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He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know by Jessica Valenti
Schooling Teachers: Teach For America and the Future of Teacher Education by Megan Blumenreich and Bethany L. Rogers
Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics Edited by Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay
Stepping Up!: Teachers Advocating for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Schools Edited by Mollie V. Blackburn
We Want to Do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields & Barbara J. Fields
Because Teaching Matters: An Introduction to the Profession by Marleen C. Pugach
Debunking the Myth of Job Fit in Higher Education and Student Affairs Edited by Brian J. Reece, Vu T. Tran, Elliott N. DeVore, & Gabby Porcaro
A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum (Skills for Scholars) by Jessica McCrory Calarco
Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism Edited by James Tully
Justice and Equality Here and Now Edited by Frank S. Lucash
Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, and Politics Edited by Michael W. Apple, Jane Kenway, & Michael Singh
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: An Introduction by Mark H. Johnson
Cognitive Science: An Introduction by Neil A. Stillings, Mark H. Feinstein, Jay L. Garfield, Edwina L. Rissland, David A. Rosenbaum, Steven E. Weisler, and Lynne Baker-Ward
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History by Isaiah Berlin
Conscious Will and Responsibility: A Tribute to Benjamin Libet Edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong & Lynn Nadel
The Routledge Handbook of Animal Minds Edited by Kristin Andrews & Jacob Beck
Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You’re Doing It by Howard C. Becker
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl A. Popper
Poststructuralism and Educational Research by Michael A. Peters & Nicholas C. Burbules
Reflections on Gender and Science by Evelyn Fox Keller
Naturalistic Inquiry by Yvonna S. Lincoln & Egon G. Guba
Philosophical Naturalism by David Papineau
Meaning and Mental Representation by Robert Cummins
How Biology Shapes Philosophy: New Foundations for Naturalism Edited by David Livingstone Smith
Advances in Mixed Methods Research Edited by Manfred Max Bergman
The Research Act: A Theoretical Introduction to Sociological Methods by Norman K. Denzin
Belief: Form, Content, and Function Edited by Radu J. Bogdan
The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction by Martin Hollis
The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs Edited by John S. Nelson, Allan Megill, & Donald N. McCloskey
Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues by Martin Curd
Forms of Explanation: Rethinking the Questions in Social Theory by Alan Garfinkel
Philosophy & Educational Policy: A Critical Introduction by Christopher Winch & John Gingell
Science and Human Behavior by B. F. Skinner
Readings in Philosophy of Psychology Edited by Ned Block
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology by Daniel C. Dennett
Mind Design Edited by John Haugeland
Mind Readings: Introductory Selections on Cognitive Science Edited by Paul Thagard
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr
The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science by Gary F. Marcus
Connections and Symbols Edited by Steven Pinker & Jacques Mehler
The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind Edited by Mark Sprevak & Matteo Colombo
Representation and Reality by Hilary Putnam
The Rediscovery of the Mind by John Rogers Searle
Language, Truth, and Logic by Alfred Jules Ayer
Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research Edited by Donatella della Porta
Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science by Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Indigenous Statistics: A Quantitative Research Methodology by Maggie Walter & Chris Anderson
Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences Edited by Donatella della Porta & Michael Keating
Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities by Amanda E. Lewis
What is Qualitative Research? by Martyn Hammersly
Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education by Barbara E. Fassler Walvoord & Trudy W. Banta
Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us by Claude M. Steele
Teaching What You Don’t Know by Therese Huston
Face to Face: A Sourcebook of Individual Consultation Techniques for Faculty/Instructional Developers Edited by Karron G. Lewis & Joyce T. Povlacs Lunde
Mapping the Range of Graduate Student Professional Development Edited by Laura L. B. Border
The Teaching Assistant Training Handbook: How to Prepare TAs for Their Responsibilities Edited by Loreto R. Prieto & S. A. Meyers
Studies in Graduate and Professional Student Development Edited by Laura L. B. Border
Effective Grading by Barbara E. Fassler Walvoord & Virginia Johnson Anderson
Workshops: Designing and Facilitating Experiential Learning by Jeff E. Brooks-Harris & Susan R. Stock-Ward
A Guide to Faculty Development Edited by Kay J. Gillespie & Douglas L. Robertson
The Professional Development of Graduate Teaching Assistants Edited by M. Marincovich, J. Prostko, & F. Stout
Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty by James M. Lang
Practically Speaking: A Sourcebook for Instructional Consultants in Higher Education, 2nd ed. Edited by Kathleen T. Brinko
How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan A. Ambrose, Marsha C. Lovett, Michael W. Bridges, Michele DePietro, & Marie K. Norman
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy by Barbara Applebaum
Power, Voice and the Public Good: Schooling and Education in Global Societies Edited by Rodney K. Hopson, Carol Camp Yeakey, and Francis Musa Boakari
Education and National Development by Ingemar Fägerlind and L. Saha
Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research by Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Strauss
The Evolution of Liberal Arts in the Global Age Edited by Peter Marber and Daniel Araya
