Books

To submit your book for consideration, email cornellians@cornell.edu. Please note that to be included in our listings of new titles, books must be recently published by a conventional publisher—not self published, pay-to-publish, partner-published, publish on demand, or similar—and be of interest to a general audience. Books not featured will be forwarded to Class Notes.

Your July 2026 Reads

Your July 2026 Reads

This month’s featured titles include a Victorian-era thriller and a psychologist’s self-help guide on coping with anxiety and panic

Your June 2026 Reads

Your June 2026 Reads

This month’s featured titles include a novel about academia, a civil rights advocate’s memoir, and a dive into punk rock archives

Your May 2026 Reads

Your May 2026 Reads

This month’s featured titles include a ‘poetic memoir,’ a study of the Gospel of John, and the final mystery from a genre luminary

Your April 2026 Reads

Your April 2026 Reads

This month’s featured titles include a mystery novel, poetry, and a comprehensive look at the psychology of tipping

Your March 2026 Reads

Your March 2026 Reads

This month’s featured titles include novels, a memoir by a pioneering veterinarian, and a Christian work on inner peace

Your February 2026 Reads

Your February 2026 Reads

This month’s featured titles include a novel on midlife reinvention, a look at the urban-rural divide, and a guide to mindfulness

Your January 2026 Reads

Your January 2026 Reads

This month’s featured titles include poetry, an anthropologist’s memoir, and a novel about unionization at a fictional university

Your December 2025 Reads

Your December 2025 Reads

This month’s featured titles include fiction from Thomas Pynchon ’59 and a look at two “unsung giants” of landscape architecture

Your November 2025 Reads

Your November 2025 Reads

This month’s featured titles include poetry, a famed restaurateur’s memoir, and a chronicle of the 1929 stock market crash

Your October 2025 Reads

Your October 2025 Reads

This month’s featured titles include short stories, a fantasy book for tweens, and a scholarly look at Carmen adaptations