Summer Reading: Faculty Suggestions for Students & Student Suggestions for Faculty

1. Summer Reading: Faculty Suggestions for Students & Student Suggestions for Faculty
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Last Updated: Jun 22, 2015
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Description: Summer reading list compiled from student and faculty suggestions
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Where can I find these books?
Books not owned by the community colleges are often available from Spokane Public Library (SPL) and Spokane County Library District (SCLD) . Book links to http://worldcat.org show
locations in libraries in the Spokane area and Pullman. If you need help locating or finding a book ASK US!
For more summer reading suggestions see the New York Times "Cool Books for Hot Summer Days."
Faculty Suggest You Read
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The by Sherman Alexie; Ellen Forney (Illustrator)
Call Number: ALEXIE Copies available all libraries
ISBN: 9780316013697
Publication Date: 2009
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=129964Suggested by Khaliela Wright
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
ISBN: 9781476746586
Publication Date: 2014
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=144813Suggested by Teri Tucker
"I absolutely fell in love with this book."
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Ina Rilke (Translator); Dai Sijie
Call Number: DAI
ISBN: 0385722206
Publication Date: 2002
http://DAISuggested by Margot Casstevens
Brave New Worlds by John Joseph Adams (Editor)
Call Number: 808.3873 BRAVE 2012 and SPL, SCLD
ISBN: 9781597804547
Publication Date: 2012-12-04
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/657594456Suggested by Ben Cartwright
Catcher in the rye, The by J.D. Salinger
ISBN: 9780316769488
http://ccs.wash-id.net/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=135912Suggested by Craig Rickett
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
Call Number: SFCC Fiction: WALTER
ISBN: 0060989297
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=123656Suggested by Alexis Nelson
Alexis Nelson suggests all books by Jess Walter
Count of Monte Cristo, The by Alexandre Dumas; Robin Buss (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator)
Call Number: SFCC Ebsco eBook
ISBN: 9780140449266
https://libproxy.spokanefalls.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1059900&site=ehost-live&scope=siteSuggested by Craig Rickett
also available at http://www.spokanelibrary.org/bib/213508/
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Call Number: SFCC Fiction: SALINGER
ISBN: 9780316769495
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=123526Suggested by Craig Rickett
Ghost Bride, The by Yangsze Choo
ISBN: 9780062227324
Publication Date: 2013
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/828723965Suggested by Sara Edlin Marlowe
Available at SPL and SCLD
Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, The by Jonas Jonasson; Rachel Wilson-Broyles
Call Number: On order SFCC Library
ISBN: 9780062329127
Publication Date: 2014
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/859586132Suggested by Khaliela Wright
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2. Also available SPL, SCLD & Pullman (Neill)
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman; Terry Pratchett
Call Number: SPL, SCLD and Pullman(Neill)
ISBN: 9780894808531
Publication Date: 1990
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21678602Suggested by Khaliela Wright
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Call Number: SPL, SCLD, Whitman County, and WSU
ISBN: 9780345505330
Publication Date: 2009
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/229027205Suggested by Dyan Bledsoe
Kampung Boy by Lat (Illustrator)
Call Number: SPL, EWU
ISBN: 9781596431218
Publication Date: 2006
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62738470Suggested by Margot Casstevens
La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh by Philippe Claudel
ISBN: 9782253115540Suggested by Elodie Goodman
Available through inter-library loan (ILL). Ask an SFCC librarian for assistance
Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal by Christopher Moore
Call Number: Soon Available SFCC Library
ISBN: 9780380813810
Publication Date: 2004
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=146349Suggested by Khaliela Wright
Le Petit Prince by d’Antoine de Saint Exupery
Call Number: Foreigh Language FR 448.6 Sa22p
ISBN: 9780156013987
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=27425Suggested by Elodie Goodman
Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven, The by Sherman Alexie
Call Number: SFCC Fiction: ALEXIE
ISBN: 0060976241
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1221Suggested by Alexis Nelson
Alexis suggests all books by Sherman Alexie.
