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Faculty Recommendations to the Class of 2016: Book List
List compiled by Brian Moriarty '16
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Author: Michael Chabon
Recommended by Alex Myers, English
American Slavery, American Freedom
Author: Edmund S. Morgan
Recommended by Bill Jordan, History
Angels in America
Author: Tony Kushner
Recommended by Hal Lynch, Admissions & Theater and Dance
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
Author: Jan-Philipp Sendker
Recommended by Laura Marshall, Math
Between the World and Me
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Recommended by Christopher Thurber, Psychology and Todd Hearon, English
Blood Done Sign My Name
Author: Timothy B. Tyson
Recommended by David Weber, English
Blood Meridian
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Recommended by Nathaniel Hawkins, English
The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
Recommended by Jennifer Smith, Multicultural Affairs
Brainstorm
Author: Daniel J. Siegel
Recommended by Gordon Coole, Dean of Student Health and Wellness
The Brothers Karamazov
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Recommended by Michael Golay, History
Covering
Author: Kenji Yoshino '87
Recommended by Amy Schwartz, History
Crossing to Safety
Author: Wallace Stegner
Recommended by Jason BreMiller, English
Desert Solitaire
Author: Edward Abbey
Recommended by James Dicarlo, Science
The Emigrants
Author: W. G. Sebald
Recommended by Richard Schieber, Modern Languages
The Four Agreements
Author: Don Miguel Ruiz
Recommended by Shane LaPointe, Athletics
The Giving Tree
Author: Shel Silverstein
Recommended by David Huoppi, Math
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Author: Rebecca Skloot
Recommended by Richard Aaronian, Science
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Author: Richard Bach
Recommended by Gail Scanlon, Library
Letters to a Young Poet
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Recommended by Ellen Wolff, English
The Martian
Author: Andy Weir
Recommended by Jeffery Ward, Science
The Master and Margarita
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Recommended by Thomas Ramsey, Religion
Middlesex
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Recommended by Meg Foley, History
Moonwalking with Einstein
Author: Joshua Foer
Recommended by Wendy Mellin, English
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Author: Tracy Kidder
Recommended by Ron Kim, History and Assistant Principal
The/Sickness unto Death
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Recommended by Kurt Prescott, Religion
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Author: Michael Pollan
Recommeded by Elizabeth Stevens, Science
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Recommended by Patricia Burke Hickey, English
The Reason for God
Author: Timothy Keller
Recommended by Simon Allcock, Classics
The Righteous Mind
Author: Jonathan Haidt
Recommended by Matthew Hartnett, Classics
The River Why
Author: David James Duncan
Recommended by Erik Janicki, Science
A Room with a View
Author: E. M. Forster
Recommended by Vivian Santos, Modern Languages
A Sand County Almanac
Author: Aldo Leopold
Recommended by Chris Matlack, Science
A Sense of Where You Are
Author: John McPhee
Recommended by Jay Tilton, Admissions
The Sports Gene
Author: David Epstein
Recommended by Lee Young, Admissions
A Sportsman's Notebook
Author: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Recommended by Mark Hiza, Science
The Story of Art
Author: E. H. Gombrich
Recommended by Pam Parris, Academic Support
The Swerve
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Recommended by Tatiana Waterman, Science
A Thousand Plateaus
Authors: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Recommended by Jon Sakata, Music
Waging Peace and War
Author: Thomas J. Schoenbaum
Recommended by Aykut Kilinc, History
The Waste Land and Other Writings
by
T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Recommended by Principal Lisa MacFarlane