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[[Category:Students]][[Category:Books]]{{OldWillipedia}}This list should only include [[books]] you're reading for fun. If this list gets big enough, this page might be a neat way to get a quick book recommendation. (It would also be great if after '''Please alphabetize by author's last name.'''* After you finish the book, or if you could update have read a book on the list with some kind of , consider adding a brief rating.) '''Please alphabetize by or review (put two vertical lines after the author's last name, then type) and consider appending your name so that people will know whose opinion it is.'''
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! title||author||rating (1-10) or review
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|A History of God||Karen Armstrong|-|Second Foundation||Isaac Asimov||I would rate Foundation as the best book I've read in years, but neither Foundation and Empire nor Second Foundation met my expectations, after having read the first book. Still a great series, and there is a good reason it won the Hugo Award for best all-time series.|-|Boober's Colorful Soup||Joanne Barkan|-|The Power Broker||Robert A. Caro
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|Autobiography of Red||Anne Carson
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|The World Crisis: 1911-1918||Sir Winston Churchill
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|Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell||Susanna Clarke
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|State of Fear||Michael Crichton
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|The Deptford Trilogy (5th Business, Manticore, & World of Wonders)||Robertson Davies
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|Love in a Time of Cholera||Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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|The Prophet||Kahlil Gibran
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|The Tipping Point||Malcolm Gladwell||This book advances a compelling argument that small changes in policies, or actions by one individual, can have major effects. It's worth reading just for the examples he gives of the phenomenon in action. ([http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07djd 07djd])
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|Team of Rivals||Doris Kearns Goodwin
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|The Unbearable Lightness of Being||Milan Kundera
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|Girl With the Dragon Tattoo||Stieg Larsson
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|Freakonomics||Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
|Wicked||Gregory Maguire
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|Teacher Man||Frank McCourt||A great book of stories about teaching in various types of schools. Definitely not your average teacher. ([http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07djd 07djd])
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|Amsterdam || Ian McEwan
|On Beauty||Zadie Smith
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|Cryptonomicon||Neal Stephenson||I like this book so much that I am reading only a few chapters a night so that it will last as long as possible. ([http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07djd 07djd])|-|Quicksilver||Neal Stephenson||I recommend this entire trilogy (Quicksilver is the first, The Confusion is the second and in my opinion best, and The System of the World is third). They were by far the most fun books I read in 2006, with some interesting background in European history thrown in. (07elb)
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|A Confederacy of Dunces||John Kennedy Toole
|Niebla||Miguel de Unamuno
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|Rabbit, Run||John Updike|-|Slaughterhouse-Five||Kurt Vonnegut||This book is exceptional in three ways: The writing style, the telling of the story of Dresden, and the main character's being at the same time seemingly crazy and also completely understandable as a person. ([http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07djd 07djd])
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|The Once and Future King||T.H.White
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|Night||Elie Wiesel||The new 2006 translation by his wife makes this book even better. If you have never read a story of the Holocaust by someone who survived it, or even if you have, this is a book not to miss. ([http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07djd 07djd])
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|This Boy's Life||Tobias Wolff
|}-|The Razor's Edge||W. Somerset Maugham
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