- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (5 stars on GR by Brooke and Lena, Pranavi is reading it too, Meg and Eddie read it too wow everyone and their mother lol it was fine)
- Ruby Lost and Found by Christina Li ❤
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (rec by CPC)
- First: Sandra Day O’Connor by Evan Thomas (rec by CPC)
- Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
- Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed (rec by Pranavi, 5 stars on GR by Grace)
- An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler (rec by CPC)
- In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom (SLS faculty summer reading list 2022, Prof. Nora Freeman Engstrom)
- Les Années (The Years) by Annie Ernaux (recommended by FRENLANG 120 Prof. Franck Bessonnat)
- Une Femme (A Woman’s Story) by Annie Ernaux
- L’Événement (Happening) by Annie Ernaux
- Mémoires d’Hadrien by Marguerite Yourcenar (recommended by FRENLANG 120 Prof. Franck Bessonnat)
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin (rec by Eddie)
- The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin (rec by Eddie)
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez (recommended by PUBLPOL 103C TA Joan O’Bryan)
- Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health by Thomas Insel
- The Prophet by Khalil Gibran (one of Young Mazino’s top 3 books)
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
- Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Anderson
- Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller
- Works of Love by Søren Kierkegaard
- At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell (SLS faculty summer reading list 2023, Prof. Richard Ford)
- How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn
- On Grief and Grieving by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler
- On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler
- A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
- It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine
- The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
- Lila by Marilynne Robinson (I think Malia mentioned really liking Gilead, and I found Lila in my dad’s bookshelf)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever (rec from Capitol Hill Zoom meeting on salary and benefits negotiation)
- Educated by Tara Westover
- 나의 한국현대사 1959–2020 — 유시민
- 한 말씀만 하소서 — 박완서
- 그 많던 싱아는 누가 다 먹었을까? — 박완서 (rec by Min Jin Lee)
- Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson’s Disease by Morton Kondracke (gifted by Karen)
- Everything In Its Place by Oliver Sacks
- Master of the Senate by Robert Caro (recommended by Madeleine)
- Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty (recommended by Madeleine)
- Butterfly Politics by Catherine MacKinnon (recommended by Madeleine; section on legal education esp)
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab (recommended by Christina and Sage)
- The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage by Jonathan Cohn (recommended by Nico)
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (recommended by YouTuber Jack Edwards)
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (recommended by YouTuber Jack Edwards)
- Know My Name by Chanel Miller
- Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri Yu (recommended by Adam)
- An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison (mentioned in LAW 3010)
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Essential Rumi by Rumi (recommended by Aleko and Harry Styles lol)
- Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan (recommended by Aleko)
- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis (recommended by Aleko)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (recommended by Aleko)
- Portrait of a Thief by Grace Li (recommended by Sean)
- Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne (recommended by Elena)
- Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (recommended by Liz)
- Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice by Nam Le (recommended by Liz)
- The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home by Michael Tubbs (recommended by Olivia)
- The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (recommended by Liz)
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (recommended by Liz)
- The Waves by Virginia Woolf
- Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler (recommended by Elena)
- No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear by Kate Bowler (recommended by Elena)
- The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke (recommended by Elena)
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt (rec by Christina)
- These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (rec by Christina)
- People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (rec by Christina)
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (recommended by Lara)
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (recommended by Nata)
- Foster by Claire Keegan (read by Brooke on GR)
- Supreme Inequality by Adam Cohen
- When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà
- Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help by Larissa MacFarquhar
- Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
- Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
- Motherhood by Sheila Heti
- Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
- Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics by Jamila Michener
- Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery
- The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
- The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
- The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power
- The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
- The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson or Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
- Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- L’Étranger by Albert Camus
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
- Another Country by James Baldwin
- Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
- The Push by Ashley Audrain
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (read by Grace on GR)
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Regretting Motherhood by Orna Donath
- The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
- La Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu
- On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer
- The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- L’ Heure Bleue: Or the Judy Poems by Elisa Gabbert
- Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power by Noam Chomsky
- Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
- Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone
- Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care? by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
- Here I Stand by Paul Robeson
- America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System by Steven Brill
- The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
- Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (recommended by author Min Jin Lee in a podcast)
- Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
- Middlemarch by George Eliot (recommended by author Min Jin Lee in a podcast)
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
- The Overstory by Richard Powers (Andrew Garfield read it too hehe)
- Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better by Rob Reich
- System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong And How We Can Reboot by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy Weinstein
- Work by Simone Weil (recommended by PUBLPOL 103C TA Joan)
- The Woman Destroyed (La femme rompue) by Simone de Beauvoir
- The Second Sex (Le Deuxième Sexe) by Simone de Beauvoir (rec by Dua Lipa)
- The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
- The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America by Ai-jen Poo (recommended by Jessie HUMRTS)
- De la démocratie en Amérique by Alexis de Tocqueville (recommended by FRENLANG 120 Prof. Franck Bessonnat)
- These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett (Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021)
- Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott (Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021)
- How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith (Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021)
- Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
- The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
- A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth: Stories by Daniel Mason (Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford)
- Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
- The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey
- The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
- How to Find Fulfilling Work by Roman Krznaric
- An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz
- The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
- The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid
- The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
- Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Anderson
- Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock (found in syllabus of a class on intersectional justice and education)
- Station Eleven by Emily Mandel (recommended by Rahul; Brooke shelved as absolute fav)
- Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe (5 stars on GR by Lena)
