What books would you replace first if a fire destroyed your personal library? What books influenced you in some significant way? Which books simply entertained you to a great degree? Which books are you quick to recommend? ASK posed these questions to members of the College of Arts and Sciences, and the results have been compiled into The CoAS Reading List. Here it is in its entirety — so far — to be used as a guide to good reading and, given your interest, for discussion. If you have comments of your own about a book or books, please feel free to contact the person or persons who supplied the work. We do not consider the list static and intend to add to it as time goes on. We welcome suggestions of your own, along with commentary.
Annotated Selections from the CoAS Reading List
Man's Best Friend
"Groucho Marx once said, "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
by Rachel Reynolds, Department of Culture and Communication
Magic, Horror, and Dr. Seuss
"Secretly, I wish I were a cigar chomping schlock promoter."
by Fred Siegel, Department of English and Philosophy
My No Chemistry Book List
"...these books are absolutely interesting and deserving of consideration ... And you know--there's not a chemistry book amongst them."
by Kevin Owens, Department of Chemistry
The Dream Team
"...if, years later [after I read the book], looking at it on the shelf brings a smile or a vivid image, it made the list."
by Scott Stein, Department of English and Philosophy
The Final Fifteen, or My Formative Friends
"I have found that books are like friends but that they are also like clothes. Sometimes we outgrow them while at other times we have so incorporated them into ourselves that they somehow become part of ourselves and remain psychically present even when physically absent."
by Stacy Ake, Department of English and Philosophy
The Complete CoAS Reading List
Contributed by the College of Arts & Sciences Faculty and Staff
Allan Stegeman – Culture and Communications Professor
Cane, Jean Toomer
Understanding Human Nature, Alfred Adler
The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, Marvin Meyer and James Robinson
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Top Dead Center, Kevin Cameron
The Perfect Vehicle, Melissa Sue Pierson
I and Thou, Martin Buber
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tsu
Selected Poems, Rabindranath Tagore
America (The Book): Teacher’s Edition, Jon Stewart
Douglas Porpora – Culture and Communications Professor
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Adam Bede, George Elliot
Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Ghost, Peter Straub
The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
Marx and the Bible, Jose Miranda
The Politics of Jesus, John Howard Yoder
God Was Not in the Fire: The Search for a Spiritual Judaism, Daniel Gordis
The Way of Zen, Alan Watts
The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade
The Idea of the Holy, Rudolf Otto
The First Three Minutes, Stephen Weinberg
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, John Barrow and Frank Tipler
The Cosmic Jackpot, Paul Davies
Calculating God, Robert Sawyer
The Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Bhagavad, Gita
I and Thou, Martin Buber
The Essence of Christianity, Ludwig Feuerbach
Moral Man and Immoral Society, Reinhold Niebuhr
The Courage to Be, Paul Tillich
The Dynamics of Faith, Paul Tillich
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
The Phenomenon of Man, Telihard de Chardin
Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Essay on Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
Richardson Dilworth – History and Politics Professor
Quaker City, Or, The Monks of Monk Hall, George Lippard
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Mark Twain
The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
The Liberal Tradition in America, Louis Hartz
Aleister Saunders – Bioscience and Biotechnology Professor
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Freakonomics, Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
Decoding Darkness, Rudolph Tanzi
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
A Crown of Feathers, and Other Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer
Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
The Family Orchard, Nomi Eve
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Robert Gilmore – Physics Professor
Right Hand of Sleep, John Wray
Canaan's Tongue, John Wray
Lowboy, John Wray
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald translation
Jonson Miller – History and Politics Professor
The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams
Signs of the Times, Thomas Carlyle
The Question Concerning Technology, Martin Heideggar
The Failure of Technology, Friedrich Georg Juenger
The Death of Nature, Carolyn Merchant
America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings, David Nye
The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, Langdon Winner
Rebecca Ingalls – English and Philosophy Professor
Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald
A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World, Isabel Losada
Welcome to My Planet: Where English is Sometimes Spoken, Shannon Olson
Still Life with Woodpecker, Tom Robbins
Midwives, Chris Bohjalian
Angels in America, Tony Kushner
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Ingrid Daemmerich – English and Philosophy Professor
Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown
Toni Morrison, A Mercy
The Bible
The Oxford English Dictionary
Merriam Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
Going to Meet the Man, James Baldwin
Cambridge Complete Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes (trans.Walter Starkie)
Themen und Motive in der Literature (2nd enlarged editon), Daemmrich and Daemmrich
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mythology, Edith Hamilton
Literature: An Inroduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, X.J. Kennedy
Dictionnaire Bokrdas de la literature francaise, Henri Lemaitre
