Book List from Class Survey

These are the best books our classmates say they’ve read recently. The number in parentheses after the listing indicates the number of people who mentioned it.

If you named a book and it is not on the list, either we couldn't read your writing or we didn't have the whole or correct title and therefore couldn't verify the title and author. Sorry.

7th Heaven, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro 1000 Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby The Appeal, John Grisham Atonement, Ian McEwan Baghdad Sketches, Freya Stark and Barbara Kreiger Bel Canto, Ann Patchett Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides The Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster Carleton, The First Century, Leal Aubrey Headley and E. Merrill Jarchow Civility, Stephen L.Carter [Note from survey committee: several books have “civility” in the title, this is the only one we found that was just “Civility”.] Collapse, Jared Diamond The Cosmic Landscape, Leonard Susskind Crow Lake, Mary Lawson Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis, Ed Sikov Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama An Equal Music, Vikram Seth Finn, Jon Clinch The Forger, Paul Watkins Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis The Ghost Soldiers (Poems), James Tate Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey, Perri Knize; or, Grand Obsession: Harvey Butchart and the Exploration of Grand Canyon, Elias Butler and Tom Myers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers Hitler, Ian Kershaw In the Castle of the Flynns, Michael Raleigh The Intelligent Asset Allocator, William Bernstein The Islamist, Ed Husain John Adams, David McCullough The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2) Leo Africanus, Amin Maalouf Letter to America, David Boren The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, (Vols 1 and 2), Elizabeth Bisland [or (?)The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, by Lafcadio Hearn] Montana 1948, Larry Watson Moral Man and Immoral Society, Reinhold Niebuhr My Grandfather’s Son, Clarence Thomas The Necessary Angel, Wallace Stevens The Nine, Jeffrey Toobin Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan (3) The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett Planet of Slums, Mike Davis Point Counterpoint, Aldous Huxley Shakespeare Unbound, Rene Weis Shakespeare’s Philosophy, Colin McGin Someone Knows My Name (The Book of Negroes), Lawrence Hill Stewball, Peter Bowen Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky Three Cups of Tea, David Oliver Relin (4) Total Forgiveness, R. T. Kendall The Translator: A Tribesman's Memory of Darfur, Daoud Hari Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria, Greg King Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, Stuart Taylor and K.C. Johnson Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen (2) What is the What, Dave Eggers The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig White Teeth, Zadie Smith Winding Through Time, Mary Ann Sternberg The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman Mysteries by Barbara Cleverly