Dancing Mind - Book Recommendations
Below is a list of books that have been recommended by Bucknell's faculty, staff and students as featured in the Dancing Mind Video. Why not check one of them out today?
The History of Love: A Novel, by Nicole Strauss
Recommended by: Martha Holland, Research Services Specialist, Library & IT
1984, by George Orwell
Recommended by: Jason Snyder, Librarian for Online Services, Library & IT
Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor E. Frankl
Recommended by: Sue Ellen Henry, Assoicate Professor of Education
Writing and Authority in Early China, by Mark Edward Lewis
Recommended by: Jim Rice, Associate Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies
The Stand, by Stephen King
Recommended by: Robert Midkiff, Associate Provost and Dean of the Summer School
Days of Grace: A Memoir, by Arthur Ashe
Recommended by: Fran McDaniel, Director of the Office of LGBT Awareness
City of Refuge: A Novel, by Tom Piazza
Recommended by: Janice Butler, Director of the Office of Civic Engagement
Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems and Translations
Recommended by: John Hunter, Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
Recommended by: Kelly Finley, Program Coordinator of the Residential Colleges
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, by Eckhart Tolle
Recommended by: Rev. Thomasina Yuille, University Chaplain
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
Recommended by: Ghislaine McDayter, Associate Professor of English
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah
Recommended by: Param Bedi, Chief Information Officer, Library & IT
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
The Holy Bible
Recommended by: Jessica Hess, Director of Multicultural Student Services
Oblivion, by David Foster Wallace
Recommended by: Stephanie Tetlow, Senior, French and Psychology Major
At the End of Church Street, by Gregory L. Hall
Recommended by: Jessica Paquin, Office Coordinator, Office of Civic Engagement
Assata: An Autobiography, by Assata Shakur and Angela Davis
Recommended by: Nadia Sasso, Senior, English and Sociology Major
The Extended Phenotype, by Richard Dawkins
Recommended by: Beth Capaldi Evans, Associate Professor of Biology and Animal Behavior
Music is my Mistress, by Duke Ellington
Recommended by: Barry Long, Assistant Professor of Music
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
Recommended by: Paula Myers, Assistant Dean of Students and Director of International Student Services
The Hip Hop Wars, by Tricia Rose
Recommended by: James Peterson, Assistant Professor of English
Good to be Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... And Others Don't, by Jim Collins
Recommended by: George Shields, Dean of Arts and Sciences
The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire, by Cynthia Enloe
Recommended by: Coralynn Davis, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies
Tendencies, by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Recommended by: Erica Delsandro, Research Associate, Comparative Humanities Program
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League, by Ron Suskind
Recommended by: Kristine Kengor, Assistant Director of Service-Learning, Office of Civic Engagement
Liar's Poker, by Michael Lewis
Recommended by: Eric Weiss, Senior, Economics and Philosophy Major
Gitanjali: Offerings of Song and Art by Rabidranath Tagore and Mark W. McGinnis
Recommended by: Sonali Basak, Junior, Economics and Creative Writing Major
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, by Erik Larson
Recommended by: Chip Facka, Diversity Programs Coordinator
Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory, by Chris Weedon
Recommended by: Justin McKnight, Graduate Student and Youth Outreach Coordinator, Office of Civic Engagement
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978, by Adrienne Rich
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Recommended by: Dierdre O'Connor, Director of the Writing Center
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Recommended by: Peg Cronin, Writing and Teaching Consultant
Fools of Fortune, by William Trevor
Recommended by: Pete Mackey, Vice President for Communications
1776, by David McCullough
Recommended by: Rabbi Serena L. Fujita, Jewish Chaplain
Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times by Paul Rogat Loeb
Recommended by: Lynn Pierson, Assistant Director of Community Service, Office of Civic Engagement
Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Anthology
Recommended by: Kate Parker, Publishing Manager of the Bucknell University Press and Assistant Director of the Griot Institute for Africana Studies
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
Recommended by: Margot Vigeant, Associate Dean of Engineering and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman
Recommended by: Margot Vigeant, Associate Dean of Engineering and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
You Can't Go Home Again, by Thomas Wolfe
Recommended by: Bud Hiller, Manager of the Technology Desk, Library & IT
