
During mid-term reading period, we asked "What one book should every Lawrence graduate read?" As usual, the responses were varied, thought-provoking, and (sometimes) amusing. The list is below.
As always, your further comments and suggestions are welcome.
The Nature of a Liberal College by Henry Wriston
The Prince by Machiavelli
The Republic by Plato
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Jungle Book
Green Eggs and Ham
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Manchild in the Promised Land
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Confessions of an Heiress by Paris Hilton
The Freshman Studies Book by Mark Dintenfass
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Anything by Ayn Rand
Life of Pi
The Bible
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
1984 by George Orwell
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The Communist Manifesto by Marx
The Bone Parade
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by J. Barnes
Alice in Wonderland
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by McDanogh and Braungart
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruk Murakami
Ethics for a New Millennium
Middlemarch by George Eliot
On the Road
Le Petit Prince
Something by Jeffrey Eugenides
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The World According to Garp
Men Cry in the Dark by Michael Baisden
The Quran
The Torah
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Prophet by Khalil Gibrah
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? by Edward Albee
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher
The Flashman Papers by George M. Fraser
The Ender Series by Orson Scott Card
and the very fine:
The Biography of Skyler Silvertrust
The Myth, the Mystery, and the Man by Chris Wright