In August of 2018, we celebrated 10 years of Amherst Reads features! We have shared more than 100 books from alumni, faculty and staff. Amherst is proud of our authors and we look forward to continuing this tradition.
We encourage the Amherst community to continue to explore each of our feature books. Click on a book below to read reviews and excerpts, listen to interviews and learn more about the authors.
February
2013
![El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel](/media/view/454068/standard/Stavans%2BSheinkin-El%2BIluminado.jpg)
January
2013
![Everything Under the Sun](/media/view/448472/standard/Everything%2BUnder%2Bthe%2BSun%2BCover.jpg)
December
2012
![Arcadia](/media/view/441369/standard/Groff-arcadia.jpg)
November
2012
![The Hidden Europe](/media/view/438206/standard/TheHiddenEurope.jpg)
October
2012
![The Price of Inequality](/media/view/426089/standard/cover.jpg)
September
2012
![Tubes: A Journet to the Center of the Internent](/media/view/430813/standard/tubes%2Bcover%2Bsmall.jpg)
August
2012
July
2012
![Dinner: A Love Story](/media/view/406334/standard/Dinner_cover.jpg)
December
2011 ![The Vices](/media/view/340390/standard/The%2BVices.jpg)
November
2011![Don't Cross your Eyes](/media/view/331246/standard/Carroll%2B-%2Bdon%2527t%2Bcross%2Byour%2Beyes.jpg)
October
2011![Come on All you Ghosts](/media/view/348448/standard/Come%2Bon%2Ball%2Byou%2Bghosts.jpg)
September
2011![The Pale King](/media/view/307879/standard/Pale%2BKing%2BCover.jpg)
August
2011![Scoundrels in Law](/media/view/331234/standard/Scoundrelsfirst.jpg)
July
2011
![Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age](/media/view/307878/standard/Terror%2Band%2Bwonder%2Bcover.jpg)
June
2011
![What Should I Do?](/media/view/272657/standard/what%2Bshould%2BI%2Bdo%2Bcover.jpg)
May
2011
![Model Nazi](/media/view/290045/standard/Model%2BNazi%2BCover.jpg)
April
2011
![A Thread of Sky](/media/view/307633/standard/ThreadofSky_paperback.jpg)
March
2011
![Unlikely Allies](/media/view/290043/standard/Unlikely%2BAllies%2Bcover.jpg)
February
2011
![Secret Historian](/media/view/246579/standard/Spring%2B-%2BSecret%2Bhistorian.jpg)
December
2010
![he Best of Foxtrot](/media/view/250182/standard/The%2Bbest%2Bof%2Bfoxtrot%2Bcover.jpg)
November
2010
![Higher Education](/media/view/245577/standard/Higher_Education%2BCover.JPG)
October
2010
![The Routes of Man](/media/view/205928/standard/The%2BRoutes%2Bof%2BMan.jpg)
September
2010
![The Facebook Effect](/media/view/205927/standard/Facebook%2Bimage.jpg)
August
2010
![Innocent](/media/view/193837/standard/turow%2B-%2Binnocent.jpg)
July
2010
![Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavo](/media/view/158573/standard/Lee%2B-%2Bsimple%2Bsouthern.jpg)
June
2010
![Ballet's Magic Kingdom](/media/view/201419/standard/9780300124620.jpg)
May
2010
![Ecological Intelligence](/media/view/158572/standard/goleman%2B-%2Becological%2Bintelligence.jpg)
April
2010
![Andean Express](/media/view/158587/standard/althoff%2B-%2Bandean%2Bexpress.jpg)
March
2010
![Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy](/media/view/158575/standard/stiglitz%2B-%2Bfreefall.jpg)
February
2010
![Beautiful Creatures](/media/view/146073/standard/stohl%2B-%2Bbeautiful%2Bcreatures.jpg)
December
2009
![What to Read When](/media/view/141902/standard/allyn%2B-%2Bwhat%2Bto%2Bread%2Bwhen.jpg)
November
2009
![On Poets and Poetry](/media/view/124353/standard/Pritchard%2B-%2Bon%2Bpoets.jpg)
October
2009
![Julie & Julia](/media/view/130648/standard/Julie%2Band%2BJulia%2Bmovie-cover.jpg)
September
2009
![Rules for Old Men Waiting](/media/view/124352/standard/Pouncey.jpg)
August
2009
![The End of Overeating](/media/view/116438/standard/kessler%2B-%2Bend%2Bof%2Bovereating.jpg)
July
2009
![The Mirror Effect](/media/view/102592/standard/Pinsky-mirror%2Beffect.jpg)
June
2009
![The Art and Politics of Science](/media/view/98408/standard/varmus-art%2Band%2Bpolitics.jpg)
May
2009
![Hold Tight](/media/view/154165/standard/coben1.jpg)
April
2009
![Passing Strange](/media/view/100612/standard/Sandweiss-Passingstrange.jpg)
March
2009
![Skeletons at the Feat](/media/view/93770/standard/SKELETONS.FINAL_.jpg)
February
2009
January
2009
![The Painter from Shanghai](/media/view/154169/standard/epstein%2B-%2Bshanghai.jpg)
December
2008
![The Monsters of Templeton](/media/view/154170/standard/groff1.jpg)
November
2008
![The Most Famous Man in America](/media/view/154172/standard/applegate1.jpg)
October
2008
![The Thing Itself](/media/view/154174/standard/todd%2B-%2Bthing%2Bitself.jpg)
September
2008
![Are We Rome?](/media/view/154175/standard/murphy1.jpg)