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 November 20.2009
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Albright, Madeleine | Read my pins |
| Ali, Monica | In the kitchen: a novel |
| Alsop, Ron | The trophy kids grow up: how the millennial generation is shaking up the workplace |
| Alvarez, Julia | In the time of the butterflies |
| Amick, Steve | Nothing but a smile: a novel |
| Andersen, Christopher | Somewhere in heaven: the remarkable love story of Dana and Christopher Reeve |
| Angelou, Maya | Letter to my daughter |
| Armstrong, Karen | The case for God |
| Atwood, Margaret | The year of the flood |
| Baatz, Simon | For the thrill of it: Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked Chicago |
| Bacevich, Andrew | The limits of power: the end of American Exceptionalism |
| Bamford, James | The shadow factory: the ultra-secret NSA from 9/11 to the eavesdropping on America |
| Baszile, Jennifer | The black girl next door: a memoir |
| Bauerlein, Mark | The dumbest generation: how the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future* (*or, don't trust anyone under 30) |
| Bauermeister, Erica | The school of essential ingredients |
| Bazell, Josh | Beat the reaper |
| Beal, Daphne | In the land of no right angles |
| Beck, Glenn | Arguing with idiots: how to stop small minds and big government |
| Bernieres, Louis De | A partisan's daughter |
| Blumenthal, Max | Republican gomorrah: inside the movement that shattered the party |
| Bourke, Anthony and John Rendall | A lion called Christian: the true story of the remarkable bond between two friends and a lion |
| Braver, Adam | November 22, 1963: a novel |
| Bronson, Po and Ashley Merryman | Nurtureshock: new thinking about children |
| Broughton, Philip Delves | Ahead of the curve: two years at Harvard business school |
| Browne, Kingsley | Co-ed combat: the new evidence that women shouldn't fight the nation's wars |
| Bushnell, Candace | One Fifth Avenue |
| Author | Book Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Canellos, Peter S. ed. By the team at The Boston Globe | Last Lion: the fall and rise of Ted Kennedy | |
| Canin, Ethan | America America | |
| Carr, David | The night of the gun: a reporter investigates the darkest story of his life, his own | |
| Cesca, Bob | One nation under fear: scaredy cats and fear-mongers in the home of the brave | |
| Connor, Myles J., Jr. with Jenny Siler | The art of the heist: confessions of a master art thief, rock-and-roller, and prodigal son | |
| Conrad, Jessamyn | What you should know about politics... but don't | |
| Corona, Laurel | The four seasons: a novel of Vivaldi's Venice | |
| Corsi, Jerome | The Obama nation: leftist politics and the cult of personality | |
| Coulter, Ann | Guildty: liberal "victims" and their assault on America | |
| Coyne, Jerry A. | Why evolution is true | |
| Crawford, Matthew B. | Shop class as soulcraft: an inquiry into the value of work | |
| Curtis, John | Happily Un-married | |
| Davidson, Andrew | The Gargoyle | |
| Davis, David Howard | Ignoring the apocalypse: why planning to prevent environmental catastrophe goes astray | |
| Davis, Michael | Street Gang: the complete history of seasame street | |
| Davis, Stephen | Watch you bleed: The saga of Guns n' Roses | |
| Dawkins, Richard | The greatest show on earth: the evidence for evolution | |
| DeWoskin, Rachel | Repeat after me: a novel | |
| Dublanica, Steve | Waiter Rant: thanks for the tip - confessions of a cynical waiter | |
| Durham, M. Gigi | The lolita effect: the media sexualization of young girls and what we can do about it |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Edwards, Selden | The little book |
| Eggers, Dave | Zeitoun |
| Elliott, Elissa | Eve: a novel of the first woman |
| Engelmann, Ines Janet | Impressionism: 50 paintings you should know |
| Erpenbach, Mary and Maggie Ginsberg-Schutz | Wisconsin: a tradition of innovation |
| Eskridge, Willaim, Jr. | Dishonorable passions: sodomy laws in America, 1861-2003 |
| Evaristo, Bernardine | Blonde Roots: a novel |
| Fox, Michael J. | Always looking up: the adventures of an icurable optimist |
| Frank, Thomas | The wrecking crew: how conservatives rule |
| Freddoso, David | The case against Barack Obama: the unlikely rise and unexamined agenda of the media's favorite candidate |
| Friedman, George | The next 100 years: a forecast for the 21st century |
| Friedman, Thomas | Hot, flat, and crowded: why we need a green revolution - and how it can renew America |
