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2014 Book List

12 Years A Slave
by Solomon Northup
Led by Professor John González

A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
Led by Professor Jim Cox

A Mountain of Crumbs
by Elena Gorokhova
Led by Professor Christopher Long

A Short History of Progress
by Roland Wright
Led by Professor Bob Jensen

A Song of Ice and Fire, Vol. 1: Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
Led by Professor Ayelet Lushkov

A Technique for Producing Ideas
by James Webb Young
Led by Professor Brad Love

A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khalid Hosseini
Led by Professor Leslie Moore

A Voyage for Madmen
by Peter Nichols
Led by Professor Chris Shank

All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
Led by Professor Alan Cline

Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
by David Sheff
Led by Professor Lori Holleran Steiker

Change Your Life Through Travel
by Jillian Robinson
Led by Professor James Patton

Criptiques
by Caitlin Wood
Led by Professor Andrew Dell’Antonio

Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
Led by Professor Pauline Strong

Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Led by Professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza

Emma
by Jane Austen
Led by Professor Janine Barchas

Everything That Rises Must Converge
by Flannery O’Connor
Led by Professor Michael Adams

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Edwin Abbott
Led by Professor Linda Henderson

Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
by John Young
Led by Professor Wallace Fowler

Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending
by Elizabeth Dunn
Led by Professor Mechele Dickerson

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
by Ray Kurzweil
Led by Professor David Laude

I’m Not Scared
by Niccolò Ammaniti
Led by Professor Antonella Olson

Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
Led by Professor David Heymann

Lean In
by Sheryl Sandberg
Led by Professor Keri Stephens

Life’s Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter
by Hal Urban
Led by Professor David Fowler

Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Led by Professor John Ruszkiewicz

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
Led by Professor Yolanda Padilla

My Stroke of Insight
by Jill Bolte Taylor
Led by Professor Larry Abraham

Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex)
by Sophocles
Led by President William Powers Jr.

Predictably Irrational
by Dan Ariely
Led by Professor Keryn Pasch

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
Led by Professor Ross Jennings

Red Harvest
by Dashiell Hammett
Led by Professor Brian Bremen

Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Led by Professor Brent Iverson

Suits: A Woman on Wall Street
by Nina Godiwalla
Led by Professor Regina Hughes

The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
by Michael Starbird & Edward Burger
Led by Professor Michael Starbird

The Bully Pulpit
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Led by Professor Sasha Kopp

The Cuckoo’s Calling
by Robert Galbraith
Led by Professor Phillip Varghese

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
by Mark Haddon
Led by Professor Judith Jellison

The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
Professor Elizabeth Pomeroy

The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
by Edward Albee
Led by Professor Paul Woodruff

The Lost Books of the Odyssey
by Zachary Mason
Led by Professor Adam Rabinowitz

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
by Oliver Sacks
Led by Professor Juan Dominguez

The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Led by Professor Eric Anslyn

The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
Led by Professor Carol MacKay

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business
by Charles Duhigg
Led by Professor Mary Steinhard

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Edward FitzGerald
Led by Professor Michael Hillmann

Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
Led by Professor Bob Duke

Thirst
by Andrei Gelasimov
Led by Professor Thomas Garza

To Each His Own
by Leonardo Sciascia
Led by Professor Daniela Bini

Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
Led by Professor Patrick Davis

Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire
by Jennifer Knust
Led by Professor Steven Friesen

Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
Led by Professor Joy Penticuff

Who Owns the Future
by Jaron Lanier
Led by Professor Craig Wheeler

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert Pirsig
Led by Professor Stuart Reichler