Every summer, I always look forward to three months of what I consider uninterrupted reading time. This year, my “to be read” list is naturally veering towards themes around graduation and what comes after it since I will be navigating post-grad life. If you’re also heading into the unknown, here are some books I’ll be reading to navigate this simultaneous ending and new beginning.

As the school year comes to an end, many Trojans are anticipating returning to their homes across the country and around the world. Others will be traveling to countries entirely new to them, and some will be staying put this summer, swiping through their peers' Instagrams sharing their travel adventures. If you won’t be venturing beyond the four walls of your bedroom this summer, one way you can get the same wealth of cultural knowledge as your traveling peers is by reading books set in various places around the world.

By: Lanie Brice ‘24

Summer is finally in sight past the last few days of finals season, and that means that we’ll finally have time to get back to our favorite hobbies that fell by the wayside during the semester.

By: Lanie Brice ‘24

The start of the new semester always means a major loss of reading momentum for me. I read 15 or so books over the three weeks of holiday break, but I’ll be lucky to read 15 over the course of the entire semester. I maybe get to five. We all have to do so much reading for classes that it’s easy to let the joy of reading evaporate. I’ve compiled a list of 5 books that range from romance to general fiction to essays to YA and nonfiction to hopefully inspire you to keep reading for fun even as the semester gets busy.