Bookshelf

Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

The Enchantress Queen and The Ghost Who Made Me by Lori Rottenberg ’87.

June 19, 2026

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(Livingston Press, 2026).

Selected as the 2025 Changing Light Novel-in-Verse Prize winner, this book combines poetry and flash non-fiction to create a narrative arc. According to the publisher, “It centers on a girl whose accidental conception irrevocably alters the life trajectories of her teenaged parents and who witnesses her parents’ inevitable divorce, her family’s subsequent fall into poverty, and her mother’s struggle to find a new partner in the disco era and cope with her life trauma and mental health issues. The girl comes of age amid these challenges and ultimately makes peace with the imperfect people who loved her.”