A reading list from a 2003 Yale Alumni Mag

Honey Bear by Dixie Willson
Les Rougon-Macquart
Comedie Humaine
Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
The Right Stuff
Evgeny Zamyatin's "We"
John O'Hara
James M. Cain
Evelyn Waugh
Mencken
Thomas Wolfe
Carl Van Vechten
Jimmy Breslin
Gay Talese
Celine
Henry Miller
The Bonfire of the Vanities
A Man in Full.
When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss
Alexandra Robbins' Secrets of The Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Julia Glass' Three Junes.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Alan M. Dershowitz's Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age.
Charles Darwin: Voyaging and The Power of Place by Janet Browne
Carl Zimmer, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Glenn Fleishman's The Wireless Networking Startup Kit
The Koran
Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth
The Growth of Biological Thought by Ernst Mayr
Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy
David Quammen: Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
The King James Bible
Sherwin B. Nuland's How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Tom Perrotta's Joe College
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 1908
Stephen Sandy's Surface Impressions: A Poem.
The Republic - Plato
Anthony Kronman, The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession.
Confessiones by Augustine
Garry Wills Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm
Ann Packer's The Dive from Clausen's Pier and Mendocino and Other Stories.
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Steve Olson: Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
The Complete Essays of Montaigne translated by Donald M. Frame
Jennifer Ackerman: Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity

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