Paradise, Toni Morrison
Encyclopedia of Art and Artists, the editors of Phaidon Press
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Michael Sullivan – History and Politics Professor
Democracy in America, Alexis de Toqueville;
Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx (&Frederick Engels for the latter);
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin;
Tragedy of American Diplomacy, William Appleman Williams;
Dust of Empire: Race for Mastery of the Asian Heartland, Karl Meyer;
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, David Fromkin;
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, Noam Chomsky;
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herrman;
Orientalism, Edward Said;
The Sayyed Qutb Reader, Sayyid Qutb;
On Protracted War, Mao Tse Tung;
Arms and Influence, Thomas C. Schelling;
Strategy in the Missile Age, Bernard Brodie;
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race & Inheritance, Barack Obama;
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien;
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe;
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Mahmood Mamdani;
Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, Socialism, Michael Doyle;
Post-War: A History of Europe since 1945, Tony Judt;
A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-75, Robert Schulzinger;
World Systems Analysis: An Introduction, Immanuel Wallerstein
Maria Hnaraki – Culture and Communications Professor
The Iliad, Homer
Oedipus, Sophocles
Antigone, Sophocles
The Apology, Plato
Zorba, Kazantzakis
Freedom or Death, Kazantzakis
Greek Passion, Kazantzakis
Report to Greco, Kazantzakis
Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller
Selected works, Constantine Cavafy
George Seferis
Odysseus Elytis
Lethe’s Adolescence, Kiki Dimoula
Nikos Dimou,
Apostolos Doxiadis
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig!, Eugene Trivizas
Albert DiBartolomeo – English and Philosophy Professor
The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
1491, Charles C. Mann
The Dark Side, Jane Mayer
Crowds and Power, Elias Canetti
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Dune, Frank Herbert
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Invisible Man, Ralph Elison
A History of Warfare, John Keegan
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Dwarf, Par Lagerkvist (trans. Alexandra Dick)
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean
The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
The Immense Journey, Loren Eisley
Confessions of a Knife, Richard Seltzer
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Stop Time, Frank Conroy
Slaughter House Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Michael R. Lowe – Psychology Professor
The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
Thomas Hewett – Psychology Professor
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, T.S. Kuhn
Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-out Rhymes, D.C. Rubin
Don Riggs – English and Philosophy Professor
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Dune, Frank Herbert
The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
The Cantos, Ezra Pound
Man and His Symbols, C.G. Jung et. al.
Elements of Style, William Strunk
Aegypt, John Crowley
The Odyssey, Homer
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin
The Dispossessed Ursula, K. LeGuin
Mindplayers, Pat Cadigan
The Lais of Marie de France, Marie de France
Gone Fishin', Walter Mosley
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, Lawrence Block
The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Phyllis Lavin (editor)
The Sounds of Poetry, Robert Pinsky
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson
Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar
Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, Patanjali (trans. T.K.V. Desikachar)
Marlin Killen – Psychology Professor
Shogun, James Clavell
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury
On the Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
Principles of Psychology, William James
The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo, Sigmund Freud
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Irvin D. Yalo
Amy Bush – English and Philosophy Professor
The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch 1743-1933, Amos Elon
Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India, Narendra Jadhav
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals, Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, Gerd Gigerenzer
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf, Oliver Sacks
The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
Children of God, Mary Doria Russell
Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago, Octavio Butler
Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Valerie Fox – English and Philosophy Professor
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
Talking at the Boundaries, David Antin
The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
Selected Writings, Gertrude Stein
Of Being Numerous, George Oppen
The Cheese and the Worms, Carlo Ginzburg
Touch of the Whip, Lewis Warsh
Love’s Body, Norman O. Brown
The Descent of Alette, Alice Notley
The Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon
The Poetics of the New American Poetry, edited by Donald Allen and Warren Tallmen
Forewords and Afterwords, W.H. Auden
Poems 1913-1956, Bertolt Brecht
The Complete Posthumous Poetry, Cesar Vallejo
Daniel King – Chemistry Professor
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Griffin and Sabine trilogy, Nick Bantock
Longitude, Dava Sobel
The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
Mauve, Simon Garfield
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Shackleton's Boat Journey, Frank Worsley
Wicked, Gregory Maguire
Evan M. Forman – Psychology Professor
Acceptance and commitment therapy: an experiential approach to behavior change, Hayes, S. C., Strosahl, K., & Wilson, K. G.