Routledge International Companion to Education Edited by Bob Moon, Sally Brown, and Miriam Ben-Peretz
Blackness Visible by Charles W. Mills
The Equal Society: Essays on Equality in Theory and Practice Edited by George Hull
Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays Edited by Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt
Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education Edited by James A. Banks
We Are All Multiculturalists Now by Nathan Glazer
School Choice: The Moral Debate Edited by Alan Wolfe
The Architecture of the Language Faculty by Ray S. Jackendoff
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory: An Introduction by Howard Eichenbaum
How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe? by John R. Anderson
Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition Edited by Amy Gutmann
Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Edited by Susan Moller Okin
Religion & American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma by Warren A. Nord
Understanding Student Rights in School: Speech, Religion, and Privacy in Educational Settings by Bryan R. Warnick
Introduction to Connectionist Modelling of Cognitive Processes by Peter McLeod, Kim Plunkett, and Edmund T. Rolls
On Education by Harry Brighouse
Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal Democracy by Eamonn Callann
Moral and Political Education Edited by Stephen Macedo & Yael Tamir
Religious Schools V. Children’s Rights by James G. Dwyer
Children: Rights and childhood, Second edition by David Archard
Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience Edited by Bernard J. Baars & Nicole M. Cage
School Choice Policies and Outcomes: Empirical and Philosophical Perspectives Edited by Walter Feinberg & Christopher Lubienski
A Companion to the Philosophy of Education Edited by Randall Curren
Handbook of Classroom Management Edited by Edmund Emmer & Edward Sabornie
Educational Equality by Harry Brighouse, James Tooley, Kenneth R. Howe, & Graham Haydon
Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence Edited by John Haugeland
Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea by John Haugeland
The Moral Dimensions of Teaching: Language, Power, and Culture in Classroom Interaction by Cary Buzzelli and Bill Johnston
Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar Evolution by Ray S. Jackendoff
Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, vol. 1 Edited by Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner
Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships by Harry Brighouse & Adam Swift
Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap by Richard Rothstein
The Psychology of Language by Paul Whitney
Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy by Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science Edited by Keith Frankish & William M. Ramsey
Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind by José Luis Bermúdez
The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education by Diana E. Hess & Paula McAvoy
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Toward a Framework of Resources for Learning to Teach: Rethinking US Teacher Preparation by Lauren Gatti
Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Edited by Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn
The Public and Its Problems by John Dewey
After Rawls Edited by SJ Dariusz Dankowski and Anna Krzynówek-Arndt
Learning to Teach Through Discussion: The Art of Turning the Soul by Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon
Ethics and Education by R. S. Peters
Education’s Epistemology: Rationality, Diversity, and Critical Thinking by Harvey Siegel
Marx and Education by Jean Anyon
How Physics Makes Us Free by J. T. Ismael
Philosophical Documents in Education, 4th edition Edited by Tony W. Johnson & Ronald F. Reed
The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern
Experiencing Time by Simon Prosser
Confessions by Augustine of Hippo, Translated by Henry Chadwick & Albert Cook Outler
On the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard Law School, the First Century by Daniel R. Coquillette & Bruce A. Kimball
Schooling and the Politics of Disaster Edited by Kenneth J. Saltman
Education Research in the Public Interest: Social Justice, Action, and Policy Edited by Gloria Ladson-Billings
Philosophy: An Introduction through Literature Edited by Lowell Kleiman & Stephen Lewis
Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle Translated by David Ross William
Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy Edited by Joel Feinberg
Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence, 2nd Edition Edited by Susan Schneider
Columbus State Community College: An Informal History by David Meyers & Elise Meyers Walker
Fair Work: Ethics, Social Policy, Globalization Edited by Kory P Schaff
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession by Rakesh Khurana
The Cambridge Companion to Rilke Edited by Karen Leeder
Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology Edited by Eric S. Rabkin
Philosophers on Education: Historical Perspectives Edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
Sartre by Marjorie Grene
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre by Christin Daigle
Public and Private High Schools: The Impact of Communities by James S. Coleman & Thomas Hoffa
Calvino’s Combinational Creativity Edited by Elizabeth Scheiber
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, Translated by Martin L. McLaughlin, Tim Parks, and William Weaver
Getting Mentored in Graduate School by W. Brad Johnson & Jennifer M. Huwe
Professionalism, the Third Logic: On the Practice of Knowledge by Elliot Freidson
The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor by Andrew Abbott
The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Literature Edited by Noël Carroll, John Gibson
The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism by Brian McHale
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, Translated by Andrew Hurley
Student Growth Measures in Policy and Practice: Intended and Unintended Consequences of High-Stakes Teacher Evaluations Edited by Kimberly Kappler Hewitt & Audrey Amrein-Beardsley
