In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Not exactly a light summer read, but a tremendously deep and complicated book that keeps you thinking about the characters of the book long after you've finished it. The dark story of two men killing a family "in cold blood" (they had no motive to kill that family) in the farmlands of Kansas in the late 1950's. Capote interviewed hundreds of townspeople when writing this book - and it creates an incredibly eerie lifelike quality to his writing. --Audrey S., alumnus