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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
400 books — 296 voters
On Managing Yourself by Harvard Business ReviewHBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management by Harvard Business ReviewOn Leadership by Harvard Business ReviewOn Managing People by Harvard Business ReviewHBR'S 10 Must Reads by Harvard Business Review
HBR's 10 must reads
20 books — 9 voters

President Kennedy by Richard ReevesA Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.These Few Precious Days by Christopher AndersenRobert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill
Camelot: Books on JFK's Presidency, 1961-1963 (nonfiction)
171 books — 8 voters
The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Republic by PlatoLeviathan by Thomas HobbesThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
Required Reading of the Top 10 US Colleges
79 books — 7 voters

Oedipus Rex by SophoclesThe Odyssey by HomerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyManifesto of the Free People's Union by Jakub LasakHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Books - required at top US colleges
79 books — 6 voters
Belichick and Brady by Michael HolleyThe Pats by Glenn StoutBelichick by Ian O'ConnorGrowing Up Gronk by Gordon GronkowskiThe TB12 Method by Tom Brady
New England Football - Patriots, College, and More (nonfiction)
83 books — 5 voters

Click, Clack, Moo by Doreen CroninRooth Sees a Trooth by Michael KarlbergThe Why Why Girl by Mahasweta DeviThe Girl from The Sky by Jenny RichterDeep Listening by Emily Kasriel
Books of Belonging. Harvard Graduate School of Education
40 books — 5 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Harvard Book Store Top 100
21 books — 3 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Top 100 Books by Harvard Book Store
100 books — 2 voters
Ghost of the Innocent Man by Benjamin RachlinInvisible Men by Ken QuattroCuz by Danielle S. AllenTalking to Strangers by Danielle S. AllenOur Declaration by Danielle S. Allen
HCB Black History Month Picks
12 books — 2 voters

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