The Academy’s strong English program and focus on writing and clearly expressing ideas have both attracted and produced a number of outstanding authors. If you’re planning to settle in with a good book as the nights get long and temperatures drop, try one of these. (And please contact the alumni office if you have an addition or change to this list.)
Ariel Ashe ’98
Ashe Leandro: Architecture + Interiors
Livia Blackburne ’00
A Twisted Tale Anthology
Bing’s Cherries
Clementine and Danny Save the World (and each other)
Daughter of Dusk
Dreams to Ashes
Feather and Flame
I Dream of Popo
Lord of Time
Midnight Thief
Nainai’s Mountain
Poison Dance
Rosemarked
Umbertouched
Visit Livia’s website.
Reah Bravo ’96
Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men
Visit Reah’s website.
M.Z. Buschman ’16
Callow: An Anthology
Extant
Kevin Carroll, former faculty
1862 The Confederates Strike Back
A Journey to Financial Independence: Learn How to Use Real Estate to Create Monthly Passive Income
A Moment’s Pause for Gratitude
Dr. Eddie Anderson, Hall of Fame College Football Coach: A Biography
Houston Oilers: The Early Years
Make Your Point! Speak Clearly and Concisely Anyplace, Anytime
Practical Genius: The Real Smarts You Need to Get Your Talents and Passions Working for You
Rules of the Red Rubber Ball: Find and Sustain Your Life’s Work
The Red Rubber Ball at Work: Elevate Your Game Through the Hidden Power of Play
The Turtle Diet: The Slow and Steady Way to Lose Weight
What’s Your Hook: 26 Ways to Make Your Message Stick
Emily Hanson Collis, former staff
Elroy’s Remarkable Day Fishing
Visit Emily’s website.
Kat Cox ’00
Denver to London
Extreme Desire
Le Loup-Garou
Visit Kat’s website.
Ava Dellaira ’02
Exposure
In Search of Us
Love Letters to the Dead
Visit Ava’s website.
David Eagleman ’89
Brain & Behavior (with Jonathan Downar)
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
The Brain: The Story of You
The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World (with Anthony Brandt)
The Safety Net: Surviving Pandemics and Other Disasters
Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia (with Richard E. Cytowic)
Visit David’s website.
Jon Enfield ’93
The New Men
Richard Field, faculty
From the Sands of the Arena: Ancient World Trivia for the 21st Century
Momma, Momma, Brown Toes
Weight Training (with Scott O. Roberts)
Brian Fitzpatrick ’93
The Conservative Case for Class Actions
Jason Gaines ’01
Poetic Priestly Source
Florence Goulesque, former faculty
Marie Krysinska: Une Femme Poète Symboliste; La Calliope du Chat Noir
Spence Lucas ’72
Chinese Fossil Vertebrates
Dinosaurs: The Textbook
Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Eggs and Eggshells of Peninsular India
Triassic Hall: Building the Triassic Exhibit from the Ground Up (with Jaenet Guggenheim)
Maggie Hall ’01
The Conspiracy of Us
Map of Fates
The Ends of the World
Visit Maggie’s website.
Gustav Parker Hibbett ’14
High Jump as Icarus Story
Visit Gustav’s website.
Verne Huser, former faculty
Bouncy the Giraffe
Canyon Country Paddles
Down by the River: The Impact of Federal Water Projects and Policies on Biological Diversity
On the River with Lewis and Clark
Paddle Routes of Western Washington: 50 Flatwater Trips for Canoe and Kayak
River Camping: Touring by Canoe, Raft, Kayak, and Dory
River Reflections: A Collection of River Writings
River Running
Rivers of Texas
Snake River Guide: Grand Teton National Park
Wyoming’s Snake River
Mira Jacob ’91
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing: A Novel
Visit Mira’s website.
