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
43,090 members
520 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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2
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
20,821 members
317 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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3
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
39,614 members
635 reviews
4
5 Members
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4
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
18,519 members
1,265 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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5
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
14,682 members
741 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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6
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
21,115 members
679 reviews
4
4 Members
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7
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
11,760 members
780 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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8
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
9,837 members
517 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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9
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
14,942 members
803 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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10
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
12,127 members
268 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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11
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
9,168 members
520 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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12
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
7,776 members
369 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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13
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
18,785 members
886 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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14
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
13,966 members
246 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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15
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
16,981 members
538 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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16
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
8,505 members
341 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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17
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7,749 members
296 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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18
March: Book One
by John Lewis
2,953 members
160 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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19
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
6,622 members
217 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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20
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
26,297 members
501 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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21
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
4,262 members
217 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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22
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
6,151 members
361 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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23
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
80,859 members
1,371 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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24
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44,494 members
697 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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25
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
by George Saunders
5,808 members
337 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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26
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
9,939 members
380 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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27
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
14,311 members
620 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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28
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
11,613 members
136 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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29
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
9,316 members
475 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
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30
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
20,475 members
791 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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31
The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
6,898 members
253 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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32
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
5,639 members
313 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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34
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
10,739 members
243 reviews
4
3 Members
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35
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
20,405 members
558 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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36
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2,715 members
111 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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37
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
10,700 members
99 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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38
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
22,229 members
701 reviews
4
2 Members
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39
Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
5,548 members
126 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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40
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
27,944 members
1,042 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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41
The Road from Coorain
by Jill Ker Conway
1,793 members
33 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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42
Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
2,028 members
68 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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43
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,213 members
212 reviews
4
2 Members
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44
Real Life
by Brandon Taylor
914 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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45
Redeployment
by Phil Klay
1,459 members
71 reviews
4
2 Members
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46
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by Ibram X. Kendi
845 members
22 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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47
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
9,937 members
443 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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48
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
2,643 members
158 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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49
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
5,315 members
140 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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50
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
2,097 members
80 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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51
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
by Eugenia Cheng
365 members
11 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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52
This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar
4,145 members
212 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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53
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
by Penny Le Couteur
1,195 members
24 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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54
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
3,904 members
152 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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55
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
3,345 members
203 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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56
Circe
by Madeline Miller
12,410 members
480 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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57
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
3,816 members
133 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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59
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
5,603 members
280 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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60
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
5,654 members
240 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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61
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
23,451 members
424 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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62
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
2,552 members
167 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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63
There There
by Tommy Orange
4,292 members
194 reviews
4
2 Members
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64
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
3,208 members
134 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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65
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil
1,735 members
96 reviews
3.8
Member
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66
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
3,766 members
172 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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67
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
4,684 members
205 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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68
Longbourn
by Jo Baker
2,727 members
193 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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69
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
by Priya Parker
788 members
17 reviews
3.8
Member
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70
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
by Francis Su
132 members
5 reviews
½ 4.7
Member
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71
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
4,073 members
76 reviews
3.9
Member
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72
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by Jordan Ellenberg
1,844 members
33 reviews
3.8
Member
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73
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
by Ruha Benjamin
267 members
2 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
74
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
by Michael Eric Dyson
707 members
28 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
75
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
11,824 members
225 reviews
4.1
Member
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76
Barkskins
by Annie Proulx
1,548 members
82 reviews
3.8
Member
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78
Black Panther HC Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
73 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
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79
Mules and Men
by Zora Neale Hurston
1,093 members
10 reviews
3.9
Member
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80
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
8,078 members
180 reviews
3.9
Member
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81
Sonata Mulattica: Poems
by Rita Dove
114 members
3 reviews
4
Member
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82
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by Steve Silberman
1,203 members
58 reviews
4.2
Member
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83
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by Paul Hawken
484 members
11 reviews
3.9
Member
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84
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
12,466 members
380 reviews
4.2
Member
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85
Wild Seed
by Octavia E. Butler
2,843 members
83 reviews
4.1
Member
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86
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling
3,220 members
108 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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87
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
5,268 members
69 reviews
4.2
Member
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88
Why We Swim
by Bonnie Tsui
269 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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89
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by Michio Kaku
987 members
24 reviews
3.9
Member
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90
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker
2,793 members
100 reviews
4.2
Member
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91
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
by Susan Rogers
178 members
5 reviews
4
Member
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92
The Messenger
by Markus Zusak
6,609 members
335 reviews
4
2 Members
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93
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
4,150 members
119 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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94
Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
6,026 members
343 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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95
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
3,330 members
145 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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96
Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy
by Steven Nadler
115 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
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97
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
1,833 members
64 reviews
3.8
Member
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98
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
2,369 members
183 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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99
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
by Thomas L. Dyja
244 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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100
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
by David McCullough
664 members
22 reviews
4.1
Member
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