What folks are reading - ideas for summer
July 1st, 2009 by Lorraine WochnaWe’ve been running a survey on our home page, ‘What books do you like to read’. This is the latest update with some other suggestions thrown in.
Best book ever read?
- Song of the Lark
- Johnny Got His Gun
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Magical Mystery Tours: My Life with The Beatles, by Tony Bramwell
- The Shadow of the Wind
- Giovanni’s Room
- Twilight
- The Book Thief
- Great Expectations
- The Sparrow, by Maria Doria Russel
- Bastard Out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison
- The Bone Dolls Twin
- Extremely Loud and Incrediby Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
- And The Ladies of the Club
- Harry Potter
- The Bible
- The Traveler’s Gift, by Andy Anderson
- A Voice in the Wind, by Francine Rivers
- A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines
- A Team of Rivals
- The Red Tent
- The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- Postcards from the Edge
- The Heart of the Matter
- The Idiot, by Dostoevsky
- 21 Balloons
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Last Lecture
- Roots
What book are you reading now?
- Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
- After the Ice: a Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Regarding the Pain of Others, by Susan Sontag
- 1984, by George Orwell
- The Left Hand of Darkness
- A Really Nice Prom Mess
- My Sister’s Keeper
- Spectacular Sins
- The Argumentative Indian
- Red Star
- Egalia’s Daughters
- The Hidden City
- The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
- What is the What, by Dave Eggers
- Slaughterhouse Five
- A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
- The Gunslinger, by Stephen King (Book I of the Dark Tower Series)
- Even After All This Time, by Afschineh Latifi
- Harry Potter
- Founding Brothers
- Four Pillars of Investing
- The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis,
- The Meaning of Video Games
- Gravity’s Rainbow
- Atlas Shrugged
- Light in August, by William Faulkner
What book is on your list to read this summer?
- Fiction by new Japanese writers
- The Prophet
- Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, by Mark Doty
- Brave New World
- The Conscience of the Eye, by Richard Sennett
- Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
- The Name of the Rose
- Short stories by Dennis Cooper
- Coraline
- Anna Karenina
- The Post-American World
- Army
- Guns, Germs and Steel
- Run, by Ann Patchett
- Fallen
- Trash, by Dorothy Allison
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
- The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
- Harry Potter
- Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot
- A Secular Age, by Charles Taylor
- Of Love and Dust, by Ernest Gaines
- The Intelligent Investor
- The Dark Knight
- Change of Heart, by Jodi Picoult
- Cities of the Plain, by Cormac McCarthy
- Whatever is assigned! lol
- Underworld, by Don DeLillo
From the Librarians Index to the Internet, a nice list of summer reading lists. Many more summer reading lists are in Rebecca’s Pocket.
Retired faculty member Betty Hollow will be presenting as part of the Culture Showcase series on Tuesday, May 26 at 3 pm. The title of her presentation is One Cool Bobcat: Vernon R. Alden and the Push for Diversity in the Sixties and Seventies. 


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