Table of Contents                        

Fall 2006

 

The following is the suggested national ESO reading list.  If your state compiles its own reading list, you should first consult it.  The books are divided into 21 subject categories.  This list is updated each administration based on selected best sellers lists, American Library Association lists, Pulitzer and other prize lists, and GFWC related topics.  State ESO chairmen may adapt, alter and/or update this list as desired.

 

American History                                                1

The Arts                                                 1

Biography and Memoirs                   1

Business and Finance                     2

Classic Literature and Drama                      2

Conservation and Nature                      2

Education                                  3

Fiction, General                     3

Fiction, Mystery                    3

Health and Medicine                   4

Home and Garden                     4

Parenting and Families                    4

Poetry                       5

Public Affairs                      5

Reading to Children                   5

Religion and Inspirational                             6

Science Fiction and Fantasy                     6

Sports and Recreation                                6

Travel and Geography                                7

Women’s History                     7

World History              7


American History

1       Alonso, Harriet Hyman.  Growing Up Abolitionist:  The Story of the Garrison Children

2       Ambrose, Stephen. Undaunted Courage: Merriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West

3       Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation

4       Chamberlain, Sam.  My Confession: Recollection of a Rogue

5       Cooke, Allistair.  The American Home Front 1941- 1942 

6       Foote. Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative Fredricksburg to Merdian

7       Goodwin, Doris Kearns.   Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

8       Kazin, Michael.  Populist Persuasion: An American History

9       Kean, Thomas H. & Lee H. Hamilton. Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 911 Commission

10    Keyssar, Alexander.  The Right to Vote: the Contested History of Democracy in the United States

11    Labrrenski, Richard. James Madison and tthe Struggle for the Bill of Rights.

12    Mc Cullough, David. The Path Between the Seas: There Creation of the Panama Canal 1870- 1914

13    McDougall, Walter A.  Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

14    Ngai, Mae M.  Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

15    Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower- A Story of Courage, Community and War

16    Ricks,Thomas E. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

17    Steinberg, Theodore.  Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History

18    Wood, Gordon S.  The Radicalism of the American Revolution

 

The Arts

19    Alberti, John.  Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture

20    Capek, Michael.  Murals: Cave, Cathedral, to Street (Art Beyond Borders)

21    Cooper, Patricia.  The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art

22    Dali, Salvador.  The Secret Life of Salvador Dali

23    Diehl, Daniel. Medieval Celebrations

24    Fletcher, Alan. The Art of Looking Sideways

25    Ganz, Nicholas. Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents

26    Harr, Jonathan. The Lost Painting

27    Hassrick, Peter H.  Georgia O’Keefe Museum

28    Hoberman, J. and Jeffrey Shandler.  Entertaining America: Jews, Movies and Broadcasting

29    Kimmelman, Michael. The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa

30    King, Ross. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

31    Redoute, Pierre-Joseph.  Les Roses

32    Reynolds, Nancy and Malcolm McCormick.  No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century

33    Robinson, David.  From Peep Show to Palace: The Birth of American Film

34    Schwartz, Bonnie Nelson and the Educational Film Center.  Voices from the Federal Theater

35    Szarkowski, John, et al. Ansel Adams at 100

36    Tobin,Jacqueline L. , Raymond G. Dobard In Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad

37    Wynne, Frank. I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Forger

38    Zwonitzer, M. & Hirshberg, C. Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone

 

Biography and Memoirs

39    Banner, Lois.  Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Women’s Rights

40    Bird, Kai & Martin J. Sherwin.   American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

41    Burroughs, Augusten.  Running With Scissors

42    Clinton, Bill.  My Life

43    Ephron. Nora. I  Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts About Being a Woman

44    Ferrer, Sean Hepburn. Audrey Hepburn: an Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers

45    Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand.  Ghandi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth

46    Grogan, John. Marley & Me

47    Kazik.  Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter

48    Leaning, Barbara. Jack Kennedy, The Education of a Statesman

49    Lemmon, Chris.   A Twist of Lemmon: A Tribute to My Father

50    Madigan, Tim.  Proud of You : My Friendship With Fred Rodgers

51    Mandela, Nelson.  Long Walk to Freedom

52    McCourt, Frank.  Teacher Man

53    Powers, Ron. Mark Twain: A Life

54    Rehak, Melanie. Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

55    Shields, Charles J.  Mockingbird- A Portrait of Harper Lee

56    Thomas, Abigail   A Three Dog Life

57    Van Gogh, Vincent.  Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh

58    Woods,Randal.  LBJ: Architect of American Ambition

 

