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
49,208 members
585 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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2
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
24,017 members
367 reviews
4
4 Members
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3
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
46,919 members
746 reviews
4
5 Members
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4
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
22,404 members
1,354 reviews
4
4 Members
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5
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
16,864 members
776 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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6
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
25,738 members
739 reviews
4
4 Members
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7
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
93,427 members
1,505 reviews
½ 4.4
5 Members
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8
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
14,580 members
874 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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9
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,510 members
343 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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10
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
63,073 members
1,137 reviews
4
4 Members
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11
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
13,202 members
607 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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12
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,201 members
868 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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13
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
13,221 members
282 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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14
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
12,070 members
600 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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15
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
23,842 members
960 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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16
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,798 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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17
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
18,749 members
577 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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18
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
15,539 members
282 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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19
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
11,164 members
395 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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20
March: Book One
by John Lewis
3,746 members
169 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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21
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
24,053 members
851 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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22
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
11,909 members
270 reviews
4
4 Members
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23
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
28,590 members
540 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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24
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
8,331 members
235 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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25
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
7,586 members
176 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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26
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
5,661 members
248 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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27
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
30,841 members
1,104 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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28
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
8,043 members
410 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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29
Real Life
by Brandon Taylor
1,207 members
44 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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30
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
7,309 members
393 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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31
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
17,219 members
518 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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32
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
20,534 members
748 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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33
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
13,108 members
152 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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34
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
12,101 members
525 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
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35
The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
8,259 members
282 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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36
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,065 members
644 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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37
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
6,806 members
338 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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39
This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar
7,359 members
323 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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40
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
3,694 members
128 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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41
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
5,972 members
180 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
25,233 members
757 reviews
4
2 Members
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43
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
7,309 members
320 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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44
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
8,027 members
289 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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45
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
12,244 members
114 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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46
The Road from Coorain
by Jill Ker Conway
1,894 members
37 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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47
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
4,279 members
166 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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48
Circe
by Madeline Miller
18,287 members
577 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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49
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
5,866 members
212 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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50
Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
2,542 members
72 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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51
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,341 members
230 reviews
4
2 Members
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52
Redeployment
by Phil Klay
1,664 members
73 reviews
4
2 Members
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53
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
49,560 members
779 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
1,157 members
25 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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55
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
12,389 members
485 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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56
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
3,175 members
173 reviews
4
2 Members
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57
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
2,539 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
6,829 members
150 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
432 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
1,460 members
24 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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61
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,094 members
180 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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62
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
4,299 members
227 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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63
Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
6,805 members
291 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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64
The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
16,786 members
640 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
6,911 members
164 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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66
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
7,273 members
258 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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68
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
27,347 members
480 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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69
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
3,359 members
200 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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70
There There
by Tommy Orange
6,047 members
243 reviews
4
2 Members
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71
The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
2,805 members
135 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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72
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
9,584 members
330 reviews
4
2 Members
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73
The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
2,877 members
109 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
2,127 members
101 reviews
3.8
Member
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75
Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson
1,729 members
89 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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76
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
3,707 members
233 reviews
4
2 Members
hipdeep, gypsysmom
77
Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
9,331 members
404 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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78
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
3,390 members
126 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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79
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
9,941 members
434 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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80
The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
4,398 members
204 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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81
Lady Tan's Circle of Women
by Lisa See
1,819 members
75 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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82
Longbourn
by Jo Baker
3,038 members
206 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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83
Brotherless Night
by V. V. Ganeshanathan
399 members
26 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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84
James
by Percival Everett
5,831 members
227 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
2,103 members
73 reviews
4.2
2 Members
hipdeep, gypsysmom
86
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
by Kate Marvel
65 members
3 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
87
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
14,843 members
265 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
88
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
by Priya Parker
1,228 members
30 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
89
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
by Francis Su
210 members
5 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
hipdeep
90
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by Jordan Ellenberg
2,347 members
35 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
91
Barkskins
by Annie Proulx
1,811 members
88 reviews
3.8
Member
gypsysmom
93
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
by Ruha Benjamin
382 members
3 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
94
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
by Michael Eric Dyson
834 members
29 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
95
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
5,213 members
96 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
96
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
8,850 members
187 reviews
3.9
Member
gypsysmom
97
Black Panther HC Volume 01: A Nation Under Our Feet
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
94 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
hipdeep
98
Mules and Men
by Zora Neale Hurston
1,265 members
11 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
99
Sonata Mulattica: Poems
by Rita Dove
127 members
4 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
100
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by Steve Silberman
1,536 members
66 reviews
4.2
Member
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