Fiction/Poetry
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Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
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The Litigators by John Grisham
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures by Caroline Preston
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Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems by Charles Wright (faculty)
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
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Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
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The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (Grad ’04)
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IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
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The Marriage Plot: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Nonfiction
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True by Richard Dawkins
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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
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Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain by Jim Lehrer
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Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward
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A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country by Larry Sabato (faculty)
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James Madison by Richard Brookhiser
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
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The Union War by Gary Gallagher (faculty)
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Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin
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Attack of the Theocrats!: How the Religious Right Harms Us All—And What We Can Do About It by Sean Faircloth