FACULTY PICKS
If you find one of these topics interesting, approach the faculty member to discuss it
further and to request his or her sponsorship.
Mr. Alexander
1.
Choose three of the following: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World
that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain; Willpower: Rediscovering the
Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney;
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin
Seligan; Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell; Mindset by Carol Dweck
2.
Inequality in education: “Multiplication Is for White People”: Raising
Expectations for Other People’s Children by Lisa Delpit; How Children
Succeed: Grit Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul
Tough; Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can
Do by Claude Steele
Mr. Arbor
3.
Contemporary Multi-Cultural Short Stories (choose at least three of the
following): The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat, Hunger by Lan
Samantha Chan, Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri, Whiteman by
Tony D'Souza, Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap; The Elephant
Vanishes by Haruki Murakami; The Thing Around Your Neck by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, I Am an Executioner by Rajesh
Parameswaran
4.
Lev Grossman: The Magicians Trilogy; plus one
5.
Foundational Epics (choose three): The Ramayana translated by
R.K. Narayan, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali translated by D.T.
Niane, The Iliad by Homer (translation TBD); The Aeneid by Virgil;
Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory
6.
Cross Examination (choose three of the following): The Language of
God by Francis Collins, Decoding the Language of God by George
C. Cunningham, The Reason for God by Timothy Keller, The God
Delusion by Richard Dawkins, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis,
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris, God and The New
Atheists by John F. Haught
7.
Transgender Identity: Trans Warriors by Leslie Feinberg, My
Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein, Transgender History by Susan
Stryker
Ms. Arbor
8.
Selected Works of Jose Saramago: Choose Three: The Double; The
Gospel According to Jesus Christ; The Stone Raft; The Lives of Things
(compilation of short stories); Blindness; Seeing (sequel); The Cave; All
the Names, Death With Interruptions
Mr. Becker
9.
Peter Hessler’s China: Country Driving: A Journey Through China from
Farm to Factory; River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze; Oracle Bones: A
Journey Through Time in China
10.
Mao Zedong A Life by Jonathan Spence; Mao: A Biography: Revised and
Expanded Edition by Ross Terrill; The Private Life of Chairman Mao by
Li Zhi-Sui
11.
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T.
Chang; Country Driving by Peter Hessler; Chinese Lessons: Five
Classmates and the Story of the New China by John Pomfret
12.
Factory Girls by Leslie Chang; Mr. China: A Memoir by Tim Clissold;
China Inside Out: 10 Irreversible Trends Reshaping China and Its
Relationship with the World by Bill Dodson
13.
With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy
Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald; The Republican
Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy by
David Brock; The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive
by Dean Baker
Mr. Bonner
14.
Home by Toni Morrison; Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, plus one
15.
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson; Swamplandia by Karen Russell, plus
one
16.
Latin American Fiction: selected works from Garcia Marquez, Fuentes,
Cortazar, Rulfo, Valenzuela, Lispector, and/or Donoso
17.
Selected works of William Faulkner
18.
Selected works of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman
19.
Maxine Hong Kingston: Chinamen and Woman Warrior, plus one
20.
Selected works of Allan Gurganus
21.
Selected works of John Hawkes
22.
Selected works of Leo Tolstoy
23.
Stories of Anton Chekhov
24.
Selected works of Joan Didion
25.
Selected works of Robert Coover
26.
Selected works of John Cheever
27.
Selected stories of Alice Munro
28.
Selected works of Mona Simpson
29.
Poetry of Rilke
30.
Memoir: Out of Africa by Dinesen; Stop-Time by Conroy; Liar’s Club by
Karr; My Father and Myself by Ackerley; Running in the Family by
Ondaatje
31.
Selected works of Mary Caponegro
32.
Selected works of Joanna Scott
33.
Poetry of C. D. Wright
34.
Poetry of Thomas Meyer
35.
Poetry and essays of Jonathan Williams
36.
Selected works of Richard Ford
37.
Selected works of Ann Patchett
38.
Poetry of James Longenbach
39.
Poetry of Louise Gluck
40.
