s/o The best books you read in college/grad school

Anonymous
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
American Dream by Normal Mailer
Every book by Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou
The complete works of Shakespeare
The Cantebury Tales (in Middle English, not modern English)
Anonymous
The Brothers Karamazov
The Women's Room
Middlemarch
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I kept it simple in college because I was always taking 18-21 credits to graduate early. Agatha Christie all the way!
Anonymous
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner. It's about the history of water rights and policy in the American west. Probably still a good read even though it won't be completely up to date.


This is an awesome book.
Anonymous
Meridian by Alice Walker
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These are great, thank you! Keep them coming!
Anonymous
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Plagues and Peoples
A People's History of the United States
A Theory of Justice (Rawls)
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Anything by Jonathan Kozol
The Spirit Catches you and you fall Down.

Anonymous
The Grimke Sisters of South Carolina
Up From Slavery vs. The Souls of Black Folk (discuss)
Roll, Jordan, Roll
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Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman
Life on the Mississippi
(these weren't for school, but during that time, for fun)
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Anonymous wrote:Into the wild

+1 guns germs and steel


That was gooooooood. Did you read the book his sister recently wrote about how they grew up and what happened after he was gone? It was beautiful (even though by the end I really disliked the sister/author).
Anonymous
O Pioneers and My Antonia by Willa Cather
Testament of Youth by Vera Britten
The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz
Poetry -- Willliam Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens were standout

Just some stuff that immediately comes to mind.
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Anonymous wrote:O Pioneers and My Antonia by Willa Cather
Testament of Youth by Vera Britten
The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz
Poetry -- Willliam Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens were standout

Just some stuff that immediately comes to mind.


Thank you! Just ordered The Way We Never Were - exactly the kind of reading I'm looking for.
Anonymous
The Way We Never Were is a great book. I also liked Where Have All the Children Gone?
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Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
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