Business and Finance

59    Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

60    Appelbaum, Eileen with Annette Bernhardt and Richard J. Murnane eds.  Low-Wage America: How Employers are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace

61    Bryant, Ralph C. Turbulent Waters: Cross-Border Finance and International Governance

62    Cassiday, John. Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era

63    Clason, George.  Richest Man in Babylon

64    Friedan, Jeffrey A. and David A Lake.  The International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth

65    Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat

66    Gibson, Roger.  Asset Allocation: Balancing the Financial Risk

67    Hannon, Kerry.  Suddenly Single: Money Skills for Divorcees and Widows

68    Johnson,Spencer,  Ken Blanchard, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Tony Roberts. Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way To Deal With Change In Your Work And In Your Life

69    Keynes, John Maynard.  The General Theory of Employment, Interests, and Money.

70    Krugman, Paul.  The Return to Depression Economics

71    Levitt, Steven D. & Stephen Dubner .  Freakanomics

72    Malkiel, Burton.  A Random Walk Down Wall Street

73    Moran, Theodore H.  Foreign Direct Investment and Development

74    Pottruck, David S. and Terry Pearce.  Clicks and Mortar: Passion Driven Growth in an Internet-Driven World

75    Presser, Harriet B.  Working in a 24/7 Economy: Challenges for American Families

76    Ramsey, Dave. Total Money Makeover

77    Thompson, Scott W.  The Baobab and the Mango Tree: Lessons About Development, Asian and African Contrasts

Classic Literature and Drama

78    Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

79    Albee, Edward. Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf

80    Alighieri, Dante. The Inferno

81    Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot

82    Bronte Charlotte.  Jane Eyre

83    Camus, Albert. The Stranger

84    Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness

85    Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans

86    Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man

87    Fitzgerald, F Scott. The Great Gatsby

88    Golding, William. The Lord of the Flies

89    Heller, Joseph. Catch-22

90    Homer. The Iliad

91    Ibsen, Henrick, A Doll's House

92    Kerouac, Jack. On the Road

93    Kesey, Ken. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

94    Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird

95    Melville, Herman. Moby Dick

96    Miller, Arthur. A Death of a Salesman

97    Orwell, George. 1984

98    Plato.  The Republic

99    Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

100 Shakespeare, William. Mac Beth

101 Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five

102 Williams, Tennessee.  The Glass Menagerie

 

Conservation and Nature

103 Beder, Sharon. Global Spin: The Corporate Assault On Environmentalism

104 Berry, Wendell. Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

105 Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring

106 Conca, Ken and Geoffrey Dabelko. Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Johannesburg

107 Conon, William. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

108 Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species

109 Diamond, Jared. Collapse

110 Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

111 Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means For Life on Earth

112 Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth

113 Guha, Ramachandra. How Much Should a Person Consume?: Environmentalism in India and the United States

114 Hay, John. The Way to the Salt Marsh: A John Hay Reader

115 Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac

116 Oliver, Mary. New and Selected Poems

117 Perlman, Dan L. and Glenn Anderson. Biodiversity: Exploring Values and Priorities in Conservation

118 Raymo, Chet. The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage

119 Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert

120 Singer, Peter and Jim Mason. The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

121 Thoreau, Henry David. Walden or Life in the Woods.

122 Weiner, Jonathan. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

 

Education

123 Bracey, Gerald. A Consumer’s Guide to the War Against Public Schools

124 Clark, Ron.  The Excellent 11:  Qualities Teachers and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire, and Educate Children

125 Cochran-Smith.  Walking the Road: Race, Diversity, and Social Justice in Teacher Education

126 Crawford, James.  Bilinguil Education: History, Politics, Theory and Practice

127 Dewey, John. Democracy and Education

128 Gurian, Michael & Kathryn Stevens. The Minds of Boys

129 Gurian, Michael. Boys and Girls Learn Differently

130 Horton, Myles edited by Dale Jacobs.  The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change

131 Johnson, Lou Anne.  Teaching Outside the Box

132 Johnson, LouAnne.  The Queen of Education: Rules for Making Schools Work

133 Karabel, Jerome. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

134 Mazurek, Kas.  Education in a Global Society: A Comparative Perspective

135 Noddings, Nel.  Happiness and Education

136 Postman, Neil.  The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

137 Robbins, Alexandra.  The Over Achievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids

138 Shor, Ira.  Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change

139 Tock, Thomas.  High Schools on a Human Scale

140 Tovani, Cris and Ellin Oliver Keene.  I Read It, But I Don’t Get It:  Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers

