A List of Books
Recommended by the Faculty and Staff of the Communication Skills Department
1984 – George Orwell
A Time to Kill – John Grisham
Alive – Piers Paul Read
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Black and Blue – Anna Quindlen
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
Ellen Foster – Kaye Gibbons
Fatal Vision – Joe McGinniss
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Hoop Dreams – Ben Joravsky
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
The #1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith
The Intruder – Peter Blauner
The Little Prince – Antoine de St. Exupery
The Story of My Life – Helen Keller
The Stranger – Albert Camus
When the Emperor Was Divine – Julie Otsuka
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
Who Moved My Cheese – Spencer Johnson
Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
Recommended Authors
Agatha Christie
Janet Evanovich
Sydney Sheldon
Books That Have Been Used in Reading Courses
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Animal Farm – George Orwell
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
Gifted Hands – Ben Carson
Having Our Say – Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Pearl – John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
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Angela's Ashes – Frank McCourt
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Autobiography Of A Face – Lucy Grealy
Being There – Jerzy Kosinsky
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism – Bob Edward
Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dreams From My Father – Barak Obama
Drown – Juno Diaz
Giants in the Earth – Ole Rolvaag
Give Me a Break – John Stossel
How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents – Julia Alvarez
Laramie Project – Moises Kaufman
Maus – Art Spiegelman
Milk Glass Moon – Adriana Trigiani
My Antonia – Willa Cather
Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rocket Boys – Homer Hickham Jr
Rosa Parks – Douglas Brinkley
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Color of Water – James McBride
The Hammock Beneath the Mangoes – Thomas Colchie
The Joke – Milan Kundera
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Kidd Monk
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
The Natural – Bernard Malamud
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Too Close to The Falls – Catherine Gildiner
Where She Came From – Helen Epstein
Woman Warrior – Maxine Hong Kingston
Working – Studs Terkel