Books Students Should Read
In the summer of 2009, Williams faculty members were asked to list three books they felt that students should read. This request was deliberately a bit ambiguous. Some interpreted the request as listing "the three best books", some as "books that inspired them when young" and still others as "books recently read that are really good". There is little doubt that many of the following faculty would list different books if asked on a different day. But there is also little doubt that this is a list of a lot of great books for everyone.
American Studies
Dorothy Wang
1. James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
2. Giacomo Leopardi, Thoughts
3. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Anthropology and Sociology
Michael Brown
1. Evan S. Connell, Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
2. Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
3. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques
Antonia Foias
1. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel
2. Linda Schele and David Freidel, Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
Robert Jackall,
1. Homer, The Illiad and The Odyssey (translated by Robert Fizgerald)
2. Thucydides (Robert B. Strassler, editor) , The Peloponnesian War. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War.
2. John Edward Williams, Augustus: A Novel
Peter Just
1. The Bible
2. Bhagavad-Gita
3. Frederick Engels and Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto
Olga Shevchenko
1. Joseph Brodsky, Less than One
2. Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
3. William Strunk and E. B. White, Elements of Style
Art and Art History
Ed Epping
1. Susan Stewart, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection, 2. Bachelard , The Poetics of Space,
3. Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra
Zirka Filipczak
1. Joseph Conrad, Secret Agent
2. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed to Death
3. Ross King, Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Michael Glier
1. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
2. Marquise deSade, Justine
3. Ian McEwan, Atonement
Eva Grudin
1. Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory
2. Tim O'Brian, The Things They Carried
3. Edward Said, Orientalism
Liza Johnson
1. Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More than You
2. Zachary Lazar, Sway
Steve Levin
1. Andrea Barrett, Voyage of the Narwhal
2. Ernst Gombrich, Art and Illusion
3. William Maxwell, They Came Like Swallows
Scarlett Jang
1. Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanjing
2. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
3. Leo Steinberg, Other Criteria: Confrontation with 20th-Century Art
Eugene Johnson
1.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
2. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
3. Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Michael Lewis
1. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
2. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
3. H. F. Saint, Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Peter Low
1. Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
2. Wayne Johnson, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
3. Robert and William McNeill, The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History
Asian Studies
Cecilia Chang
1. Mobo Gao, Mandarin Chinese: An Introduction
2. Patsy Lightbown and Nina Spada, How Languages Are Learned
3. Dilin Liu, Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview: The Case of American English and the Chinese Language
Christopher Nugent
1. Chuang-tzu: The Inner Chapters (A.C. Graham, translator)
2. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
3. Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Li Yu
1. Melvyn C. Goldstein, William Siebenschuh,and Tashi Tsering, The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering.
2. Rebiya Kadeer, Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China
3. Daniel Shacter Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past
Astronomy
Karen Kwitter
1. Isaac Asimov, THE Foundation Trilogy
2. Seamus Haney (translator), Beowulf
3. Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
Biology
Marsha Alschuler
1.Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2.Donald Harington, The Cockroaches of Staymore
3.Simon Mawer, Mendel’s Dwarf
Lois Banta
1. Chris Bojalian, Trans-sister
2. Geraldine Brooks, Years of Wonder
3. Tracey Kidder, Mountains beyond Mountains
William DeWitt
1. Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana
2. Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers
3. Candice Miller, River of Doubt
Lara Hutson
1. Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
2. Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe
3. Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Daniel Lynch
1. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
2. Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father
3. Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
