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.

Never Nothing {to Wear}: Heal Your Relationship with Yourself by Building Confidence in Your Personal Style by Helena T.M. (Marrin) Grant ’03.

December 5, 2025

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(Reverse Pathology Media, 2025).

For anyone who has stood in front of their closet, hands on hips, pondering for the umpteenth time what to wear, this book is for you! One reviewer noted that it “does a brilliant job of stating a collective problem in a way that’s accessible to all women without over-indexing on a certain female archetype. The crushingly raw opening pages will speak to and soften all readers, while the timing of pithy inflection is perfect. Grant unpacks a uniquely 21^st-century problem — why we feel like we never have anything to wear — in a way that gets at the heart of gendered questions about modernity, abundance, wellbeing, and self-worth. The reader walks away with a framework for finding meaning in seemingly ordinary vulnerabilities and finds herself less lonely in the process.”

In this book, the author’s first, she provides practical tools to heal the root cause of why facing our closets may feel like a chore. “The clothes you choose to wear symbolically communicate to yourself and the world who you are, what you do, and how you feel about yourself,” the publisher notes.