Poetry of Lorinne Niedecker
41.
Poetry of Mina Loy
42.
Novels of Desire: choose three from among the following: Anna
Karenina by Tolstoy; Madame Bovary by Flaubert; Swann in Love by
Proust; The Lover by Duras; The Unbearable Lightness of Being by
Kundera; Cheri and/or The Last of Cheri by Collette; Travesty and/or
Virginie by John Hawkes
43.
Studies in the Short Story: Chekhov; Hemingway; Anderson; Babel
44.
Studies in the Contemporary Short Story: Grace Paley; Ray Carver; John
Cheever; William Gass; Stanley Elkin; T. C. Boyle; Elizabeth McCracken;
Alice Munro
45.
Contemporary short stories: Work of George Saunders; The Emerald
Light in the Air by David Antrim; American Innovations by Rivka
Galchen; Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
46.
Gertrude Stein: Three Lives; The Making of Americans; The
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
47.
Poetry of Jack Gilbert
48.
Rock ‘n Roll Novels: Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson; The
Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan
Lethem
49.
Selected works of Vladimir Nabokov
50.
Hotels of North America by Rick Moody; Pale Fire by Vladimir
Nabokov; Edwin Mullhouse by Steven Millhauser
51.
Selected works of Stephen Milhauser
52.
Slipstream fiction: works by Julia Elliott, George Saunders, and others
Mr. Buddy
53.
Italo Calvino: Baron in the Trees; If On a Winter's Night a Traveler;
Invisible Cities
54.
Don DeLillo: Mao II; Great Jones Street; White Noise
55.
Naguib Mahfouz: Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk; Palace of Desire; Sugar
Street
56.
Jail House Philosophy 1 (criminals): You Can't Win by Jack Black; Ballad
of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde; The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet;
Papillon by Henri Charrière
57.
Linguistics: The Power of Babel: a Natural History of Language by John
McWhorter; The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of
Mankind's Greatest Invention by Guy Deutscher; and Through the
Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
by Guy Deutscher
58.
Modern Skepticism: Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael
Shermer; Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner;
and The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
59.
Selected works of Emile Zola
60.
John Coltrane: Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane
Interviews edited by Chris DeVito; A Love Supreme: The Story of John
Coltrane's Signature Album by Ashley Kahn; Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't:
Jazz and the Making of the Sixties by Scott Saul
61.
Medical Ethics and Race: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by
Rebecca Skloot; Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and
Its Legacy by Suasn M. Reverby; plus one
62.
Selected works of Haruki Murakami
63.
Native American Boarding Schools: Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The
Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools by Ward
Churchill; Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School by Adam
Fortunate Eagle and Laurence M. Hauptman; plus one
Ms. Cianciulli
64.
David Guterson: Snow Falling on Cedars; East of the Mountains; Our
Lady of the Forest; The Other.
65.
The Civil Rights Movement: The Southern Mystique by Howard Zinn;
Mississippi: An American Journey by Anthony Walton; Blood Done Sign
My Name by Timothy B. Tyson (APUSH students would select a different
third book)
66.
Selected works of Wallace Stegner
Dr. Concannon
67.
Exercise, motivation, and nature versus nurture: Once a Runner by John L.
Parker, Jr., The Sports Gene by David Epstein, and Spark: The
Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey
68.
Behavioral Economics (pick three of the following): Thinking Fast and
Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, The
Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist
Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
69.
Interesting stories with ties to neuroscience: Read either Awakenings or
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks; The Tell-Tale
Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S.
Ramachandran, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
70.
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell; The Life of Pi by Yann Martel; plus
one
71.
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy
Gavriel Kay, and Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and
Invention in the Middle Ages by Joseph Gies
72.
Living and coping with physical or mental differences: (pick 3 of the
following) Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy, Thinking in
Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin, Hands of my Father: A
Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love by Myron
Uhlberg, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by
Jean-Dominque Bauby, and Still Alice by Lisa Genova.
Mr. Crawley
73.
To Serve Them All Our Days by R. Delderfield; Goodbye Mr. Chips by
James Hilton; The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss
74.
