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

[Anonymous]

I am looking for non-fiction recommendations too, but want to know which required reading in college and grad school you enjoyed most, struck a nerve for better or worse, made a big impression or changed the way you look at a subject?

I'll start.

Never too Thin
The Authoritarian Personality
The Bell Curve
A Bright Shining Lie

[Anonymous]

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.

[Anonymous]

Backlash by Susan Faludi.

[Anonymous]

Agree with a Bright Shining Lie
The Things They Carried

[Anonymous]

This wasn't FOR college, since I never went, but during the years I was college age, here are the non-fiction books I liked:

1. The Naked Ape
2. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
3. Fast Food Nation
4. Baby Catcher, by Peggy Vincent

[Anonymous]

Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

[Anonymous]

Changes in the Land, William Cronon
A Midwife's Tale, Laurel Ulrich
Soul by Soul, Walter Johnson

[Anonymous]

Giovanni's Room

[Anonymous]

It wasn't assigned for one of my classes but when I visited a friend at her school, she was reading The Secret History for a class. I picked it up and couldn't put it down.

[Anonymous]

Into the wild

+1 guns germs and steel

[Anonymous]

You guys had more interesting majors and/or advanced degrees than I. I think most of the books I read would be good cures for insomnia.

[Anonymous]

Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner

[Anonymous]

I English/critical theory

Shakespeare

Crime and Punishment

Shock of the New

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (italo calvino)

Anything in my feminist theory class - was great fun.

[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.

[Anonymous]

Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Hailey
A General Theory of Economics by John Maynard Keynes
Poverty and Famines by Amartya Sen
Eyes on the Prize documentary series