141 Williams, Joe. Cheating Our Kids: How Politics and Greed Ruin Education

 

Fiction, General

142 Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale

143 Banville,John.  Sea

144 Brooks, Geraldine. March

145 Cabaldron, Diana .    Outlander

146 Chevalier, Tracy. Girl With A Pearl Earring

147 Coelho, Paulo.  The Alchemist

148 Delillo, Don. Underworld

149 Doctorow, E. L. The March

150 Edwards, Kim.  The Memory Keeper's Daughter

151 Gruen, Sara.   Water for Elephants

152 Hosseini, Khaled. Kite Runner

153 Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany

154 Jude Morgan, Passion

155 Kidd, Sue Monk.  The Secret Life of Bees

156 Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love

157 McEwan, Ian. Saturday

158 O’Nan, Stewart. The Good Wife

159 Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead

160 Roth, Phillip. Everyman

161 Shute, Neville. On the Beach

 

Fiction, Mystery

162 Barre, Richard.  The Innocents

163 Bell,Ted. Spy

164 Brockman, Suzanne.  Into the Storm

165 Brown, Sandra.   Richochet

166 Christie, Agatha.  And Then There Were None

167 Connelly, Michael. The Lincoln Lawyer

168 Cook, Robin. Crisis

169 Doyle, Arthur Conan &Leslie S. Klinger (Editor).  The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes

170 Ellroy, James.   The Black Dahlia

171 Evonvich, Janet. Twelve Sharp

172 Forsyth, Fredrick.   The Afghan

173 Grafton, Sue.   S is for Silence

174 Grisham, John. The Broker

175 Harwin, Patricia.  Arson and Old Lace: A Far Wychwood Mystery

176 Kellerman, Faye.  Stone Kiss

177 Patterson , James  Cross

178 Patterson, James & Andrew Gross. Judge & Jury

179 Roberts, Nora. Angels Fall

180 Silva, Daniel.   The Messenger

181 SmithAlexander McCall.   The Full Cupboard of Life: More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

 

Health and Medicine

182 Barbach, Lonnie Garfield.  The Pause

183 Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era

184 Condon, Marian C.  Women’s Health: Body, Mind, Spirit: An Integrated Approach to Wellness and Illness

185 Crowley, Chris,  Gail Sheehy, & Henry S. Lodge. Younger Next Year for Women

186 Delinsky, Barbara.  Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors

187 Frey, James. A Million Little Pieces

188 Gladwell, Malcom. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

189 Legato, Marianne J.  Eve’s Rib: The Ground-Breaking Guide to Women’s Health

190 McKhann, Gary. Keep Your Brain Young

191 Nielsen, Jerri , Ice Bound: One Woman's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

192 Northup, Christine, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom           

193 O’Mara, Kathleen.  Vaccination: The Issues of Our Times

194 Oshinsky, David M.  Polio: An American Story

195 Perlmuller, Dr. David & Carol Colman. The Better Brain Book

196 Piver, Steven.  Gilda’s Disease

197 Pollan, Michael.  The Omnivore's Dilemma

198 Roizen,  Michael & Melmet Oz. You: The Smart Patient

199 Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

200 Sparrowe, Linda and Patricia Walden.  The Woman’s Book of Yoga and Health: A Lifelong Guide to Wellness

201 Zerbe, Kathryn J.  The Body Betrayed: A Deeper Understanding of Women, Eating Disorders, and Treatment

 

Home and Gardens

202 Alexander,William. The $64 Tomato

203 Angelou, Maya. Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes

204 Burch, Mary. Volunteering With Your Pet

205 Craven, Jackie.  The Healthy Home

206 Crescent, Dragonwagon.     Passionate Vegetarian     

207 Day, David, & Albert Jackson.  Popular Mechanics Complete Home How To

208 Garten, Ina.    Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again

209 Good Housekeeping Institute.   The Complete Household Book: The Best Ways to Clean, Maintain and Organize Your Home

210 Goodall, Jane, Gail Hudson & Gary McAvoy. Harvest for Hope

211 Kamp,  David.  The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation 

212 Melina,  Vesanto &  Brenda Davis.  New Becoming Vegetarian: The Essential Guide to a Healthy Vegetarian Diet

213 Millan, Ceasar & Melissa Jo Peltier, Caesar's Way

214 Pleasant, Barbara.     Complete Houseplant Survival Manual: Essential Gardening Know-how for Keeping (Not Killing) More than 160 Indoor Plants

