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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.)
* Blue Highways, by William Least Heat{| class="sortable" id="books-table"! title||author||rating (1-10) or review|-|-|A History of God||Karen Armstrong|-Moon* |Second Foundation, by ||Isaac Asimov* Stranger ||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 Strange Landgreat series, by 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. HeinleinCaro* A Wild Sheepchase, by Haruki Murakami|-* The Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World |Autobiography of Wonders), by Robertson DaviesRed||Anne Carson* Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson* On Beauty, by Zadie Smith|-* |Werewolves in their Youth, by ||Michael Chabon* Slaughterhouse|-|The World Crisis: 1911-1918||Sir Winston Churchill|-|Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell||Susanna Clarke|-|State of Fear||Michael Crichton|-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut* Wicked, by Gregory Maguire|The Deptford Trilogy||Robertson Davies|-* A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry|Love in a Time of Cholera||Gabriel Garcia-Marquez* This Boy's Life, by Tobias Wolff|-* |Complications, ||Atul Gawande* Teacher Man|-|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, Frank McCourtcan 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||William Least Heat-Moon|-|Stranger in a Strange Land||Robert A. Heinlein|-|The Eye of the World Crisis||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: 1911//wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07djd 07djd])|-|Amsterdam || Ian McEwan|-|The Emperor's Children||Claire Messud|-|A Fine Balance||Rohinton Mistry|-1918|South of the Border, by Sir Winston ChurchillWest of the Sun||Haruki Murakami|-|A Wild Sheepchase||Haruki Murakami|-|Five Against One: The Pearl Jam Story||Kim Neely|-|Lucifer's Hammer||Larry Niven|-|Choke||Chuck Palahniuk|-* |Doctor Zhivago, by ||Boris Pasternak* |-|Confessions of an Economic Hit Man||John Perkins|-|American Theocracy||Kevin Phillips|-|Bad Dirt: Wyoming stories 2, by ||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 (Quicksilver is the first, The Eye Confusion is the second and in my opinion best, and The System of the Worldis 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, by Robert Jordanthe 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, by ||T.H.White* Cell, by Stephen King|-* Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson* |Night||Elie Wiesel||The Prophet, new 2006 translation by Kahlil Gibran* The Unbearable Lightness his wife makes this book even better. If you have never read a story of Beingthe Holocaust by someone who survived it, or even if you have, by Milan Kunderathis is a book not to miss. ([http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07djd 07djd])|-* Stories of God, by Rainier Maria Rilke|This Boy's Life||Tobias Wolff* Love in a Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia|-Marquez|The Razor's Edge||W. Somerset Maugham