Ken Follett: Pillars of the Earth and World Without End
75.
World War I Novels: Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain; Storm of Steel
by Ernst Junger; Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
Ms. Crotts
76.
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Sense and Sensibility
77.
The Bronte sisters: Wuthering Heights; Villette; Jane Eyre
78.
Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore; Norwegian Wood; either After the
Quake or The Elephant Vanishes
Mr. Gordon
79.
Nelson Mandela: Mandela by Anthony Sampson; Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela; Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog
80.
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb: Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima by
Stephen Walker; Hiroshima by John Hersey; Hiroshima in America: A
Half Century of Denial by Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell
81.
The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson by Joseph A. Califano;
Flawed Giant by Robert Dallek; The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson by Eric
Goldman
82.
Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley; Iwo Jima by Bill Ross; Iwo Jima
by Richard Newcomb
83.
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo; The Things They Carried by Tim
O’Brien; 365 Days by Ronald Glasser; plus one
Mr. Gregory
84.
Dante: The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)
85.
Selected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
86.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville; In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel
Philbrick
87.
Selected works of Cormac McCarthy
88.
Nicolo Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses on Livy, and The Artist, the
Philosopher, and the Warrior by Paul Strathern
89.
Michel de Montaigne’s complete essays
90.
Augustine’s City of God
91.
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (Swann's Way; Within a Budding
Grove; Time Regained)
92.
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a
Nation by Jon Meacham; Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the
Birth of Religious Freedom in America by Steven Waldman; plus one
93.
Titan: The Life of Nelson D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow; The House
of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern
Finance by Ron Chernow
94.
Tale of Genji by Murasaki
95.
What is Religion?: An Introduction by John Haught; The Varieties of
Religious Experience by William James; God is Not One by Stephen
Prothero
96.
The Bible (complete Old Testament; complete New Testament)
97.
Holocaust Books: The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosiński; Survival In Auschwitz,
Primo Levi; Fatelessness, Imre Kertész; Man’s Search for Meaning,Viktor
Frankl
98.
Paradise Lost, John Milton
99.
The Thousand and One Nights
100. To the Lighthouse; Mrs. Dalloway; The Voyage Out; A Room of One’s
Own, Virginia Woolf
101. Absalom, Absalom, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, William
Faulkner
102. The Moral Animal, Wright; On Human Nature, E. O. Wilson; plus one
103. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
104. The Language of God, Francis Collins; The God Delusion, Richard
Dawkins; Science & Religion: From Conflict to Conversation, John
Haught
105. William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; Henry V
106. William Shakespeare: Othello; King Lear; Richard III
107. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and
Punishment
108. Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
Ms. Gruber
109. Medical Ethics: three selected works from Abraham Verghese, Atul
Gawande, Rebecca Skloot, Daniel Kahneman, Jodi Picoult, and Jerome
Groopman
110. Selected works of Atul Gawande
Dr. Hill
111. Flow by Cziskszentmihalyi; In Praise of Athletic Beauty by Gumbrecht;
Playing in the Zone by Cooper
112. The Happiness Hypothesis by Haidt; Zorba the Greek by Kazantzakis;
Flow by Cziskszentmihalyi
113. Nature Writers (Choose 3): Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey; The
Unforeseen Wilderness by Wendell Berry; Wandering Home by
McKibben; Walden by Henry David Thoreau; The Sense of Wonder by
Rachel Carson
114. Into the Wild by John Krakauer; Deliverance by James Dickey; The
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
115. The French Broad by Wilma Dykeman; Silent Spring by Rachel
Carson; The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
116. Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life by George
Monbiot; Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of
Earth by George Wuerthner (Editor); Where the Wild Things Were: Life,
Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators by
William Stolzenburg
117. E.O. Wilson: The Social Conquest of the Earth; The Meaning of Human
Existence; On Human Nature
Ms. Jones
118. The Selected Works of Margaret Atwood
119. Choose Three of the Following: Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood; A
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley; Prodigal Summer by Barbara
Kingsolver; Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Mr. Kegg
120. Contemporary American Perspectives on Mexico City: Down and
Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the 21st Century by
David Hernandez; Several Ways to Die en Mexico City: An Autobiography
by Kurt Hollander; First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, The Capital
of the 21st Century by David Lida
Mr. Lambert
121. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum; Wicked: The Life and
Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire; and one of
the following: A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years by
Gregory Maguire; Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years by
Gregory Maguire
Ms. Lambert
122. Selected works of William Faulkner
Ms. A. Lawrence
123. Disability in Speculative Fiction (choose three): The Ship Who
Sang/Partnership by Anne McCaffrey; The Girl With All The Gifts by M.
