This week’s “What I’m Reading This Summer” list features John Rickard, Professor of English.  John writes,

“Here are the first couple of books I’m either reading or preparing to read:

Sacred Hunger, by Barry Unsworth — I picked it because I’d read good reviews, because it won the Booker Prize, and because it’s a historical novel that portrays the slave trade in the 18th century.

A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, by Eimear McBride — a new experimental Irish novel that’s getting a lot of attention right now; the author has written about her debt to James Joyce, which makes it especially interesting to me.

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein — highly recommended by my wife and pertinent after a recent trip to Greece.

Inventing Human Rights: A History, by Lynn Hunt — preparation for an Integrated Perspectives course next spring.”

Also on John’s summertime reading list are:

Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Zone One, by Colson Whitehead