James Herbert – Psychology Professor
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History, Art Spiegelman
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began, Art Spiegelman
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
Science and Human Behavior, B.F. Skinner
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change, Steven C. Hayes, Kirk D. Strosahl, and Kelly G. Wilson
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character), Richard P. Feynman
The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant
The Definitive William Blake Poetry Collection, William Blake
The Bible, various human authors
Kali Nicole Gross – History Professor
Mariama Ba, So Long a Letter
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Red Record and Southern Horrors
Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism
Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South
W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folks and The Philadelphia Negro
Frant Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks
Paula Giddings, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
Vincent Harding, There is a River: The Struggle for Black Freedom in America
Alex Hayley, Malcolm X
bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism and We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon and Beloved
Colin Palmer, Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and A History of Guyanese Working Peoples, 1881-1905
Cornel West, Race Matters and Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro
| Scott Stein - English Professor |
| The Beast in the Jungle | Henry James |
| Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| The Princess Casamassima | Henry James |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Notes from Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Poor Folk | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Complete Stories | Franz Kafka |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka |
| The Castle | Franz Kafka |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| The Complete Short Stories of Maupassant | |
| The Stories of John Cheever | |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| Anton Chekhov's Short Stories | Anton Chekhov |
| Diary of a Madman and Other Stories | Nikolai Gogol |
| Everything That Rises Must Converge | Flannery O'Connor |
| Howards End | E.M. Forster |
| Brighton Rock | Graham Greene |
| A Burnt-Out Case | Graham Greene |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| We | Yevgeny Zamyatin |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| Complete Tales and Poems | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Blindness | Jose Saramago |
| Nausea | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Tales from the Irish Club | Lester Goran |
| Toward the End of Time | John Updike |
| Grendel | John Gardner |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| The Collected Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Native Son | Richard Wright |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories | Sholem Aleichem |
| The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett |
| The Futurological Congress | Stanislaw Lem |
| The Cyberiad | Stanislaw Lem |
| Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume I | Philip K. Dick |
| Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt |
| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass |
| Dear Theo | Vincent Van Gogh |
| Twilight of the Idols | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| The Antichrist | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| The Law | Frederic Bastiat |
| The Road to Serfdom | F.A. Hayek |
| The Constitution of Liberty | F.A. Hayek |
| Capitalism and Freedom | Milton Friedman |
| The Vision of the Anointed | Thomas Sowell |
| The Future and Its Enemies | Virginia Postrel |
| Parliament of Whores | P.J. O'Rourke |
| The Discovery of Freedom | Rose Wilder Lane |
| Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins |
| The Blank Slate | Steven Pinker |
| Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau |
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| Eva Thury - English Professor |
| Giles Goat Boy | John Barth |
| Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts | Donald Barthelme |
| Burning Your Boats | Donald Barthelme |
| The Bible | |
| Hrabal Könyve | Péter Esterházy |
| The Neuromancer | William Gibson |
| The Odyssey | Homer |
| I Served the King of England | Bohumil Hrabal |
| Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism | Fredric Jameson |
| The Crazed | Ha Jin |
| Összes Versei | Attila Jozsef |
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami |
| Metamorphoses | Ovid |
| A Békételenek | Zoltán Thury |
| Essentials of Asian Cuisine | Corinne Trang |
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| Paula Marantz Cohen - English Professor |
| Henry IV, Part I | William Shakespeare |
| The Misanthrope | Moliere |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell |
| Emma | Jane Austen |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens |
| The Golden Bowl | Henry James |
