In September we asked students for their book recommendations for a collaborative book shelf activity. UBC Okanagan Library has compiled that list. Here are the 2025 Student Recs! Explore the list below and click on the link to learn how to borrow a copy to read over the winter break.
Feature Fantasy
Six of crows by Leigh Bardugo
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Beastly by Alex Flinn
Caraval by Stephanie Garber
The poppy war by R. F. Kuang
Paul takes the form of a mortal girl by Andrea Lawlor
Fourth wing by Rebecca Yarros
Iron widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Feature Classics
Little women by Louisa May Alcott
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas; revised translation
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach; photographs by Russell Munson
The stranger by Albert Camus, translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert
Passage to India by E.M. Foster
The yellow wallpaper, and other writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
For whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway
On the road by Jack Kerouac
Feature Non-Fiction
One day, everyone will have always been against this by Omar El Akkad
The making of a human bomb: an ethnography of Palestinian resistance by Nasser Abufarha
The serviceberry: abundance and reciprocity in the natural world by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Following the last wild wolves by Ian McAllister
Invisible women: data bias in a world designed for men by Caroline Criado Perez
The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk
Dreams in a time of war: a childhood memoir by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
The Complete List
Go ask Alice: author anonymous
The making of a human bomb: an ethnography of Palestinian resistance by Nasser Abufarha
One day, everyone will have always been against this by Omar El Akkad
The five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom
Little women by Louisa May Alcott
Eurocentrism: modernity, religion, and democracy: a critique of Eurocentrism and culturalism by Samir Amin; translated by Russell Moore and James Membrez
The handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach; photographs by Russell Munson
Six of crows by Leigh Bardugo
The idiot by Elif Batuman
The Holy Bible; Old and New Testaments in the King James version
The glutton by A. K. Blakemore
The stranger by Albert Camus, translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
2001, a space odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
The city and the stars by Arthur C. Clarke
House of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
No longer human by Osamu Dazai; Translated by Donald Keene
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas; revised translation
Beastly by Alex Flinn
Passage to India by E.M. Foster
John Steinbeck’s The grapes of wrath by Frank Galati
Caraval by Stephanie Garber
The yellow wallpaper, and other writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Memoirs of a geisha by Arthur Golden
Functional design and architecture by Alexander Granin
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Hbr’s 10 must reads on managing yourself and your career 6-volume collection: Harvard Business Review
I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman; translated from the French by Ros Schwartz
A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking
For whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
Brave new world by Aldous Huxley
If cats disappeared from the world by Genki Kawamura; translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland
On the road by Jack Kerouac
The hundred years’ war on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi
Darius the Great is not okay by Adib Khorram
The secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The serviceberry: abundance and reciprocity in the natural world by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk
Babel, or, The necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford translators’ revolution by R.F. Kuang
The poppy war by R. F. Kuang
Code name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon
Paul takes the form of a mortal girl by Andrea Lawlor
Sheine Lende: a prequel to Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger; illustrated by Rovina Cai
The three-body problem by Cixin Liu ; translated by Ken Liu
The road by Cormac McCarthy
The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse by Charlie Mackesy
A game of thrones by George R. R. Martin
Throne of glass by Sarah J. Maas
Prisoners of geography: ten maps that explain everything about the world by Tim Marshall
Following the last wild wolves by Ian McAllister
The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez; translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
The night circus by Erin Morgenstern
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin
I’m glad my mom died by Jennette McCurdy
The sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
One piece story and art by Eiichiro Oda
The memory police by Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Invisible women: data bias in a world designed for men by Caroline Criado Perez
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
The overstory by Richard Powers
The Westing game by Ellen Raskin
Reality is not what it seems: the journey to quantum gravity by Carlo Rovelli; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre
Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone by J.K. Rowling
They both die at the end by Adam Silvera
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo; translated by Douglas J. Weatherford
The little prince written and illustrated by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; translated from the French by Richard Howard
The goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Dreams in a time of war: a childhood memoir by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Fire weather: a true story from a hotter world by John Vaillant
Keeper’n me by Richard Wagamese
The color purple by Alice Walker
Tipping the velvet by Sarah Waters
All systems red by Martha Wells
Educated: a memoir by Tara Westover
In memoriam by Alice Winn
Red China blues: my long march from mao to now by Jan Wong
Fourth wing by Rebecca Yarros
A little life by Hanya Yanagihara
Iron widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
The book thief by Markus Zusak
