Read Like A Longhorn: Book Recommendations

Recommended by Chase, UT Libraries staff in LIT/Captioning​: This is a beautifully-written emotional rollercoaster of a novel about a plot to steal one million chickens.

Recommended by Jenny, UT Libraries staff in Admin. Services​: Space lesbians!

Recommended by Seb, UT senior: An old man in crutches who may or may not be called Molloy wanders the countryside in search of his most-likely-deceased mother, monologuing away, losing himself in his thoughts, one peculiar digression after another. This book is brilliantly strange, essentially plotless. If you're into stream of consciousness type stuff I highly recommend this unique literary creature, along with the other two books in the more-or-less-connected trilogy (Malone Dies and The Unnamable, each one weirder and more impenetrable than the last).

Recommended by Liz, UT Libraries staff at the Marine Science Library​: This book was recommended to me by a researcher/faculty; it was a learning experience and I really enjoyed reading it. For several years folks thought it was better 'to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature.' The argument presented in the book describes having a 'rambunctious garden,' together with a wild nature environment and human management.

Recommended by Kendrick, UT Junior: The concepts in this book are so flipping cool – think Sumerian mythos meets machine learning meets neurobiology. These ideas get to develop in a cyberpunk, hyper-capitolism'd world where pizza is delivered by the mafia and packs of skateboarders have replaced the USPS. Tldr; why haven't you read this book yet?

Recommended by Elizabeth, UT Libraries staff in Borrower Services: This half prose, half poetry book-length essay sprawls; from Buffalo, NY to a farm in the hills of Tennessee to Iceland, T Fleischmann weaves together memories of nights spent with lovers, a review of Félix González-Torres’ life & work, their hormone replacement therapy journey, Greek myth, an anti-colonialist take on the Public Universal Friend, and meditations on love and ice in their breathtaking commentary on what it is to have a body and what it means to create. If you love art or have a body (or hopefully both!), you can’t miss this one. ​
TL;DR: non-linear, queer, trans rumination on art & life