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2014 Books

To understand the list: 

100 = Modern Library's Choices (why Modern Library? explanation here!!!!)

SR = Summer Reading

D = Dartmouth (14W, 14S, 14F)

  1. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad - Fareed Zakaria (D)
  2. Analyzing Politics - Kenneth A. Shepsle (D)
  3. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy - Robert D. Putnam (D)
  4. Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man - U. R. Murthy (D)
  5. What the Buddha Taught - Walpola Rahula (D)
  6. Coming of Age in the Milky Way - Timothy Ferris (D)
  7. The Sidereal Messenger - Galileo Galilei (D)
  8. T-Rex and the Crater of Doom - Walter Alvarez (D)
  9. Rare Earth - Peter Ward and Don Brownlee (D)
  10. World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions - Jeffery A. Frieden et al. (D)
  11. Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line - Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham
  12. The Complete Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (D)
  13. The Veil: Modesty, Privacy, and Resistance - Fadwa El Guindi (D)
  14. The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore and Politics - Jennifer Heath (D
  15. Judaism and Islam (The Library of Essays on Sexuality and Religion) - Stephen Hunt (D)
  16. The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism - Danya Ruttenberg (D)
  17. Anton Chekhov's Short Stories - Anton Chekhov (D)
  18. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol - Nikolai Gogol (D)
  19. Dubliners - James Joyce (D)
  20. The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories - Franz Kafka (D)
  21. The Queen of Spades and Other Stories - Alexander Pushkin (D)
  22. Bartelby and Benito Cereno - Herman Melville (D)
  23. Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart (SR)
  24. Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson (SR) (100)
  25. Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente (SR)
  26. Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward
  27. xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths ed. Kate Bernheimer (SR)
  28. Futebol Nation: The Story of Brazil Through Soccer by David Goldblatt (SR)
  29. The Director - David Ignatius
  30. Gods and Beasts - Denise Mina (SR)
  31. My Promised Land - Ari Shavit
  32. We Are Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Jay Fowler
  33. The House of Hades - Rick Riordan
  34. The Lightening Thief - Rick Riordan
  35. A World of Trouble
  36. The Iron Cage
  37. The Hebrew Republic
  38. The Secret History - Donna Tart
  39. Stardust - Neil Gaiman

 

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