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."
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
40,728 members
507 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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2
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
19,515 members
303 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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3
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
37,045 members
604 reviews
4
5 Members
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4
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
16,758 members
1,220 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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5
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
13,652 members
736 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
19,412 members
666 reviews
4
4 Members
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7
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
10,358 members
745 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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8
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
8,444 members
473 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
13,575 members
764 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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10
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
7,887 members
477 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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11
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
7,116 members
343 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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12
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
16,391 members
820 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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13
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
16,312 members
519 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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14
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
7,314 members
332 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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15
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7,090 members
285 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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16
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
11,638 members
255 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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17
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
5,922 members
195 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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18
March: Book One
by John Lewis
2,700 members
158 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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19
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
25,373 members
495 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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20
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
5,348 members
329 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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21
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
42,520 members
660 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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22
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
5,263 members
309 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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23
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
10,940 members
132 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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24
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
7,907 members
438 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
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25
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
18,819 members
745 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
6,401 members
243 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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27
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
13,218 members
232 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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29
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2,319 members
106 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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30
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
20,871 members
679 reviews
4
2 Members
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31
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
4,951 members
114 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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32
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
26,755 members
1,015 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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33
The Road from Coorain
by Jill Ker Conway
1,729 members
32 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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34
Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
1,811 members
64 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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35
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
15,405 members
199 reviews
4
2 Members
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36
Real Life
by Brandon Taylor
747 members
26 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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37
Redeployment
by Phil Klay
1,389 members
70 reviews
4
2 Members
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38
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by Ibram X. Kendi
704 members
19 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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39
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
8,789 members
427 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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40
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
2,417 members
144 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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41
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
4,859 members
136 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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42
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
1,915 members
76 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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43
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
by Eugenia Cheng
331 members
9 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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44
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
4,950 members
295 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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45
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
by Penny Le Couteur
1,104 members
23 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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46
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
3,474 members
140 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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47
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
2,917 members
199 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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48
Circe
by Madeline Miller
9,653 members
414 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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50
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
4,988 members
261 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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51
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil
1,559 members
85 reviews
3.8
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52
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
4,717 members
216 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
21,973 members
399 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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54
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
3,753 members
197 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
2,137 members
144 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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56
There There
by Tommy Orange
3,636 members
180 reviews
4
2 Members
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57
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
2,583 members
120 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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58
Longbourn
by Jo Baker
2,570 members
187 reviews
½ 3.7
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59
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
by Priya Parker
600 members
11 reviews
3.8
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60
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
by Francis Su
106 members
5 reviews
½ 4.6
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61
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
3,623 members
74 reviews
3.9
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62
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by Jordan Ellenberg
1,629 members
29 reviews
3.8
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63
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
by Ruha Benjamin
205 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
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64
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
by Michael Eric Dyson
654 members
27 reviews
4.2
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65
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
10,613 members
215 reviews
4.1
Member
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66
Barkskins
by Annie Proulx
1,445 members
82 reviews
3.8
Member
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67
Black Panther HC Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
67 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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69
Mules and Men
by Zora Neale Hurston
1,019 members
11 reviews
3.9
Member
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70
Sonata Mulattica: Poems
by Rita Dove
112 members
3 reviews
4
Member
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71
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
7,754 members
171 reviews
3.9
Member
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72
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by Steve Silberman
1,066 members
60 reviews
4.2
Member
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73
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by Paul Hawken
423 members
11 reviews
3.9
Member
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74
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
10,731 members
348 reviews
4.2
Member
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75
Wild Seed
by Octavia E. Butler
2,636 members
77 reviews
4.1
Member
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76
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
11,379 members
561 reviews
4.1
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77
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling
2,774 members
94 reviews
½ 4.3
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78
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
4,863 members
63 reviews
4.2
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79
Why We Swim
by Bonnie Tsui
206 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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80
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by Michio Kaku
896 members
23 reviews
3.9
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81
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker
2,324 members
90 reviews
4.2
Member
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82
The Messenger
by Markus Zusak
6,265 members
327 reviews
4
2 Members
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84
Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy
by Steven Nadler
107 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
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85
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
1,579 members
54 reviews
3.8
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86
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
2,250 members
177 reviews
½ 4.3
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87
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
by Thomas L. Dyja
222 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
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88
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
by David McCullough
587 members
20 reviews
4.1
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89
Night Train to Lisbon
by Pascal Mercier
2,963 members
100 reviews
3.8
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90
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
by Charles Wheelan
826 members
20 reviews
3.9
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91
Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
by Virginia Heffernan
118 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
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92
When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
by Molly Guptill Manning
868 members
53 reviews
3.9
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93
The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough
2,978 members
127 reviews
4.2
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94
Modern Romance: An Investigation
by Aziz Ansari
1,976 members
113 reviews
½ 3.7
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95
The Incarnations
by Susan Barker
537 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
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96
Washington: A Life
by Ron Chernow
2,819 members
82 reviews
½ 4.4
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97
A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope
by Tom Brokaw
196 members
9 reviews
3.9
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98
From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America
by Kimberly A. Hamlin
27 members
1 review
½ 2.5
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99
The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
by Scott Samuelson
51 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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100
The Library: A World History
by James W. P. Campbell
551 members
8 reviews
½ 4.4
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