R. Carey; My Real Children by Jo Walton; Among Others by Jo Walton;
The Memory Garden by Mary Rickert; The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by
Robert Heinlein
Ms. L. Lawrence
124. Make It Stick by Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel; How We Learn by
Benedict Carey; Brain Rules by John Medina
125. Choose Three: How Children Succeed by Paul Tough; The Social Animal
by David Brooks; Mindset by Carol Dweck; The Marshmallow Test by
Walter Mischel; Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman
126. Choose Three: The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner; Switch
by Heath and Heath; The Servant: A Simple Story about the True Essence
of Leadership by James Hunter; Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek;
Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman
127. Building a Better Teacher by Elizabeth Green; Out of Our Minds by Ken
Robinson; The Smartest Kids in The World by Amanda Ripley; “The
Child and the Curriculum” (Article) by John Dewey
128. Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman; The Righteous Mind by Jonathan
Haidt; The Tipping Point by Gladwell
Ms. Martin
129. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini; I am Malala by Malala
Yousafzai; Persepolis I and II by Marjane Satrapi
Dr. Miller
130. Herman Hesse: Narcissus and Goldman; Siddhartha; plus one
131. Dystopian Fiction: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood; 1984 by
George Orwell; Animal Farm by George Orwell; Brave New World by
Aldous Huxley
132. Choose three: An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison; Bi-polar by
Frank Mondimore; Madness by Marya Hornbacker; Silver-Linings
Playbook by Matthew Quick
Mr. Ortiz
133. Selected works of Kurt Vonnegut
Mr. Pharr
134. Marilynne Robinson: Gilead; Home; Lila
135. Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger; Why Football Matters: My
Education in the Game by Mark Edmundson; and The Blind
Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
136. Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning; Homage to Catalonia by George
Orwell; and Germinal by Emile Zola
Ms. Pharr
137. Half the Sky: Turing Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, I Am Malala by Malala
Yousafzai, and The Blue Sweater by Jaqueline Novogratz
138. The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin, The River of Doubt by
Candice Millard, Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Mr. Plaehn
139. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson; The Complete Stories of Ernest
Hemingway; Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
140. Selected works of Flannery O'Connor
141. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; Black Boy by Richard Wright; Their Eyes
Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
142. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy; The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger;
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
143. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander; Between the World and Me by
Ta-Nehisi Coates; Come Hell or High Water by Michael Eric Dyson
144. William Shakespeare: The Henriad (Richard II, King Henry IV, Part One,
King Henry IV, Part Two, King Henry V)
Ms. Plaehn
145. John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath; East of Eden; Of Mice and Men
146. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Beloved by Toni
Morrison; The Color Purple by Alice Walker
147. Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis; American Creation by Joseph Ellis;
plus one
148. The West: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry; All the Pretty Horses by
Cormack McCarthy; Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
149. Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
150. Willa Cather (choose three): O Pioneers!; My Antonia; Death Comes for
the Archbishop; The Song of the Lark
151. 1960s Women: Choose Three: Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion; The
Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath; Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates;
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
152. William Shakespeare: The Henriad (Richard II, King Henry IV, Part One,
King Henry IV, Part Two, King Henry V)
153. American Superheroes: The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill
Lepore; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael
Chabon; plus one
Ms. Roberson
154. Bad boys: Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess; Deliverance by James
Dickey; The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
155. Artists in the musical movement “Nueva Canción Chilena” in Chile in the
1960s and 1970s. Works and songs of Violeta Parra and Victor Jara
(Note: music is in Spanish)