John Knapp, faculty
Fiddled Out of Reason: Addison and the Rise of the Hymnic Verse, 1687-1712
Giana León ’15 with Jenni Kayne
Pacific Natural Everywhere
Mateo Márquez ’96
The Phoenix of Hotel Freds
Jessica May ’95
American Modern: Documentary Photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White
N.C. Wyeth: New Perspectives
Richard Estes’ Realism
Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene
Rob McBride ’80
2024 The Paper War
2050 The Big Change
2064 The Resolution
A Special Gift: Journey to Excellence
Born Again: Lunar Letters
Daily Dose: Empower Yourself
Free Yourself: Adulting for Millenials
Happy, Healthy and Wise
Just Call Me Betty
Seeds of Success
Thoughts from Heaven
Victor Milán ’72
Ace in the Hole
Adah: The World’s Delight
Armageddon Run
Black Dragon
Brute Force
CLD
Close Quarters
Cold Steele
Death from Above
Death Charge
Desolation Road
Devil’s Deal
Flight of the Falcon
Freedom Fight
Fugitive Steele
Hearts of Chaos
Jagged Steele
Killer Steele
Lord of the Plains
Molten Steele
Night of the Phoenix
Plague Years
Red Sands
Renegade Steele
River of Fire
Runespear
Snake Eyes
Steele
Stormrider
The Cybernetic Samurai
The Cybernetic Shogun
The Dinosaur Knights
The Dinosaur Lords
The Dinosaur Princess
The Guardians
The War of Powers
The War Party
Thunder of Hell
Trial by Fire
Valley of the Gods
Vengeance Day
War in Tethyr
War Zone
Jonathan Miller ’80
A Million Dead Lawyers
Amarillo in August: An Author’s Life on the Road
Animal Control
Conflict Contract (with Trevor McShane)
Crater County: A Legal Thriller of New Mexico
La Bajada Lawyer
Laws & Loves: Real Stories of the Rattlesnake Lawyer
Lawyer Geisha Pink
Luna Law
Navajo Repo
Rattlesnake & Son
Rattlesnake Funeral
Rattlesnake Lawyer
Rattlesnake Wedding
The Shakespeare Incident
Twilight in the Twelfth
Volcano Verdict
David Moore ’72
Critical Thinking and Intelligence Analysis
Sensemaking: A Structure for an Intelligence Revolution
Meg Mullins ’91
Dear Strangers
The Rug Merchant
This is How I’d Love You
We Are All Having Fun Here
Visit Meg’s website.
Peter Nash, faculty
Ghost Story
In a Place Where We Thought We Stood
The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight
Parsimony
The Perfection of Things
The Least of It
Trotsky’s Sink: Ninety-eight Short Essays About Literature (with George Ovitt, faculty)
Julianne Newmark ’92
The Pluralist Imagination from East to West in American Literature
Rudraksh Nighot ’17
Odyssey of the Mind: Experiences and Memories
George Ovitt, faculty
Splitting the Difference
Stillpoint
The Restoration of Perfection: Labor and Technology in Medieval Culture
The Showcase
The Snowman
Tribunal
Trotsky’s Sink: Ninety-eight Short Essays About Literature (with Peter Nash, faculty)
What Happens Next
Nick Pachelli ’09
The Tennis Court
Visit Nick’s website.
Daniel Park ’89
How to Succeed as a University Administrator
How Would You Rule?
Leviathan: Who Rules When There Are No Rules?
Love in the Dark and Other Stories
Sea of Troubles
Sentinel: The Greatest Danger Isn’t Always the Dragon
The Last Shot and Other Stories About Life, Death, and Love
The Legal Mind
You Are What You Do: Live the Life You Were Meant to Live
Jennifer Quintenz ’93
Daughters of Lilith series:
Thrall
Incubus
Sacrifice
Guardian
Kin
Joshua Cooper Ramo ’87
No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World’s Most Dangerous Sport
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It
The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
Kit Rosewater ’07
The Derby Daredevils: Kenzie Kickstarts a Team
The Derby Daredevils: Shelly Struggles to Shine
The Derby Daredevils: Tomoko Takes the Lead
Visit Kit’s webpage.
Katherine Schifani ’03
Cartography: Navigating a Year in Iraq
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara ’84
Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874
Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World
The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century
Evie Soule ’26
It’s More Than Just Teenage Angst
Mark Tafoya ’89 (with Jennifer Iannolo)
The Gilded Fork – Entertaining at Home: A Year of Dinner Parties
Christopher Michael Travis ’89
Resisting Alienation: The Literary Work of Enrique Lihn
Coert Voorhees ’92
A Journey Toward Hope
In Too Deep
Lucky Fools
On the Free
Storm Wrangler
The Brothers Torres
Visit Coert’s website.
Connor White ’05 and Annabeth Bondor-Stone
Jaclyn Hyde
Quest for the Crystal Crown
Shivers! The Pirate Book You’ve Been Looking For
Shivers! The Pirate Who’s Afraid of Everything
Shivers! The Pirate Who’s Back in Bunny Slippers
Shivers! The Pirate Who’s More Terrified Than Ever
Time Tracers: The Stolen Summers
Visit Connor’s website.
Harry Willson, former faculty
Duke City Tales
Freedom from God: Restoring the Sense of Wonder
From Fear to Love: My Journey Beyond Christianity
Bryan Wolfmueller ’95
A Martyr’s Faith in a Faithless World
And Take They Our Life: Martin Luther’s Theology of Martyrdom
Final Victory: Contemplating the Death and Funeral of a Christian
Has American Christianity Failed?
Visit Bryan’s website.
