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
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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
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So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Recommended by: Gavin Jones, professor and chair for the Department of English
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times by Arlie Russell Hochschild
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
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