2011 Book List

A Technique for Producing Ideas
by James Webb Young
Professor Brad Love
Advertising

A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Professor Leslie Moore
Educational Psychology

Absolom, Absolom!
by William Faulkner
Professor Timothy Moore
Classics

Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Professor Jerome Bump
English

All the President’s Men
by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward
Professor Nancy Roser
Education

Angela’s Ashes
by Frank McCourt
Professor Nina Fredland
Nursing

Blindness
by José Saramago
Professor Robert Prentice
Business, Government, and Society

Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
by Hal Abelson
Professor Mike Scott
Computer Science

Change Your Life Through Travel
by Jillian Robinson
Professor James Patton
Education

Chasing the High: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person’s Experience with Substance Abuse
by K. Keegan & H.B. Moss
Professor Lori K. Holleran Steiker
Social Work

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by Michael Braungart & William McDonough
Professor Leeann Kahlor
Advertising & Public Relations

Danger! Educated Gypsy
by Ian Hancock
Professor Ian Hancock
Linguistics

Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
Professor Stanislav Zimic
Spanish and Portuguese

Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
English

Emma
by Jane Austen
Professor Janine Barchas
English

Empire of the Summer Moon
by S.C. Gwynne
Professor James Vick
Mathematics

Everything That Rises Must Converge
by Flannery O’Connor
Professor Michael Adams
English

Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
by Edwin Abbott
Professor Linda Henderson
Art History

Gang Leader for a Day
by Sudhir Venkatesh
Professor David Kirk
Sociology

Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero
by Charles Sprawson
Professor Carol Mackay
English

House Rules
by Jodi Picoult
Professor Elizabeth Pomeroy
Social Work

How We Decide
by Jonah Lehrer
Professor Philip Varghese
Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics

In Defense of Food
by Michael Pollan
Professor Lester Faigley
English

Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Professor Shelley Payne
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Jayber Crow
by Wendell Berry
Professor Robert Jensen
Journalism

Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
Professor Linda Ferreira-Buckley
Rhetoric & Writing

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
by Simon Winchester
Professor Elizabeth Catlos
Geological Sciences

Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
Professor Paul Sullivan
English

Life’s Greatest Lessons—20 Things That Matter
by Hal Urban
Professor David Fowler
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s
by John Elder Robison
Professor Rebecca Neal
Psychology

Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
Professor William Winslade
Law

Medicine & Culture
by Lynn Payer
Professor Dee Silverthorn
Biological Sciences

Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
by Karen Armstrong
Professor Samer Ali
Middle Eastern Studies

My Freshman Year
by Rebekah Nathan
Professor Gretchen Ritter
Government

Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
Professor William Powers
Office of the President

Perfect Pitch: The Art of Selling Ideas and Winning New Business
by Jon Steel
Professor John Murphy
Advertising

Predictably Irrational: the Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
Professor Timothy Loving
Human Development & Family Sciences

Room
by Emma Donoghue
Professor Elizabeth Cullingford
English

Suits: A Woman on Wall Street
by Nina Godiwalla
Professor Regina Hughes
Finance

Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart
Professor Jennifer Wilks
African & African Diaspora Studies

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Professor Judith Jellison
School of Music

The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by Leonard Mlodinow
Professor Michael Starbird
Mathematics

The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
Professor Keith Brown
Finance

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
by Stieg Larsson
Professor Wendy Domjan
Psychology

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
by Edward Albee
Professor Paul Woodruff
Philosophy, Undergraduate Studies

The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
Professor Mary Steinhardt
Kinesiology and Health Education

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Professor Franchelle Dorn
Theater

The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
Professor Pauline Strong
Anthropology

The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
Professor Jane Cohen
Law School

The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer-Bradley
Professor Eric Anslyn
Chemistry and Biochemistry

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
by Sam Harris
Professor Bob Duke
School of Music

The Screwtape Letters
by C.S. Lewis
Professor Lorenzo Candelaria
Music

The Social Animal: the Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
by David Brooks
Professor Larry Carver
English

The Unlikely Disciple: a Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University
by Kevin Roose
Professor Stephen Reese
Journalism

Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
Professor Patrick Davis
Pharmacy

We
by Evgeny Zamyatin
Professor Thomas Garza
Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Wealth
by Aristophanes
Professor Thomas Pangle
Government

Zero History
by William Gibson
Professor J. Craig Wheeler
Astronomy