UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. 

“This month, I’ve been reading Tom Gannon’s Birding While Indian, a memoir reflecting on his life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. This was another book that I had picked up while attending AWP this year and highly recommend!” -Sarah Kee

“Birding While Indian is the book we’re currently reading and discussing through one of the #NCLUDE learning groups at UNL. It’s been wonderful to have bi-weekly discussions about it with others across campus. Tom Gannon’s memoir is full of wit, birding excursions, and sharp criticisms of Western Imperialism. Again and again this book asks the question ‘How can you write about birds without being political?'” -Lacey Losh

“I just picked up Saha by Cho Nam-Joo, a dystopian urban thriller set in a country called Town, where a member of the elite social class is found dead in her car and the suspect is presumed to come from the Saha Estates, a sad apartment complex full of dispossessed outcasts. When Jin-kyung, a Saha resident, realizes the deceased woman was involved with Jin-kyung’s missing brother – the prime suspect – she sets out to get to the bottom of things. I picked it up from a local bookstore when attending the AHA conference earlier this year as I am constantly enthralled by mysteries and thrillers, especially ones that have an interesting twist on the genre!” -Taylor Martin

“I finished David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon, timed well with seeing as many Oscar-nominated films as I could last month including this film adaptation. Reading the book and watching the film together I found the book compliments the flaws of the film and vice versa, but the exchange favors the book. Always read the book first, and if you can’t, read the book anyway!” -Nathan Putens