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
49,316 members
585 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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2
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
24,101 members
369 reviews
4
4 Members
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3
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
47,041 members
749 reviews
4
5 Members
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4
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
22,464 members
1,355 reviews
4
4 Members
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5
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
16,921 members
777 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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6
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
25,864 members
739 reviews
4
4 Members
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7
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
93,835 members
1,510 reviews
½ 4.4
5 Members
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8
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
14,628 members
872 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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9
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,543 members
343 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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10
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
63,273 members
1,141 reviews
4
4 Members
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11
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
13,218 members
608 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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12
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,286 members
866 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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13
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
13,253 members
282 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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14
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
12,121 members
602 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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15
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
23,922 members
964 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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16
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,847 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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17
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
18,787 members
576 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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18
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
15,553 members
282 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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19
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
11,240 members
396 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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20
March: Book One
by John Lewis
3,759 members
168 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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21
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
24,129 members
853 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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22
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
11,947 members
271 reviews
4
4 Members
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23
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
28,637 members
539 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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24
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
8,367 members
235 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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25
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
7,633 members
178 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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26
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
5,708 members
247 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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27
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
30,903 members
1,105 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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28
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
8,084 members
410 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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29
Real Life
by Brandon Taylor
1,204 members
44 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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30
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
7,336 members
396 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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31
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
17,402 members
522 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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32
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
20,680 members
749 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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33
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
13,113 members
152 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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34
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
12,128 members
525 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
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35
The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
8,288 members
283 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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36
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,146 members
645 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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37
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
6,825 members
339 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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39
This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar
7,445 members
324 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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40
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
3,707 members
130 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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41
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
6,020 members
182 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
25,303 members
756 reviews
4
2 Members
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43
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
7,174 members
321 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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44
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
8,090 members
290 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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45
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
12,263 members
115 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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46
The Road from Coorain
by Jill Ker Conway
1,897 members
37 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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47
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
4,306 members
166 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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48
Circe
by Madeline Miller
18,422 members
581 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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49
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
5,909 members
213 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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50
Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
2,541 members
72 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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51
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,372 members
231 reviews
4
2 Members
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52
Redeployment
by Phil Klay
1,668 members
72 reviews
4
2 Members
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53
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
49,618 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
1,164 members
25 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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55
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
12,450 members
484 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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56
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
3,188 members
175 reviews
4
2 Members
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57
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
2,545 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
6,866 members
151 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
1,464 members
24 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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61
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,115 members
179 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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62
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
4,320 members
227 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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63
Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
6,888 members
294 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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64
The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
16,918 members
643 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
6,971 members
167 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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66
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
7,350 members
263 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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68
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
27,326 members
480 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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69
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
3,371 members
200 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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70
There There
by Tommy Orange
6,083 members
243 reviews
4
2 Members
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71
The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
2,671 members
137 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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72
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
9,674 members
335 reviews
4
2 Members
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73
The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
2,897 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
2,137 members
101 reviews
3.8
Member
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75
Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson
1,728 members
89 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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76
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
3,734 members
233 reviews
4
2 Members
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77
Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
9,426 members
402 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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78
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
3,440 members
129 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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79
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
10,050 members
436 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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80
The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
4,408 members
203 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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81
Lady Tan's Circle of Women
by Lisa See
1,845 members
77 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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82
Longbourn
by Jo Baker
3,046 members
206 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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83
Brotherless Night
by V. V. Ganeshanathan
401 members
26 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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84
James
by Percival Everett
5,928 members
229 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
2,177 members
76 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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86
Memorial Days: A Memoir
by Geraldine Brooks
581 members
31 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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87
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
by Kate Marvel
67 members
3 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
88
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
14,907 members
265 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
89
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
by Priya Parker
1,233 members
30 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
90
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
by Francis Su
210 members
5 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
hipdeep
91
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by Jordan Ellenberg
2,365 members
35 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
92
Barkskins
by Annie Proulx
1,817 members
89 reviews
3.8
Member
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94
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
by Ruha Benjamin
383 members
3 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
95
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
by Michael Eric Dyson
838 members
29 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
96
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
5,244 members
96 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
97
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
8,872 members
188 reviews
3.9
Member
gypsysmom
98
Black Panther HC Volume 01: A Nation Under Our Feet
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
94 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
hipdeep
99
Mules and Men
by Zora Neale Hurston
1,265 members
11 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
100
Sonata Mulattica: Poems
by Rita Dove
126 members
4 reviews
4.1
Member
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