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{{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.)
* {| class="sortable" id="books-table"! title||author||rating (1-10) or review|-|-|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|-|Autobiography of Red||Anne Carson|-|Werewolves in their Youth||Michael Chabon|-|The World Crisis: 1911-1918||Sir Winston Churchill|-|Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell||Susanna Clarke|-|State of Fear||Michael Crichton|-|The Deptford Trilogy||Robertson Davies|-|Love in a Time of Cholera||Gabriel Garcia-Marquez|-|Complications||Atul Gawande|-|The Prophet||Kahlil 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])|-|Team of Rivals||Doris Kearns Goodwin|-|Blue Highways, by ||William Least Heat-Moon* Second Foundation, by Isaac Asimov|-* |Stranger in a Strange Land, by ||Robert A. Heinlein* |-|The Eye of the World||Robert Jordan|-|Cell||Stephen King|-|The Unbearable Lightness of Being||Milan Kundera|-|Girl With the Dragon Tattoo||Stieg Larsson|-|Freakonomics||Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|-|Wicked||Gregory Maguire|-|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])|-|Amsterdam || Ian McEwan|-|The Emperor's Children||Claire Messud|-|A Fine Balance||Rohinton Mistry|-|South of the Border, West of the Sun||Haruki Murakami|-|A Wild Sheepchase, by ||Haruki Murakami* |-|Five Against One: The Deptford Trilogy Pearl Jam Story||Kim Neely|-|Lucifer's Hammer||Larry Niven|-|Choke||Chuck Palahniuk|-|Doctor Zhivago||Boris Pasternak|-|Confessions of an Economic Hit Man||John Perkins|-|American Theocracy||Kevin Phillips|-|Bad Dirt: Wyoming stories 2||Annie Proulx|-|Gravity's Rainbow||Thomas Pynchon|-|Stories of God||Rainier Maria Rilke|-|Gilead||Marilynne Robinson|-|Monkey Business||John Rolfe and Peter Troob|-|Nausea||Jean-Paul Sartre|-|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 (Fifth BusinessQuicksilver is the first, The ManticoreConfusion is the second and in my opinion best, and The System of the World of Wondersis third) . They were by Robertson Daviesfar 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|-* Quicksilver|Rabbit, by Neal StephensonRun||John Updike* On Beauty by Zadie Smith* Werewolves in their Youth by Michael Chabon|-* |Slaughterhouse-Five by ||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* Wicked |-|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 Gregory Maguiresomeone who survived it, or even if you have, this is a book not to miss. ([http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07djd 07djd])* A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry|-* |This Boy's Life, by ||Tobias Wolff* Complications, Atul Gawande* Teacher Man, Frank McCourt* Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin|-* |The World Crisis: 1911-1918, by Sir Winston Churchill* Doctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakRazor's Edge||W. Somerset Maugham