The following is a list of recently acquired books for the Karrmann Library's Current Reading Collection. Books selected for this collection may be of interest to students and faculty, extending beyond respective courses & fields of study. Titles tend to be popular in nature and selected from national bestseller lists.
Current Reading books can be found in the Current Reading Area, located on the main floor of the Karrmann Library. If you cannot locate a particlur title, please check the Library Catalog or contact a Reference Librarian.
Titles are listed alphabetically by author
current titles as of 9/4/08
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Ackerman, Diane | The zookeeper's wife |
| Ahren, Ceceli | There's no place like here |
| Andersen, Christopher | Somewhere in heaven: the remarkable love story of Dana and Christopher Reeve |
| Andersen, Kurt | Heyday |
| Andrews, Julie | Home: a memoir of my early years |
| Apps, Jerry | In a pickle: a family farm story |
| Baer, Richard | Switching time: a doctor's harrowing story of treating a woman with 17 personalities |
| Barker, Pat | Life Class |
| Beck, Glenn | An inconvenient book: real solutions to the world's biggest problems |
| Beierle, Andrew | First person plural |
| Bernstein, Carl | A Woman in charge |
| Bhagat, Chetan | One night at the call center: a novel |
| Borchert, Don | Free for all: oddballs, geeks, and gangstas in the public library |
| Bourdain, Anthony | No reservations: around the world on an empty stomach |
| Boyd, Helen | She's not the man I married: my life with a transgender husband |
| Breslin, Jimmy | The good rat: a true story |
| Bridge, Andrew | Hope's Boy: a memoir |
| Brokaw, Tom | Boom: voices of the sixties: personal reflections on the '60s and today |
| Buckley, Christopher | Boomsday: a novel |
| Bugliosi, Vincent | The prosecution of George W. Bush for murder |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Cafferty, Jack | It's getting ugly out there: the frauds, bunglers, liars, and losers who are hurting America |
| Canin, Ethan | America America |
| Chabon, Michael | The Yiddish Policemen's Union: a novel |
| Chittister, Joan | The gift of years: growing older gracefully |
| Chopra, Deepak | Buddha: a story of enlightenment |
| Clapton, Eric | Clapton: the autobiography |
| Clinton, Bill | Giving: how each of us can change the world |
| Colbert, Stephen | I am America (and so can you!) |
| Corrigan, Kelly | The middle place |
| Cragin, Suan | Nuclear Nebrask: the remarkable story of the little county that couldn't be bought |
| DeFrank, Thomas | Write it when I'm gone: remarkable off-the-record conversations with Gerald R. Ford |
| de Heriz, Enrique | Lies: a novel |
| de Rosnay, Tatiana | Sarah's Key |
| DeLillo, Don | Falling Man: a novel |
| Delson, Rudolph | Maynard and Jennica |
| Diaz, Junot | The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao |
| Diamond, Lisa | Sexual Fluidity: understanding women's love and desire |
| Dorsey, Tim | Atomic Lobster |
| Drew, Alan | Gardens of water: a novel |
| Dungy, Tony with Nathan Whitaker | Quiet Strength: a memoir |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Earley, Pete | Comrade J: the untold secrets of Russia's master spy in America after the end of the cold war |
| Ellis, Joseph | American Creation: triumphs and tragedies at the founding of the republic |
| Eriksen, Marcus | My river home: a journey from the Gulf war to the Gulf of Mexico |
| Eskridge, Willaim, Jr. | Dishonorable passions: sodomy laws in America, 1861-2003 |
| Faludi, Susan | The terror dream: fear and fantasy in post-9/11 America |
| Farooki, Roopa | Bitter sweets: a novel |
| Faust, Drew Gilpin | This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War |
| Flanagan, Richard | The unknown terroist: a novel |
| Follett, Ken | World without end |
| Fothergill, Alastair | Planet Earth as you've never seen it before |
| Furcht, Leo with William Hoffman | The stem cell dilemma: beacons of hope or harbingers of doom? |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Geist, Bill | Way off the road: discovering the peculiar charms of small-town America |