| The Poems of Emily Dickinson | Emily Dickinson |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud |
| The Liberal Imagination | Lionel Trilling |
| Steps to an Ecology of Mind | Gregory Bateson |
| Hitchcock | Francois Truffaut |
| Understanding Comics | Scott McCloud |
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| Alan Gerstle - English Professor |
| Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| Miss Lonelyhearts | Nathanael West |
| Ironweed | William Kennedy |
| The Checkov Quartet: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and The Three Sisters | Anton Chekhov |
| Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| The Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| The Collected Stories of Bernard Malamud | Bernard Malamud |
| The Slave | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
The Rabbit trilogy
(but not Rabbit At Rest — got boring) | John Updike |
| The Optimist's Daughter | Eudora Welty |
| Executioner's Song | Norman Mailer |
| Brothers and Keepers | John Edgar Wideman |
| If Beale Street Could Talk | James Baldwin |
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| Nicole Kline - English and Philosophy Secretary |
| House of Leaves | Mark Danielewski |
| Dune | Frank Herbert |
| White Noise | Don Delillo |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith |
| Gravity and Grace | Simon Weil |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| The Lord of the Rings trilogy | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| The Legend of Huma | Richard Knaak |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak |
| E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 | E.E. Cummings |
| Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk
(I'd save my beat up signed copy over my hardcover!) |
| The Aeneid | Virgil
(trans. Allen Mandelbaum) |
| The Iliad | Homer
(trans. Robert Fagles) |
| The Odyssey | Homer
(trans. Robert Fagles) |
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| Hugo Woerdeman - Mathematics Department Head |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| Angels and Demons | Dan Brown |
| 9/11 Commission Report | |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| The Assault | Harry Mulisch |
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| Ernie Hakanen - Culture and Communications Professor |
| White Noise | Don DeLillo |
| Vanity of Duluoz | Jack Kerouac |
| The Society of the Spectacle | Guy Debord |
| Simulations | Jean Baudrillard |
| In the Shadow of the Silent Majority | Jean Baudrillard |
| Illuminations | Walter Benjamin |
| A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway |
| Any collection of... | Allen Ginsberg |
| Mindfield | Gregory Corso |
| From Vines to Wine | Jeff Cox |
| Shop Manual for Ford N series Tractors | |
| The Managed Heart | Arlie Russell Hochschild |
| Amusing Ourselves to Death | Neil Postman |
| Technopoly | Neil Postman |
| Culture, Inc. | Herbert I. Schiller |
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| Gabriella Ibieta - English Professor/Program Director |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Versos Sencillos | Jose Marti |
| El siglo de las luces | Alejo Carpentier |
| Prosa completa | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Petits Poemes En Prose Le Spleen De | Charles Baudelaire |
| Le Bateau Ivre | Arthur Rimbaud |
| The Collected Works of William Shakespeare | William Shakespeare |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| Dubliners | James Joyce |
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
| The Waste Land and Ash Wednesday | T.S. Eliot |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Jazz | Toni Morrison |
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| M.G. Piety - Philosophy Professor |
| The Painted Veil | William Somerset Maugham |
| Tender is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Les Miserables | Victor Hugo |
| The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford |
| Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant |
| The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | Max Weber |
| Social Darwinism | Richard Hofstadter |
| Philosophical Fragments | Søren Kierkegaard |
| Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle |
| Republic | Plato |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque |
| Anything by Dostoevsky | |
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| Peter Amato - Philosophy Professor |
| Five Dialogues (Euthyphro, Apology, Meno, Crito, Phaedo) | Plato |
| Republic | Plato |
| Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle |
| Confessions | Augustine |
| Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | Immanuel Kant |
| Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 | Karl Marx |
| Capital | Karl Marx |
| Grundrisse | Karl Marx |
| On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| Mutual Aid | Peter Kropotkin |
| Notes from Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Flatland | Edward Abbott Abbott |
| 1984 | George Orwell |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| The Lorax | Dr. Seuss |
| The Existential Imagination | Karl & Hamalian (editors) |
