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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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|Blue HighwaysA History of God||William Least Heat-MoonKaren 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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|Stranger in a Strange LandBoober's Colorful Soup||Robert A. HeinleinJoanne Barkan
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|A Wild SheepchaseThe Power Broker||Haruki MurakamiRobert A. Caro
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|The Deptford Trilogy (5th Business, Manticore, & World Autobiography of Wonders)Red||Robertson Davies|-|Quicksilver||Neal Stephenson|-|On Beauty||Zadie SmithAnne Carson
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|Werewolves in their Youth||Michael Chabon
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|Amsterdam || Ian McEwan|SlaughterhouseThe World Crisis: 1911-Five1918||Kurt VonnegutSir Winston Churchill
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|WickedJonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell||Gregory MaguireSusanna Clarke
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|A Fine BalanceState of Fear||Rohinton MistryMichael Crichton
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|This Boy's LifeThe Deptford Trilogy||Tobias WolffRobertson Davies
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|State Love in a Time of FearCholera||Michael CrichtonGabriel Garcia-Marquez
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|Complications||Atul Gawande
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|Teacher ManThe Prophet||Frank McCourtKahlil Gibran|-|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|-|Stranger in a Strange Land||Robert A. Heinlein|-|The Eye of the World Crisis: 1911||Robert Jordan|-|Cell||Stephen King|-1918|The Unbearable Lightness of Being||Sir Winston ChurchillMilan Kundera
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|Doctor ZhivagoGirl With the Dragon Tattoo||Boris PasternakStieg Larsson
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|Bad Dirt: Wyoming stories 2Freakonomics||Annie ProulxSteven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
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|The Eye of the WorldWicked||Robert JordanGregory Maguire
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|The Once and Future KingTeacher Man||TFrank McCourt||A great book of stories about teaching in various types of schools. Definitely not your average teacher. ([http://wso.Hwilliams.Whiteedu/facebook/view?unix=07djd 07djd])
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|CellAmsterdam ||Stephen KingIan McEwan
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|GileadThe Emperor's Children||Marilynne RobinsonClaire Messud
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|The ProphetA Fine Balance||Kahlil GibranRohinton Mistry
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|The Unbearable Lightness South of Beingthe Border, West of the Sun||Milan KunderaHaruki Murakami
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|Stories of GodA Wild Sheepchase||Rainier Maria RilkeHaruki Murakami
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|Love in a Time of CholeraFive Against One: The Pearl Jam Story||Gabriel Garcia-MarquezKim Neely
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|Autobiography of RedLucifer's Hammer||Anne CarsonLarry Niven
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|A Confederacy of DuncesChoke||John Kennedy TooleChuck Palahniuk
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|FreakonomicsDoctor Zhivago||Steven D. levitt and Stephen J. DubnerBoris Pasternak
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|Confessions of an Economic Hit Man||John Perkins
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|Five Against One: The Pearl Jam StoryAmerican Theocracy||Kim NeelyKevin Phillips
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|NauseaBad Dirt: Wyoming stories 2||Jean-Paul SartreAnnie Proulx
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|South of the Border, West of the SunGravity's Rainbow||Haruki MurakamiThomas Pynchon
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|Lucifer's HammerStories of God||Larry NivenRainier Maria Rilke
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|ChokeGilead||Chuck PalahniukMarilynne Robinson
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|Monkey Business||John Rolfe and Peter Troob
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|American TheocracyNausea||Kevin PhillipsJean-Paul Sartre
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|Gone for Soldiers||Jeff Shaara
|}-|On Beauty||Zadie Smith|-|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)|-|A Confederacy of Dunces||John Kennedy Toole|-|Niebla||Miguel de Unamuno|-|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])|-|The Once and Future King||T.H.White|-|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])|-|This Boy's Life||Tobias Wolff|-|The Razor's Edge||W. Somerset Maugham