As part of our summer reading issue of CoE Cares we asked each school for book recomendations. Here is what they came up with, including suggestions from some of the school chairs and Dean McLaughlin. For the sake of consistency links go to Amazon.com, but most of the books are available through any book seller.
AE
"Love Story" by Karen Kingsbury, suggested by Vickie Brian
“The War on Science” by Shawn Otto, suggested by Panagiotis Tsiotras
“Weapons of Math Destruction” by Cathy O’Neil, suggested by Panagiotis Tsiotras
“Sapiens” by Yuval Noah Harari, suggested by Panagiotis Tsiotras
School Chair — Vigor Yang
"Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance" by Atul Gawande
"Joe Gould's Secret" by Joseph Mitchell
"Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
"Open: An Autobiography" by Andre Agassi
BME
"Eat That Frog!" by Brian Tracy (suggested by Denis Tsygankov)
"Enlightenment Now" by Steven Pinker (suggested by Ravi Kane)
"A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman, suggested by Ravi Kane
"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt, suggested by Emily Foster
"The Valley of Amazement" by Amy Tan, suggested by Jillian Jantosciak
“H is for Hawk” by Helen MacDonald suggested by Sandra Maffey
“The Moon By Whale Light (and other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins Crocodilians and Whales)” by Diane Ackerman, suggested by Sandra Maffe
School Chair — Susan Marguiles
"Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
"A Man in Full" by Tom Wolfe
CEE
"All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr, suggested by Laurie Garrow
The "Armand Gamache" series by Louise Penny, suggested by Pat Mokhtarian
"Taking Pascal's Wager" by Michael Rota, suggested by Pat Mokhtarian
School Chair- Donald Webster
"East of Eden" by John Steinbeck. It is set in the Salinas Valley in CA near where I grew up and spans multigenerational years of family interactions. Maybe not for everyone, but a terrific, epic read!
ChBE
"The Genius of Birds" by Jennifer Ackerman
"The Humans" by Matt Haig
"Polyphony" by school chair, David Sholl
School Chair — David Sholl
"The Last Lion" by William Manchester and Paul Reid
ECE
"Emeralds of the Alhambra" by ECE professor John Cressler
"Atticus Finch: The Biography" by Joseph Crespino
“The Comfort Food Diaries’’ by Emily Nunn
ISyE
"Leaving Time" by Jodi Picoult, suggested by Kirby Cuenca
"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden
School Chair — Edwin Romeijn
“Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future” by Ashlee Vance
“Leonardo da Vinci” by Walter Isaacson
ME
"The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" by John le Carré, suggested by Jeffrey Donnell
"An American Marriage" by Tayari Jones, suggested by Regina Neequaye
"The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World" by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams, suggested by Susan Volkert
School Chair — Bert Bras
Over the last two years, I have been reading an 18 volume series of historical books titled “A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Arranged in systematic order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the earliest Ages to the Present Time” which were written by Robert Kerr in 1824 that deal with discovery and exploration and which are scanned and published for free as part of the Gutenberg project.
The book that got me interested and I really enjoyed was “The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo” written by Bernal Diaz del Castillo in 1568. It is the true eyewitness account from Bernal Diaz del Castillo who went as a young man in 1519 with Cortes to Mexico and helped defeat the Aztec empire. He was one of the few original “conquistadores” to survive the conquest. It is an amazing story and really interesting reading. Highly recommended.
You can find all of these for free on www.gutenberg.org
MSE
"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson, suggested by Shirley Manchester
"Strengths Finder 2.0" by Tim Roth, suggested by Renita Washington
"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt, suggested by Alyssa Barnes
"You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life" by Jen Sincero, suggested by Alyssa Barnes
"News of the World" by Paulette Jiles, suggested by Amanda Gable
"Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead, suggested by Amanda Gable
"When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win WWII" by Molly Guptill Manning, suggested by Amanda Gable
Dean's Office
"Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning" by Leslie Odom Jr, suggested by LaJauna Ellis
"Giants: the Dwarfs of Auschwitz: The Extraordinary Story of the Lilliput Troupe" by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev, suggested by LaJauna Ellis
"Same Kind of Diferent as Me" by Ron Hall, Denver Moore, and Lynn Vincent, suggested by LaJauna Ellis
"A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman, suggested by Tonia Valeck
"All the Missing Girls" by Megan Miranda, suggested by Tonia Valeck
"The Couple Next Door" by Shari Lapena, suggested by Tonia Valeck
"Behind the Bench: Inside the Minds of Hockey's Greatest Coaches" by Craig Custance, suggested by Ben Wright
"The Thin Veil Collection" by Jodi McIsaac, suggested by Ben Wright
Dean Steve McLaughlin
"A Crack in Creation" by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg
"Waking Up White" by Debby Irving