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A decade-plus of reading lists

Summer 2004

de Waal, Frans B.M., ed. Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us About Human Social Evolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Krech, Shepard. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: Norton, 1999.
H H Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
Merton, Thomas. No Man is an Island. New York: Dell, 1957.
Honore, Carl. In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
Stilgoe, John R. Outside Lies Magic: Recovering History and Awareness in Everyday Places. New York: Walker, 1998.
Cornwell, John. Breaking Faith: the Pope, the People, and the Fate of Catholicism. New York: Viking Compass, 2001.
Sudo, Philip Toshio. Zen Computer. New York: Fireside, 1999.
King, Robert. Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh: Engaged Spirituality in an Age of Globalization. New York: Continuum, 2003.
Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God. New York: Ballantine, 2000.
Barash, David P. and Ilona A. Barash. The Mammal in the Mirror: Understanding Our Place in the Natural World. New York: Freeman, 2000.
Menzies, Gavin. 1421: The Year China Discovered America. New York: William Morrow, 2003.
Easterman, Daniel. The Ninth Buddha. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. New York: Harmony Books, 1979.

Fall 2004

Steven Pinker -- How The Mind Works.
Richard Nesbitt -- The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently, and Why.
Christina Hoff Sommers -- Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women.
Eric Brende -- Better OFF: Flipping the Switch on Technology.
God and the Philosophers. (edited by Thomas Morris)
Mark Haddon -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Kurt Vonnegut -- Cat's Cradle.
J. R. R. Tolkien -- The Lord of the Rings.
Patrick Curry -- Defending Middle Earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity.
John Cornwell -- The Pontiff in Winter: Triumph and Conflict in the Reign of John Paul II.
Frances and Anne Lapp� -- Hope's Edge: The Next Diet For a Small Planet.
Christina Hoff Sommers -- The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men.

Spring 2005

Andrew Matthews -- Follow Your Heart
Kurt Vonnegut -- Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut -- The Sirens of Titan
Lynne Truss -- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Kurt Vonnegut -- Bagombo Snuff Box

Summer 2005

Erica Jong -- Fear of Flying
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
J. D. Salinger -- Catcher in the Rye
Dalton Conley -- Honky
Leslie Cannold -- The Abortion Myth: Feminism, Morality, and the Hard Choices Women Make
Ayn Rand -- We the Living
Chris Carlson, ed. -- Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration

Fall 2005

Elizabeth Wurtzel -- Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
Stever Pinker -- The Blank Slate
Barbara Ehrenreich -- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Rupert Sheldrake -- The Sense of Being Stared At
Douglas Adams -- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Paul Feig -- Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin
Barbara Ehrenreich -- Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Anthony Burgess -- A Clockwork Orange
Roald Dahl -- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Walpola Rahula -- What the Buddha Taught
Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha
Antoine de Saint Exup�ry -- The Little Prince

Spring 2006

C.S. Lewis -- Out of the Silent Planet
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
C.S. Lewis -- Perelandra
Morgan Spurlock -- Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
Richard Adams -- Watership Down
C.S. Lewis -- That Hideous Strength
Stephen Chbosky -- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Rod Dreher -- Crunchy Cons
William Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar
John Le Carr� -- The Constant Gardener
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
Lois Lowry -- The Giver
Max Frisch -- Andorra

Summer 2006

Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth
Katherine Patterson -- Bridge to Terabithia
Umberto Eco -- Foucault's Pendulum
Kurt Vonnegut -- Breakfast of Champions
Franz Kafka -- The Metamorphosis
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
Douglas Adams -- Life, The Universe and Everything
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
Thomas Friedman -- The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Madeline Levine -- The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
George Orwell -- 1984

Fall 2006

Ray Bennett, M.D. -- The Underachiever's Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting
Dr. Temple Grandin and Sean Barron -- Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism
Philip K. Dick -- A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick -- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Stephen Jay Gould -- Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D. -- The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
Christopher Buckley -- Thank You For Smoking
Kurt Vonnegut -- Welcome to the Monkey House

Spring 2007

H.E. Jacobs -- Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History
Chaim Potok -- The Promise
Christopher Buckley -- Florence of Arabia
Chris Mooney -- The Republican War on Science
Keith Devlin -- The Math Instinct
Kathleen DesMaisons -- Potatoes Not Prozac
Philip K. Dick -- VALIS
Alexandra Robbins -- Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis: Advice from Twentysomethings Who Have Been There and Survived
Kurt Vonnegut -- A Man without a Country
Lester R. Brown -- Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble

Summer 2007

Kurt Vonnegut -- God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
Jonathan Magonet -- The Explorer's Guide to Judaism
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Silmarillion
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
Verlyn Flieger -- Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
Richard Weaver -- Ideas Have Consequences
Catherine GS Lim -- Gateway to Peranakan Culture
Thomas Cahill -- The Gifts of the Jews
Viktor Frankl -- Man's Search for Meaning
Franz Kafka -- The Trial
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon

Fall 2007

Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Selected Poems: The Centenary Edition, edited by Colin Falck
Philip K. Dick -- The Man in the High Castle
George Monbiot -- Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Notes from Underground
Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins -- The Wisdom of Judaism: An Introduction to the Values of the Talmud
Thomas Cahill -- How the Irish Saved Civilization
Morris Berman -- Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
Edward O. Wilson -- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
William Gibson -- Count Zero
Oscar Wilde -- Lady Windermere's Fan

Spring 2008

Douglas Adams -- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Franz Kafka -- Das Schloss/The Castle
William Shakespeare -- The Taming of the Shrew
Kurt Vonnegut -- Bluebeard
Stanislaw Lem -- Solaris
John Taylor Gatto -- The Underground History of American Education

Summer 2008

Barack Obama -- The Audacity of Hope
Friedrich Nietzsche -- Human, All Too Human
Voltaire -- Candide, Micromegas, Zadig, The Ingenu
Kurt Vonnegut -- Mother Night
Ursula K. LeGuin -- Rocannon's World

Fall 2008

Voltaire -- The White Bull
Sebastian Haffner -- Defying Hitler
Chris Carlson -- Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today
Bob Altemeyer -- The Authoritarians
Lee Smolin -- The Trouble With Physics
Paul Kriwaczek -- In Search of Zarathustra: The First Prophet and the Ideas That Changed the World
Matthew Polly -- American Shaolin
Daniel Quinn -- Ishmael
Rose Wilder Lane -- Islam and the Discovery of Freedom, introduced and annotated by Dr. Imad A. Ahmad
Daniel Quinn -- The Story of B
William Shakespeare -- Titus Andronicus
Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Poor People
Richard North Patterson -- The Final Judgment
Oscar Wilde -- Salome, A Woman of No Importance

Spring 2009

Bill McKibben -- Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Richard Layard -- Happiness: Lessons From a New Science
Brendan Vaughan, ed. -- What Would MacGyver Do? : True Stories of Improvised Genius in Everyday Life
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Lord of the Rings
Robert Frank -- Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess
Christopher Buckley -- Boomsday
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Silmarillion
Morris Berman -- The Reenchantment of the World
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Friend of the Family

Summer 2009

John LeCarre -- The Mission Song
Kenneth Rubin and Andrea Thompson -- The Friendship Factor: Helping Our Children Navigate Their Social World--And Why It Matters for their Success and Happiness
Katherine Neville -- The Eight
Mike Tidwell -- The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities
Paul H. Smith -- Reading the Enemy's Mind
Lynn Pan -- Sons of the Yellow Emperor: A History of the Chinese Diaspora
Thomas Hine -- The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager

Fall 2009

Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs -- Class War?: What Americans Really Think About Economic Inequality
Raymond Carver -- Cathedral
Lee Siegel -- Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
Chaim Potok -- My Name is Asher Lev
Terence McKenna -- The Archaic Revival
Riane Eisler -- The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
Alva Noe -- Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband
Christian Lander -- Stuff White People Like

Winter 2010

William Goldman -- The Princess Bride
Jared Diamond -- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Leonard Felder -- Fitting in is Overrated: The Survival Guide for Anyone Who Has Ever Felt Like an Outsider
Thomas Pynchon -- Gravity's Rainbow
Oscar Wilde -- A Florentine Tragedy, The Importance of Being Earnest