156. Selected works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
157. Selected works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dr. Rogers
158. John Brown & The Onset of Civil War: Midnight Rising by Tony
Horwitz; John Brown, Abolitionist by David Reynolds; To Purge This
Land with Blood by Stephen Oates; Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
159. The Secession Crisis & The Onset of Civil War: (Choose three) 1861:
Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart; We Have the War Upon Us by
William J. Cooper; And the War Came: The North and the Secession
Crisis by Kenneth Stampp; Lincoln and the Decision for War by Russell
McClintock
160. The Causes of the Civil War by Kenneth Stampp; The Coming of the
American Civil War by Michael Perman; The Impending Crisis by David
Potter
161. Lincoln on Democracy ed. by Mario Cuomo; Lincoln by David Herbert
Donald; A. Lincoln by Ronald White
162. Narrative of the Life of An American Slave by Frederick Douglass;
Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader (Penguin Classics); The Radical
and the Republic: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the
Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes; plus one
163. David Halberstam: (Choose three) The Coldest Winter; The Fifties; The
Best and the Brightest; The Children
164. The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens, and the Search for the Good Life by
Bettany Hughes; The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone; The Last Days of
Socrates by Plato
165. The Iliad by Homer; The War that Killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander;
The Trojan War: A New History by Barry Strauss
166. Greek Comedy: Selected Works of Aristophanes (Greek Comedy)
167. Greek Tragedy: Selected Works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
168. Books by Amity Shlaes: Coolidge; The Forgotten Man: A New History
of the Great Depression; The Forgotten Man Graphic
169. Presidential Campaign Books (choose three): The Making of the President
by T. H. White (1960); The Selling of the President by T. H. White
(1968); Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail by Hunter S. Thompson
(1972); Losers by Michael Lewis (1996)
170. College Basketball Books by John Feinstein (choose three): A Season on
the Brink; A March to Madness; A Season Inside; The Last Amateurs; The
Legends Club (available March 1, 2016)
171. Baseball Books by John Feinstein: Living on the Black; Where Nobody
Knows Your Name: Life in Minor League Baseball; Play Ball: The Life
and Troubled Times of Major League Baseball
Ms. Ruch
172. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls by
Ernest Hemingway, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria
Remarque, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, Catch-22 by Joseph
Heller, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, If I Die in a Combat
Zone by Tim O’Brien
173. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus & Criseyde or The Canterbury Tales
174. The Wiley and Wonderful Women of Shakespeare (choose three): Hamlet,
Macbeth, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra
175. Women in American Literature (American): The Awakening by Kate
Chopin, The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, and The House of Mirth
(and/or) Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
176. Poetry of W.B. Yeats
177. Poetry of Eavan Boland
Ms. Sanderson
169. John Adams: John Adams by David McCullough; Founding Brothers by
Joseph Ellis; First Family: John & Abigail Adams by Joseph Ellis
170. Abigail Adams: Abigail Adams by Woody Holton; Women of the
Republic: Intellect and ideology in Revolutionary America by Linda
Kerber; First Family: John & Abigail Adams by Joseph Ellis
Ms. Wall
171.
Choose three: An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison; Bi-polar by
Frank Mondimore; Madness by Marya Hornbacker; Silver-Linings
Playbook by Matthew Quick
172.
Eleanor Roosevelt biographies
CATALOG OF SENIOR DEMONSTRATION BOOK GROUPINGS
Keep in mind, you are picking a set of BOOKS, not a topic.
173.
Malory, La Morte D'Arthur and White, The Once and Future King
174.
The sonnet: Sir Philip Sydney, William Shakespeare, and others
175.
Shakespeare, selected plays
176.
John Donne, selected poetry
177.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
178.
Wordsworth, selected poetry
179.
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre and Villette
180.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice
181.
Selected works by Charles Dickens
182.
Darwin, The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the Beagle or The
Descent of Man
183.
George Eliot, Middlemarch and Adam Bede
184.
Hugo, Les Miserables and Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
185.
