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Best Reads 2008

November 9, 2009

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Suggestions by the MCC Community

Links are generally to MCC Library’s catalog, iBistro.

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Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life by Kathleen Norris

The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin

The Beak of the Finch : A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner

Blindness by Jose Saramago

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Death Match by Lincoln Child -also available as a downloadable audiobook

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alligheri (translation by Robert and Jean Hollander)

Purgatorio

Inferno

Paradiso

Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell – also available as a downloadable audiobook.

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert – also available as a downloadable audiobook.

Einstein’s Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius by Hans C. Ohanian

Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – also available as a downloadable audiobook.

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova – also available as a downloadable audiobook.

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch – also available as a downloadable audiobook.

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado

Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums

Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children by David Harsanyi

Not Even My Name: From a Death March in Turkey to a New Home in America. A Young Girl’s True Story of Genocide and Survival by Theo Hale

Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks – also available as a downloadable audiobook.

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (2 recommendations)

The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West by Mark Lilla

Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama – also available as a downloadable audiobook.

Truth: Personas, Needs and Flaws in the Art of Building Actors and Creating Characters by Susan Batson

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri – also available as a downloadable audiobook.

Need more help in picking out your next “Best Read”? In many cases, iBistro book entries provide links to Novelist – a book recommendation database.

Best Reads 2007

September 2, 2008

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Recommendations from MCC faculty and staff

Most links are to our MCC Library consortium’s iBistro Catalog.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris by Alicia Drake (Worldcat link)

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Garibaldi (Trilogy) (Garibaldi’s Defense of the Roman Republic; Garibald and the Thousand; Garibaldi and the Making of Italy) by George Macaulay Trevelyan (Worldcat link)

The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini

El Mundo by Juan José Millás García (Worldcat link)

Sandworms of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (also available as a downloadable audiobook)

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

The Terror by Dan Simmons (also available as a downloadable audiobook)

Them by Nathan McCall

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations– One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson (2 recommendations!)

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (also available as a downloadable audiobook)

What is the What by Dave Eggers

Working by Studs Terkel

World Without End by Ken Follett (also available as a downloadable audiobook)