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 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

Michael Brown

1. Evan S. Connell, Son of the Morning : Custer and the Little Bighorn

2. Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

3. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques

Antonia Foias

1. , 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. , 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 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 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

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 , 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. , The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Daniel Lynch

1. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

2. , 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. , 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. , Gödel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid

2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez , One Hundred Years of Solitude

3. Charles Palliser , The Quincunx

Jay Thoman

1. & 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. , 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. , 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 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. , 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

2. ,

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. , 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. , 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. , The 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. , 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. , 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,

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 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,

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

3. Lev Tolstoy ( by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear), Anna Karenina

Helga Druxes

1. , A Plague of Doves

2. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

3. Zadie Smith, White Teeth

Darra Goldstein

1. , 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

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, : 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. , 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

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

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,

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. , 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. , The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir

2. Herbert R. Kohl and , 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., 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. Schlosser, Fast Food Nation

Jennifer French

1. Giaconda Belli, The Country Under My Skin

2. , 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 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