I’m sure your days are as busy as mine: always going to clubs, events, and just trying to get through class! If you haven’t lost the sense of enjoyment you can get from reading since being in college, you may still want to read for fun. Have you even thought about reading for fun in a while? Here are a few suggestions for you.
- I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin
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One of my closest friends and I would watch Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin on their Youtube channel, Just Between Us, all through high school. We knew that when they released a book about best friends staying connected through college just as we were graduating, we had to both buy it. It is a very quick read but brings out a lot of emotions about friendship, knowing it can be hard to go into separate lives.
- Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
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This book sort of betrays the “light read” idea of this article. It is certainly a short but interesting dive into a woman’s difficult life.
- The Bullet Catcher’s Daughter by Rob Duncan
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I had a fun time with this book–it’s one of those that you don’t want to put down. As soon as I figured out it was about a woman cross-dressing at night to be a private detective, her “twin brother,” I was obsessed with it.
- Miss Emily by Nuala O’Connor
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Is anyone else as interested in Emily Dickinson as I am? Probably. This book is about her friendship with a maid named Ada Concannon who lived with the Dickinson family for some time. Pssst, it includes interactions between Emily and her very close friend Susan, her brother’s wife.
- Peter Darling by Austin Chant
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I may have stolen this book from my girlfriend. She was telling me that it had a twist on the Peter Pan story–making Peter a trans man that goes to Neverland to escape his unaccepting home. Queer retellings always make books better, in my opinion.
Happy reading!