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Call Number: SFCC Fiction: ELIOT
ISBN: 0679405674
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=4107Suggested by Alexis Nelson
New Religious Intolerance, The by Martha C. Nussbaum
Call Number: 201.723 NUSSBAU 2012
ISBN: 9780674065901
Publication Date: 2012
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=146121Suggested by Alexis Nelson
New Sudden Fiction: short-short stories from America and beyond by James Thomas (Editor); Robert Shapard (Editor)
Call Number: Ask Us!
ISBN: 9780393328011
Publication Date: 2007
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71800711Recommended by Ben Cartwright
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Call Number: Fiction ATWOOD
ISBN: 0385503857
Publication Date: 2003
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=103746Suggested by Ben Cartwright
Available at many other libraries
Rabbits, The by John Marsden & Shaun Tan
Call Number: Coming soon
ISBN: 9780734411365
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51736209Suggested by Erin Toungate
Reading the Rocks by Marcia Bjornerud
Call Number: 551.7 BJORNER
ISBN: 9780813342498
Publication Date: 2005
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=110196Reccommeded by Jennifer Barson
Sapiens: a brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Call Number: 599.9 HARARI 2015
ISBN: 9780062316097
Publication Date: 2015
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=145965Suggested by Teri Tucker
Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac, The by Sharma Shields
Call Number: Request from SCC
ISBN: 9781627791991
Publication Date: 2015
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=145558Suggested by Sara Edlin Marlowe
Also available at SPL and SCLD
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
Call Number: on order Also available SPL & SCLD
ISBN: 9780385353304
Publication Date: 2014
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=145874Spokane Reads book for 2015
Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen
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3. Call Number: SPL, SCLD
ISBN: 9780446677165
Publication Date: 2001
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45283194Suggested by Mark Doerr
The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Call Number: WIN Borrow, SPL or SCLD
ISBN: 9780345407863
Publication Date: 1997
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/854982484Lots of people love Game of Thrones and Wolf Hall why not read real history it's just as exciting. Jan Wingenroth
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Call Number: Request
ISBN: 9780670024858
Publication Date: 2013
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/829451549Suggested by Craig Rickett
Available at SPL and other libraries
Tuesdays with Morrie:An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson by Mitch Albom
Call Number: 378.12092 ALBOM
ISBN: 9780385484510
Publication Date: 1997
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=72435It sounds cliche' but it really is a good book. Heather Morgan
Visit from the Goon Squad, A by Jennifer Egan
Call Number: EGAN
ISBN: 9780307592835
Publication Date: 2010
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=144131Suggested by Alexis Nelson
Volcano Cowboys by Dick Thompson
Call Number: 551.2107 THOMPSO 2000
ISBN: 9780312208813
Publication Date: 2000
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=146405Recommended by Jennifer Barson
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Call Number: On order SFCC Library available SPL, SCLD
ISBN: 9780399162091
Publication Date: 2013
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/822532814Contributed by Christie Anderson
Next years core book for English!
Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt
Call Number: Request via WIN also available from SPL
ISBN: 9780871404091
Publication Date: 2012
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/793973660Suggested by Catharine Roth
Available at SPL
Students Suggest You Read
Against His-story, against Leviathan! : An Essay by Fredy Perlman
ISBN: 0934868255
http://www.amazon.com/Against-His-Story-Leviathan-Fredy-Perlman/dp/0934868255/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434388976&sr=1-1&keywords=against+his-
story+against+leviathanAvailable via ILL & WSU
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami; Yuji Oniki (Translator)
ISBN: 9781569317785
Publication Date: 2003-02-26
https://spokanefallscommunitycollege.on.worldcat.org/oclc/52092789?databaseList=638Available at SCLD.
"Like HUNGER GAMES but with less whining." - student
Bible and Us: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together, The by Andrew M. Greeley; Jacob Neusner
Call Number: EWU & cheap on Amazon
ISBN: 9780446392471
Publication Date: 1991
http://www.amazon.com/Bible-Us-Priest-Scripture-Together/dp/0446392472/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434343965&sr=1-1&keywords=bible+and+us+priest
Blindness by José Saramago; Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
Call Number: 869.342 SARAMAG
ISBN: 0151002517
Publication Date: 1998
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=77698
Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life by David Perlmutter; Kristin Loberg (As told to)
Call Number: SPL, SCLD & WSU
ISBN: 9780316380102
Publication Date: 2015-04-28
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/907396380
Child Thief, The by Brom
ISBN: 0061671339
Publication Date: 2009-08-25
https://spokanefallscommunitycollege.on.worldcat.org/oclc/637253344?databaseList=638Available at SPL and SCLD.
