In honor of National Author’s Day, Digital Dialogs wanted to share with you some of our favorite authors. The recommendations below were submitted by our very own USF Libraries’ staff and faculty. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry… this list really has something for everyone!
We hope that you take some time for yourself and enjoy a good book.
2025 Recommendations:
- A Friend of the Earth by T Coraghessan Boyle
- A True Novel by Minae Mizumura
- Anathem by Neal Stephenson
- As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
- Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia by Bruce Murphy
- Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
- Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
- Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- The Grand Panjandrum by J. N. Hook
- If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes
- Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
- Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
- Lock In by John Scalzi
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
- Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
- The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Peaceable Kingdom by Jan de Hartog
- Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Still Life by Jay Hopler
- Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick
Want some more reading inspiration?
Check out our previous book recommendations!