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We’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.

Alden Library will be open during Summer Session from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. The Learning Commons on the second floor will be open from 7:30 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday; from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday; and from noon to midnight Sunday. These hours will start with the beginning of Summer Session on Monday, June 22, 2009 and run until Friday, August 28, 2009.

Library patrons may request that books be retrieved from closed areas in Alden Library from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday; from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, from 12 to 5 p.m. Saturday; and from 12 to 9 p.m. Sunday. These requests can be made at the Library Services Desk in the Learning Commons. During the same hours, faculty and graduate students may request a pass for access to the rest of the building.

For more information on the library’s summer hours and for hours between the end of Summer Session and the beginning of Fall Quarter, visit our Hours page.

Herman Leonard, a 1947 BFA graduate and world-renowned photographer whose images captured the history and movement of jazz, will speak at Ohio University’s two undergraduate commencement ceremonies this year.

As an undergrad, Mr. Leonard was a photographer, and eventually photo editor for the Athena Yearbook.

His yearbooks and a selection of period photography equipment are on view in the Fine Arts Library, Alden, 3rd floor, through the summer.

A new exhibit celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Alden Library debuts Friday, May 15, 2009 on the 5th floor of Alden Library. Learn about campus life in 1969, the year Alden Library opened its doors, as well as the history of the Libraries back to 1814! This exhibit was created by University Archivist Bill Kimok and includes a variety of photos and memorabilia from the University Archives in the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections