In a recent HTC poll of 110 Boston University students, over 100 responded that they are experiencing “Zoom-fatigue.” With so much of our lives shifting online (and to Zoom specifically) while we continue working and learning remotely, it’s more important now than ever to take breaks from all this screen time. We recommend starting with this wonderful list of our students’ favorite books, which they shared during last week’s Tell Us Tuesday: 

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith 

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison 

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman 

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 

The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah 

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, Douglas Adams

The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien  

The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins 

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson 

 

Small Great Things: A Novel, Jodi Picoult  

The Song of Achilles: A Novel, Madeline Miller

The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois

Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon, Robert Kurson 

The Rules Do Not Apply, Ariel Levy 

11/22/63: A Novel, Stephen King