| Howl and Other Poems | Allen Ginsberg |
| The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971 | Allen Ginsberg |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas Kuhn |
| Truth and Method | Hans-Georg Gadamer |
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| Derek Soles - English Professor/ Freshman Writing Program Director |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Humboldt's Gift | Saul Bellow |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Fowler's Modern English Usage (third edition) | Burchfeld (editor) |
| The Norton Anthology of American Literature | |
| The Norton Anthology of English Literature | |
| The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing | |
| The Collected Works of William Shakespeare | |
| The Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot | |
| The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats | |
| The Collected Poems of Alexander Pope | |
| The 4th Edition of Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia | |
| Cross-Talk in Comp Theory | |
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| Ron Perline - Mathematics Professor |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez |
| Earthsea trilogy | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Disturbing the Universe | Freeman Dyson |
| The Lord of the Rings trilogy | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Out of Africa | Isak Dinesen |
| Slouching Towards Bethelhem | Joan Didion |
| The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe |
| Look Homeward, Angel | Thomas Wolfe |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Genius : The Life and Science of Richard Feynman | James Gleick |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon |
| The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales | Oliver Sacks |
| Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America | Lerone Bennett |
| The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath | Kevin Phillips |
| Tom Jones | Henry Fielding |
| Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts | Maxine Hong Kingston |
| Julian | Gore Vidal |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| A History of Western Philosophy | Bertrand Russell |
| Molecular Biology of the Gene | James Watson |
| Foundation trilogy | Isaac Asimov |
| Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny |
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| Valarie Arms - English and Philosophy Professor |
| A collection of poetry | |
| A collection of drama that includes Shakespeare, Pirandelto, Aeschylus and Aristophanes | |
| A collection of short stories that includes Stephen Crane and John Cheever | |
| The Bible | |
| The Oxford English Dictionary | |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Broken Wings | V.C. Andrews |
| A-Z Encylopedia of Garden Plants | Christopher Brickell
et al. |
| The Power of Myth | Joseph Campbell |
| The Way to Cook | Julia Child |
| A New Way to Cook | Sally Schneider |
| Video Companion | Roger Ebert |
| The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
| Art & Civilization | Bernard Myers |
| |
| Richard Astro - English and Philosophy Professor |
| Herzog | Saul Bellow |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Baseball: A Literary Anthology | Nicholas Dawidoff |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| Tom Jones | Henry Fielding |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| The Collected Works of William Shakespeare | Williams Shakespeare |
| Prometheus Unbound | Percy Shelley |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| |
| Mary Beth Beyer - English and Philosophy Program Coordinator |
| The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom |
| The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | Sherman Alexie |
| The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot |
| Tom Jones | Henry Fielding |
| The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene |
| The House of Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog | Jerome K. Jerome |
| Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry |
| House Made of Dawn | N. Scott Momaday |
| |
| Raymond Brebach - English and Philosophy Professor |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| The Secret Agent | Joseph Conrad |
| Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Tales ("Youth," "Heart of Darkness," and "The End of the Tether") | Joseph Conrad |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| The Complete Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| Collected Short Stories | William Faulkner |
| A Passage to India | E.M. Forster |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| Cakes and Ale | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Lord of the Rings trilogy | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Tono-Bungay | H.G. Wells |
| |
| Eileen Brennen - English and Philosophy Secretary |
| Flatland | Edward Abbott Abbott |
| The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown |
| The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Black Elk Speaks | John Gneisenau Neihardt |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| |
