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Senior Books: Graduated Student Picks

Every year, the graduating seniors who are working in the library are invited to pick a favorite book and say something about what it was like to work in the library.

2020

Les Miserables

Selected by Alyssa J. Franzmeier

Blindness / Seeing

Selected by Emma Wellman

The Idiot

Selected by Michael Milner

Confessions of the Fox

Selected by James Hartzer

Someone Named Eva

Selected by Lilli Kay

Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)

Selected by Dylan Larsen

On Beauty

Selected by Maria Peterson

The Selfish Gene

Selected by Jinzhou Tian

Siddhartha

Selected by Peroushini Villiamma

A Place for Us

Selected by Shireen Zaineb

2019

How to Set a Fire and Why

selected by Sam Greenstein

If I Was Your Girl

selected by Eliza Jane Pessereau

Carry On

selected by Jemma Kloss

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

selected by Long Tran

When Women Were Birds

selected by Becca Krasky

The Name of the Wind

selected by Hannah Whittle

Good Omens

selected by Matt O’Brien

Madeline

selected by Eleanor Beaird

Woman World

selected by Julia Lagos

2018

Jitterbug Perfume

selected by Meghan Johnson

Long Way Down

selected by Isabel LaBonte-Clark

Representations of Slavery

selected by Sarah Kolenbrander

The Picture of Dorian Gray

selected by Chloe Swenson

Extremely loud & incredibly close

selected by Dennis Sotelo Martinez

Now

selected by Colette Sime

On the Edge of Reason

selected by Nadia Mezic

2017

Sleeping with the Dictionary

selected by Katherine Tsuji

The Killer Angels

selected by Patrick Eickman

Ascension

selected by Natalie Kaplan

The Principles of Uncertainty

selected by Amelia Palacios

At Swim, Two Boys

selected by Marissa Heim

Ghost Image

selected by Madison Reid

Catch-22

selected by Emily Crnkovich

The Greatest Show on Earth

selected by Emily Johnson

A Monster Calls

selected by E.J. Schoenborn

A Country Doctor's Notebook

selected by Stephanie Shimota

The Poisonwood Bible

selected by Allison Stahr

2016

Mrs. Dalloway

selected by Jessie Del Fiacco

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

selected by Lydia Karlson

Norwegian Wood

selected by Emma Klajbor

Unwind

selected by Rei Meek

Kitchen

selected by Jenni Suever

Feed

selected by Brooke Boatman

One Hundred Years of Solitude

selected by Molly Guiney

Born Confused

selected by Kamini Mallick

Epileptic

selected by Erin Porter

Tacitus: Agricola

selected by Tom Eich

2015

Never Let Me Go

selected by P.J. Murphy

Neverwhere

selected by Jenni Goller

The Alchemist

selected by Rhyan Foo Kune

Lirael

selected by Tiffani Turinski

The Knife of Never Letting Go

selected by Amelia Loew

The Bell Jar

selected by Alex Greenler

The Selfish Gene

selected by Lilly Bock-Brownstein

Homo Faber

selected by Clemens Pilgram

Once Burned

selected by Alexzandra Boyer

The Things They Carried

selected by Rachel Wilson

Peter and the Starcatchers

selected by Maddy Blain

The Best of All Possible Worlds

selected by Kaitlyn Miller

Ender's Game

selected by Benjamin Michael Hillmann

2014

Don Quixote

selected by Drake Thomas Myers

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

selected by Evan Myers

Drown

selected by Stephen M Straub

Nana

selected by Jill Romero

Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture

selected by Rebecca Boylan

The Little Prince

selected by Jane Berdysheva

Daughter of Smoke and Bone

selected by Amber Bunnell

Random Family

selected by Matt Edelman

The Book of Disquiet

selected by Kiyal Eresen

Hellfire Nation

selected by Jeff Garcia

On Suicide Bombing

selected by Jesse Russell

2013

Cutting for Stone

selected by Selamawit Gebremariam

I Didn't Do It For You

selected by Danait Teklay

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

selected by Jocelyn Pickreign

Sometimes a Great Notion

selected by Emma Rose Lynn

Room

selected by Tulsi Mehrotra Menon

Dealing with Dragons

selected by Sylvia Messerole

The Things They Carried

selected by Tony Thao

The Sun Also Rises

selected by Tim Neuman

East of Eden

selected by Erin O’Leary

The American Statehouse

selected by Reed Polakowski

2012

The Shadow of the Wind

selected by Katherine Safiah Donaldson

Translations

selected by Amy Fitzgerald

Sula

selected by Caroline Karanja

The Golden Compass

selected by Elise delMas

Bastard Out of Carolina

