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Southside Reads: Recommended Reads

Around the World (April 2024)

Welcome to Southside Reads! We’re challenging you to read a variety of books in 2024 by assigning a different category to every month, but don’t worry! The categories are broad enough to put your own spin on them.

Go out and find a book, but if you want some suggestions to get you thinking, check out the list below (with information about local library availability*):

Blue Is the Warmest Color book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Daughter of Fortune book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Vegetarian book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Suite Française book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Yacoubian Building book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Swallows of Kabul book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Love in the Time of Cholera book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Hippie book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Three-Body Problem book cover with link to Goodreads description page
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Dancing to "Almendra"
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories book cover with link to Goodreads description page
A Journey to the End of the Millennium book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Palace Walk book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Ali and Nino book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Texaco book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Leo Africanus book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Summer in Baden-Baden book cover with link to Goodreads description page
Convenience Store Woman book cover with link to Goodreads description page

Key for Local Library Availability

Locations:

  • CVRL - Central Virginia Regional Library
  • LU - Longwood University: Greenwood Library
  • HSC - Hampden-Sydney College: Bortz Library

Services:

*LU Libby/Overdrive is available for current students, faculty and staff only.