Manuel Morales
1. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
2. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
3. David Quammen, Song of the Dodo
Wendy Raymond
1. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
2. Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones
3. Malcolm Galdwell, Blink
Nancy Roseman
1. Andrea Barrett, The Voyage of the Narwhal
2. Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
3. Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Robert Savage
1. Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2. Tim Traver, Sippewissett Or, Life on a Salt Marsh
3. The SUN (www.thesunmagazine.org)
Steve Swoap
1. Peter Brancazio, Sport Science
2. Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country
3. Richard Dawkins, A Selfish Gene
Steven Zottoli
1. Willa Cather, The Professor's House
2. Bernd Heinrich, Why We Run: A Natural HistoryI
3. Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Chemistry
Raymond Chang
1. . M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
2. Ursula Le Guin, Powers
3. Phillip Pullman, The Golden Compass
Christopher Goh
1. Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
2. Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
3. Erik Weihenmayer, Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See: My Story
Sarah Goh
1. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
2. Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace
3. Philip Pullman, The Dark Materials Trilogy
Lee Park
1. Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid
2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez , One Hundred Years of Solitude
3. Charles Palliser , The Quincunx
Jay Thoman
1. Richard Feynman & Ralph Leighton, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
2. Theodore Gray, Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do At Home - But Probably Shouldn't
3. Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Classics
Meredith Hoppin
1. Michael Harrington, The Other America
2. Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler
3. Susan Brind Marrow, Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World
Amanda Wilcox
1. Aeschylus, Oresteia
2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
3. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
Comparative Literature
Christopher Bolton
1. William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
2. Junichiro Taniaki, Seven Japanese Tales
Mara Naaman
1. Don DeLillo, Underworld
2. Orhan Pamuk, Other Colors: Essays and a Story
3. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Armando Vargas
1. Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
2. Juan Rulfo, Pedro Paramo
3. Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
Computer Science
Jeannie Albrecht
1. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
2. Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air
3. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Duane Bailey
1. Jeff Silverman (editor), The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told
2. Rory Stewart, The Places in Between
3. Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell
Andrea Danyluk
1. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2.Nelson Goodman , Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
3. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Brent Heeringa
1. Robertson Davies, The Deptford Trilogy
2. Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
3. Philip Roth, Pornoty's Complaint
Morgan McGuire
1. Roger Fisher and William L. Ury, Getting to Yes
2. Robert Heinlein, Starship Trooper
3. Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Economics
Jon Bakija
1. Justin Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market
2. Mark Sisson, The Primal Blueprint
3. Michaela Wrong, It's Our Turn to Eat
Gerard Caprio
1. Peter Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
2. Frank Partnoy, Infectious Greed
3. Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
Douglas Gollin
1. Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons
3. John R. Tunis, All American
Kenneth Kuttner
1. Robert Caro, The Power Brokers
2. Joseph O'Neill, Netherland,
3. W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz
Dukes Love
1. Samuel Beckett, Molloy; Malone Dies; the UnNamable
2. George Eliot, Middlemarch
3. Franz Kafka, The Trial
Peter Montiel
1. Bertold Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle
2. Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote
3.. Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Steven Nafziger
1. Michael Chabon, The Adventures of Cavalier & Clay
2. Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
3. Joel Mokyr, The Lever of Riches
Morton Shapiro (Former President and former Professor of Economics)
1. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
2. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
3. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Stephen Sheppard
1. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2. Imre Lakatos, Proofs and Refutations
3. Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now
Anand Swamy
1. Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers
2. Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
3. P.G.Wodehouse, Leave it to Psmith
Nicholas Wilson
1. Angus Deaton, The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy
2. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
3. Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
David Zimmerman
1. Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation
2. Robert Persig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
3. Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run
English
Andrea Barrett
1. Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus
2. Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
3. Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
Ilona Bell
1. Daniel Mendelson, The Lost
2. Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire
3. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Robert Bell
1. George Eliot, Middlemarch
2. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
3. The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Lynda Bundtzen,
1. Jane Austen, Emma
2. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov
3. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter Series
Alison Case
1. George Eliot, Middlemarch
2. Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
3. Tse Tse Danarembga, Nervous Conditions
Cassandra Cleghorn
1. Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
2. Carlo Ginzburg( translated by John and Anne Tedeschi), The Cheese and the Worms
3. Art Spiegelman, Maus and Maus II.
John Kleiner
1. Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
2. Halldor Laxness, Independent People
3. W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
John Limon
1.Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
2.E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
3.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Gage McWeeny
1. Martin Amis, Money
2. George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
3. Edith Wharton, House of Mirth
Paul Park
1. Halldor Laxness, Independent People
2. Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
3. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Chris Pye
1. Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature
2. George Herbert, The Temple"
3. Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
Bernie Rhie
1. J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello
2. Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
3. Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
Lawrence Raab
1. Robert Frost, North of Boston
2. Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
3. Wislawa Szymborska, Poems New and Collected 1957-1997.
Shawn Rosenheim
1. Robert Heilein, Stranger in a Strange Land
2. Vladimir Nobokov, Lolita
3. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Jim Shepard
1. Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard
2. Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
3. Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
Anita Sokolsky
1. Henry James, The Golden Bowl
2. James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover
3. Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
Christian Thorne
1. T. W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
2. Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts
3. John Milton, Paradise Lost
Stephen Tift
1. Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End
2. James Joyce, Ulysses
3. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Geosciences
Ronadh Cox
1. Edwin Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
2. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
3. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Markes Johnson
1. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground
3. Alfred Wallace, The Malay Archipelago
Bud Wobus
1. Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
2. Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey
3 John McPhee, Annals of the Former World
German and Russian
Julie Cassiday
1. Zora Neale Huston (especially as read by Ruby Dee on MP3), Their Eyes Were Watching God
2. Richard J. Light, Making the Most out of College :Students Speak Their Minds
3. Lev Tolstoy (translation by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear), Anna Karenina
Helga Druxes
1. Louise Erdrich, A Plague of Doves
2. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
3. Zadie Smith, White Teeth
Darra Goldstein
1. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
2. M.F.K. Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf
3. William Maxwell, They Came Like Swallows
History
Magnus Bernhardsson
1. Halldor Laxness, Independent People
2. Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk
3. Edward Said, Orientalism
Leslie Brown
1. Annie Lamott, Bird by Bird: Lessons on Writing and Life
2. Timothy Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name
3. Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Jessica Chapman
1. Prasenjit Duara, Rescuing History from the Nation
2. Chaim Potok, The Chosen
3. William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Sara Dubow
1. Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
2. Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
3. Timothy Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name
Anna Fishzon
1. Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, Volume One
2. Nella Larsen, Passing
3. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Alexandra Garbarini
1. Shilpa Agarwal, Haunting Bombay
2. W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants
Eric Goldberg
1. Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (second edition)
2. Daniel Duane, Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast
3. Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
Roger Kittleson
1.Jorge Luis Borges, Garden of Forking Paths
2. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
3. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Carmen Whalen
1. Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies
2. Audre Lorde, Zami A New Spelling of My Name
3. Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets
K. Scott Wong
1. Herman Melville, Moby Dick
2 Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
3 John Okada, No-No Boy
Humanities
Jean-Bernard Bucky
1. Euclid, Elements, Book 1
2. Konstantin Stanislavski, An Actor's Work (trans. and ed. Jean Benedetti)
3. Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
Susan Dunn
1. James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox
2. Josesph Ellis, Founding Brothers
3. David Gergen, Eyewitness to Power
Latina/o Studies
Mérida M. Rúa
1. Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
2. Abraham Rodriguez, Jr., The Boy without a Flag: Tales from the South Bronx
3. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Linguistics
Nathan Sanders
1. Frank Herbert, Dune
2. Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct
3. Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Mathematics and Statistics
