Bridgeside Bookworms Share Their Favorite Reads
Everyone deserves (needs) a mid-week mental health break, which is exactly why we hosted a Coffee Talk: The Best Books in the lobby so community members could catch-up over complimentary coffee and share a recent or all-time favorite book they'd recommend!
Complete with coffee and doughnuts for a morning boost, this hump-day activation invited attendees to swap recommendations for their classic or current reads. From fiction to nonfiction, participants shared the following:
Books
Off-Campus Series by Elle Kennedy
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
A Slow Fire Burning: A Novel by Paula Hawkins
Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
In Five Years: A Novel by Rebecca Serle
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Harry Potter by JK Rowling
India's Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes by Rahul Singh and Shiv Aroor
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Captain Class by S.A.M. Walker
Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual by Jocko Willink
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Shining by Stephen King
Practical Physical Geology by Jill A. Ciciarelli
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World by Peter Zeihan
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Closed Casket by Sophie Hannah
Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks
Fermented by Jill A. Ciciarelli
Podcasts
The Jordan Peterson Podcast
Morbid: A True Crime Podcast
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Crime Junkies Podcast with Ashley Flowers
Modern War Institute Podcast
5-4 Podcast
Not Another D & D Podcast: The Galaderon Saga
Dr. Death Podcast
Series
You on Netflix
Ted Lasso on Apple TV
Lupin on Netflix
Better Call Saul on Netflix
Movies
Escape Room on Netflix
Harry Potter on HBO Max
The Sun is Also a Star on Youtube TV
Wonder on Hulu
American Psycho on Amazon Prime Video
A popular theme seemed to be murder mysteries, which can be pretty haunting, especially considering there are cadavers on the third floor of the building, which are used for a variety of programs within the University of Pittsburgh's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
What was also interesting to uncover is how this particular audience consumes their content. Some favored traditional paperbacks, while others preferred an auditory route. More so, several of the recommendations were visual, in the forms of movies and TV series.
Nevertheless, with over 40 responses submitted, it’s clear we have some bookworms and binge-watchers in our building!