Fall into Your Favorite Book

Compiled and Presented by Blaire Hiebsch, Senior Evening Library Assistant

A couple of weeks ago we had a question on the white board in Sawyer library asking students what their favorite book is, and it was so cool to see the wide range of books the students loved (some I knew and some I had never heard of). I thought wouldn't it be great if we had some of these books and we could show them off to our students. Sometimes university libraries are seen as just stuffy places to do scholarly research or a place to study but it isn't it nice to know libraries also provide a lot of fun reads as well. Some of these books were chosen because they were listed as being a students favorite books, some are just good reads that everyone should read in their life, and some purely looked intriguing. I tried to pull books that would appeal to a large range of people (and not just historical fiction which is my favorite). I tried show off the library's wide range of books to be enjoyed. With the changing of the season it feels like a good time to curl up with one's favorite hot beverage and a great book... especially now with it being mid-terms time it is an excellent moment for a little self-care and escape into a story.

Here is a list of the titles selected for the display. Click the hyperlink to see if the book is available, or already checked-out.

1. The alchemist / Paulo Coelho; translated by Alan R. Clarke
2. Love in the time ofcholera / Gabriel Garci­a Marquez ; translated from the Spanish by EdithGrossman
3. Atonement: a novel / Ian McEwan
4. The autobiography of Malcolm X / with the assistance of Alex Haley; introduction by M.S. Handler ; epilogue by Alex Haley ; afterword by OssieDavis
5. Beloved : a novel / by Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by theauthor]
6. The bone people : a novel / by Keri Hulme
7. The book thief / by Markus Zusak
8. Cat's cradle / Kurt Vonnegut
9. Dracula / Bram Stoker
10. Fight Club / by Chuck Palahniuk
11. Hamilton : the revolution : being thecomplete libretto of the Broadway musical, with a true account of its creation,and concise remarks on hip-hop, the power of stories, and the new America / byLin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
12. The help / Kathryn Stockett
13. High fidelity / Nick Hornby
14. The hobbit, or, There and back again / by J.R.R. Tolkien
15. Magic for beginners / Kelly Link ; illustrated by Shelley Jackson
16. Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides
17. Naked / David Sedaris
18. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency / Alexander McCall Smith
19. Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen ; with an introduction byMargaret Drabble ; and a new afterword by Eloisa James
20. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage : a novel /Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel
21. Something to tell you : a novel / Hanif Kureishi
22. State of fear : a novel / Michael Crichton
23. To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee
24. Vamped / David Sosnowski
25. Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West : anovel / Gregory Maguire ; illustrations by Douglas Smith

Sawyer Library New Book Display

Here is a list of the titles currently up in the Sawyer Library display case. This display features new book covers from the Sawyer Library collection. Click the hyperlink to see if the book is available, or already checked-out. Please be assured that the books in the display case are not the actual books!