| Michelle Carpenter - English and Philosophy Professor |
| The Bible | |
| The Complete Works of Aristotle, Volumes 1 and 2 | |
| The Complete Works of Plato | |
| The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever trilogy | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| The Lord of the Rings trilogy | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year | Gabriel |
| The Liturgy of the Hours, Volume 1 - Advent Season, Christmas Season | |
| The Liturgy of the Hours, Volume 2 - Lenten Season, Eastern Season 4. | |
| The Liturgy of the Hours, Volume 3 - Ordinary Time, weeks 1-17 | |
| The Liturgy of the Hours, Volume 4 - Ordinary Time, weeks 18-34 | |
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| F. Elaine DeLancey - English and Philosophy Professor |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat | Paula Gunn Allen |
| Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior | Marimba Ani |
| Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America | Lerone Bennett |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Histories | Herodotus |
| Stolen Legacy | George G. M. James |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison |
| Mama Day | Gloria Naylor |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| Measure for Measure | William Shakespeare |
| The Coldest Winter Ever | Sister Souljah |
| Puddinhead Wilson | Mark Twain |
| David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World | David Walker |
| Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. | Chancellor Williams |
| |
| Diane Downs - English and Philosophy Professor |
| The Bible | |
| The Education of Henry Adams | Henry Adams |
| The High King (Chronicles of Prydain) | Lloyd Alexander |
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes |
| The Odyssey | Homer |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera |
| Joseph and His Brothers | Thomas Mann |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| The Time of Our Singing | Richard Powers |
| Shakespeare's Sonnets | William Shakespeare |
| A Child's Christmas in Wales | Dylan Thomas |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| |
| Dan Driscoll - English and Philosophy Professor |
| 60 Stories/40 Stories | Donald Barthelme |
| Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Lord Jim/Nostromo | Joseph Conrad
(this really is one book
a Modern Library edition) |
| The Wavering Knife | Brian Evenson |
| Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| The Trial or The Complete Stories | Franz Kafka
(whichever I grab first) |
| Child of God | Cormac McCarthy |
| Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka | William Wilson |
| The Trouble with Testesterone | Robert Sapolsky |
| Habitations of the Word | William H. Gass |
| |
| Alexis Finger - English and Philosophy Professor |
| Shogun | James Clavell |
| Inherit the Wind | Jerome Lawrence
Robert E. Lee |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry |
| Ganzl's Book of the Broadway Musical | Kurt Ganzl |
| The Best Man | Gore Vidal |
| Selected Plays (All My Sons, The Crucible, and Death of a Salesman) | Arthur Miller |
| Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| The Best Short Stories of O. Henry | O. Henry |
| Ship of Fools | Katherine Ann Porter |
| Speech Can Change Your Life | Dorothy Sarnoff |
| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare | William Shakespeare |
| The Collected Plays of Neil Simon | Neil Simon |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| |
| Robin Fradkin - English and Philosophy Professor |
| After Long Silence | Helen Fremont |
| Half the House: A Memoir | Richard Hoffman |
| Philadelphia Off the Beaten Path: A Guide to Unique Places | Karen Ivory |
| Found: The Best Lost, Tossed and Forgotten Items from Around the World | Davy Rothbart |
| Flash Fiction Very Short Stories | James Thomas, et. al. |
| Charlotte's Web | E.B. White |
| Night | Elie Wiesel |
| Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs | Cheryl Peck |
| Guess How Much I Love You | Sam McBratney, et. al. |
| Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| All Souls: A Family Story from Southie | Michael Patrick MacDonald |
| Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | Anne Tyler |
| Tales of the City (entire series) | Armistead Maupin |
| Fenway: A Biography in Words and Pictures | Dan Shaughnessy
Stan Grossfeld |
| She's Come Undone | Wally Lamb |
| |
| Judith Franklin - English and Philosophy Professor |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus |
| The Plague | Albert Camus |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Daniel Deronda | George Eliot |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| Howards End | E.M. Forster |
| A Passage to India | E.M. Forster |
| The Rise of Silas Lapham | William Dean Howells |
| The American | Henry James |
| The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| The Source | James Michener |
| Call It Sleep | Henry Roth |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| Exodus | Leon Uris |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| Night | Elie Weisel |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| |