215 Powell, Julie.   Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen

216 Ray, Rachael .   Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats: A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners

217 Roberts, Jennifer.  Good Green Homes: Creating Bette

218 Smith, Edward C. & John Storey, The Vegetable Gardner's Bible

219 Solomon, Steve.  Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times

220 Van Sweden, James.  Gardening with Nature

221 Witherspoon, Kimberly & Andrew Friedman. Don't Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs

 

Parenting and Families

222 Buchman, Dana.  A Special Education: One Family's Journey Through the Maze of Learning Disabilites

223 Cline, Foster & Jim Fay.  Parenting With Love  & Logic

224 Cohen, Lawrence J.  Playful Parenting

225 Coontz, Stephanie, May Parson and Gabriell Raley.  American Families: A Multicultural Reader

226 Guthrie, Elisabeth and Kathy Matthews.  No More Push Parenting: How to Find Success and Balance in a Hyper-Competitive World

227 Kindlon, Dan & Michael Thompson. Raising Cain

228 Latham, Glenn I. The Power of Positive Parenting

229 Lavlis, Frank. The ADD Answer

230 Mace, Nancy L. & Peter Rabins. The 36 Hour Day: Caring for Persons with Alzheimer , Related Dementia Illnesses...

231 Marcel, Jacqueline. Elder Rage: or Take My Dad, Please: How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents

232 Mintz, Steven.  Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life

233 Notarius, Clifford.  We Can Work It Out

234 Papolos, Damitri and Janice Papolos. The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood’s Most Misunderstood Disorder

235 Ross, S.B.  Pitching In

236 Seigel, Daniel J. MD and Mary Hartzell, MD.  Parenting from the Inside Out

237 Simmons, Rachael. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls

238 Thayer, Elizabeth, Ph.D. and Jeffrey Zimmerman, Ph.D.  The Co-Parenting Survival Guide: Letting Go of Conflict After a Difficult Divorce

239 Wisdom, Susan and Jennifer Green.  Stepcoupling: Creating and Sustaining a Strong Marriage in Today’s Blended Family

240 Wiseman, Rosland. Queen Bees & Wannabes

 

Poetry

241 Angelou, Maya. Mother, A Cradle to Hold Me      

242 Collins, Billy. The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems

243 Cullen, Countee. My Soul’s High Song

244 Cummings, E.E. 100 Selected Poems

245 Dickinson. Emily. The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

246 Dove, Rita.  Mother Love

247 Eliot, T.S. The Wasteland and Other Poems

248 Emerson, Claudia. Late Wife

249 Gihran, Kahil. The Prophet

250 Ginsberg, Allen.  Howl and Other Poems

251 Gluck, Louise. Wild Iris

252 Heaney, Seamus.  The Spirit Level

253 Hughes, Langston.  The Weary Blues

254 Merwin,W. S. Migration: New and Selected Poems

255 Neruda, Pablo. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

256 Paz, Octavio.  Luna Silvestre

257 Poe, Edgar Allan.  The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

258 Sandburg, Robert.  Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems

259 Sidman, Joyce.   Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems

260 Whitman, Walt.  Leaves of Grass

261 Willams, William Carlos.  Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

 

Public Affairs

262 Altman, Daniel. Neoconomy

263 Banish, Roslyn.  Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV and AIDS

264 Blakeslee, Nate. Tulia

265 Breitweiser, Kristen.  Wake up Call: The Political Education of a 911 Widow

266 Brigham, Robert. Is Iraq another Vietnam?

267 Buchanan, Patrick J.  State of Emergency

268 Creekmore, Marion. A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, the Power of a Peacemaker, and North Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions.