Colin Adams
1. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
2. Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
3. Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Carsten Botts
1. Bill Bryson, A Brief History of Nearly Everything
2. Harry Maclean, In Broad Daylight
3. Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of Vanities
Edward Burger
1. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
2, John Fowles, The Magus
3. Donald Keough, The Ten Commandments for Business Failure
Satyan Devadoss
1. C.S.Lewis, The Space Trilogy
2. Dr. Seuss, Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
3. Edward Tufte, Envisioning Information
Thomas Garrity
1. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
2. Nevil Shute, Trustee from the Toolroom
3. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Stewart Johnson
1. Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
2. Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels
3. Roget’s Thesaurus (1911 US edition).
Bernhard Klingenberg
1. Max Frisch, I'm not Stiller or Montauk
2. Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
3. Daneil Kehlman, Measuring the World
Steven Miller
1. Isaac Asimov, Short Stories (including Nightfall)
2. Chaim Potok, The Chosen
3. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Frank Morgan
1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
2. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health
3. Judith Guest, Ordinary People
Allison Pacelli
1. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
2. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Mihai Stoiciu
1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
2. Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
3. Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Music
Marjorie Hirsch
1. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
2. Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen
3. Mark Salzman, Iron & Silk
David Kechley
1. Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2. Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance
3. Roger Simon, The Big Fix
Philosophy
Stephen Gerrard
1. David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
2. Williams James, Will to Believe
3. Plato, Meno
Bojana Mladenovic
1. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov
2. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
3. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Alan White
1. Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
2. Plato, The Republic
3. Arthur Schopenhauer, World as Will and Idea
Physics
Daniel Aalberts
1. Leonard Sax, Why Gender Matters
2. Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
3. Edward Tufte, Scientific Display of Visual Informaton
Sarah Bolton
1. Greg Mortenson/David Relin , Three Cups of Tea
2. C.P. Snow , The Two Cultures
3. Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge
Kevin Jones
1. Helene Hanff, 84 Charring Cross Road
2. Charles Mann, 1491
3. E. B. Sledge, With the Old Breed
Ward Lopes
1. Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, The_Craft_of_Research
2. Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
3. Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist
Frederick Strauch
1 . Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
2. Douglas Hofstadter, Goedel, Escher, Bach
3. Carl Sagan, Cosmos
William Wootters
1. Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
2, Horton Foote, Three Screenplays: To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies and The Trip to Bountiful
3, Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Political Science
Monique Deveaux
1. J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
2. Graham Greene, The Quiet American
3. Alice Munro, The Progress of Love
George Marcus
1) Aeschylus (Fagles translation) - The Oresteia Trilogy
2) Ma Jian , Beijing Coma
3) Njal's Saga
Paul MacDonald
1. Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down: a story of modern war
2. Richard Ketchum, Saratoga: turning point of America's Revolutionary War
3. Mario Puzo The Godfather
James Mcallister
1. EH Carr, The Twenty Years Crisis
2. Graham Greene, The Quiet American
3. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Nicolle Mellow
1. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
2. Paul Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal
3. Bruce Miroff, Icons of Democracy Darel Paul
1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
2. Fyodr Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
3. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
Mark Reinhardt
1. Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
2. Roberto Bolaño, 2666
3. Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves
Cheryl Shanks
1. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead
2. Karl Marx, Das Capital
3. Flannery O'Connor', A Good Man is Hard to Find
Alex Willingham
1. Daisy Bates, The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
2. Herbert R. Kohl and Cynthia Stokes Brown, She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
3. Mamie D. Till-Mobley and Chris Benson, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Psychology
Susan Engel
1. Charles Dickens, Bleak House
2. George Eliot, Middlemarch
3. Henry James, Wings of the Dove
Steven Fein
1. Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
2. Milan Kundera , The Unbearable Lightness of Being
3. Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
Amie Hane
1. Sigmund Freud, Future of an Illusion
2. Jonathon Kozol, Amazing Grace
3. Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
Laurie Heatherington
1. Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind
2. Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
3. Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin, and Don Jackson, Pragmatics of Human Communication
Robert Kavanaugh
1. Diane Ackerman, The Zoo Keeper's Wife
2. Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
3. Paul Rusesabagina and Tom Zoellner, An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
Kris Kirby,
1. Albert J. Nock, Our Enemy, The State
2. John B. Quigley, Ruses of War
3. Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Meltdown
Marlene Sandstrom
1. Margaret Atwood, Cat'e Eye
2. Clara Park, The Siege
3. Brett Pelham, Measuring the Weight of Wood
Noah Sandstrom
1. Allegra Goodman, Intuition
2. Wally Lamb, I Know This Much is True
3. Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Religion
Georges Dreyfus
1. Frans de Waal, Good Natured: The Origins of rRghts and Wrongs in Human and Other Animals
2. David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Changes
Kim Gutschow
1. Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide
2. Bill McKibben, Deep Economy
3. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Sarah Hammerschlag
1. Augustine, Confessions
2.Thomas Mann, Magic Mountain
3. Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus
Jason Josephson
1. J. L. Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
2. Michel Foucaut, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
3. Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Romance Languages
Gene Bell-Villada
1. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel
2. Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
3. Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
Jennifer French
1. Giaconda Belli, The Country Under My Skin
2. Verlyn Klinkenborg, Timothy, or Notes From an Abject Reptile
3. J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories
Glyn Norton
1. Richard Harris, Pompeii
2. Karl Meyer and Shreen Blair Brysac, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia
3. James M. Tabor, Forever on the Mountain
Katarzyna Pieprzak
1. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
2. Laila Lalami, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
3. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow
Leyla Rouhi
1. Julian Barnes, The Lemon Table
2. Patricia Highsmith, This Sweet Sickness
3. Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Theater
Robert Baker-White
1. T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
2. John LeCarre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy -- The Honourable Schoolboy -- Smiley's People
3. Norman MacLean, Young Men and Fire
Deborah Brothers
1. Andrea Barrett, Ship Fever
2. John Mcphee, The Control of Nature
3. Paul Park, Celestis
David Morris
1. Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History
2. Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
3. Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Omar Sangare
1. Jerzy Grotowski, Towards a Poor Theatre
2. Geoff Ribbens and Richard Thompson, Understanding Body Language
3. Constantine Stanislavski, An Actor Prepares