| Stephen Mandell - English and Philosophy Professor |
| All of my textbooks | (blatant self-promotion) |
| The Pity of it All: A History of the Jews in Germany 1743-1933 | Amos Elon |
| The Oxford English Dictionary | |
| The Torah: A Modern Commentary | W. Gunther Plaut |
| The Illiad | Homer
(trans. Robert Fagles) |
| A | Louis Zukofsky |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon | Jorge Amado |
| Call It Sleep | Henry Roth |
| An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942 to 1943 | Rick Atkinson |
| The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers | Joseph Gibaldi |
| Poetical Works | William Wordsworth |
| When We Were Very Young | A. A. Milne |
| Best American Short Stories, 2004 | Lorrie Morrie (editor) |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri |
| |
| Philosophy Professor |
| A La Researche du Temps Perdu | Marcel Proust |
| Also Sprach Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| The Waste Land | T.S.Eliot |
| Les Fleurs du Mal | Charles Baudelaire |
| Uylsses | James Joyce |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Labyrinths | Jorge Luis Borges |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| Candide | Voltaire |
| Major Barbara | George Bernard Shaw |
| Nostromo | Joseph Conrad |
| La Nausee (Nausea) | Jean Paul Sartre |
| L'Etranger | Albert Camus |
| Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) | Thomas Mann |
| Hyperion | Friedrich Holderlein |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | William Blake |
| En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) | Samuel Beckett |
| Steppenwolf | Herman Hesse |
| The Castle | Franz Kafka |
| Lady Chatterly's Lover | D.H. Lawrence |
| Prometheus Unbound | Percy Shelley |
| The Prelude | William Wordsworth |
| |
| Raymond Miller - English and Philosophy Professor |
| The King James Bible | |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka |
| The Secret Agent | Joseph Conrad |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| The Iliad | Homer |
| The Odyssey | Homer |
| The Collected Works of William Shakespeare | William Shakespeare |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Chekov's Collected Stories | Anton Chekhov |
| The Complete Plays of Sophocles | Sophocles |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| |
| Abioseh Porter - English and Philosophy Department Head |
| The Bible | |
| The Bhagavad Gita | |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| The Collected Works of William Shakespeare | William Shakespeare |
| The Collected Plays of Wole Soyinka | Wole Soyinka |
| The Collected Works of George Eliot | George Eliot |
| The Collected Works of Charles Dickens | Charles Dickens |
| House Made of Dawn | N. Scott Momaday |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| John Hopkins Literary Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism | Michael Groden, et. al. |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| Snares Without End | Olympe Bhêy-Quénum |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| |
| Christine Qualtieri - English and Philosophy Professor |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| The Bible | |
| The Koran | |
| Selected Poems | John Keats |
| The Collected Works of William Shakespeare | William Shakespeare |
| Selected Poems of E.E. Cummings | E.E. Cummings |
| Selected Short Stories of Alexander Pushkin | Alexander Pushkin |
| Oedipus Rex | Sophocles |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| V | Thomas Pynchon |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| |
| Evelyn Reznak - English and Philosophy Professor |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| My Century | Gunter Grass |
| Seabiscuit | Laura Hillenbrand |
| Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens | Jane Dunn |
| Theodore Rex | Edmund Morris |
| The Speclked Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox | Jennifer Lee Carrell |
| Charlotte & Lionel: A Rothschild Love Story | Stanley Weintraub |
| The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary | Simon Winchester |
| His Excellency: George Washington | Joseph J. Ellis |
| The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom |
| Children of Henry VIII | Alison Weir |
| Holocaust | Nora Levin |
| Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit | Garry Wills |
| The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger |
| London Fields | Martin Amis |
| |
| Doreen Saar - English and Philosophy Professor |
| The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| Tristram Shandy | Lawrence Sterne |
| York, Townley, Chester and Coventry mystery plays | |
| A Son of the Middle Border | Hamlin Garland |
| The Pillow-Book of Sei Shonagon | |
| Naked Lunch | William Burroughs |
| The History of New York | Washington Irving |
| Gargantua and Pantagruel | Francois Rabelais |
| Letters from an American Farmer | Hector St. John de Crevecoeur |
| Berlin Stories | Christopher Isherwood |
| The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| The Fairy Queen | Edmund Spenser |