269 Felt, Mark. A G-Man’s Life.

270 Gallaher, Carolyn.  On the Fault Line: Race, Class and the American Patriot Movement

271 Grisham, John.  The Innocent Man

272 Hensel, Jana. After the Wall

273 Johnson, William. A Time to Embrace: Same Gender Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics

274 Ludwig, Jens and Philip J. Cook  Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence

275 Mossberger, Karen et. al. Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide

276 Stewart, Roy. The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

277 Switzer, Jacqueline Vaughn.  Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality

278 Taliaferro, John. In a Far Country

279 West, Cornel.  Race Matters

280 Woodward, Bob.  Plan of Attack

281 Wright,  Lawrence.   The Looming Tower

 

Reading to Children

Many clubwomen are involved in volunteer programs reading to children, and many more read to their own children/grandchildren.  If you are using this category for ESO credit, please include to whom you are reading & if they enjoyed the book.  The following titles are current bestsellers & literary award winners, but you may read & report on any children’s book.

 

Picture Books & Story Books :

282 Couric, Katie.  The Brand New Kid

283 Freeman, Don.   Corduroy

284 Mc Bratney, Sam. Guess How Much I Love You

285 Muth, Jon J.    Zen Shorts

286 O' Connor, Jane. Fancy Nancy

287 Priceman, Marjorie. Hot Air: The ( Mostly ) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride

288 Scieska, Jon & Lane Smith.  The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Stupid Tales

289 Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are

290 Seuss, Dr. Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

291 Van Allsburg, Chris.  The Polar Express

 

Chapter Books  and Books for Youth

292 Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting

293 Blume, Judy.  Tales of a Fourth Grade Nobody

294 Brashares, Ann.  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

295 Cabot, Meg. How to be Popular

296 Cleary, Beverly.  Ramona Forever 

297 Dahl, Roald Dahl.  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

298 Henry,Margurite. King of the Wind : The Story of the Godolphian Arabian

299 Howe, James.    Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow

300 Snicketts, Lemony.   A Series of Unfortunate Events

301 White, E.B.  Charlotte's Web     

 

Religion and Inspirational

302 Armstrong,  Karen.   The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

303 Brown, Joseph Epes and Emily Cousins.  Teaching Spirits: Understanding Native American Religious Traditions

304 Buehrens, John A. Understanding the Bible

305 Confucius. The Analects

306 Dalai Lama, (His Holiness The)  Ethics for the New Millennium

307 Didion, Joan.  The Year of Magical Thinking

308 Hesse, Herman.  Siddharta

309 Hoff, Benjamin. The Tao of Pooh

310 Hopkins, Thomas J.  Hindu Religious Tradition

311 James, William.  The Variety of Religious Experiences

312 Karade, Baba Ifa.  The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts

313 Kushner, Harold S.  Overcoming Disappointments

314 Lucado, Max.  The Inspirational Study Bible

315 Merton, Thomas. New Seeds of Contemplation

316 Norris, Kathleen. The Cloister Walk

317 Peck, Scott. The Road Less Traveled

318 Pirsig, Robert.  The Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

319 Spangler, Ann. Women of the Bible

320 Williams, Terry Tempest.  Refuge

321 Witte, John.  Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective

 

Science Fiction & Fantasy

322 Asimov, Isaac.  I, Robot

323 Bradbury, Ray.  Fahrenheit 451

324 Brooks, Terry.  Armageddon's Children

325 Card, Orson Scott.  Ender's Game

326 Clarke, Arthur C. Rendezvous with Rama

327 Dick,  Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

328 Gaiman, Neil.  Anansi Boys

329 Gibson, William.  Neuromancer

330 Hearn, Lian.  Across the Nightingale Floor

331 Herbert, Frank.  Dune

332 Jordan,Robert.  The Eye of the World

333 Le Guin, Ursula K,  The Left Hand of Darkness

334 Lethem, Jonathan. Gun, With Occasional Music

335 Mieville, China. Perdido Street Station

336 Morgan, Richard K. Altered Carbon

337 Powers, Tim.  Anubis Gates

338 Stephenson, Neal.  Cryptonomicon

339 Tolkien,J.R.R. Lord of The Rings

340 White, T.H. The Once and Future King

341 Wolfe, Gene. The Shadow and the Claw

 

