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Ten Years of What Bowdoin Read, Listened to, or Watched, 2008-2018

Author, Last Name Author, First Name Title
Adichie Chimamanda Americanah
Adichie Chimamanda The Danger of a Single Story
Alvarez Julia How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Anthony David The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
Baker Nicholson The Anthologist
Baldwin James Notes of a Native Son
Barber Benjamin Con$umed
Barker William The Third Reconstruction
Barthelme Donald Forty Stories
Bartlett Allison The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief…
Baumeister Roy Is There Anything Good About Men?
Bellow Saul Saul Bellow: Letters
Bellow Saul Herzog
Benjamin Walter Selected Writings
Bergeron Tom I'm Hosting as Fast As I Can! Zen and the Art of Staying Sane in Hollywood
Bondanella Peter Hollywood Italians
Boneham Sheila Rescue Matters!
Brown Daniel The Boys in the Boat : Nine Americans and their Epic Quest…
Bryson Bill A Walk in the Woods
Bryson Bill The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way
Butler Judith Gender Trouble
Calvino Italo Invisible Cities
Chandra Vikram Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
Chekhov Anton Stories
Christie Agatha The Tuesday Club Murders
Clark Duncan Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
Clark T. J. The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing
Clarke Brock An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Cline Ernest Ready Player One
Coates Ta-Nehisi Between the World and Me
Coben Harlan Tell No One
Coelho Paulo The Alchemist
Coleman Melissa This Life is In Your Hands
Collins Wilkie The Moonstone
Colwin Laurie Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
Coover Robert The Origin of the Brunists
Courtenay Bryce The Power of One
Cruz Nilo Anna in the Tropics
Darwin Charles The Voyage of the Beagle
Defoe Daniel The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
DeJonge Alex The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin
Denfeld Rene The enchanted: a novel
Dewey John Democracy and Education
Diaz Junot The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Diaz Hernan In the Distance
Doerr Anthony All the Light We Cannot See
Doig Ivan The Whistling Season
Donaghue Emma Room
Dostoevsky Fyodor House of the Dead
Dostoevsky Fyodor The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Douglas Marjory Stoneman The Everglades: River of Grass
Dumas Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo
Dungy Camille Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Dyer Geoff Zona : [a book about a film about a journey to a room]
Edugyan Esi Half-Blood Blues
Egan Timothy The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
Ehrenreich Barbara Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America
Eisne Will The contract with God trilogy : life on Dropsie Avenue
Ellis Richard Tuna: A Love Story
Epstein Mark Open to Desire: The Truth about what the Buddha Taught
Erdrich Louise The Round House
Erikson Steven The Crippled God
Eugenides Jeffrey Middlesex
Fallada Hans Alone in Berlin
Favilli Elena Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 tales of extraordinary women
Feinberg Leslie Stone Butch Blues
Franck Julia Die Mittagsfrau
Fraser Neil Long Shadows, High Hopes: The Life and Times of Matt Johnson & The The
Frazier Charles Cold Mountain
Fugard Athol 'Master Harold'...and the Boys
Fuller Ross Dana Wisconsin!
Gabriel Vasquez Juan The Informers
Gaiman Neil The Sandman
Garcia Marquez Gabriel Love in the Time of Cholera
Garcia Marquez Gabriel One Hundred Years of Solitude
Garcia Marquez Gabriel Love in the Time of Cholera
Garrison Jim Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching
Gbowee Leymah Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood…
Gibson William Burning Chrome
Goolrick Robert A Reliable Wife
Greene Steven Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey Into the Heart of Russia
Grimm Jacob and Wilhelm The Annotated Brothers Grimm
Grossman Lev The Magician King
Haddon Mark A Spot of Bother
Hamill Peter Forever
Harbach Chad The Art of Fielding
Hazony Yoram The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture
Headlee Celeste We Need to Talk : How to Have Conversations that Matter
Heaney Seamus Death of a Naturalist
Heller Joseph Catch-22
Homero Aridjis Eyes to See Otherwise / Ojos de otro mirar (A bilingual selection)
Hussie Andrew Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff
Hyde William The College Man and the College Woman
Immaculee Ilibagiza Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Isaacson Walter Steve Jobs
Jackson Phil Eleven Rings
Jain Kajri Gods in the bazaar: the economies of Indian calendar art
James Bill Panicking Ralph
Jay Bahadur The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
Jin Ha Waiting
John Kim The Soul of Discipline
Johnson Mat Pym
Joyce James Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Judson Olivia Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice for All Creation
Just Ward American Romantic
Kalanithi Paul When Breath Becomes Air
Kamkwamba William The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Kamp David The United States of Arugula
Kapuscinski Ryszard The Soccer War
Keegan Marina The Opposite of Loneliness
Kerouac Jack On The Road
Kesey Ken Sometimes a Great Notion
Kie-Chiang Oh John Korean Politics
Kozol Jonathan Rachel and her Children: Homeless Families in America
Krog Antjie Begging to be Black
Kushner Tony Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes
Lahiri Jhumpa Unaccustomed Earth
Lamott Anne Bird by bird : some instructions on writing and life
Landay William Defending Jacob
Larson Erik In the Garden of Beasts
Larson Erik The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness
Larsson Steig The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Laxness Halldor Independent People
Lefkowitz Mary Greek gods, human lives : what we can learn from myths
Lehane Dennis The Given Day
Lessing Doris The Golden Notebook
Levitin Daniel A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Levitt Steven Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Lewis Sinclair Babbitt
Litvak Joseph The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
Lovecraft H.P. The Dunwich Horror and Others
Lynch Scott The Lies of Locke Lamora
Macdonald Helen H is for Hawk
Magee Bryan The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
Mahfouz Naguib The Cairo Trilogy
Marcus. Ben The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
Martinez Oscar The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
Marukami Haruki Kafka on the Shore
McCarry Charles The Better Angels
McCarthy Cormac Blood Meridian
McCarthy Cormac No Country for Old Men
McEwan Ian Atonement
McIsaac Jodie Through the Door
McKinley Robin Pegasus
Melville Herman Benito Cereno
Mirvis Tova The Book of Separation: A Memoir
Mitchell Margaret Gone With the Wind
Moriarty Liane What Alice Forgot
Morrison Toni Sula
Morrison Toni The Bluest Eye
Mortenson Greg Three Cups of Tea
Muir John The Writings of John Muir
Mukherjee Siddhartha The Emperor of All Maladies
Murakami Haruki 1Q84
Murakami Haruki After Dark
Murakami Haruki Kafka on the Shore
Murphy Yannick The Call
Myron Vicki Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library
Nelson James Glory in the Name: A Novel of the Confederate Navy
Nelson Maggie The Argonauts
Newhouse John Boeing versus Airbus : the inside story of the greatest..
Nhat Hanh Thich Touching peace: practicing the art of mindful living
Norman Howard The Bird Artist
O'Brien Tim The Things They Carried
Ogasawara Yuko Office Ladies and Salaried Men
Ostrovsky Arkady The invention of Russia : from Gorbachev's freedom to Putin's war
Paramore After Laughter
Patchett Ann State of Wonder
Patchett Ann Bel Canto
Petterson Per Out Stealing Horses
Phish The Palace at Auburn Hills
Pirandello Luigi Six Characters in Search of an Author
Pollan Michael The Omnivore's Dilemna: a natural history of four meals
Preston Douglas The Monster of Florence: A True Story
Pullman Philip The Amber Spyglass
Putnam Robert American Grace
Rawls John A Theory of Justice
Ray Janisse The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
Reston, James Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
Reverdy Pierre Haunted house
Rich Adrienne Arts of the possible : essays and conversations
Richards Keith Life
Ridley Jane The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince
Rifka Brunt Carol Redshirts
Rios Victor Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
Robin Maconie Musicologia : musical knowledge from Plato to John Cage
Robinson Marilynne Home
Roosevelt Franklin Delano Nothing to fear; the selected addresses of FDR…
Rosen Jonathan The Life of the Skies
Roth Veronica Divergent
Roth Philip Goodbye, Columbus
Rothenberg Paula White Privilege
Rowling J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Rushdie Salman Midnight's Children
Rushdie Salman East, West: Stories
Saro-Wiwa Ken Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English
Scalzi John Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Schultz Patricia 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List
Schuman Howard Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys
Sedaris David Naked
See Lisa Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Sheehan George Running and Being
Skloot Rebecca The Immortial Life of Henrietta Lacks
Skye Jaden Death by Honeymoon
Snyder Timothy On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Solnit Rebecca A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Sowell Mike The Pitch That Killed: The Story of Carl Mays, Ray Chapman...
Stegner Wallace Angle of Repose
Steingraber Sandra Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis
Stratton Arthur One Man's India
Strayed Cheryl Wild
Tan Shaun The Red Tree
Taylor Rob The Breach: Kilimanjaro and the Conquest of Self
Thackeray William Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
Thoreau Henry Walden
Thoreau Henry David The Maine Woods
Tolle Eckhart A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Tolstoy Leo War and Peace
Tsiolkas Christos The Slap
Turtledove Harry Opening Atlantis
Twain Mark The private life of Adam and Eve: being extracts from their diaries
Vargas Llosa Mario Conversation in the Cathedral
Veblen Thorstein The Higher Learning in America: A memorandum…
Peale Norman Vincent The Power of Positive Thinking
Volf Miroslav Flourishing : Why we need religion in a globalized world
Waldman Amy The Submission
Wallace David Girl With Curious Hair
Wang Lawrence Lawrence Wang
Ward Jamie The Frog Who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the mixing of the senses
Weiss Brian L. Many Lives, Many Masters
White T.H. The Once and Future King
Wolff Tobias Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
Wood Gordon Revolutionary Characters
Woodard Colin American Nations : a history of the eleven rival regional…
Woodard Colin The Lobster Coast: Rebels, rusticators…
Woodson Jacqueline The Other Side
Yang Gene Luen American Born Chinese
Indian Country Today