Chosen by P. C. Cast; Kristin Cast
Call Number: SPL
ISBN: 9780312360306
Publication Date: 2008
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/156832359
Claidi Collection, The by Tanith Lee
ISBN: 9780525472056
Publication Date: 2003
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4. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43390375Available at SCLD
Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels
ISBN: 031024823X
Publication Date: 2002-07-30
https://spokanefallscommunitycollege.on.worldcat.org/oclc/49823326?databaseList=638Available at SPL.
Dancing for Degas by Kathryn Wagner
Call Number: On order
ISBN: 9780385343862
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=146341Also available at SPL
Devouring, The by Simon Holt
Call Number: On order
ISBN: 9780316035736
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=146340Also available at SCLD
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Call Number: SFCC Fiction: CARD
ISBN: 978-0812550702
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=107079
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Call Number: SFCC Fiction: ANDERSO
ISBN: 9780763662622
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=143973
Fifty Shames of Earl Grey: A Parody by Fanny Merkin; Andrew Shaffer; Evil Wylie
ISBN: 9780306821998
Publication Date: 2012
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/793218090Available at SCLD
Forest of Hands and Teeth, The by Carrie Ryan
ISBN: 9780385736824
Publication Date: 2010
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=146345Also at SPL and SCLD
God Delusion, The by Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 0618680004
Publication Date: 2006
https://spokanefallscommunitycollege.on.worldcat.org/oclc/68965666?databaseList=638Available from SPL and SCLD.
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman; Terry Pratchett
Call Number: on order
ISBN: 978-0060853983
Publication Date: 1990-09-01
https://spokanefallscommunitycollege.on.worldcat.org/oclc/21678602?databaseList=638Also available at SPL and SCLD.
Graceling by Kristen Cashore
Call Number: SFCC Fiction: On order
ISBN: 9780152063962
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=146346Student also recommends by the same author:
Fire
Bitterblue
Green Witch by Alice Hoffman
Call Number: SPL, EWU, WSU
ISBN: 9780545141956
Publication Date: 2010
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367418094
Gunslinger, The
ISBN: 9780452261341
Publication Date: 1988
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=103669Also at SCC
Heart of the World: a journey to the last secret place by Ian Baker; Dalai Lama XIV (Introduction by)
Call Number: SPL, SCLD & WSU
ISBN: 9781594200274
Publication Date: 2004-11-04
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56057920
I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't):Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough" by Brené Brown
Call Number: SPL & SCLD
ISBN: 9781592403356
Publication Date: 2007
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173350963
In the Path of Destruction by Richard B. Waitt
Call Number: 551.2109 WAITT 2014
ISBN: 9780874223231
Publication Date: 2015
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=145768
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
Call Number: SPL, SCLD & WSU
ISBN: 9780316058292
Publication Date: 2006
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63655339
Knife of Never Letting Go, The by Patrick Ness
Call Number: SPL, SCLD & EWU
ISBN: 0763639311
Publication Date: 2008
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/199401725
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Call Number: SFCC Fiction: MARTEL
ISBN: 0156027321
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=103009
Light Between Oceans, The by M. L. Stedman
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5. Call Number: On order
ISBN: 9781451681734
Publication Date: 2012
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=146338Also at SPL
Mouse and the Motorcycle, The by Beverly Cleary
ISBN: 9780380709243
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299528Available at SPL and SCLD
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Call Number: SFCC Fiction: ORWELL
ISBN: 0679417397
Publication Date: 1992-11-03
https://spokanefallscommunitycollege.on.worldcat.org/oclc/25631960?databaseList=638Also at SPL and SCLD
NOS4A2 by Joe HIll
Call Number: SFCC Best Sellers: HIL
ISBN: 9780062200570
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=139866
On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
Call Number: SCLD
ISBN: 9780345309242
Publication Date: 1983
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9393093
On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
Call Number: SPL, SCLD
ISBN: 0142003255
Publication Date: 2003-09-02
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297421
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Call Number: GABALDO
ISBN: 0385302304
Publication Date: 1991-06-01
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=109321
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin; James Dean (Illustrator)
Call Number: J LITWIN
ISBN: 0061906220
Publication Date: 2010
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/529761572
Pillars of the Earth, The by Ken Follett
Call Number: On order
ISBN: 9780451232816
Publication Date: 2010-06-29
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=146344Also at SPL and SCLD
Please Kill Me:The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil; Gillian McCain
Call Number: WIN borrow & WSU Library
ISBN: 9780802142641
Publication Date: 2006
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33819790
Poisonwood Bible, The by Barbara Kingsolver
Call Number: KINGSOL
ISBN: 0060175400
Publication Date: 1998-10-07
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=77255Also at SCC
Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
Call Number: SFCC BESTSELLERS PRA
ISBN: 9780385538268
Publication Date: 2014-03-18
https://spokanefallscommunitycollege.on.worldcat.org/oclc/867916800?databaseList=638This is book in the Discworld series.