Sports and Recreation

342 Armstrong, Lance. It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

343 Bissenger, H.G. Friday Night Lights

344 Bleis, Madeleine.  In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle

345 Cohen, Greta L.  Women In Sport: Issues and Controversies

346 Dyer, Danny and Katherine. ChiRunning

347 Fish, Joel.  101 Ways to Be a Terrific Sports Parent

348 Hall, Adrienne.  Backpacking: A Woman’s Guide

349 Holtz, Lou. Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography

350 Horn, Jane.  Golf is a Woman’s Game

351 Karnazes, Dean. Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

352 Kilmeade, Brian.  The Games Do Count

353 Kowalchick, Claire.  The Complete Book of Running For Women

354 Lamster, Mark. Spalding’s World Tour

355 Lewis, Mark. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

356 Marx, Jeffrey. Season of Life: A Football Star, A Boy, a Journey to Manhood

357 Povich, Shirly. All Those Mornings…at the Post

358 Prager, Joshua. The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca, and the Shot Heard Roand the World

359 Reese, Anne. Athletries, The Untold History of Ancient Greek Women Athletes

360 Smith, Lissa et al.  Nike is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports

361 Zimmerman, Jean.  Raising Our Athletic Daughters

 

Travel and Geography

362 Bell, Gavin.  In Search of Tusitala

363 Bryson, Bill.  A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

364 Bryson, Bill. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

365 Burnett, John. Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent

366 Cohn, Nick.  The Heart of the World

367 Crane, Nicholas.  Clear Waters Rising

368 Dalrymple.  City of Djinns

369 Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia

370 Gimlette, John. Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador.

371 Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

372 Leonard,Mike.  The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family

373 MacKintosh-Smith, Tim.  Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land

374 Muscatine,Doris. The Vinegar of Spilamberto And Other Italian Adventures with Food, Places, and People

375 Pamuk, Orhan. Istanbul: Memories and the City

376 Raban, Jonathan.  Hunting Mister Heartbreak

377 Severgnini, Beppe.   La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind

378 Severin, Tim.  The Sinbad Voyage

379 Stewart, Rory.  The Place In Between

380 Took, Roger.  Running with Reindeer

381 Young, Gavin.  In Search of Conrad

 

Women’s History

382 Albright, Madeline.  Madame Secretary

383 Allgor, Catherine. A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation

384 Behan, Mona and Jeannine Davis-Kimball.  Warrior Women: An Archaeologists Search for Hidden Heroines

385 Brown, Victoria Bissell.  The Education of Jane Addams

386 Cooney, Robert. Winning the Vote, the Triumph of the Woman Suffrage Movement

387 Delamotte, Euginia et al.  Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women’s Resistance from 600 BCE to the Present

388 Friedan, Betty.  The Feminine Mystique

389 Gehre-White, Donna. The Face Behind the Veil

390 Gordon, Lyndall. Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

391 Grunwald, Lisa. Women’s Letters: America for the Revolutionary War to the Present

392 Helm ,Sarah. A Life of Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WW II

393 Johnston, Carolyn Ross.  Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907

394 Lasalle, Mick. Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood

395 Moser, Carolyn O N and Fiona C. Clark.  Victims, Perpetrators, or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence

396 Schiff, Karenna ,Gore. Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America

397 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.  The Woman’s Bible

398 Truman, Margaret. First Ladies: An Intimate Group Portrait of White House Wives

399 Tyldesley, Joyce.  Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt

400 Waisbrooker, Lois.  A Sex Revolution

401 Yalom, Marilyn.  A History of the Wife

 

World History

402 Ayittey, George.  Africa in Chaos

403 Baker, Peter and Susan Glasser. Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution

404 Bernstein, Judy. They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys From Sudan

405 Craig, Mary.  Tears of Blood: A Cry for Tibet

406 Delaney, Frank. Ireland

407 Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel

408 Hanson, Victor. A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and the Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War.

409 Hatzfeld, Jean. Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak.

410 Hayner, Priscilla B.  Unspeakable Truths: Facing the Challenge of Truth Commissions

411 Judt, Tony . Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945   

412 Kaldor, Mary.  New & Old Wars

413 Kaplan, Marion A.  Between Dignity and Despair; Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

414 Kirk, Robin.  More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America’s War in Columbia

415 Korda, Michael. Journey to a Revolution

416 Kurth, Peter.  The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra : TSAR

417 Mann, Charles. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus                                                                                                                                                                     

418 Mertus, Julie A.  Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War

419 Mullholland, Marc.  The Longest War: Northern Ireland’s Troubled History

420 Paz, Octavio.  The Labyrinth of Solitude

421 Reston, James. Warriors of God