Category: books

  • Guide and Display of Award Winners

    Visit the Library’s Book & Film Awards Guide. Find winners of American Historical Association awards, literary prizes, Minnesota Book Award winners, and translation prizes. Browse award-winning films from the Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, Cannes Film Festival, and NAACP Image Awards. Just click on the name of the award for a list of the winners in…

  • Reading Day at Gustavus

    December 15 is Reading Day at Gustavus, and to celebrate we’re wheeling out the tea cart tomorrow and offering donuts, so come get something to munch on and pick up a book to read. You can find a selection of great books on our Take a Break display, in the Browsing Collection, and in the…

  • 9 science fiction and fantasy books to read during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

    9 science fiction and fantasy books to read during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

    Just in time for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, here is a list of science fiction and fantasy books by AAPI authors to check from our John C. Rezmerski Science Fiction Collection. Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon-Ha Lee Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon-Ha Lee Call Number: PS3612.E34884 P46 2021 Publication Date: 2021-08-17 Yoon-Ha Lee’s Machineries…

  • 10 fiction books to read for International Women’s Day

    10 fiction books to read for International Women’s Day

    International Women’s Day has been celebrated in some form since 1909, first as a form of protest against war and for voting rights and workers rights, and since 1975 later as an UN-recognized international holiday celebrating women’s history and achievements on March 8 every year. This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #BreakTheBias, which calls…

  • New Wave Science Fiction in the John C. Rezmerski Science Fiction Collection

    New Wave Science Fiction in the John C. Rezmerski Science Fiction Collection

    During the New Wave movement of the 1960s and 70s, science fiction authors sought to overthrow existing social and aesthetic dogmas by critiquing the status quo of sex, race relations, gender, and environmental degradation, and by incorporating stylistic innovations influenced by the Beat poets, literary modernism and post-modernism, and an interest in expanded consciousness through…

  • Early Science Fiction in the John C. Rezmerski Science Fiction Collection

    Early Science Fiction in the John C. Rezmerski Science Fiction Collection

    Gustavus Library is proud to host the John C. Rezmerski Science Fiction Collection, which includes over 2,000 books, periodicals, and other materials donated to the library by the late poet, editor, and Gustavus professor John Calvin Rezmerski (1942 – 2016). In this blog post and display, the first in a series, we’re highlighting early science…

  • Random Reads October 2021: Historical Fiction

    Random Reads October 2021: Historical Fiction

    Want to travel to another time and place without getting in a car or hopping on a plane? Historical fiction can immerse you in another world! For our first Random Reads blog and display, we’re highlighting some of the most entrancing Historical Fiction novels to be found in our literature collections. The Master of Ballantrae…

  • Summer Reads: Young Adult

    Looking for some Young Adult reading while you relax this summer? Loved Red, White, and Royal Blue, The Hate U Give, or The Grishaverse? Check out these highly anticipated YA releases, now at Gustavus Library! Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland Described as Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets…

  • Together: A Global and Interconnected Effort (Feminism Series Guest Post!)

    Today we welcome guest blogger Ashley Evans, the Library’s academic assistant, for the third and final post is a series on feminism resources. You can read her first post here and her second post here. (Please note that you will need your Gustavus user ID/password to access some of these materials.) Thus far in our…

  • Guest Post! TRANSforming Book Study

    Today we welcome guest blogger and Library Intern Amber Wolfinger (’21), who highlights a recent book study. This spring, the Chaplain’s office sponsored a book study of Austen Hartke’s Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians. The book study discussions were led by Maggie Falenschek (Chaplain’s Office) and Aaron Geringer (Counseling Center), who…