Stendhal, The Red and the Black and La Chartreuse De Parme
186.
D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Women in Love
187.
Greene, The Heart of the Matter and The Power and the Glory
188.
Joyce, Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
189.
Joyce, Ulysses and Homer, The Odyssey
190.
T.S. Eliot, selected poetry
191.
Forster, A Passage to India and Howard's End
192.
Beckett, Waiting for Godot and Endgame and Stoppard, Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead
193.
Einstein, selected writings; Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times; and
Schilpp, Albert Einstein: Philosopher - Scientist
194.
Miller, Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, The Crucible, and A View From
the Bridge
195.
Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Grass Harp, Other Voices, Other
Rooms, plus a couple of Short Stories
196.
Poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Morrison
197.
Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country and Lessing, The Grass Is Singing
198.
Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Allende, House of Spirits
199.
Neruda, Twenty Poems of Love and additional poetry
200.
Tyler, Celestial Navigation, Earthly Possessions, Accidental Tourist, and
Breathing Lessons
201.
Plato, The Republic and St. Augustine, Confessions
202.
Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Hocus Pocus
203.
Heller, Catch-22 and Vonnegut, Slaughter House Five
204.
Goodall, In the Shadow of Man and Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
205.
Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms; Remarque, All Quiet on the Western
Front, and selected poetry from World War I
206.
Poe, Selected works
207.
Cormac McCarthy, selected novels
208.
Allan Gurganus, selected novels
209.
Sinclair, The Jungle; Dreiser, Sister Carrie; and Crane, A Girl of the
Streets
210.
Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, A Member of the
Wedding, and two stories ("Sucker" and "The Haunted Boy" or two
others)
211.
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Joseph Heller, Catch
22
212.
J.M. Coetzee, selected novels
213.
Faulkner, selected novels
214.
Thomas Wolfe, selected works
215.
Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Hemingway, A Farewell to
Arms and The Sun Also Rises
216.
Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lao Tsu, Tao Te
Ching, Hoff, The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet
217.
Mahatma Ghandi: autobiography, biography, etc.
218.
Deloria, Custer Died for Your Sins; Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks; plus one
more (maybe Smoke Signals)
219.
Selected Works of Walker Percy
220.
Weisel, Night; Potok, The Chosen; Uris, Exodus
221.
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club and Hundred Secret Senses plus one
222.
Toni Morrison, Beloved, Sula, and Alice Walker, The Color Purple
223.
Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene, and The Extended
Phenotype
224.
Literature of the Progressive Era: London, Drieser, Sinclair, Steffens
225.
Irving, Owen Meany, Widow for One Year, and Cider House Rules
226.
Selected Works by Mark Helprin
227.
Welty, Delta Wedding, The Optimists’ Daughter, plus selected Short
Stories
228.
Selected works by Norman Mailer
229.
Sagan, Contact and The Demon Haunted World
230.
Hawking, The Illustrated Brief History of Time; Overbye, Lonely Hearts
of the Cosmos; Smoot and Davidson, Wrinkles in Time
231.
Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun: The Making of
the Hydrogen Bomb
232.
McConnel, Challenger: A Major Malfunction and Chaisson, The Hubble
Wars
233.
Wharton, Age of Innocence, House of Mirth, Ethan Frome
234.
Kozol, Savage Inequalities; Kotlowitz, There are No Children Here, plus
one
235.
Orenstein, School Girls; Pipher, Reviving Ophelia, plus one
236.
Selected novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald
237.
Gibson’s NEUROMANCER, BURNING CHROME, COUNT ZERO, and
MONA LISA OVERDRIVE
238.
Verghese’s MY OWN COUNTRY and Sontag’s ILLNESS AS
METAPHOR
239.
Walker's POSSESSING THE SECRETS OF JOY and THE COLOR
PURPLE and McMillan's WAITING TO EXHALE
240.
Dostoyevsky’s NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND and CRIME AND
PUNISHMENT and Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD
241.
Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the
Campaign Trail, Hell’s Angels; Ventura, Letters at Three a.m.
242.
Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full
243.
