The Goal: One a Month
"Good reads" recommended by Brown faculty, staff, and students based on enjoyment and significance, rather than strictly scholarly merit
Albion's Seed, David Hackett Fischer
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, Paul Monette
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Bible
Black Boy, Richard Wright
The Bone People, Keri Hulme
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cane, Jean Toomer
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Common Ground, J. Anthony Lucas
The Control of Nature, John McPhee
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
Dreaming in Cuban, Christina Garcia
Epitaph of a Small Winner, Machado de Assis
Godel, Escher, Bach, Doug Hofstadter
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin
Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
The Little Prince, A. de Saint-Exupery
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, Lewis Thomas
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
A Midwife's Tale, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Paul Robeson, Michael Duberman
Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino
Stand Before Your God, Paul Watkins
Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Truman, David McCullough
Under a Cruel Star, Heda Margolius Kovaly
Waterland, Graham Swift
Wild Swans, Jung Chang
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Honorary List
Additional books nominated by the members of
Brown's election committee
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
After Babel, George Steiner
Caribbean Discourse, Edouard Glissant
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens
Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi
Flexible Bodies, Emily Martin
Mencken and Sara, Maria Rogers
New and Selected Poems, Mary Oliver
Oldest Dead European White Males,
Bernard Knox
On Human Nature, Edward Wilson
Open Water, Maria Flook
Othello, William Shakespeare
Race Matters, Cornell West
Science in Action, Bruno Latour
Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen
Torn Between Two Lands, Robert Mirak
The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
We Have Never Been Modern, Bruno Latour
