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The Secret History by Donna TarttThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughStoner by John WilliamsFranny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Campus Days
402 books — 299 voters
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Cambridge University
238 books — 62 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienGaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Oxford University
328 books — 58 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyEverything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorThe Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Iowa Writers' Workshop
141 books — 32 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckBeloved by Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Cornell University
119 books — 24 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Contact by Carl SaganCosmos by Carl SaganPortnoy’s Complaint by Philip RothHerzog by Saul Bellow
Books by University of Chicago Alumni
139 books — 16 voters

What Doesn't Kill Her by Carla NortonSo Much Pretty by Cara HoffmanThe Forgetting Flower by Karen HuggHer Beautiful Brain by Ann HedreenThe Liars' Club by Mary Karr
Goddard College Alumni & Faculty Books
122 books — 15 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriOn The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus CopernicusOration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico della MirandolaThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoFoucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Alma Mater Studiorum: Università di Bologna
61 books — 11 voters

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi PirandelloRobert Schumann by John WorthenThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxMax Bruch by Christopher Fifield
Bonn University
99 books — 9 voters
The New Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. MaddenUnderstanding Media by Marshall McLuhanA Companion to Bede (Anglo-Saxon Studies) by George Hardin BrownBonds of Wool by Steven A. SchoenigA History of the Byzantine State and Society by Warren Treadgold
Saint Louis University
37 books — 4 voters

Reading My Father by Alexandra StyronA Moveable Feast by Don GeorgeAmerican Tempest by Harlow Giles UngerLion of Liberty by Harlow Giles UngerAmerica's Second Revolution by Harlow Giles Unger
Taft Alumni Authors
59 books — 3 voters
Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Bloodstones of Power by Alain LescartStories of Your Life and Others by Ted ChiangDreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyreAmmonite by Nicola Griffith
Clarion Writing Workshop Alumni
55 books — 2 voters

Brick Lane by Monica AliThe Known World by Edward P. JonesAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
NYC Carleton Book Club, part 1
100 books — 2 voters
As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Round House by Louise ErdrichThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
NYC Carleton Book Club, part 2
100 books — 2 voters

The Vanishing Half by Brit BennettEmpire of Pain by Patrick Radden KeefeHomeland Elegies by Ayad AkhtarCeremonial Time by John Hanson MitchellThe Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
NYC Carleton Book Club, part 3
7 books — 2 voters
Easy by Al JarreauWe're in This Love Together Sheet Music by Keith StegallDispatches from the Former Evil Empire by Richard ThrelkeldSouth to Selma by Gary G. YerkeyStill Time to Live by Gary G. Yerkey
Ripon College
100 books — 1 voter

Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill AuletSprint by Jake Knappslide by Nancy DuarteEloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke
EIT Alumni shelf
4 books — 1 voter
Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits by Ilona BrayAsking by Jerold PanasWriting for a Good Cause by Joseph BarbatoAsking Rights by Tom RalserThe Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing by Eric Groves
Foundation/Alumni PD
8 books — 1 voter

Ancillary Justice by Ann LeckieThe Fox Woman by Kij JohnsonArabella of Mars by David D. LevineThe Devourers by Indra DasOur Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke
Clarion West Writers Workshop Alumni
58 books — 1 voter
Such a Fun Age by Kiley ReidThe Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan KochaiIn the Distance by Hernan DiazTrust by Hernan DiazThe Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
STANFORD magazine summer reading list 2023
14 books — 1 voter

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