Agee, A Death in the Family, Welty, The Optimist’s Daughter, plus one
244.
Selected works of C.S. Lewis.
245.
Selected works of John Steinbeck
246.
e.e. cummings, Complete Poems
247.
On the Road, Jack Kerouac; Naked Lunch, William Burroughs; Howl,
Allen Ginsberg
248.
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler; The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich, William
Shirer
249.
Robert E. Lee, A Biography, Emory M. Thomas; Virginia’s General,
Albert Marrin; Lee the Last Years, Charles Flood
250.
Plays by Eugene O’Neill: (Long Day’s Journey into Night and The Iceman
Cometh); No Exit, Jean Paul Sartre; The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee
Williams
251.
The World’s Religions, Huston Smith; Bagavad Gita; Tao Te Ching, Lao
Tzu; Book Of Job
252.
A Rumor of War, Philip Caputo; The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien;
365 Days, Ronald Glasser.
253.
Let the Trumpet Sound, Stephen B. Oates; The Autobiography of
Martin Luther King, Jr.,Edited by Clayborne Carson; Why We Can’t
Wait, Martin Luther King, Jr.
254.
The Iliad, Homer; The Odyssey, Homer; The Aeneid, Virgil
255.
Queen Victoria, Elizabeth Longford; Queen Victoria in her Letters and
Journal (Selections), Christopher Hibbert; Queen Victoria (Selections),
Christopher Hibbert; History of the English Speaking Peoples (Selections),
Winston Churchill
256.
Knight’s Cross: A Life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, David Fraser The
Rommel Papers, Erwin Rommel
257.
Flawed Giant, Robert Dalleck; Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson,
Joseph Califano, Jr.
258.
Puzo, The Godfather, The Sicillian, and Omerta
259.
Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley; Iwo Jima/Legacy of Valor, Bill
Ross; Iwo Jima ,Richard F. Newcomb
260.
Peter the Great, Robert Massie; Russia in the Age of Peter the Great, E.L.
Hughes
261.
Confessions, St. Augustine; The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis; The Myth
of Sisyphus; Albert Camus; The Plague, Albert Camus
262.
Conroy, The Great Santini, Lords of Discipline, My Losing Season
263.
Stegner, Angle of Repose, The Big Rock Candy Mountain
264.
King of the World, David Remnick; The Muhammad Ali Reader, Gerald
Early; Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, Thomas Hauser
265.
The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies,
Michael Breen; Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas
Marcus Noland; North Korea Through the Looking Glass, Kong Dan Oh,
Ralph C. Hassing
266.
Anthony Beevor, Stalingrad, Berlin
267.
The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James; Lost in the Cosmos,
Walker Percy; Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis; The Plague, Albert Camus;
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
268.
War As I Knew It, General George S. Patton Jr.,; General Patton: A
Soldiers Life, Stanley P. Hirshson; Patton: The Man Behind The Legend
1885-1945, Martin Blumenson
269.
Wright, Native Son, Black Boy, and Ellison, Invisible Man
270.
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad; Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
King Leopold’s Ghost, Adam Hochschild; The Troubled Heart of Africa,
Robert B. Edgerton
271.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson; The Last Sherlock
Holmes Story, Michael Dibdin; Portrait of a Killer, Patricia Cornwell; In
Cold Blood, Truman Capote
272.
Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe; Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Neverending Remembrance, Kenneth Silverman
273.
Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien; The Things They Carried, Tim
O'Brien Meditations in Green, Steven Wright; Dispatches, Michael Herr
274.
Wilde, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady
Windermere’s Fan; A Woman of No Importance, Selected short stories
275.
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen; How to Be Alone, Jonathan Franzen;
White Noise, Don DeLillo
276.
Moby Dick, Herman Melville; In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick
277.
Complete Sonnets, William Shakespeare; The Art of Shakespeare’s
Sonnets, Helen Vendler
278.
On Human Nature, by Edward O. Wilson; The Moral Animal, by Robert
Wright The Triumph of Sociobiology, by John Alcock
279.
