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Previous Summer Readings

Class Year

Assigned Reading

Class Lecturer

2002

Brave New World,
Aldous Huxley

Ronald Green, Professor of Religion

2003

The Things They Carried,
Tim O'Brien

Lynda Boose, Professor of English

2004

Guns, Germs & Steel,
Jared Diamond

Lewis Duncan, Professor of Engineering

2005

A Hope in the Unseen,
Ron Suskind

Christina Gomez, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies

2006

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement,
Milton and Rose Friedman

Andrew Samwick, Professor of Economics

2007

Pattern Recognition,
William Gibson

Mark Williams, Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies

2008

Refuge,
Terry Tempest Williams

Carol Folt, Professor of Biological Sciences

2009

Mountains Beyond Mountains,
Tracy Kidder

Richard Wright, Professor of Geography

2010

Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, As related to and edited by Solomon Volkov

Steve Swayne, Associate Professor of Music

2011

Oil on the Brain,
Lisa Margonelli

Andrew Friedland, The Richard and Jane Pearl Professor in Environmental Studies and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program

2012

The Wisdom of Crowds,
James Surowiecki

Dean Lacy, Professor of Government and Director of the Program in Politics and Law

 

Last Updated: 11/5/08

Last Updated: 11/5/08