Awards search:UC Berkeley Summer Reading List

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker
Paperback, 1982
Tags
fiction, contemporary fiction, mmpb, can't find our copy, coverguess mismatch
Series
The Color Purple Collection (1)
Call number
813/.54 19

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, biography, history of science, ftppl, hb
Call number
500 21

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley
Paperback, 1967
Tags
science fiction, dystopia, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
823.912

Beloved

by Toni Morrison
Paperback, 1998
Tags
fiction, ghosts, slavery, tpb, can't find our copy, coverguess mismatch
Call number
813.54

Einstein's Dreams

by Alan P. Lightman
Hardcover, 1993
Tags
fiction, vignettes, hb
Call number
813.54

A Thousand Acres

by Jane Smiley
Paperback, 2003
Tags
fiction, ftppl, tpb
Call number
813/.54 20

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The fates of human societies

by Jared Diamond
Paperback, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, history, world history, anthropology, pulitzer, pulitzer prize, tpb
Series
Civilizations Rise and Fall (1)
Call number
303.4 22

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee
Paperback, 1982
Tags
fiction, jane's, pulitzer prize, mmpb, coverguess mismatch
Collection
Jane's
Series
To Kill a Mockingbird (1)
Call number
813.54

Voyage of the Beagle

by Charles Darwin
Paperback, 2004
Tags
jane's, nonfiction, exploration, travel, natural history, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
508.8

Chaos: Making a new science

by James Gleick
Paperback, 1987
Tags
nonfiction, math, popular-level, fractals, chaos, tpb
Call number
003.19

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian history of the American West

by Dee Brown
Paperback, 1972
Tags
unread, nonfiction, history, american history, native american, native american history, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
978.00497

The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan
Paperback, 1990
Tags
fiction, family saga, chinese, chinese american, mmpb
Call number
813.54

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A memoir in books

by Azar Nafisi
Paperback, 2004
Tags
jane's, memoir, iran, book about books, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
820.9B

Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison
Ebook, 2005
Tags
fiction, american south, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
813.54

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 1986
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, feynman, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Series
Feynman Memoirs
Call number
530.0924 B 19

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paperback, 1998
Tags
jane's, fiction, magical realism, great first lines, translated, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
863

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to black holes

by Stephen Hawking
Paperback, 1990
Tags
nonfiction, physics, popular-level, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
523.1

V for Vendetta

by Alan Moore
Paperback, 1982-89
Tags
science fiction, dystopia, graphic novel, tpb
Series
V For Vendetta (1-10)
Call number
741.5941

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the nature of history

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1990
Tags
nonfiction, paleontology, evolution, biology, burgess shale, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
560.9 19

Last Child in the Woods: Saving our children from nature-deficit disorder

by Richard Louv
Paperback, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, nature, parenting, sociology, tpb
Call number
155.418

The Postman

by David Brin
Paperback, 1994
Tags
science fiction, post-apocalyptic, fixup, mmpb
Call number
813.54

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler
Paperback, 1995
Tags
earthseed, 01, science fiction, mmpb
Series
Earthseed (1)
Call number
813.54

Earth Abides

by George R. Stewart
Paperback, 1971
Tags
science fiction, classic science fiction, post-apocalyptic, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
813.52

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin
Paperback, 1990
Tags
science fiction, hugo winner, nebula winner, gender, mmpb, coverguess mismatch
Series
Hainish Cycle (4), Hainish Cycle, Chronological (6)
Call number
813.54 20

The Origin of Species: Complete and fully illustrated

by Charles Darwin
Hardcover, 1979
Tags
hb, unread, nonfiction, biology, evolution
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
575.0162

In the Heart of the Sea: The tragedy of the whaleship Essex

by Nathaniel Philbrick
Paperback, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, history, whaling, disasters, moby dick, tpb
Call number
910.916

