The long overdue book recommendations post!

I'm sorry it took me so long to do this. I wanted to give it some thought. You may not have time to supplement your winter quarter reading for Core, but perhaps something for the summer...

If you enjoyed our foray into philosophy and want to learn more about unicorns, I suggest the following:

Slavoj Zizek, On Belief
Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan
Plato, The Republic
James Twichell, Twenty Ads that Shook the World

If you enjoyed Jane Austen, I think one of the most instructive things you can do is read a couple of books written slightly later, and concerning similar themes, that are nonetheless utterly, utterly different:

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Lord Byron, Don Juan

If you enjoyed Toni Morrison, you should read more of her books, but also read non-fiction books that ask similar questions about the interplay between race, class, culture, and identity in the U.S.

Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father
HBO, The Wire (I guess that's not a book)