The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide Edited by John M. Darley, Mark P. Zanna, & Henry L. Roediger III
The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America’s Public Schools by David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle
The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement by Septima Clark
The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lehmann
History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics by David Randall
June 2023
Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do by James Thurber and E. B. White
Horace Mann; Educating for Democracy by Jessie Treichler
Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters by Jessica Valenti
May 2023
Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau, Edited by Brooks Atkinson
Selected Letters of James Thurber Edited by Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks
April 2023
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Horace’s School: Redesigning the American High School by Theodore R. Sizer
Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature: Politics, Curriculum, Pedagogy Edited by James F. Slevin and Art Young
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, Fifth Edition Edited by John Storey
March 2023
The Philosopher’s Handbook: Essential Readings from Plato to Kant Edited by Stanley Rosen
Seeing Together: Mind, Matter, and the Experimental Outlook of John Dewey and Arthur F. Bentley by Frank X. Ryan
The Edward Said Reader Edited by Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin
February 2023
The Merger: The Conglomeration of International Organized Crime by Jeffrey Robinson
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
A World of Ideas: A Dictionary of Important Theories, Concepts, Beliefs, and Thinkers by Chris Rohmann
January 2023
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School Expanded Edition by John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, Rodney R. Cocking, M. Suzanne Donovan, & James W. Pellegrino
A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World’s Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam
The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki
The 9/11 Commission Report by The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings by Katherine S. Newman, Cybelle Fox, David J. Harding, Jal Mehta, and Wendy Roth
Gorgias by Plato, Translated by W. C. Helmbold
When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools: Class, Race & the Challenge of Equity in Public Education by Linn Posey-Maddox
December 2022
The Essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Translated by Charles Cotton, Edited by W. Carew Hazlitt
African-American English: Structure, History, and Use Edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene, John R. Rickford, Guy Bailey, & John Baugh
Galatea: A Short Story by Madeline Miller
The Ohio Literary Trail: A Guide by Betty Weibel
The Essential Compendium of Dad Jokes: The Best of the Worst Dad Jokes for the Painfully Punny Parent – 301 Jokes! Edited by Thomas Nowak
August 2022
Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools Edited by Deborah Meier and George Wood
Who Will Teach For America? by Michael Shapiro
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
On Liberty and The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill, Edited by Alan Ryan
July 2022
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
New Occasions to Teach New Duties Edited by Craig Kridel
Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings, Second edition Edited by Michael J. Loux
Learning to Heal: The Development of American Medical Education by Kenneth M. Ludmerer
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx, Edited by Samuel H. Beer
Ohio University Composition Program Readings on Writing, Third Edition Edited by Cactus May, Talitha May, and Mara Holt
June 2022
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
The Harris History: A Collection of Tales of Long Ago of Southeastern Ohio and Adjoining Territories by Charles Henry Harris
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Hatred in the Hallways by Michael Bochenek and A. Widney Brown
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden
Thank You and You’re Welcome by Kanye West
May 2022
The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales Edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora Smith, Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri, Translated by John Ciardi
Moby Dick (An Enriched Classics Edition) by Herman Melville, Edited by Maxwell Geismar
West Side Story by Arthur Laurents
Education, Justice, & Democracy Edited by Danielle Allen & Rob Reich
Black English by J. L. Dillard
Education Myths: What Special-Interest Groups Want You to Believe about Our Schools–and Why It Isn’t So by Jay P. Greene
April 2022
The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind by Justin Driver
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
March 2022
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Interesting Stories for Curios People: A Collection of Fascinating Stories About History, Science, Pop Culture and Just About Anything Else You Can Think of by Bill O’Neill
January 2022
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Introduction and Notes by E. B. Greenwood
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Ethan Frome and Summer by Edith Wharton
December 2021
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Wonderful O by James Thurber
October 2021
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado
September 2021
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang
August 2021
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare with Themes of the Plays
The Insurrection by Antonio Skármeta, Translated by Paula Sharp
The Contemporary American Poets: American Poetry since 1940 Edited by Mark Strand
The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles, Translated by Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson with an Introduction by Sid Hite