| George-Warren, Holly ed. | Farm Aid: a song for America |
| Gingrich, Newt | Real Change: from the world that fails to the world that works |
| Glavin, Terry | The sixth extinction: journeys among the lost and left behind |
| Goffard, Christopher | Snitch Jacket: a novel |
| Goldberg, Bernard | Crazies to the left of me, wimps to the right: how one side lost its mind and the other lost its nerve |
| Gosling, Sam | Snoop: what your stuff says about you |
| Grant, Stephanie | Map of Ireland: a novel |
| Greene, Melissa Fay | There is no me without you: one woman's odyssey to rescue Africa's children |
| Greenspan, Alan | The age of turbulence: adventures in a new world |
| Grisham, John | Playing for pizza: a novel |
| Grodin, Charles and friends and friends and friends | If I only knew then... learning from our mistakes |
| Hampl, Patricia | The florist's daughter |
| Hoeg, Peter | The quiet girl |
| Hosseini, Khaled | A thousand splendid suns |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Jackson, Denise | It's all about him: finding the love of my life |
| Jacobs, A.J. | The year of living biblically: one man's humble quest to follow the bible as literally as possible |
| Jacobs, Rayda | Confessions of a gambler |
| Jadick, Richard CDR. with Thomas Hayden | On call in hell: a doctor's Iraq war story |
| Johnston, David Cay | Free lunch: how the wealthiest Americans enrich themselves at government expense (and stick you with the bill) |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Karlin, Ben | Things I've learned from women who've dumped me |
| Key, Joshua as told to Lawrence Hill | The deserter's tale: the story of an ordinary soldier who walked away from the War in Iraw |
| King, Stephen | Duma Key: a novel |
| Kingman, Peg | Not yet drown'd |
| Kinsella, Bridget | Visiting life: women doing time on the outside |
| Khakpour, Porochista | Sons and other flammable objects |
| Klein, Naomi | The Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism |
| Lecard, Marc | Vinnie's Head |
| Lee, Mark | The canal house |
| LeGault, Michael | Think: why crucial decisions can't be made in the blink of an eye |
| Lourie, Richard | A hatred for tulips: a novel |
| Luttrell, Marcus with Patrick Robinson | Lone survivor: the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heros of seal team 10 |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Macdonald, Kyle | One red paperclip: or how an ordinary man achieved his dream with the help of a simple office supply |
| Maczulak, Anne | The five second rule: and other myths about germs |
| Malladi, Amulya | The mango season |
| Martin, Steve | Born standing up |
| McCaig, Donald | Rhett Butler's people |
| McCraw, Erin | The seamstress of Hollywood boulevard |
| Mesenholler, Peter | Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920 |
| Michaelis, David | Schulz and peanuts: a biography |
| Milbank, Dana | Homo Politicus: the strange and scary tribes that run our government |
| Mitchard, Jacquelyn | Still Summer: a novel |
| Morris, Dick and Eileen McGann | Fleeced: how Barack Obama, media mockery of terrorist threats, liberals who want to kill talk radio, the do-nothing congress, companies that help Iran, and Washington lobbyists for foreign governments are scamming us... and what to do about it |
| Morris, Dick and Eileen McGann | Outrage |
| Morton, Andrew | Tom Cruise: an unauthorized biography |
| Narayan, Kirin | My family and other saints |
| Nettle, Daniel | Personality: what makes you the way you are |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Oakley, Barbara | Evil Genes: why Rome fell, hitler rose, enron failed, and my sister stole my mother's boyfriend |
| O'Farrell, Maggie | The vanishing act of Esme Lennox |
| Olds, Bruce | The moments lost |
| Packer, Ann | Songs without words: a novel |
| Paretsky, Sara | Bleeding Kansas: a novel |
| Pastan, Rachel | Lady of the snakes |
| Patchett, Ann | Run: a novel |
| Patoski, Joe Nick | Willie Nelson: an epic life |