Mildred F. Sawyer Library Book Display List 

1. Reclaiming conversation : the power of talk in a digital age / Sherry Turkle
2. Saving capitalism : for the many, not the few / Robert B. Reich 
3. $2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America / Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
4. Medical monopoly : intellectual property rights and the origins of the modern pharmaceutical industry / Joseph M. Gabriel 
5. Reframing decadence : C.P. Cavafy's imaginary portraits / Peter Jeffreys
6. Geek heresy : rescuing social change from the cult of technology / Kentaro Toyama
7. Vaccine nation : America's changing relationship with immunization / Elena Conis
8. Gaining control : how human behavior evolved / Robert Aunger and Valerie Curtis 
9. Eat, drink, and be wary : how unsafe is our food? / Charles M. Duncan ; edited by Diana Kearley Duncan
10. The Wright brothers / David McCullough   
11. After Roe : the lost history of the abortion debate / Mary Ziegler 
12. Seizing freedom : slave emancipation and liberty for all / David Roediger 
13. All the light we cannot see : a novel / Anthony Doerr 
14. The workfare state : public assistance politics from the New Deal to the new Democrats / Eva Bertram
15. A country called prison : mass incarceration and the making of a new nation / Mary D. Looman, John D. Carl 
16. Economic analysis of the digital economy / Edited by Avi Goldfarb, Shane M. Greenstein, and Catherine E. Tucker
17. God help the child / Toni Morrison 
18. Designing the new American university / Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars
19. Alibaba's world : how a remarkable Chinese company is changing the face of global business / Porter Erisman 
20. This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed : how guns made the civil rights movement possible / Charles E. Cobb
21. Pulse of the people : political rap music and black politics / Lakeyta M. Bonnette
22. The cultural matrix : understanding Black youth / edited by Orlando Patterson ; with Ethan Fosse 
23. Environment in the balance : the green movement and the Supreme Court / Jonathan Z. Cannon
24. Black hole : how an idea abandoned by Newtonians, hated by Einstein, and gambled on by Hawking became loved / Marcia Bartusiak
25. Every town is a sports town : business leadership at ESPN, from the mailroom to the boardroom / George Bodenheimer, Donald T. Phillips
26. Law and popular culture : international perspectives / edited by Michael Asimow, Kathryn Brown and David Ray Papke
27. The age of acquiescence : the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power / Steve Fraser
28. Chinese and Americans : a shared history / Xu Guoqi  
29. Masters of the universe, slaves of the market / Stephen Bell & Andrew Hindmoor 
30. Raising the world : child welfare in the American century / Sara Fieldston
31. Half-life : the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist or spy / Frank Close
32. Party ballots, reform, and the transformation of America's electoral system / Erik J. Engstrom, University of California, Davis, Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego
33. The hungry mind : the origins of curiosity in childhood / Susan Engel
34. A path in the mighty waters : shipboard life & Atlantic crossings to the New World / Stephen R. Berry
35. The Making of the First World War / Ian F.W. Beckett  
36. The objective leader : how to leverage the power of seeing things as they are / Elizabeth Thornton
37. Missoula : rape and the justice system in a college town / Jon Krakauer  
38. Understanding OCD : skills to control the conscience and outsmart obsessive compulsive disorder / Leslie J. Shapiro ; foreword by Michael A. Jenike 
39. Who rules the earth? : how social rules shape our planet and our lives / Paul F. Steinberg
40. Medieval Christianity : a new history / Kevin Madigan 
41. Restless ambition : Grace Hartigan, painter / Cathy Curtis 
42. Martha Jefferson : an intimate life with Thomas Jefferson / William G. Hyland Jr 
43. Cuckoo : cheating by nature / Nick Davies ; with field drawings by James McCallum
44. The least likely man : Marshall Nirenberg and the discovery of the genetic code / Franklin H. Portugal  
45. Back to the garden : nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present / James H.S. McGregor
46. Epic measures : one doctor, seven billion patients / Jeremy N. Smith   
47. Fighting over the founders : how we remember the American Revolution / Andrew M. Schocket
48. Intimate reconstructions : children in postemancipation Virginia / Catherine A. Jones

Sawyer Library New Book Display

Here is an alphabetical list of the titles currently up in the Sawyer Library display case. This display features new book covers from the Sawyer Library collection. Click the hyperlink to see if the book is available, or already checked-out. Please be assured that the books in the display case are not the actual books!

Mildred F. Sawyer Library Book Display List

1. Advertising and propaganda in World War II : cultural identity and the blitz spirit / David Clampin

2. Animal madness : how anxious dogs, compulsive parrots, and elephants in recovery help us understand ourselves / Laurel Braitman

3. Arresting contagion : science, policy, and conflicts over animal disease control / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode

4. Bats : a world of science and mystery / M. Brock Fenton, Nancy B. Simmons

5. Big data, little data, no data : scholarship in the networked world / Christine L. Borgman

6. Blaming Europe? : responsibility without accountability in the European Union / Sara B. Hobolt, James Tilley

7. Bridging the gender gap : seven principles for achieving gender balance / Lynn Roseberry and Johan Roos

8. The business of America is lobbying : how corporations became politicized and politics became more corporate / Lee Drutman

