Seabrookers Are Reading

Breakfast with Seneca
by David Fideler
The first clear and faithful guide to the timeless, practical teachings of the Stoic philosopher Seneca. Stoicism, the most influential philosophy of the Roman Empire, offers refreshingly modern ways to strengthen our inner character in the face of an unpredictable world. (2022; Nonfiction)

Migrations
by Charlotte McConaghy
Propelled by a narrator as fierce and fragile as the terns she is following, Charlotte McConaghy’s Migrations is both an ode to our threatened world and a breathtaking page-turner about the lengths we will go for the people we love. (2020; Fiction)

Wild Dark Shore
by Charlotte McConaghy
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants… until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore. (2025; Fiction)

Go As a River
by Shelley Read
Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola, CO, in the 1960s, this debut novel is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss, but also of finding courage, resilience, friendship, and, finally, home– where least expected. (2023; Fiction)

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
by Jonathan Blitzer
Brilliantly weaving the stories of Central Americans whose lives have been devastated by chronic political conflict and violence with those of American activists, government officials, and the politicians responsible for the country’s tragically tangled immigration policy, Blitzer reveals the full, layered picture. (2025; Nonfiction)

Sailing for Grace
by Joseph Bauer
Wilton and Grace Goodbow’s long marriage was frequently marked by political disagreement— she was the progressive activist, he the conservative, successful businessman. But their love was deep and bonded by a common passion for the sea aboard their ocean sailing yacht, The Sails of Grace. About to die, Grace elicits her husband’s promise to set aside his political beliefs and take on her last cause: the reunification of Central American parents separated from their children at the El Paso border. Will risks his own freedom to keep his word. Sometimes the letter of the law and the right thing to do meet head-on. Sailing for Grace is a suspenseful exploration of the intersection of law, morality, and personal choice. (2025; Fiction)

Culpability
by Bruce Holsinger
When the Cassidy-Shaws’ autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver’s seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun. In the back seat, tweens Alice and Izzy are on their phones, while their mother, Lorelei, a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), is absorbed in her work. Yet each family member harbors a secret, implicating each of them in the accident. The stakes are raised in this propulsive family drama, one that is also a fascinating exploration of the moral responsibility and ethical consequences of AI. (2025; Fiction)

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
by Kiran Desai
This is the sweeping tale of two young people navigating the many forces that shape their lives: country, class, race, history, and the complicated bonds that link one generation to the next. A love story, a family saga, and a rich novel of ideas, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by one of our greatest novelists. (2025; Fiction)

They All Came to Barneys
by Gene Pressman
Telling the intertwined story of a legendary New York retailer, the fashion world’s evolution, and the Pressman family’s ambitions and conflicts, this book recounts Barneys’ rise from a 1923 suit shop to a global fashion force–and its eventual unraveling. (2025; Nonfiction)

Mother Emanuel
by Kevin Sack
This is a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of grace and perseverance amidst the fight for racial justice from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kevin Sack. (2025; Nonfiction)

Replaceable You
by Mary Roach
The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what’s available– sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today, we’re attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing? Are we there yet? (2025; Nonfiction)

The Social Biome: How Everyday Communication Connects and Shapes Us
by Andy Merolla
A deep dive into the importance of daily communication and how we can harness its power to create a better life is presented by a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. (2025; Nonfiction)

American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback
by Seth Wickersham
Pull back the curtain on the most powerful position in all of sports: the quarterback, the American equivalent of royalty, long glamorized, mythologized, and worshiped. The New York Times bestselling author of It’s Better to be Feared examines football’s QB lifecycle: high school, college, the NFL, retirement– and all that comes with it. (2025; Nonfiction)

The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans
Sybil is seventy-three years old, in the winter of her life. She has always made sense of the world through writing letters, and through this epistolary novel, Virginia Evans’ debut, we see how she comes to terms with her past and present and learns forgiveness. (2025; Fiction)