The Search for Modern China, Jonathan Spence; Wild Grass, Ian Johnson;
Wild Swans, Jung Chang
280.
The Tennis Partner, Abraham Verghese; My Own Country, Abraham
Verghese Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen; A Leg to Stand On, Oliver Sacks
281.
Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy; Truth and Beauty, Ann Patchett
“The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Gilman; A Leg to Stand On, Oliver
Sacks
282.
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
283.
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson and The Life of Emily Dickinson,
Richard B. Sewell
284.
Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We are Afraid to
Talk About It, John Entine; Glory Band: Black Athletes in a White
America, David K.Wiggins; Darwin’s Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged
Black America, John Hoberman
285.
The Splendid Century, W.H. Lewis; Louis XIV, John B. Wolf; Louis XIV
and Absolutism, William Beik
286.
Paul The Apostle, Robert Boyd; The Apostle A Life of Paul, John Pollock;
What St. Paul Really Said, N.T. Wright; the fourteen books of The New
Testament written by Paul
287.
Hiroshima, John Hersey; The Crazy Iris, Kenzaburo Oe; Black Rain, Ibuse
Masuji
288.
The Great Santini; Lords of Discipline; My Losing Season, Pat Conroy
289.
Mules and Men; Dust Tracks on a Road; Tell My Horse, Zora Neale
Hurston
290.
Stephen Ambrose, Band of Brothers; D-Day; Pegasus Bridge
291.
Black Boy, Richard Wright; A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry;
Fences, August Wilson
292.
The Blitzkrieg Myth, John Mosier; Codebreakers' Victory, Hervie Haufler;
The Manhattan Project, Daniel Cohen
293.
Nicholas and Alexandra, Robert K. Massie; The Romanovs: the Final
Chapter, Robert K. Massie; The Fate of the Romanovs, Greg King and
Penny Wilson
294.
Shake Hands with the Devil, Romeo Dalliare; A People Betrayed: The
Role of the West In Rwanda’s Genocide, Linda Melvern; The Rwanda
Crisis, Gerard Prunier; Left to Tell, Immaculee Ilibagiza; We Wish to
Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with our Families, Phillip
Gourevitch
295.
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan; Outrageous Acts and Everyday
Rebellions, Gloria Steinem; Where The Girls Are by Susan J. Douglas
296.
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent
Bugliosi with Curt Gentry; In Cold Blood by Truman Capote; The
Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
297.
The Original Australians, Josephine Flood; The Great White Flood:
Racism In Australia, Anne Pattel-Gray; Rabbit-Proof Fence, Doris
Pilkington
298.
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor; The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery
O'Connor; The Complete Stories, Flannery O'Connor
299.
Women in the Middle East: Choose three of the following: A Thousand
Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini;; Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and
David Relin; Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azav Nafisi; Nine Parts of Desire,
Geraldine Brooks.
300.
Hip Hop America by Nelson George; Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of
the Hip Hop Generation by Jeff Chang; Know What I Mean? Reflections
on Hip Hop by Michael Eric Dyson
301.
New Journalism: Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion; The
Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
302.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Anna Karenina by Leo
Tolstoy, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Madame Bovary by Gustav
Flaubert
303.
Native vs. Stranger: The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles; A Passage to
India by EM Forester; The English Patient by Michael Ondaajte
304.
The Collected Works of Zadie Smith: On Beauty, White Teeth
305.
Feminism: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, Of Woman Born:
Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich, and The
Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer OR Men Explain Things to Me by
Rebecca Solnit
306.
The Ethics of Medicine (choose three): The Spirit Catches You and You
Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of
Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by
Rebecca Skloot; Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect
Science by Atul Gawande; My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
307.
Selected Works of Michael Eric Dyson
308.
Andrew Jackson: American Lion by Jon Meacham; Andrew Jackson and
His Indian Wars by Robert Remini; Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
by H. W. Brands
309.
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M.
McPherson; Seeing the Elephant: Raw recruits at the Battle of Shiloh by
Joseph Allen Frank and George A. Reaves; Embattled Courage: The
Experience of Combat in the American Civil War by Gerald F. Linderman