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Class of 1980 Reading List, compiled by Cindy King Vance We always need ideas for good things to read. Who can we trust
more than our classmates from the Princeton Class of 1980! A
Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren (2 recommendations) The
Big Short by Michael Lewis (2) The Bible (2) The
Help (2) Confidence Game A Patent Lie Everything's
Eventual by Stephen King Bedford Boys Punishment of
Virtue Redball Express Team of Rivals by Doris
Kearns Goodwin Goodbye Darkness The Things We
Carried The Prophet's Wife The Historian by
Elizabeth Kostova Open by Andre Agassi Black Dogs Brainwashed The
Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (2) Suite
Francaise The Name of the Wind Omnivore's Dilemma Agincourt by Bernard Cornwall Empire
of the Summer Moon by Sam Gwynne '74 Look Me In The Eye My Life with
Asperger's Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that
Shape our Decisions by Dan Ariely (2) A New Earth by Eckhart
Tolle The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Elizabeth
Costello The Brief and Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Three Cups of Tea (2) Gilead The
General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Liberal
Fascism by Jonah Goldberg Undoing Depression by Richard
O'Connor How we Decide by Jonah Lehrer Covering by
Kenji Yoshino John Adams by David McCollough Half
the Sky Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri Half
Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls SuspensionThe
Glass Palace Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth The Art of Racing
in the Rain Tuxedo Park True Compass by Edward
Kennedy Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (and
anything else by him) Mao - the untold Story Black
Swan The Sling and the Stone Game Change How
Starbucks Saved my Life Tears in the Darkness by Michael
Norman If You Want to Walk on Water You've Got
to Get Out of the Boat by John Ortberg A Call to Die by David
Nasser Something More by Catherine Marshall LBJ
Trilogy by Robert Caro ' The Endurance by Caroline Alexander Hiroshima
by John Hersey Moneyball Atlas Shrugged by Ain Rand The
Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lark and Termite
by Jayne Anne Phillips Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham 13
Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean Heat by Bill Buford The Kite Runner Straight
on Til Morning by Mary Lovell The Corporation by Joel Bakan Say
You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan The Children's Book by AS
Byatt Dearest Creature (poetry) by Amy Gerstler Sarah's
Key The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a
Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich Galileo's
Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson The Female Brain For
all the Tea in China Atonement Mannahatta Moby
Dick by Herman Melville The 12 Million Dollar Stuffed Shark Agent
Zigzag People of the Book Classmates
recommended reading anything (or everything!) by the following authors: The
Dalai Lama Bill Bryson Harlan Coben Malcolm
Gladwell Franz Kafka Orhan Pamuk Vernor
Vinge David Weber Dan Brown John Grisham Alan
Furst Jaspar Fforde AND a classmate
recommended suspense thrillers in general which seems a good
opportunity to selfishly plug my husband's book which is coming out in
August - The Garden of Betrayal by Lee Vance |
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