Also Available at SPL and SCLD
Red necklace : a story of the French Revolution, The by Sally Gardner
Call Number: On order
ISBN: 9780142414880
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=146339Also at SPL and SCLD
Ribbajack & other curious yarns, The by Brian Jacques
ISBN: 9780142403785
Publication Date: 2004
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/664400508Available a SCLD
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The by William L. Shirer; Ron Rosenbaum (Introduction by)
Call Number: SFCC NONFICTION: 943.086 SH65R
ISBN: 9781451651683
Publication Date: 2011-10-11
https://spokanefallscommunitycollege.on.worldcat.org/oclc/3859072?databaseList=638
Sad tale of the brothers Grossbart, The by Jesse Bullington
ISBN: 9780316049344Available at SCLD
Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, The by Harold Beaver, editor
Call Number: 813.3 P752S
ISBN: 9780140431063
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=52047Also available at SCLD
Shanghai girls by Lisa See
Call Number: SFCC Fiction: SEE
ISBN: 9781400067114
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=126377Also at SPL and SCLD
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN: 9780440180296
Publication Date: 1991
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=45334also available SPL, SCLD and most libraries
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6. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Call Number: SFCC Reserves: RES 32 pt. 2
ISBN: 9780312674397
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=108348Also at SPL and SCLD
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Call Number: Request from Colville or other area libraries
ISBN: 9780679886372
Publication Date: 2000
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43207653
Things they carried: a work of fiction, The by Tim O'Brien
Call Number: SCC Also at SPL and SCLD
ISBN: 9780767902892
Publication Date: 1990; 1998
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=89421
Tragedy of MacBeth, The by William Shakespeare
Call Number: SFCC NONFICTION: 822.33 MACBETH
ISBN: 1496155424
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=60732
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Call Number: SFCC Best Sellers: 741.594 MOO
ISBN: 9781401238964
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=142034
Way of Kings, The by Brandon Sanderson
Call Number: SPL & SCLD
ISBN: 9780765326355
Publication Date: 2010
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/471819495
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
ISBN: 9780312857059
Publication Date: 1994
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30547887Available at SPL and SCLD
Perennial Favorites
Bible by Many translations
Call Number: Available all libraries
ISBN: 9781885217950The bible received more student recommendations than any other title.
Dune by Frank Herbert
Call Number: Request from SCC also available other libraries
ISBN: 0399128964
Publication Date: 1984
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=40157
End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
Call Number: SPLD
ISBN: 9780765319197
Publication Date: 1955
http://www.amazon.com/End-Eternity-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0765319195/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434344476&sr=1-1&keywords=end+of+eternity+asimov
Fault in our stars, The by John Green
Call Number: SFCC Best Sellers: GRE
ISBN: 9780525478812
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=139071Also at SPL and SCLD
Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
Call Number: Request from SCC or other libraries
ISBN: 9780671729417
Publication Date: 1990
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=119236
Great Gatsby, The by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Call Number: FITZGER
ISBN: 9780743273565
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=142700Also at SCC
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
ISBN: 0060935464
Publication Date: Fiction LEE
http://ccs.wash-id.net:80/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=100947
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