READ MORE FROM OUR 2025 SUMMER GUIDE HERE.
1. Ginseng Roots
BY: CRAIG THOMPSON
This memoir takes you into the ginseng farms of rural Wisconsin, where Thompson spent childhood summers weeding and harvesting the crop with his siblings. The pen-and-ink graphics weave his story with the larger narrative of industrial agriculture and the history of the ginseng trade.
2. The Devil Three Times
BY: RICKEY FAYNE
The debut novel from the UW-Madison Mendota Fellow in Fiction follows eight generations of a Black family in West Tennessee, beginning with Yetunde, who awakens on a slave ship headed to the United States. She makes a bargain with the devil, offering herself and her family members for the next 175 years.
3. The Last Ferry Out
BY: ANDREA BARTZ
In this thriller, protagonist Abby returns to the island where her fiancée died to try to put together the pieces of her accidental death. When she arrives, Abby begins to suspect that the death might not have been an accident, but a murder. And the killer could still be on the island.