9. City of steel : how Pittsburgh became the world's steelmaking capital during the Carnegie era / Kenneth J. Kobus

10. The container principle : how a box changes the way we think / Alexander Klose ; translated by Charles Marcrum II

11. Cowardice : a brief history / Chris Walsh

12. Currency politics : the political economy of exchange rate policy / Jeffry A. Frieden

13. Energy poverty : global challenges and local solutions / edited by Antoine Halff, Benjamin K. Sovacool and Jon Rozhon

14. Failing our fathers : confronting the crisis of economically vulnerable, nonresident fathers / Ronald B. Mincy, Monique Jethwani, Serena Klempin

15. The First Amendment bubble : how privacy and paparazzi threaten a free press / Amy Gajda

16. Flags and Faces : the visual culture of America's First World War / David M. Lubin

17. From development to dictatorship : Bolivia and the alliance for progress in the Kennedy era / Thomas C. Field Jr

18. From slave abuse to hate crime : the criminalization of racial violence in American history / Ely Aaronson

19. Galileo's middle finger : heretics, activists, and the search for justice in science / Alice Dreger

20. Government paternalism : nanny state or helpful friend? / Julian Le Grand and Bill New

21. Great minds : reflections of 111 top scientists / Balazs Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai, Istvan Hargittai

22. Happiness and economic growth : lessons from developing countries / edited by Andrew E. Clark and Claudia Senik

23. The human and environmental impact of fracking : how fracturing shale for gas affects us and our world / Madelon L. Finkel, editor ; foreword by Seth B.C. Shonkoff, PhD, MPH

24. Internet literature in China / Michel Hockx

25. It's not the size of the data--it's how you use it : smarter marketing with analytics and dashboards / Koen Pauwels

26. Japan : the paradox of harmony / Keiko Hirata and Mark Warschauer

27. Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the art of the figure / Michael W. Cole

28. Living in infamy : felon disfranchisement and the history of American citizenship / Pippa Holloway

29. Media violence and children : a complete guide for parents and professionals / Douglas A. Gentile, editor ; foreword by Michael Rich, MD, MPH

30. The merchant republics : Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790 / Mary Lindemann

31. Mexicans in the making of America / Neil Foley

32. Miseducating Americans : distortions of historical understanding / Richard F. Hamilton

33. The new wild : why invasive species will be nature's salvation / Fred Pearce

34. Notes from a colored girl : the Civil War pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis / Karsonya Wise Whitehead

35. The oldest living things in the world / Rachel Sussman

36. The outsourcer : the story of India's IT revolution / Dinesh C. Sharma

37. Perspectives on Dodd-Frank and finance / edited by Paul H. Schultz

38. Racial reckoning : prosecuting America's civil rights murders / Renee C. Romano

39. Rare : the high-stakes race to satisfy our need for the scarcest metals on Earth / Keith Veronese

40. The Reagan Era : a history of the 1980s / Doug Rossinow

41. Saving the Pryor Mountain mustang : a legacy of local and federal cooperation / Christine M. Reed

42. Sea of storms : a history of hurricanes in the greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina / Stuart B. Schwartz

43. The Secret History of Wonder Woman / Jill Lepore

44. Sexualized media messages and our children : teaching kids to be smart critics and consumers / Jennifer W. Shewmaker

45. South Asia in the globalised world / edited by C. Vinodan

46. The triumph of seeds : how grains, nuts, kernels, pulses, and pips, conquered the plant kingdom and shaped human history / Thor Hanson

47. Unfinished work : the struggle to build an aging American workforce / Joseph Coleman

48. The vanishing neighbor : the transformation of American community / Marc J. Dunkelman

49. Who we be : the colorization of America / Jeff Chang

50. The wobblies in their heyday : the rise and destruction of the industrial workers of the world during the World War I era / Eric Thomas Chester