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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 The World Crisis: 1911-1918|| Ian McEwanSir Winston Churchill
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|Slaughterhouse-FiveJonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell||Kurt VonnegutSusanna Clarke
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|WickedState of Fear||Gregory MaguireMichael Crichton
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|A Fine BalanceThe Deptford Trilogy||Rohinton MistryRobertson Davies
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|This Boy's LifeLove in a Time of Cholera||Tobias WolffGabriel Garcia-Marquez
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|State of FearComplications||Michael CrichtonAtul Gawande
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|ComplicationsThe Prophet||Atul GawandeKahlil Gibran
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|Teacher ManThe Tipping Point||Frank McCourtMalcolm 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 World Crisis: 1911-1918Blue Highways||Sir Winston ChurchillWilliam Least Heat-Moon
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|Doctor ZhivagoStranger in a Strange Land||Boris Pasternak|-|Bad Dirt: Wyoming stories 2||Annie ProulxRobert A. Heinlein
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|The Eye of the World||Robert Jordan
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|The Once and Future KingCell||T.H.WhiteStephen King
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|CellThe Unbearable Lightness of Being||Stephen KingMilan Kundera
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|GileadGirl With the Dragon Tattoo||Marilynne RobinsonStieg Larsson
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|The ProphetFreakonomics||Kahlil GibranSteven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
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|The Unbearable Lightness of BeingWicked||Milan KunderaGregory Maguire
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|Stories of GodTeacher Man||Frank McCourt||Rainier Maria RilkeA 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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|Love in a Time of CholeraAmsterdam ||Gabriel Garcia-MarquezIan McEwan
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|Autobiography of RedThe Emperor's Children||Anne CarsonClaire Messud
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|A Confederacy of DuncesFine Balance||John Kennedy TooleRohinton Mistry
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|FreakonomicsSouth of the Border, West of the Sun||Steven D. levitt and Stephen J. DubnerHaruki Murakami
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|Confessions of an Economic Hit ManA Wild Sheepchase||John PerkinsHaruki Murakami
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|Five Against One: The Pearl Jam Story||Kim Neely
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|Nausea||Jean-Paul Sartre
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|South of the Border, West of the Sun||Haruki Murakami
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|Lucifer's Hammer||Larry Niven
|Choke||Chuck Palahniuk
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|Monkey BusinessDoctor Zhivago||Boris Pasternak|-|Confessions of an Economic Hit Man||John Rolfe and Peter TroobPerkins
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|American Theocracy||Kevin Phillips
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|The EmperorBad Dirt: Wyoming stories 2||Annie Proulx|-|Gravity's ChildrenRainbow||Thomas Pynchon|-|Stories of God||Rainier Maria Rilke|-|Gilead||Marilynne Robinson|-|Monkey Business||John Rolfe and Peter Troob|-|Nausea||Claire MessudJean-Paul Sartre
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|Gone for Soldiers||Jeff Shaara
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|Team 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 RivalsDunces||Doris Kearns GoodwinJohn Kennedy Toole
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|Niebla||Miguel de Unamuno
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|GravityRabbit, 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 RainbowLife||Thomas PynchonTobias Wolff|}-|The Razor's Edge||W. Somerset Maugham