Spring 2010

Neil Gaiman -- Coraline
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Albert Camus -- The Plague
Zygmunt Bauman -- Living on Borrowed Time
Albert Camus -- "The Myth of Sisyphus" and other essays
Robert Baer -- See No Evil
Charles Hugh-Smith -- Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation
Theodor Weissenborn -- Die Madonna im Steinbruch: Kirchengeschichten, Satiren, Miszellen
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
Daniel Quinn -- Providence: the story of a fifty-year vision quest
Paul Goodman -- Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
Annie Leonard -- The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health -- And a Vision for Change
Jonathan Roberts -- William Blake's Poetry
Ignacio L. G�tz -- Conceptions of Happiness
Robert Skidelsky and Christian Westerlind Wigstr�m, eds. -- The Economic Crisis and the State of Economics
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
Esther Brimmer, ed. -- Power Politics: Energy Security, Human Rights and Transatlantic Relations
Bertolt Brecht -- Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
Albert Camus -- The Stranger
Mitchell R. Haney and A. David Kline, eds. -- The value of time and leisure in a world of work

Summer 2010

Friedrich Nietzsche -- Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
30 Things to Do When You Turn 30, edited by Ronnie Sellers
Thomas Harris -- Hannibal
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- The Black Swan
Bruce Pandolfini -- Weapons of Chess: A Compendium of Chess Strategy
Zack Furness -- One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
Ron Lipsman -- Liberal Hearts and Conservative Brains: The Correlation Between Age and Political Philosophy
Friedrich Hayek -- The Road to Serfdom
Joe Carmichiel -- Permanent Adolescence: Why Boys Don't Grow Up
James W. Loewen -- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth
Henry Giroux -- Against the Terror of Neoliberalism

Fall 2010

James Webb -- Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
Martha Stout -- The Sociopath Next Door
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
America on the Edge: Henry Giroux on Politics, Culture, and Education
Peter Hitchens -- The Rage Against God
Jack Maguire, ed. -- Dhammapada Annotated & Explained
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played With Fire
Bart Ehrman -- Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Douglas Hofstadter -- G�del, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Tony Hill -- The Spice Lover's Guide to Herbs and Spices
Tommy G�rling and Linda Steg, eds. -- Threats from Car Traffic to the Quality of Urban Life: Problems, Causes, and Solutions
Bhagavad Gita Annotated & Explained, translated by Shri Purohit Swami with annotations by Kendra Crossen Burroughs
Jared Diamond -- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Harold James -- The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle
Harry Markopolos -- No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Carl Elliott -- White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine
Niall Ferguson -- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Richard Lloyd -- Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake

Winter 2011

Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
Lisa Dodson -- The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy
Philip K. Dick -- "We Can Remember it For You Wholesale" and other assorted stories
Richard Settersten, Ph.D., and Barbara E. Ray -- Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone
Ursula K. Le Guin -- The Tombs of Atuan
T. E. Lawrence -- Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems, edited by J. D. McClatchy
Kirill Yeskov -- The Last Ringbearer
Kurt Vonnegut -- Cat's Cradle

Spring 2011

Philip K. Dick -- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Steven Stoll -- The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth
China Mi�ville -- The City and The City
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
Christopher Buckley -- Supreme Courtship
Jeff Yeager -- The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means
Robert D. Hare, Ph.D. -- Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths Among Us
Tom McCarthy -- Tintin and the Secret of Literature
William Glasser, M.D. -- Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous To Your Mental Health
China Mi�ville -- Kraken
Daniel Quinn -- My Ishmael
William Shakespeare -- The Tempest
John Taylor Gatto -- Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Summer 2011

Peter Breggin, M.D. -- Medication Madness
Chaim Potok -- The Gift of Asher Lev
J. K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Philosopher'sSorcerer's Stone
Nelson DeMille -- Plum Island
Philip K. Dick -- Eye in the Sky
Alexandre Dumas -- The Man in the Iron Mask
Michael Wex -- Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion
Jack DeAngelis -- Living With Bugs: Least-toxic Solutions to Everyday Bug Problems
Thomas Harris -- Hannibal Rising
Jacqueline Olds, M.D., and Richard S. Schwartz, M.D. -- The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century
J. K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Nuruddin Farah -- Secrets
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- 36 Arguments for the Existence of God (a work of fiction)
Raymond Wacks -- Privacy: A Very Short Introduction
China Mi�ville -- Perdido Street Station
Graham Greene -- The End of the Affair
Voltaire -- Zadig, The Ingenu
Arturo Perez-Reverte -- Captain Alatriste
Sasha Lilley -- Capital and its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult
Andrew Potter -- The Authenticity Hoax: How We Got Lost Finding Ourselves
Donal O'Shea -- The Poincar� Conjecture
Christopher Isherwood -- A Single Man
J. K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Fall 2011

