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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 ratingor review (put two vertical lines after the author's name, then type) and consider appending your name so that people will know whose opinion it is.)
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|A History of God||Karen Armstrong
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|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.
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|Boober's Colorful Soup||Joanne Barkan
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|The Power Broker||Robert A. Caro
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|Autobiography of Red||Anne Carson
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|Werewolves in their Youth||Michael Chabon
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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||Robertson Davies
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|Love in a Time of Cholera||Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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|Complications||Atul Gawande
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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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|Blue Highways||William Least Heat-Moon
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|Second FoundationStranger in a Strange Land||Isaac AsimovRobert A. Heinlein|-|The Eye of the World||Robert Jordan
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|Stranger in a Strange LandCell||Robert A. HeinleinStephen King
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|A Wild SheepchaseThe Unbearable Lightness of Being||Haruki MurakamiMilan Kundera
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|The Deptford Trilogy (5th Business, Manticore, & World of Wonders)Girl With the Dragon Tattoo||Robertson DaviesStieg Larsson
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|QuicksilverFreakonomics||Neal StephensonSteven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
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|On BeautyWicked||Zadie SmithGregory Maguire
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|Werewolves in their YouthTeacher Man||Frank McCourt||Michael ChabonA 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
|Slaughterhouse-Five||Kurt Vonnegut
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|WickedThe Emperor's Children||Gregory MaguireClaire Messud
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|A Fine Balance||Rohinton Mistry
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|This Boy's LifeSouth of the Border, West of the Sun||Tobias WolffHaruki Murakami|-|A Wild Sheepchase||Haruki Murakami
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|State of FearFive Against One: The Pearl Jam Story||Michael CrichtonKim Neely
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|ComplicationsLucifer's Hammer||Atul GawandeLarry Niven
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|Teacher ManChoke||Frank McCourtChuck Palahniuk
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|Team of RivalsDoctor Zhivago||Doris Kearns GoodwinBoris Pasternak
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|The World Crisis: 1911-1918Confessions of an Economic Hit Man||Sir Winston ChurchillJohn Perkins
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|Doctor ZhivagoAmerican Theocracy||Boris PasternakKevin Phillips
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|Bad Dirt: Wyoming stories 2||Annie Proulx
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|The Eye of the WorldGravity's Rainbow||Robert JordanThomas Pynchon
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|The Once and Future KingStories of God||T.H.WhiteRainier Maria Rilke
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|CellGilead||Stephen KingMarilynne Robinson
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|GileadMonkey Business||Marilynne RobinsonJohn Rolfe and Peter Troob
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|The ProphetNausea||Kahlil GibranJean-Paul Sartre
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|The Unbearable Lightness of BeingGone for Soldiers||Milan KunderaJeff Shaara
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|Stories of GodOn Beauty||Rainier Maria RilkeZadie Smith
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|Love in a Time of CholeraCryptonomicon||Neal Stephenson||Gabriel Garcia-MarquezI 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])
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|Autobiography of RedQuicksilver||Neal Stephenson||Anne CarsonI 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
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|FreakonomicsNiebla||Steven D. levitt and Stephen J. DubnerMiguel de Unamuno
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|Confessions of an Economic Hit ManRabbit, Run||John PerkinsUpdike
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|Slaughterhouse-Five Against One||Kurt Vonnegut||This book is exceptional in three ways: The Pearl Jam Story||Kim Neelywriting 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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|NauseaThe Once and Future King||Jean-Paul SartreT.H.White
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|South Night||Elie Wiesel||The new 2006 translation by his wife makes this book even better. If you have never read a story of the BorderHolocaust by someone who survived it, West of the Sun||Haruki Murakamior even if you have, this is a book not to miss. ([http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07djd 07djd])
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|LuciferThis Boy's HammerLife||Larry NivenTobias Wolff
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|ChokeThe Razor's Edge||Chuck Palahniuk|-|Monkey Business||John Rolfe and Peter Troob|-|American Theocracy||Kevin Phillips|}W. Somerset Maugham