| Ferguson, Craig | American on purpose: the improbably adventures of an unlikely patriot |
| Fury, Dalton | Kill Bin Laden: a delta force commander's account of the hunt for the world's most wanted man |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Gaynor, Tim | Midnight on the line: the secret life of the U.S.-Mexico border |
| Gershow, Miriam | The local news: a novel |
| Gideon, Melanie | The slippery year: a meditation on happily ever after |
| Gilbert, Melissa | Prairie Tale |
| Gladwell, Malcolm | Outliers: the story of success |
| Goldberg, Bernard | A slobbering love affair starring Barack Obama: the true (and pathetic) story of the torrid romance between Barack Obama and the mainstream media |
| Gordon-Reed | The Hemingses of Monticello: an American family |
| Gosseling, Jon & Kate with Beth Carson | Multiple blessings : surviving to thriving with twins and sextuplets |
| Grandin, Temple and Catherine Johnson | Animals make us human: creating the best life for animals |
| Grann, David | the lost city of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon |
| Greenberg, Michael | Hurry down sunshine: a memoir |
| Gwartney, Debra | Live through this: a mother's memoir of runaway daughters and reclaimed love |
| Hague, Tig | Tomorrow you go home: one man's harrowing imprisonment in a modern-day Russian Gulag |
| Harkaway, Nick | The gone-away world: a novel |
| Hawass, Zahi | King Tutankhamun: the treasures of the tomb |
| Howe, Katherine | Teh physick book of deliverance dane |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Jarvis, Cheryl | The necklace: thirteen women and the experiment that transformed their lives |
| Johnston, David Cay | Free lunch: how the wealthiest Americans enrich themselves at government expense (and stick you with the bill) |
| Johnson, Barb | More of this world or maybe another |
| Jones, Van | The green collar economy: how one solution can fix our two biggests problems |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Kelter, Bill and Wayne Shellabarger | VEEPS: profiles in insignificance: the American Vice Presidential pantheon from Adams to Cheney |
| Kessler, David | The end of overeating: taking control of the insatiable American appetitie |
| Kidder, Tracy | Strength in what remains: a journey of remembrance and forgiveness |
| Kimmel, Michael | Guyland: the perilous world where boys become men, understanding the critical years between 16 and 26 |
| Krakauer, Jon | Where men win glory: the odyssey of Pat Tillman |
| Kramer, Clara | Clara's war: one girl's story of survival |
| kristof, Nicholas and Sheryl WuDunn | Half the sky: turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide |
| Kurson, Robert | Crashing through: a true story of risk adventure, and the man who dared to see |
| Lamb, Wally | The hour I first believed: a novel |
| Laken, Valerie | Dream house | >
| Larsson, Stieg | The girl with the dragon tattoo |
| Lawford, Christopher Kennedy | Moments of clarity: voices from the front lines of addiction and recover |
| Leary, Denis | Why we suck: a feel good guide to staying fat, loud, lazy and stupid |
| Lee, Mark | The canal house |
| Levine, Faythe and Cortney Heimerl | Handmade nation: the rise of DIY, art, craft, and design |
| Editors of LIFE | The American journey of Barack Obama |
| Luntz, Frank | What Americans really want...really: the truth about our hopes, dreams and fears |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| MacDonald, Sam | The urban hermit: a memoir |
| Magruder, James | Sugarless: a novel |
| Mam, Somaly | The road of lost innocence: the true story of a Cambodian heroine |
| Marrs, Jim | The rise of the fourth Reich: the secret societies that threaten to take over America |
| Matteson, John | Eden's outcasts: the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father |
| McCarthy, Jenny | Louder than words: a mother's journey in healing autism |
| McCraw, Erin | The seamstress of Hollywood boulevard |
| McDonald, Lawrence | A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers |
| McDougall, Christopher | Born to run: a hidden tribe, superathletes, and teh greatest race the world has never seen |
| Mezrich, Ben | The accidental billionaires: the founding of facebook a tale of sex, money, genius, and betrayal |
| Miller, Logan and Noah | Either you're in or you're in the way: two brothers, twelve months, and one filmmaking hell-ride to keep a promise to their father |
| Mitchard, Jacquelyn | No time to wave goodbye: a novel |
| Mlodinow, Leonard | The drunkard's walk: how randomness rules our lives |
| Moore, Christopher | Fool |