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
July 2021
Modern Social Imaginaries by Charles Taylor
June 2021
Dilemmas and Connections: Selected Essays by Charles Taylor
Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited by Charles Taylor
May 2021
The Explanation of Behaviour by Charles Taylor
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo
The Riverside Milton Edited by Roy Flannagan
The Little Lame Prince by Miss Mulock
Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition by Pablo Neruda, Translated by Anthony Kerrigan, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reid, and Nathaniel Tarn
Woven Stone by Simon Ortiz
250 Poems: A Portable Anthology, Second Edition Edited by Peter Schakel & Jack Ridl
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, Translated by Carol Brown Janeway
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
April 2021
Education, Dialogue, and Hermeneutics Edited by Paul Fairfield
Philosophy and the Human Sciences: Philosophical Papers 2 by Charles Taylor
March 2021
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond
Theorizing Praxis: Studies in Hermeneutical Pragmatism by Paul Fairfield
February 2021
Human Agency and Language: Philosophical Papers I by Charles Taylor
Philosophical Arguments by Charles Taylor
January 2021
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, Third edition by Manning Marable
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Mystery of Grandfather’s Coat by Helen A. Monsell
December 2020
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey by Brian D. McLaren
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith with a Foreword by Anna Quindlen
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay
You Haven’t Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden’s Teaching Principles and Practices by Swen Nater & Ronald Gallimore
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marble
The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor
November 2020
Amerika by Franz Kafka, Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence with an Introduction by Richard Hoggart
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Liberating Scholarly Writing: The Power of Personal Narrative by Robert J. Nash
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
October 2020
The Bostonians by Henry James
Daisy Miller by Henry James
September 2020
The Ambassadors by Henry James
August 2020
Four Major Plays: Volume I – A Doll House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen, Translated by Rolf Fjelde
July 2020
The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Documentary History Edited by Bruce Kimball
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Hawthorne’s Short Stories Edited by Newton Arvin
Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes
The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Teachers by Gloria Ladson-Billings
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Edited by Arnold Rampersand & David Roessel
Island by Aldous Huxley
Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies by Howard Wainer
June 2020
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Grimm’s Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm
The Firm by John Grisham
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School by Amy Brown
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
May 2020
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, Translated by Ralph Manhelm
The Christmas List by Richard Paul Evans
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
The House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
April 2020
Writing Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Communicating in the Policy Making Process by Catherine F. Smith
Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway Edited by Corinne Demas
The Young Adventurer by Horatio Alger
Strive and Succeed by Horatio Alger
Do and Dare by Horatio Alger
Brave and Bold by Horatio Alger
Making His Way by Horatio Alger
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl
Selected Poems by Rita Dove
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Children’s Thinking by Robert S. Siegler & Martha Wagner Alibali
Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again by Bent Flyvbjerg
March 2020
The Good Life of Teaching: An Ethics of Professional Practice by Chris Higgins
Approaches to Teaching, 2nd ed. by Gary D. Fenstermacher & Jonas F. Soltis
The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein
World’s Great Detective Stories Edited by Will Cuppy
Teaching Teachers: Changing Paths and Enduring Debates by James W. Fraser and Lauren Lefty
Preparing America’s Teachers: A History by James W. Fraser
February 2020
The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory C. Colomb, & Joseph M. Williams
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
January 2020
Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self by Linda Martín Alcoff
The Major Plays by Anton Chekhov
December 2019
Emma by Jane Austen
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle Allen
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. by Daniella Allen
Things that Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett
October 2019
Postpositivism and Educational Research by D. C. Phillips & Nicholas C. Burbules
September 2019
The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Educating for Empathy: Literacy Learning and Civic Engagement by Nicole Mirra
August 2019
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Equality, Citizenship, and Segregation: A Defense of Separation by Michael S. Merry
Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity by Joseph Fishkin
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller
Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins
Keep This Forever by Mark Halliday
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
July 2019
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntrye
Charles Taylor: Meaning, Morals, and Modernity by Nicholas Smith
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity by Charles Taylor