| Pearson, Felicia "Snoop" and David Ritz | Grace after midnight: a memoir |
| Perrotta, Tom | The abstinence teacher |
| Phillips, Marie | Gods behaving badly: a novel |
| Pollan, Michael | In defense of food: an eater's manifesto |
| Preston, Douglas with Mario Spezi | The monster of Florence: a true story |
| Price, David | The Pixar touch: the making of a company |
| Price, Jill | The woman who can't forget |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Roach, Mary | Bonk: the curious coupling of science and sex |
| Robison, John Elder | Look me in the eye: my life with asperger's |
| Rosenblatt, Roger | Beet: a novel |
| Roth, Philip | Exit Ghost |
| Royte, Elizabeth | Bottlemania: how water went on sale and why we bought it |
| Russo, Richard | Bridge of Sighs |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Sabato, Larry | A more perfect constitution |
| Sacks, Oliver | Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain |
| Sandlin, Tim | Jimi Hendrix turns eight |
| Savage, Michael | The political zoo |
| Schein, Elyse and Paula Bernstein | Identical strangers: a memoir of twins separated and reunited |
| Schroeder, Adam Lewis | Empress of Asia: a novel |
| Sebold, Alice | The almost moon: a novel |
| Sedaris, David | When you are engulfed in flames |
| Shriver, Lionel | The post brithday world |
| Shubin, Neil | Your inner fish: a journey into the 3.5 billion-year history of the human body |
| Silverstein, Amy | Sick Girl |
| Simpson, O.J. | If I did it: confessions of the killer |
| Shields, David | The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead |
| Slash with Anthony Bozza | Slash |
| Smith, David Livingstone | The most dangerous animal: Human nature and the origins of war |
| Sonnenberg, Susanna | Her Last Death: a memoir |
| Spencer, Irene | Shattered dreams: my life as a polygamist's wife |
| Spirn, Anne Whiston ed. | Daring to look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs & reports from the field |
| Strauss, Neil | The game: penetrating the secret society of pickup artists |
| Stringer, C. Vivian | Standing Tall: a memoir of tragedy and triumph |
| Thomas, Clarence | My grandfather's son: a memoir |
| Thomas, Rupert | Death of a Murderer: a novel |
| Tobin, Jeffrey | The Nine: inside the secret world of the Supreme Court |
| Turner, Kathleen with Gloria Feldt | Send yourself roses: thoughts on my life, love, and leading roles |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Ventura, Jesse with Dick Russell | Don't start the revolution without me! |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Walker, Rebecca | Baby love: choosing motherhood after a lifetime of ambivalence |
| Wall, Elissa with Lisa Pulitzer | Stolen innocence: my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs |
| Wallis, Jim | The great awakening: reviving faith and politics in a post-religious right America |
| Walters, Barbara | Audition: a memoir |
| Warren, Frank | A lifetime of secrets |
| Weisman, Alan | The world without us |
| Welch, Brian | Save me from myself: how I found God, quit Korn, kicked drugs, and lived to tell my story |
| Wilke, Joanne | Eight Women, two model Ts, and the American West |
| Wheeler, Tony and Maureen | Unlikely destinations: the lonely planet story |
| Wheeler, Tony | Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands: a tourist on the axis of evil, with additional excursions to places that are slightly misguided, mildly malevolent, seriously off course, extraordinarily reclusive and much misunderstood |
| Williams, Stanley Tookie | Blue rage, black redemption: a memoir |
| Williams, Terrie | Black Pain: it just looks like we're not hurting: real talk for when there's nowhere to go but up |
| Wroblewski, David | The story of Edgar Sawtelle: a novel |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Zadoff, Allen | Hungry: lessons learned on the journey from fat to thin |
| Zakaria, Fareed | The Post-American world |
| Zimbardo, Philip | The lucifer effect: understanding how good people turn evil |