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Stanford Book Salon Summer Reading

What?s on your reading list this summer? If you're seeking suggestions, the book salon faculty hosts have identified a few great books. Additionally, read along with Stanford study abroad students by checking out the Bing Overseas Studies Program books or the freshman Three Books. The regular season of Stanford Book Salon will return in September.

Summer Reading 2013

Faculty Recommendations | Three Books | Bing Overseas Studies Program

Faculty Recommendations

  • Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

    Recommended by: Nancy Ruttenburg, Director, Center for the Study of the Novel and The William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature

  • So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

    Recommended by: Gavin Jones, professor and chair for the Department of English

  • Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

    Recommended by: Nancy Ruttenburg, Director, Center for the Study of the Novel and The William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature

  • Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Recommended by: John Bender, Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of Outcomes Assessment in English

  • Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

    Recommended by: Nancy Ruttenburg, Director, Center for the Study of the Novel and The William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature

  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

    Recommended by: Nancy Ruttenburg, Director, Center for the Study of the Novel and The William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature

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Three Books

Nicholas Jenkins, associate professor of English, chose the following three titles focusing on the theme of home:

  • The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

  • The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times by Arlie Russell Hochschild

  • First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

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Bing Overseas Studies Program Summer Reading

AUSTRALIA


In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson

BERLIN


The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink

CAPE TOWN


Dinosaurs, Diamonds and Democracy
by Francis Wilson



FLORENCE


Italian Neighbors
by Tim Parks

MADRID


Spain is Different
by Helen Wattley-Ames

MOSCOW


The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov


SANTIAGO


A Nation of Enemies
by Pamela Constable

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