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Summer Reading 2009

Summer Reading titles are arranged alphabetically by title.

The second column denotes whether the book is on the Book One (B1) or Book Two (B2) reading list.

Click on the highlighted title to go to the reviews at Amazon.com.
(links are for reference purposes only)

Click on the highlighted faculty member to go to the book assignment.
(assignments are posted as they become available)

These books should be available at your local library.
Many of the books will be released in paperback in late spring or early summer.

Happy Reading! Enjoy your summer!


Faculty Member Book Title Author
John Wuorinen B1 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time Michael Brooks
Mark Daubenmier B2 The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers Scott Kelby
Bob Kirk B2 All Over But the Shoutin' Rick Bragg
John Exline B1 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Jon Meacham
John Exline B2 The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World Niall Ferguson
Doris Korda B2 Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy Michael Soussan
Shane MacElhiney B2 Between Barack and a Hard Place Tim Wise
Beth Reifeis B2 Black and White and Dead All Over John Darnton
Freda Graan B2 Blindness José Saramago
Diane Daniel B2 Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
Kyle Tong B1 Child of War, Son of Angels Curtis Tong
Joel Davis B1 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
Tim Morford B2 The Cry of the Dove Fadia Faqir
David Block B1 Digging for the Truth: One Man’s Epic Adventure Exploring the World’s Greatest Archaeological Mysteries Josh Bernstein
Susan Swinford B1 The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
John Mackenzie B1 Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing
Pat Hogan B2 Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China Leslie T. Chang
Andrew Morris B1 Fool Christopher Moore
Deb Tong B1 The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century Edward Dolnick
Christy Bening B2 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
Mark Larson B2 Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo Hayden Herrera
Darnell Heywood B2 Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll
Erich Hunker B1 Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t Jim Collins
Moira Landes B1 Great Maria Cecelia Holland
Diane Daniel B1 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Stefan Farrenkopf B1 The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom Jonathan Haidt
Doris Korda B1 The Help Kathryn Stockett
Mark Barren B1 Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey
Tim Morford B1 Howling in Mesopotamia: An Iraqi-American Memoir Haider Ala Hamoudi (CA ’89)
Pat Hogan B1 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
Andrew Morris B2 I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 Robert Graves
Beth Reifeis B1 Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo
Moira Landes B2 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal Christopher Moore
John Wuorinen B2 The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird Bruce Barcott
John Street B1/B2 The Last Lecture Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
Dan Olexio B2 Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 Marcus Luttrell
Bob Lee B1 Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Mary Kate Hermann B2 The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards
Adam Cavnar B1 Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Carol Dweck
Sheri Dillon B1 My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
Tim Leet B2 My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey Jill Bolte Taylor
Jennifer Lange B2 The Notebook Nicholas Sparks
Mark Larson B1 The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain Maria Rosa Menocal
Deidre Hamlar B2 Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell
Jeff Arndt B1 Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood Mark Harris
Kyle Tong B2 Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation John Carlin
Jerry Izzo B2 The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape Harm De Blij
David Block B2 Ragtime E.L. Doctorow
Susan Swinford B2 Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life Len Fisher
Andy Rahe B1 Silent Spring Rachel Carson
Deidre Hamlar B1 Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Douglas A. Blackmon
Christy Bening B1 Slumdog Millionaire Vikas Swarup
Chris Jones B2 The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
Dan Goehring B2 Stars in Their Courses : The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 Shelby Foote
Mary Kate Hermann B1 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski
Tim Leet B1 Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Lao Tzu (Author), Stephen Mitchell (Translator)—Use this translation
John Comption B2 Telex from Cuba Rachel Kushner
Mark Daubenmier B1 There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children Melissa Fay Greene
John Kerr B2 The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal Jared Diamond
Bob Kirk B1 This Boy's Life Tobias Wolff
Stefan Farrenkopf B2 Three by Gaiman: Read The Graveyard Book and Coraline; Watch Mirrormask Neil Gaiman
Deb Tong B2 Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives Peter Orner (ed.)
Dan Olexio B1 The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education Craig Mullaney
John Compton B1 Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq Farnaz Fassihi
Jeff Arndt B2 Wilco: Learning How to Die Greg Kot
Mark Barren B2 The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life Jim Tressel, Chris Fabry, and John Maxwell
Joel Davis B2 The Winter People John Ehle
Angela Barton B1 You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet Thomas Kostigen
Silvia Chaves B1

Zorro
(in English)

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