When I asked classmates for their favorite books read since 2019, I heard the following: Tom Moore, How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith and Prisoners of Politics by Rachel Barkow; Tad Campion, This is Happiness by Niall Williams; Ford von Reyn, The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard; Warren Cook, An Honorable Exit by Eric Vuillard and How to Know a Person by David Brooks; Bob Sanner, Wilmington’s Lie by David Zucchino; Bob Smith, the Slough House series by Mick Herron; Joe Alviani, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe and The Quiet Americans by Scott Anderson; John Manopoli, The Declassification Engine by Matthew Connelly and The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson; Stuart Spitz, My Mother’s Son by David Hirshberg (pseudonym of Fred Price); Jack Halpern, Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey and A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine (pseudonym of Ruth Rendell); Marvin Soroos, A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial by Nguyen Viet Thanh and Horse by Geraldine Brooks; Jack Ferraro, the Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny and The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot; Russ Hoverman, America’s Revolutionary Mind by C. Bradley Thompson and Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow; Bill White, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain; John Isaacs, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and Long Way Home by Lynn Austin; Sam Ostrow, The Bee Sting by Paul Murray and George VI and Elizabeth by Sally Bedell Smith; Bill Sjogren, Botticelli’s Secret by Joseph Luzzi and This Old Man by Roger Angell; Charlie Hoeveler, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah and A Time to Kill by John Grisham; and Knox Johnstone, The Coming Wave by Musfafa Suleyman. See the entire list at 1967.dartmouth.org.

—Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA 01339; 1967damnotes@gmail.com