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UCSB Reads 2025

Information about UCSB Reads 2025

Long List of Books Considered by the UCSB Reads 2025 Advisory Committee

1. 2020: One City, Seven People and the Year Everything Changed by Eric Klinenberg

2. Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

3. Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

4. Babel: or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang

5. Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides by Geoffrey L Cohen

6. Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay

7. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

8. Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures Farming the Ocean to Fight Climate Change by Bren Smith

9. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon

10. Failure: Why Science is So Successful by Stuart Firestein

11. Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World by Lauren Fleshman

12. I Never Thought of it That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Monica Guzmán

13. In Search of Sleep: An insomniac's quest to understand the science, psychology and culture of sleeplessness by Bregje Hofstede

14. Liliana’s Invisible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza

15. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

16. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

17. North Woods by Daniel Mason

18. One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle over American Immigration, 1924-1965 by Jia Lynn Yang

19. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

20. People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine by Ricardo Nuila

21. Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

22. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

23. Ten Birds that Changed the World by Stephen Moss

24. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Andrea Zevin

25. Trust by Herman Diaz

26. Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane

27. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan

28. Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li