Phi Beta Kappa reading list

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Books chosen for the Phi Beta Kappa "summer reading lists" or "top books of the year."
1
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
49,539 members
586 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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2
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
24,124 members
371 reviews
4
4 Members
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3
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
47,307 members
748 reviews
4
5 Members
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4
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
22,570 members
1,358 reviews
4
4 Members
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5
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
16,979 members
777 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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6
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
26,016 members
740 reviews
4
4 Members
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7
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
94,332 members
1,511 reviews
½ 4.4
5 Members
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8
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
14,703 members
875 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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9
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,599 members
343 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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10
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
63,579 members
1,142 reviews
4
4 Members
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11
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
13,314 members
608 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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12
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,433 members
869 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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13
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
13,246 members
281 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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14
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
12,206 members
606 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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15
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
24,077 members
969 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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16
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,884 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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17
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
18,859 members
578 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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18
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
15,619 members
283 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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19
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
11,326 members
396 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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20
March: Book One
by John Lewis
3,780 members
168 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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21
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
24,271 members
857 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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22
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
12,003 members
272 reviews
4
4 Members
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23
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
28,723 members
539 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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24
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
8,433 members
237 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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25
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
7,725 members
178 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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26
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
5,735 members
247 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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27
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
30,882 members
1,107 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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28
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
8,092 members
412 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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29
Real Life
by Brandon Taylor
1,209 members
43 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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30
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
7,388 members
398 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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31
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
17,673 members
525 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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32
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
20,907 members
753 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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33
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
13,176 members
152 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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34
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
12,149 members
526 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
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35
The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
8,330 members
283 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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36
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,295 members
650 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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37
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
6,847 members
339 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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39
This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar
7,517 members
325 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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40
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
3,730 members
132 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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41
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
6,114 members
181 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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42
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
25,280 members
759 reviews
4
2 Members
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43
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
7,237 members
321 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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44
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
8,184 members
290 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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45
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
12,318 members
115 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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46
The Road from Coorain
by Jill Ker Conway
1,904 members
38 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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47
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
4,350 members
167 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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48
Circe
by Madeline Miller
18,643 members
583 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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49
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
5,967 members
215 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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50
Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
2,553 members
72 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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51
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,450 members
232 reviews
4
2 Members
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52
Redeployment
by Phil Klay
1,676 members
72 reviews
4
2 Members
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53
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50,245 members
782 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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54
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by Ibram X. Kendi
1,169 members
25 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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55
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
12,547 members
484 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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56
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
3,199 members
175 reviews
4
2 Members
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57
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
2,555 members
86 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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58
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
6,916 members
152 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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59
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
by Eugenia Cheng
435 members
12 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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60
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
by Penny Le Couteur
1,471 members
24 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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61
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,155 members
180 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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62
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
4,365 members
228 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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63
Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
7,002 members
294 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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64
The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
17,160 members
649 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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65
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
6,967 members
170 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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66
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
7,497 members
264 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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68
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
27,503 members
482 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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69
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
3,386 members
201 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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70
There There
by Tommy Orange
6,127 members
246 reviews
4
2 Members
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71
The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
2,692 members
137 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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72
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
9,683 members
338 reviews
4
2 Members
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73
The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
2,930 members
110 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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74
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil
2,162 members
101 reviews
3.8
Member
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75
Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson
1,735 members
90 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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76
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
3,764 members
233 reviews
4
2 Members
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77
Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
9,488 members
406 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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78
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
3,479 members
130 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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79
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
10,227 members
438 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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80
The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
4,435 members
204 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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81
Lady Tan's Circle of Women
by Lisa See
1,884 members
77 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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82
Longbourn
by Jo Baker
3,060 members
206 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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83
Brotherless Night
by V. V. Ganeshanathan
404 members
27 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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84
James
by Percival Everett
6,064 members
233 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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85
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by John Green
2,260 members
78 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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86
Memorial Days: A Memoir
by Geraldine Brooks
588 members
31 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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87
The God of the Woods
by Liz Moore
4,737 members
162 reviews
4
2 Members
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88
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
by Kate Marvel
68 members
3 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
89
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
15,013 members
266 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
90
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
by Priya Parker
1,249 members
30 reviews
3.8
Member
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91
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
by Francis Su
211 members
5 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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92
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by Jordan Ellenberg
2,377 members
35 reviews
3.8
Member
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93
Barkskins
by Annie Proulx
1,829 members
89 reviews
3.8
Member
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95
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
by Ruha Benjamin
384 members
3 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
96
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
by Michael Eric Dyson
839 members
29 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
97
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
5,277 members
96 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
98
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
8,865 members
188 reviews
3.9
Member
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99
Black Panther HC Volume 01: A Nation Under Our Feet
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
95 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
hipdeep
100
Mules and Men
by Zora Neale Hurston
1,268 members
11 reviews
3.9
Member
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