teresa Pecinovsky, MDiv’18, and Hannah Rose Martin
Somewhere in Between (independently published, 2025) by Sean Pirkle, BA’17
South Carolina’s Indomitable College of Medicine (Evening Post Books, 2024), by Jerry Reves, BA’65
Even Steven (independently published, 2025) by Chris Sherrill, BS’01
Design Thinking (Mermaid Publishers, 2025) by Ralph Steele, MDiv’87, Candice Steele, Diane Steele and Ralph Steele II
Wordsworth in Bogotá (Black Rose Writing, 2025) by Scott Sundby, BA’80
Love Too Much (Books Fluent, 2024) by Charles Thomas, BA’86
A Second Shot: The Pursuit of Justice in Maryland’s Oldest Cold Case (Intelligentsia Books, 2025) by Michael F. Weisberg, BA’81
At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives (Rutgers University Press, 2025) by Lucas F.W. Wilson, MTS’15
Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2025) by Lucas F.W. Wilson, MTS’15
Montgomery Bell: Tennessee Frontier Capitalist (Acclaim Press, 2024), by John P. Williams, JD’72