Philosophical Writing: An Introduction by A. P. Martinich
June 2019
Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
May 2019
The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice by Derrick Darby & John L. Rury
What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
March 2019
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students by Allan Bloom
The Imperative of Integration by Elizabeth Anderson
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack
Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons by Liza Donnelly
February 2019
The Riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer, Edited by Larry D. Benson
Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility by Jennifer M. Morton
January 2019
Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus by Dinesh D’Souza
How Americans Make Race: Stories, Institutions, Spaces by Clarissa Rile Hayward
December 2018
Black Panther: World of Wakanda
November 2018
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel
Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries Edited by Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay
October 2018
Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
Tulips & Chimneys by E. E. Cummings
September 2018
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Trampoline by Robert Gipe
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
August 2018
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
July 2018
Reasoning: A Social Picture by Anthony Simon Laden
No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail Thernstrom & Stephan Thernstrom
Work Hard, Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America by Jay Matthews
Oneself as Another by Paul Ricouer, Translated by Kathleen Blamey
Dennett and Ricoeur on the Narrative Self by Joan McCarthy
Critical Narrative as Pedagogy by Ivor Goodson and Scherto Gill
June 2018
Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman by Jane Roland Martin
Learning from the Other: Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and Ethical Possibilities in Education by Sharon Todd
4000 Years of Christmas: A Gift from the Ages by Earl W. Count & Alice Lawson Count
Happiness and Education by Nel Noddings
Justice by Harry Brighouse
May 2018
The Individual, Society, and Education: A History of American Educational Ideas, Second Edition by Clarence J. Karier
The “True Professional Ideal” in America: A History by Bruce A. Kimball
The Ethics of Teaching by Kenneth Strike & Jonas F. Soltis
Ricouer’s Critical Theory by David M. Kaplan
Hollywood Goes to High School: Cinema, Schools, and American Culture by Robert C. Bulman
Educational Goods: Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making by Harry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd, Susanna Loeb, and Adam Swift
April 2018
The Trouble with Ed Schools by David F. Labaree
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care by Kenneth Ludmerer
Água Viva by Clarice Linspector, Translated by Stefan Tobler with a Foreword by Benjamin Moser
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden with a Foreword by Susan Sontag
March 2018
Toward a Philosophy of the Act by Mikhail M. Bakhtin, Translated by Vaidn Liapunov
An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftmanship with Students by Ron Berger
Teaching Interculturally: A Framework for Integrating Disciplinary Knowledge and Intercultural Development by Amy Lee
From a Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind: National Educational Goals and the Creation of Federal Education Policy by Maris A. Vinovskis
February 2018
Emile for Today: The Emile of Jean Jacques Rousseau Edited by William Boyd
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigg by Rainer Maria Rilke Translated by Robert Vilain
January 2018
The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools by Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Dare the School Build a New Social Order? by George S. Counts
December 2017
First Meetings in Ender’s Universe by Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
The Fix by David Baldacci
“So What Are You Going to Do With That?” Finding Careers Outside Academia by Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius
November 2017
A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving, Fourth Ed. by Eugene Bardach
Highlander: No Ordinary School, 1932-1962 by John M. Glen
Stories Lives Tell: Narrative and Dialogue in Education Edited by Carol Witherell & Nel Noddings
Motivation in Education: Theory, Research, and Applications by D. H. Schunk, J. R. Meece, and P. R. Pintrich
October 2017
Education and Social Change: Contours in the History of American Education by John L. Rury
Imitation and Education: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Learning by Example by Bryan R. Warnick
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making by Deborah Stone
Learning Together by David Tyack and Elizabeth Hansot
September 2017
Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society by David Tyack
Philosophy of Education by Nel Noddings
Democratic Education by Amy Gutmann
August 2017
Voices of a People’s History of the United States, Second Edition by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove
The Last Mile by David Baldacci
On Democracy by Robert A. Dahl
July 2017
Rhizcomics: Rhetoric, Technology, and New Media Composition by Jason Helms
How to Meditate: A Guide to Self-Discovery by Lawrence LeShan
Crossing Borders: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh Edited by Tapan Basu and Tasneem Shahnaaz
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America by Donna Foote
May 2017
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism by Cornel West
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Utopia Is Creepy and Other Provocations by Nicholas Carr
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For by David McCullough
In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Other Works by Frederick Douglass
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future by Mark Bauerlein
April 2017
The Sound and the Fury: A Norton Critical Edition by William Faulkner, Edited by David Minter