| The Lusiads | Luis de Camoes |
| The Kalevala | |
| An English Murder | Cyril Hare |
| The Works of John Donne | John Donne |
| Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure | John Cleland |
| Bouvard and Pecuchet | Gustave Flaubert |
| The Confidence Man | Herman Melville |
| His Masquerade | Herman Melville |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabakov |
| Letters from the Earth | Mark Twain |
| Caine | Jean Toomer |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak |
| Aesop's Fables | |
| The Remembrance of Things Past | Marcel Proust |
| Rights of Man | Thomas Paine |
| A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" | Frederick Douglass |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev |
| Finnegan's Wake | James Joyce |
| Capital | Karl Marx |
| Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope |
| Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| The Anatomy of Melancholy | Robert Burton |
| Fear to Tread | Michael Gilbert |
| The Crack in the Teacup | Michael Gilbert |
| A Midwife's Tale | Laurel Ulrich |
| The Village Chronicles | "Miss Read" |
| The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin |
| Kiss, Kiss | Roald Dahl |
| The World of the East Vegetarian Cookbook | Madhur Jaffrey |
| Tales of Ordinary Madness | Charles Bukowski |
| The Philosophy of History | Georg W. Hegel |
| Country Editor | Henry Beetle Hough |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| |
| Scott Warnock - English and Philosophy Professor |
| Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon |
| The Lord of the Rings trilogy | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| The Riverside | William Shakespeare |
| The Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| The Way of the Peaceful Warrior | Dan Millman |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus |
| The Poems of Robert Frost | Robert Frost |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain |
| The Information | Martin Amis |
| Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| The Oxford English Dictionary | |
| |
| Robert Watts - English and Philosophy Professor |
| Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made | Eugene D. Genovese |
| In Red and Black: Marxian Explorations in Southern and Afro-American History | Eugene D. Genovese |
| I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle | Charles M. Payne |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| The Counterlife | Philip Roth |
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth |
| Sabbath's Theater | Philip Roth |
| The Black-White Test Score Gap | Christopher Jencks
Meredith Phillips |
| Lean for Life: Stay Motivated and Lean Forever | Clarence Bass |
| The Chaneysville Incident | David Bradley |
| Right as Rain | George P. Pelecanos |
| Hell to Pay | George P. Pelecanos |
| Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl |
| Existential Psychotherapy | Irvin D. Yalom |
| Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality | Richard Kluger |
| Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual | Jerry Gafio Watts |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond |
| |
| Paula White - English and Philosophy Professor |
| John Hopkins Literary Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism | Michael Groden, et. al. |
| Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose | Joyce Carol Oates |
| The Writing Life | Annie Dillard |
| Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau |
| The Wretched of the Earth | Frantz Fanon |
| Collection of Short Stories | Flannery O'Connor |
| Collection of Short Stories | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Collection of Short Stories | Joyce Carol Oates |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| The Shining | Stephen King |
| Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner |
| Nervous Conditions | Tsitsi Dangarembga |
| |
| Emelie Passow - English and Philosophy Professor |
| The Known World | Edward. P. Jones |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan |
| The Amazing Advenutures of Cavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon |
| For the Relief of Unbearable Urges | Nathan Englander |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon |
| Counterlife | Philip Roth |
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth |
| The Human Stain | Philip Roth |
| The Plot Against America | Philip Roth |
| "Eli the Fanatic" and "Defender of the Faith" (from Goodbye Columbus) | Philip Roth |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison |
| Remembering Babylon | David Malouf |
| Fugitive Pieces | Anne Michaels |
| Any collection of short stories | Flannery O'Connor |
| Any of the essay collections | Stephen Gould
Oliver Sacks
Jerome Groopman |
| My Own Country | Abraham Verghese |
| Civilization and Its Discontents | Sigmund Freud |
| Man's Search for Meaning | Victor Frankel |
| The Nature of Suffering and the Goal of Medicine | Eric Cassell |
| The Book of Genesis, Exodus, The Book of Ruth, and Song of Songs from Hebrew Scriptures | |
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