Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Enchantment by Guy Ka
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RECOMMENDED READING LIST AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah What is the What by Dave Eggers Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman Personal History by Katharine Graham The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto “Che” Guevara Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride The Unforgiven Minute by Craig Mullaney 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
BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE by Richard Dawkins Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond 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 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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 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 World’s Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson Moneyball by Michael Lewis Commonwealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey Sachs Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Banker to the Poor by Mohammad Yunus
PEOPLE AND SOCIETY A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan Daniel Deronda by George Eliot Middlesex by Jeffrey Euginides Maurice by E.M. Forster The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Beloved by Toni Morrison The Ship of Fools by Cristina Peri Rossi The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Shame by Salman Rushdie A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser “Can the Subaltern Speak?” by Gayatri Spivak All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren by Tom Wolfe Native Son by Richard Wright Island of Vice by Richard Zacks A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
SCIENCE FICTION The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman A Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin 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 Brick Lane by Monica Ali 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 Díaz Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Middlemarch by George Eliot Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Sophie’s 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 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Ellis Island & Other Stories by Mark Helprin At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Calvino Italo Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey The History of Love by Nicole Krauss Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham Atonement by Ian McEwan The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud Birds of America by Lorrie Morre Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht 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
OTHER NON-FICTION by Lerone Bennett, Jr. Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden 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 Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan Orientalism by Edward Said A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll 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 Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing by Jim Yardley The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav
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