selected by Maya Suzuki Daniels

Little Women

selected by Kristen Ross

Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio

selected by Elijah Chiland

Curious George

selected by Elle Schalow

2011

Why the Dalai Lama Matters

selected by Tenzin Doshi

The Help

selected by Kate Murdock

Murder on the Orient Express

selected by Cali Cope-Kasten

The House of the Spirits

selected by Casey Harrington

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

selected by Kate Petersen

All Quiet on the Western Front

selected by Alexis Abrams-Bourke

Underworld

selected by Jesse Sawyer

The Lord of the Rings

selected by Nadia Stennes-Spidahl

Freedom

selected by Deirdre Ratigan

The Blue Sword

selected by Margaret Shaklee

Gardens in the Dunes

selected by Ruby Levine

No One Belongs Here More Than You

selected by Hannah Longley

Zorba the Greek

selected by Mary Neely

Laughable Loves

selected by Dominika Seblova

Question of Palestine

selected by Bassam Khawaja

2010

Everything Is Illuminated

selected by Hannah Lamb

Shantaram

selected by Soham Banerji

Charlotte's Web

selected by Courtney Flathers

Something from the Oven

selected by Laura Bartolomei-Hill

Death Comes for the Archbishop

selected by Catherine Reuter

The Good Soldiers

selected by Matt Day

The People Could Fly

selected by Evan Coles-Harris

Absolute Sandman Volume One

selected by Amelia McNamara

The Butter Battle Book

selected by Adam Oien

House of Leaves

selected by Catherine Polta

To Kill a Mockingbird

selected by Kristin Riegel

Being Peace

selected by Jason Rodney

The Little Prince

selected by Rosemarie Sese

The Complete Maus

selected by Arjay Velasco

Tristram Shandy

selected by Mark Verdin

An American Childhood

selected by Chelsea Voskuilen

Mere Christianity

selected by Ronny Watkins

2009

The Gift

selected by Alese Colehour

The God of Small Things

selected by Jayant Gokhale

The Phantom Tollbooth

selected by Carleton Hanson

Borderliners

selected by Caley Long

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

selected by Ellen Rogers

At Swim, Two Boys

selected by Anne Reeder

Bloomability

selected by Alice Gerard

Ender's Game

selected by Ryan Henderson

The Once and Future King

selected by Marissa Raymo

Crime and Punishment

selected by Andra Bosneag

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

selected by Elizabeth Decker

The Hobbit

selected by Megan Raymo

Franny and Zooey

selected by Alexandra Betzler

Lord of Light

selected by Stiliyana Stamenova

2008

The Fortress of Solitude

selected by Molly Knefel

Never Cry Wolf

selected by Kathryn Wade

The Time Traveler's Wife

selected by Charlotte Stretch

One Hundred Years of Solitude

selected by Joshua Marshak

The Eight

selected by Mariah Smith

Woman on the Edge of Time

selected by Allison Macwilliams-Brooks

Life of Pi

selected by Jacob Disch

Where the Sidewalk Ends

selected by Nicholas Honan

The Stars

selected by Eric Weisser

2007

Fight Club

selected by Siddharth Akali

The Analects of Confucius

selected by Todd Baker

Mountains Beyond Mountains

selected by Jessica Thimm

Love

selected by Sasha Cardenas

Stories of Your Life and Others

selected by Jesse DuBois

The Conscience of a Liberal

selected by Emily Hedin

Sixty Stories

selected by Lech Harris

The Jane Austen Book Club

selected by Elizabeth Ho

The Stranger

selected by Andi Luka

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

selected by Kaela Schramm

The Marriage of Figaro

selected by Dana Terres

The Elephant Vanishes

selected by Gesse Stark-Smith

2006

I Know This Much Is True

selected by Cara Harwood

The Fountainhead

selected by Laura Mills

Cat's Cradle

selected by Jordan Selbo

The Giver

selected by Jeffrey Berman

The Time of Our Singing

selected by Jamie Schmeits

Beautiful Losers

selected by Danielle Boucher

The Giving Tree

selected by Rita Lee

The Time Traveler's Wife

selected by Amanda Westley

Just Above My Head

selected by Aaron Hawkins

Ordinary Resurrections

selected by Katharine Patton

The Stranger

selected by Nyalleng Moorosi

The World Is Flat

selected by Yana Mihaleva

An Uncertain Grace

selected by Ekke Soot

Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

selected by Andrea Bronson

Bamboo Among the Oaks

selected by Pakou Vang

The Nuclear Age

selected by Lauren Chesnut

Matilda

selected by Neely Crane-Smith

Siddhartha

selected by Pranav Vaidya

Learning to Sing

selected by Lisa Kraushaar