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RECOMMENDED READING LIST
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS
GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND FEMINIST STUDIES
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
A Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Shes Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Surely Youre Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Personal History by Katharine Graham
Middlesex by Jeffrey Euginides
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Liars Poker by Michael Lewis
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Color of Water: A Black Mans Tribute to His White Mother
by James McBride
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Unforgiven Minute by Craig Mullaney
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The Ship of Fools by Cristina Peri Rossi
Shame by Salman Rushdie
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
by Richard Dawkins
Complications by Atul Gawande
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
POLITICS
by John F. Kennedy
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything your American History Textbook
Got Wrong by James Loewen
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by
Samantha Power
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by
Daron Acemoglu
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic
Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie
Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
Can the Subaltern Speak? by Gayatri Spivak
All The Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren
by Tom Wolfe
Native Son by Richard Wright
by Richard Zacks
A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the
Worlds Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson
SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND DYSTOPIA
The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Commonwealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey Sachs
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
A Winters Tale by Mark Helprin
Banker to the Poor by Mohammad Yunus
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut
OTHER FICTION
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
OTHER NON-FICTION
by Lerone
Bennett, Jr.
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon
The Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Daz
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Middlemarch by George Eliot
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Most Human Human by Brian Christian
The White Album by Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the
Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
Sophies World by Jostein Gaarder
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Orientalism by Edward Said
A Supposedly Fun Thing Ill Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and
the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach,
and Two Cultures Clashing by Jim Yardley
Ellis Island & Other Stories by Mark Helprin
The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav
At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel
OFC MUST-READS
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
If On a Winters Night a Traveler by Calvino Italo
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (Abby Kelly)
Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Beloved by Toni Morrison (Abby Cole)
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Tigers Wife by Ta Obreht (Krista Erickson)
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
(Keith Berman)
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Fences by August Wilson (Caitlin Pierce)
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (Jaime Fallon)
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The Razors Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Emperors Children by Claire Messud
Birds of America by Lorrie Morre
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene ONeill
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pyncheon
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Russian Debutantes Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
by David Foster Wallace
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yate
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