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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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