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2020 Book List

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

Pnin
by Vladimir Nabokov
Led by Professor Marina Alexandrova

Energy for Future Presidents. the Science Behind the Headlines
by Richard A. Muller
Led by Professor Christopher Bell

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein
Led by Professor Matt Bowers

Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Led by Professor Keith Brown

The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Led by Professor Douglas Bruster

The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Led by Professor Charlotte Canning

Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Led by Professor Kevin Cokley

Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
Led by Professor Patrick Davis

Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
by Stephen Jay Gould
Led by Professor Kenneth Diller

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

Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick
by Wendy Wood
Led by Professor Michael Domjan

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

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
Led by Professor Jen Ebbeler

Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Led by Professor Linda Ferreira-Buckley

Me and White Supremacy: Combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor
by Layla F. Saad
Led by Professor Danica Fulbright Sumpter

Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
Led by Professor Vernita Gordon

Letters to a Young Contrarian
by Christopher Hitchens
Led by Professor Benjamin Gregg

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
Led by Professor James Hackett

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
by Michael Wolff
Led by Professor Roderick Hart

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

Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Led by Professor Brent Iverson

Thick: And Other Essays
by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Led by Professor Peniel Joseph

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Led by Professor Alison Kafer

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress
by Steven Pinker
Led by Professor David Laude

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
Led by Professor Sanford Leeds

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

The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
Led by Professor Carol MacKay

Perfect Pitch: The Art of Selling Ideas
by Jon Steel
Led by Professor John Murphy

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

Educated
by Tara Westover
Led by Professor Nicole Murry

Me and You
by Niccolo’ Ammaniti_
Led by Professor Antonella Olson

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by Nicholas Carr
Led by Professor Keryn Pasch

Eligible for Execution: The Story of the Daryl Atkins Case
by Thomas G. Walker
Led by Professor James Patton

Blindness
by José Saramago
Led by Professor Robert Prentice

Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
Led by Professor Stuart Reichler

Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Led by Professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza

The Sixth Extinction
by Elizabeth Korbert
Led by Professor Stanley Roux

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
by Richard Muller
Led by Professor Greg Sitz

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

Atomic Habits
by James Clear
Led by Professor Dixie Stanforth

Factfulness
by Hans Rosling
Led by Professor Michael Starbird

Becoming
by Michelle Obama
Led by Professor Mary Steinhardt

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

We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Led by Professor Peter Stone

Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
Led by Professor Samantha Symons

Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Grann
Led by Professor Heidi Toprac

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

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley
Led by Professor Mario Villarreal-Diaz 

Make it Stick, The Science of Successful Learning
by Peter C. Brown
Led by Professor Don Winget

Ruined
by Lynn Nottage
Led by Professor Paul Woodruff