To Say Nothing of the Dog: or, How we found the bishop's bird stump at last

by Connie Willis
Paperback, 1998
Tags
science fiction, hugo winner, time travel, time traveling historians, humor, mmpb
Series
Oxford Time Travel (2)
Call number
813.54 21

The Sparrow

by Mary Doria Russell
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
science fiction, religion, priests in space, tiptree winner, hb
Series
The Sparrow (1)
Call number
813.54

Why people believe weird things: Pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time

by Michael Shermer
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
nonfiction, rationality, pseudoscience, superstition, hb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
133

A Sand County Almanac: With essays on conservation

by Aldo Leopold
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, ecology, nature, coffee table, hb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
508.73 21

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller
Paperback, 1993
Tags
science fiction, post-apocalyptic, religious sf, hugo winner, mmpb, coverguess mismatch
Series
Leibowitz (1)
Call number
813/.54 21

Long Walk to Freedom: The autobiography of Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela
Paperback, 1995
Tags
autobiography, south africa, africa, nelson mandela, tpb
Call number
968.06/4/092

Desert Queen: The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell: adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia

by Janet Wallach
Paperback, 2005
Tags
nonfiction, biography, gertrude bell, iraq, saudi arabia, middle east, tpb, ftpml
Call number
956/.02/092B

Winter World: The ingenuity of animal survival

by Bernd Heinrich
Paperback, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, natural history, animal behavior, biology, tpb
Call number
591.43

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A natural history of four meals

by Michael Pollan
Paperback, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, food, sustainability, tpb, jane's
Collection
Jane's
Call number
394.12

Three Cups of Tea: One man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations -- one school at a time

by Greg Mortenson
Paperback, 2007
Tags
education, nonfiction, afghanistan, pakistan, tpb
Call number
371.82209549

The Sirens of Titan

by Kurt Vonnegut
Paperback, 1973
Tags
science fiction, mmpb, coverguess unavailable, ftppl, purple cover
Call number
813.54

Slaughterhouse-five

by Kurt Vonnegut
Paperback, 1991
Tags
science fiction, wwii, mmpb, ftppl, coverguess unavailable
Call number
813.54

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card
Paperback, 1986
Tags
ender, 01, science fiction, hugo winner, nebula winner, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Series
Ender Saga (1), Ender's Game (1), Enderverse (8)
Call number
813.54

Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson
Paperback, 1993
Tags
science fiction, post-cyberpunk, mmpb
Call number
813.54

Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed

by Jared Diamond
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, ecology, anthropology, human geography, tpb, ftpml
Series
Civilizations Rise and Fall (2)
Call number
304.28

The Ghost Map: The story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world

by Steven Johnson
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, medicine, cholera, epidemiology, data visualization, maps, london, tpb
Call number
614.514

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood
Paperback, 1991
Tags
science fiction, dystopia, mmpb
Series
The Handmaid's Tale (1)
Call number
813.54 21

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams
Paperback, 1985
Tags
h2g2, 01, science fiction, humor, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Series
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1)
Call number
823.914

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

by Art Spiegelman
Paperback, 1991
Tags
graphic novel, history, biography, wwii, holocaust, tpb
Series
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (2)
Call number
741.5/973 21

Contact

by Carl Sagan
Hardcover, 1985
Tags
science fiction, first contact, hb, jane's
Collection
Jane's
Call number
813.54 19

Your Inner Fish: A journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body

by Neil Shubin
Paperback, 2009
Tags
biology, evolution, anatomy, paleontology, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
611

Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History

by Art Spiegelman
Paperback, 1986
Tags
graphic novel, history, biography, wwii, holocaust
Series
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (1)
Call number
741.59/73 21

Don't Sleep, there are Snakes: Life and language in the Amazonian jungle

by Daniel Leonard Everett
Paperback, 2009
Tags
unread, language, piraha, anthropology, tpb
Call number
305.898/9

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
science fiction, 1980s nostalgia, hb
Series
Ready Player One (1)
Call number
813/.6
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