White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism Edited by Paula S. Rothenberg
How We Think by John Dewey
Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish
March 2017
Philosophy and History of Education: Diverse Perspectives on Their Value and Relationship Edited by Antoinette Errante, Jackie Blount, Bruce A. Kimball
January 2017
Researching Writing: An Introduction to Research Methods by Joyce Kinkead
Pedagogy in Process by Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
The Portable Faulkner Edited by Malcolm Crowley
When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in Critical Pedagogy by Ira Shor
December 2016
Freedom and Beyond by John Holt
November 2016
English in Today’s Research World, vol. 2: Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review by Christine B. Feak & John M. Swales
October 2016
Literacy in American Lives by Deborah Brandt
Sula by Toni Morrison
September 2016
Critical Teaching & Everyday Life by Ira Shor
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
August 2016
Writing Across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing by Kathleen Blake Yancey, Liane Robertson, & Kara Taczak
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing by A. S. Neill
July 2016
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
The Storied Life of A.J. Filkry by Gabrielle Zevin
Toward a Composition Made Whole by Jody Shipka
Dissemination by Jacques Derrida, Translated by Barbara Johnson
Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger, Translated by Albert Hofstadter
The Portable Kristeva Edited by Kelly Oliver
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
June 2016
The Art of Profiling: Reading People Right the First Time, Expanded Second Edition by Dan Korem
What the Dog Saw and other adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Cracy by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Writing Centers and the New Racism: A Call for Sustainable Dialogue and Change Edited by Laura Greenfield and Karen Rowan
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Class Politics: The Movement for the Students’ Right to Their Own Language by Stephen Parks
White by Richard Dyer
Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness by Krista Ratcliffe
The Republic of Plato Translated by Allan Bloom
May 2016
Transformation Now! by AnaLouise Keating
Multimodal Literacies And Emerging Genres Edited by Tracey Bowen and Carl Whithaus
Can I use I? Because I Hate, Hate, Hate College Writing by Catherine Prendergast; illustrated by Hann Lindahl
April 2016
The Study of Nonstandard English by William Labov
Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues by AnaLouise Keating
March 2016
Trilogy by H.D.
Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn’Arabi by Henry Corbin
The Negro Family: The Case for National Action Research by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
February 2016
Parmenides by Martin Heidegger
Holderlin’s Hymn The Ister by Martin Heidegger
January 2016
McKeahie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research and Theory for College and University Teachers by William J. McKeachie and Marilla Svinicki
English in America: A Radical View of the Profession by Richard Ohmann
Phaedrus by Plato
Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy by Jason Palmeri
December 2015
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr
Plunder and Deceit: Big Government’s Exploitation of Young People and the Future by Mark R. Levin
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton
Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness by Rita Charon
On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate by Sondra Perl
English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s) Edited by Bruce McComiskey
Graduate Study for the 21st Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities by Gregory Colon Semenza
Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrate Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom by John C. Bean
Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being by Deepak Chopra and Rudolph E. Tanzi
November 2015
Depression: A Public Feeling by Ann Czetkovich
First-Year Writing and the Somatic Exchange by Douglas Robinson
October 2015
Writing at the End of the World by Richard E. Miller
Understanding New Media: Extending Marshall McLuhan by Robert K. Logan
A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966 by Joseph Harris
September 2015
The Peaceable Classroom by Mary Rose O’Reilley
Bodily Discourses: When Students Write About Abuse and Eating Disorders by Michelle Payne
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom by Jeffrey Berman
August 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
July 2015
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Frances Berry
Pygmallion by George Bernard Shaw & My Fair Lady by Alan Jay Lerner
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy by Donald Miller
June 2015
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot By the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
Once Upon a Secret by Mimi Alford
May 2015
Readings in Modern Philosophy, Volume II: Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Associated Texts Edited by Roger Ariew and Eric Watkins
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
April 2015
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
March 2015
Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? and other Imponderables: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained by David Feldman
I Never Met a Kid I Liked by W.C. Fields
Ohio’s Education Reform Challenges: Lessons from the Frontlines by Chester E. Finn, Jr., Terry Ryan, and Michael B. Lafferty
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
February 2015
The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy by Jon Gordon
January 2015
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform by Derrick Bell
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Ahmir Questlove Thompson
Einstein’s God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit by Krista Tippett
Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality by Rob Bell
December 2014
Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community by Elijah Anderson
Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
Education and Living by Randolph Bourne
The Philosophical Act by Josef Pieper
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
November 2014
Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. DuBois
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis
Participation and Democratic Theory by Carole Pateman
A Study of Thinking by Jerome S. Bruner, Jacqueline Jarrett Goodnow & George Austin
Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works by Elizabeth Green
Open: What Happens When You Get Real, Get Honest, and Get Accountable by Craig Gross
September 2014
Caste and Class in a Southern Town by John Dollard
Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
August 2014
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol
Still Failing at Fairness: How Gender Bias Cheats Girls and Boys in School and What We Can Do About It by David & Myra Sadker & Karen R. Zittleman
Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School edited by Mica Pollock
Go Small: because God doesn’t care about your status, size, or success by Craig Gross
Culture Shock: A Biblical Response to Today’s Most Divisive Issues by Chip Ingram
The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 by Richard D. Altick
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America by John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman
July 2014
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents by Michael Gurian
Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can Do About It by Eric Jensen
The Black-White Achievement Gap: Why Closing It Is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time by Rod Paige and Elaine Witty
The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do by Peg Tyre
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis
June 2014
Human Society in Ethics and Politics by Bertrand Russell
Literary Essays by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life by Ben Sherwood
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams by Deepak Chopra
The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow by John C. Maxwell
A Course in Miracles: Text, Workbook for Students, Manual for Teachers by the Foundation for Inner Peace
May 2014
America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power edited by G. John Ikenberry
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools by Diane Ravitch
Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo
George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century by Walter Laqueur
The Teaching of Mathematics by Raymond Manchester
April 2014
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku
The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies by Iam Buruma & Avishai Margault
Five Sermons by Joseph Butler
The Scientific Analysis of Personality by Raymond B. Cattell
The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beuavoir
Spirit of Golf by Tim N. Kremer
On the Improvement of the Understanding; The Ethics; Correspondence by Benedict de Spinoza
The Politics of Truth by Michel Foucault
Literary Modernism edited by Irving Howe
March 2014
Essays of the Masters Edited by Charles Neider
How You Can Play Better Golf Using Self-Hypnosis by Jack Heise
For the Love of the Game by Michael Shaara
Bleachers by John Grisham
The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth
Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Understanding Human Nature by Alfred Adler
February 2014
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
Plan B Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamont
Experience and Education by John Dewey
Democracy and Education by John Dewey
The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
Drive by Daniel H. Pink
Foucault and the Government of Disability Edited by Shelley Tremain
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
The First Sex by Elizabeth Gould Williams
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy Edited by Gregory Bassham
January 2014
The Hero Within by Deborah L. Grassman
Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell
Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
Thinking in Numbers by Daniel Tammet
October 2013
All About Love by bell hooks
August 2013
Walden Two by B. F. Skinner
The First Days of School by Harry K. Wong & Rosemary T. Wong
The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
Every Child Can Succeed by William Glasser
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
July 2013
Living for Change by Grace Lee Boggs
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough
June 2013
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Made in Detroit by Paul Clemens
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue
Hidden History of Detroit by Amy Elliot Bragg
Reimagining Detroit: Opportunities for Redefining an American City by John Gallagher
May 2013
The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Zizek
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault
The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
The Beak and Claws of America by Vic Donahey
Honest Vic by Cecil Richmond Bartlett
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Saving the World by Julia Alvarez
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Love by Toni Morrison
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Home by Toni Morrison
Soul City by Touré
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? by Danzy Senna
See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid
April 2013
Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Derrick Bell
Drown by Junot Díaz
Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller
March 2013
The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Rob Bell
Beloved by Toni Morrison
February 2013
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Before I Started Keeping Log
Pragmatism: A Reader Edited by Louis Menand (read in October 2010)
Spencer J Smith 