| Moore, Lorrie | A gate at the stairs: a novel |
| Morris, Keith Lee | The dart league king: a novel |
| Morrison, Toni | A mercy: a novel |
| Newton, Michael | Enemy of the state: the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein |
| Noonan, Peggy | Patriotic Grace: what it is and why we need it now |
| Nugent, Ted | Ted, White and Blue: the Nugent manifesto |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| O'Reilly, Bill | A bold fresh piece of humanity |
| Ollestad, Norman | Crazy for the storm: a memoir of survival |
| Orner, Peter ed. | Underground America: narratives of undocumented lives |
| Palfrey, John and Urs Gasser | Born digital: understanding the first generation of digital natives |
| Paul, Ron | The revolution: a manifesto |
| Pausch, Randy with Jeffrey Zaslow | The last lecture |
| Pears, Iain | Stone's fall: a novel |
| Phillips, Mackenzie | High on arrival: a memoir |
| Pierce, Charles | Idiot America: how stupidity became a virtue in the land of the free |
| Pollan, Michael | In defense of food: an eater's manifesto |
| Price, David | The Pixar touch: the making of a company |
| Pynchon, Thomas | Inherent vice: a novel |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Reding, Nick | Methland: the death and life of an American small town |
| Reid, T.R. | The healing of America: a global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care |
| Reynold, Sheri | The sweet in-between: a novel |
| Richardson, Kim Michele | The unbreakable child: a story about forgiving the unforgivable |
| Roberts, Paul | The end of food |
| Robinson, Marilynee | Home |
| Roose, Kevin | The unlikely disciple: a sinner's semester at America's holiest university |
| Roth, Philip | Indignation |
| Rotter, Jeffrey | The unknown knowns |
| Ryan, Bo with Mike Lucas | Bo Ryan: another hill to climb |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Schroeder, Alice | The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life |
| Sheff, David | Beautiful boy: a father's journey through his son's addiction |
| Shreve, Anita | Testimony |
| Sinister, Bucky | Get Up: a 12 step guide to recovery for misfits, freaks and weirdos |
| Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows | The guernsey literary and potato peel pie society: a novel |
| Smick, David | The world is curved: hidden dangers to the global economy: the mortgage crisis was only the beginning |
| Spirn, Anne Whiston ed. | Daring to look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs & reports from the field |
| Stephens, K. | The ghost trap: a novel |
| Steves, Rick | Travel as a political act |
| Stevick, Richard | Growing up Amish: the teenage years |
| Starita, Joe | "I am a man": Chief Standing Bear's journey for justice |
| Stockett, Kathryn | The Help: a novel |
| Suskind, Ron | The way of the world: a story of truth and hope in an age of extremism |
| Swayze, Patrick and Lisa Niemi | The time of my life |
| Taraborrelli, J. Randy | The secret life of Marilyn Monroe |
| Thayer, Steve | The leper |
| Trafford, Abigail | As time goes by: boomerang marriages, serial spouses, throwback couples, and other romantic adventures in an age of longevity |
| Tropper, Jonahtan | This is where I leave you: a novel |
| Tulgan, Bruce | Not everyone gets a trophy: how to manage Generation Y |
| Tye, Larry | Satchel: the life and times of an American legen |
| Tyson, Neil deGrasse | The Pluto files: the rise and fall of America's favorite planet |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Updike, John | The widows of Eastwick: a novel |
| Vanderbilt, Tom | Traffic: why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us) |
| Verghese, Abraham | Cutting for stone |
| Vowell, Sarah | The wordy shipmates |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Walker, Rebecca | One big happy family: 18 writers talk about polyamory, open adoption, mixed marriage, househusbandry, single motherhood, and other realities of truly modern love |
| 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 |
| Walls, Jeannette | Half broke hourse: a true life novel |
| Warren, Frank | PostSecret: confessions on life, death and god |
| Willging, Robert | On the hunt: the history of deer hunting in Wisconsin |
| Wilson, Marc | Hero Street, U.S.A. |
| Woodward, Bob | The war within: a secret White House history 2006-2008 |
| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Yang, Kao Kalia | The latehomecomer: a Hmong family memoir |
| Zadoorian, Michael | The leisure seeker: a novel |
| Zakaria, Fareed | The Post-American world |