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Summer 2026 · via MIT News

43 books

Summer 2026 Reading from MIT

Recent titles from Institute faculty and staff.

Fiction & poetry · 3Science & engineering · 9Culture, humanities & social science · 12Technology & society · 8Education, work, finance & impact · 6Arts, design, architecture & planning · 5

By subject

Fiction & poetry

Poems and novels: the Institute writing for the page, not the lab.

Science & engineering

Chemistry, cognition, birds, carbon, headaches: the physical and life sciences, made legible.

Culture, humanities & social science

History, statecraft, economics and memory: how societies hold together and come apart.

Technology & society

Computing, drones, AI auditing and the culture that grows around the machines.

Education, work, finance & impact

Meritocracy, monetary policy, deep-tech startups: the systems that organize effort and money.

Arts, design, architecture & planning

Gardens, shrinking towns, preparedness and reconstruction: design at the scale of the city.

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