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2018 Book List

A Room of One’s Own
By Virginia Woolf
Led by Professor Stephen White

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

All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism 
By Brown, Ashkenazy, Onaiwu
Led by Professor Andrew Dell’Antonio

Black Like Me
By Howard Griffin
Led by Professor Linda Ferreira-Buckley

Blindness
By José Saramago
Led by Professor Robert Prentice

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

Communist Manifesto
By Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Led by Professor Snehal Shingavi

Daring Greatly
By Brene Brown
Led by Professor Mary Steinhardt

Dracula
By Bram Stoker
Led by Professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza

Embassytown
By China Mievelle
Led by Professor Shelley Payne

Emma
By Jane Austen
Led by Professor Janine Barchas

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
By Steven Pinker
Led by Professor Michael Starbird

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

Fun Home
By Alison Bechdel
Led by Professor Ann Cvetkovich

Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber and the Making of a Legendary American Film
By Don Graham
Led by Professor Don Graham

Go Set a Watchman
By Harper Lee
Led by Professor Paula Murray

Goodbye to a River
By John Graves
Led by Professor Stuart Reichler

Grit: The Power of Perseverance and Passion
By Angela Duckworth
Led by Professor Keri Stephens

Hiroshima
By John Hersey
Led by Professor Sinan Dogramaci

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
By Daniel Quinn
Led by Professor Jessica Toste

Love in the Time of Cholera
By Gabriel García Márquez
Led by Professor Virginia Garrard

Marbles
By Ellen Forney
Led by Professor Samantha Symons

Me and You
By Niccolo’ Ammaniti
Led by Professor Antonella Olson

My Beautiful City Austin
By David Heymann
Led by Professor David Heymann

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

Nudge
By Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
Led by Professor Keryn Pasch

Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex)
By Sophocles
Led by Professor William Powers

On Bullshit
By Harry G. Frankfurt
Led by Professor Bob Duke

Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Presented in Four Paths, Twenty-Six Themes, and Two Questions
By Matthew Fox
Led by Professor Pablo Postigo Olsson

Oryx and Crake
By Margaret Atwood
Led by Professor Rebecca Bigler

Our Iceberg is Melting
By John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber
Led by Professor Linda Golden

Outliers
By Malcom Gladwell
Led by Professor Keith Brown

Perfect Pitch
By Jon Steel
Led by Professor John Murphy

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

Robinson Crusoe
By Daniel Defoe
Led by Professor Brent Iverson

Ruined
By Lynn Nottage
Led by Professor Paul Woodruff

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

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain
Led by Professor Stephen Sonnenberg

The Battle for God. A History of Fundamentalism 
By Karen Armstrong
Led by Professor Christopher Bell

The Color of Lightning
By Paulette Jiles
Led by Professor Joy Penticuff

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

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
By Richard Preston
Led by Professor W. Renee Acosta

The Lost City of the Monkey God
By Douglas Preston
Led by Professor James Vick

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

The Meaning of Human Existence
By Edward O. Wilson
Led by Professor Bill Winslade

The Moonstone
By Wilkie Collins
Led by Professor Carol MacKay

The Other Wes Moore
By Wes Moore
Led by Professor Jen Ebbeler

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
By Edward Fitzgerald
Led by Professor Michael Hillmann

The Secret History
By Donna Tart
Led by Professor Elizabeth Pomeroy

The Sixth Extinction
By Elizabeth Korbert
Led by Professor Stanley Roux

Thinking, Fast and Slow
By Daniel Hahneman
Led by Professor David Laude

Tuesdays with Morrie
By Mitch Albom
Led by Professor Patrick Davis

Typescript of the Second Origin
By Manuel de Pedrolo
Led by Professor Juan Colomina-Almiñana

Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
By Ian Bremmer
Led by Professor J. Craig Wheeler

We
By Evgeny Zamyatin
Led by Professor Thomas Garza

What Works: Gender Equality
By Iris Bonet
Led by Professor Sanford Leeds

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
By Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Led by Professor Yolanda Padilla