Richard North Patterson -- The Devil's Light
Orson Scott Card -- Speaker For the Dead
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises
Douglas Adams -- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Richard Adams -- Watership Down
Douglas Adams -- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Orson Scott Card -- Empire
John Grisham -- The Pelican Brief
Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha
James Stein -- How Math Can Save Your Life
Lu�s Miguel Rocha -- The Last Pope
Karen Armstrong -- Buddha
Ha-Joon Chang -- 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Spring 2012

Joseph Campbell -- The Power of Myth
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
China Mi�ville -- The Scar
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
Orson Scott Card -- Xenocide
China Mi�ville -- Iron Council
Orson Scott Card -- Children of the Mind
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Michael Lewis -- Moneyball
Stephen Chbosky -- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Albert Camus -- The Myth of Sisyphus
Last Call at the Oasis: The Global Water Crisis and Where We Go From Here, edited by Karl Weber
Isaac Asimov -- Foundation
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Summer 2012

Daniel T. Willingham -- Why Don't Students Like School?
China Mi�ville -- Embassytown
Isaac Asimov -- Foundation and Empire
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Daniel Kahneman -- Thinking, Fast and Slow
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
Franz Kafka -- The Trial
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

Fall 2012

Andrew Delbanco -- College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be
Jean-Paul Sartre -- No Exit and Three Other Plays
Jack Williams -- The AMS Weather Book
Hermann Hesse -- Demian
Kurt Vonnegut -- Galapagos
Jeffrey Eugenides -- The Marriage Plot
Jo Nesbo -- The Snowman

Spring 2013

Jeffrey Eugenides -- Middlesex
Raj Patel -- Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Jo Nesbo -- The Leopard
Jo Nesbo -- The Phantom
Daniel Quinn -- The Story of B
Daniel Dennett -- Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Stephen Hunter -- I, Sniper
Spencer Wells -- Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
Stephen Hunter -- Night of Thunder
Stephen Hunter -- The 47th Samurai
David Foster Wallace -- The Broom of the System
Danuta Reah -- Night Angels
George Pelecanos -- Drama City
David Priestland -- Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A History of the World in Three Castes
Kurt Vonnegut -- While Mortals Sleep

Summer 2013

Ross Douthat -- Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
Nelson DeMille -- The Panther
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult as retold by Joseph B�dier
Richard Adams -- Tales From Watership Down
Jo Nesbo -- The Redeemer
Arturo Perez Reverte -- The Queen of the South
Daniel Silva -- The Fallen Angel
Daniel Silva -- The Mark of the Assassin
Stephen Hunter -- Dead Zero
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- Antifragile: Things That Gain From

Disorder

Stephen Hunter -- Soft Target

Fall 2013

Norbert Wiener -- God and Golem, Inc.
The Bhagavad Gita
Bart Ehrman -- Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
William Davis, M.D. -- Wheat Belly
Tracy Chevalier -- The Virgin Blue
J.K. Rowling -- The Casual Vacancy
George Packer -- The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
Eduardo Porter -- The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do
Tracy Chevalier -- The Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier -- Burning Bright
L.M. Montgomery -- Anne of Avonlea
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy in America

Spring 2014

Robert Galbraith -- The Cuckoo's Calling
Sherry Turkle -- Alone Together
Reza Aslan -- Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
David Foster Wallace -- Oblivion: Stories
George Orwell -- Animal Farm
Asa Larsson -- The Blood Spilt
Brian Greene -- The Elegant Universe
Ursula K. LeGuin -- The Left Hand of Darkness
Jo Nesbo -- Cockroaches
David Foster Wallace -- Infinite Jest

Summer 2014

Susan Collins -- The Hunger Games
J. R. R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
Susan Collins -- Catching Fire
Elizabeth George -- What Came Before He Shot Her
Susan Collins -- Mockingjay
Alvin Plantinga -- God, Freedom, and Evil
Joe Bageant -- Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

Fall 2014

Elizabeth George -- A Suitable Vengeance
Elizabeth George -- In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
Paul Tillich -- The Courage To Be
Elizabeth George -- Careless in Red
Frederik Pohl -- Black Star Rising

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