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The Honors College Book Club was founded in order to enable and encourage Honors students from all disciplines to read and discuss literature in an informal, non-classroom setting. The college provides free books for members and suggestions for our reading are made and voted upon by the members themselves. The Book Club meets twice each month throughout the fall and spring semesters, and once a week during summers. Most discussions of our books are student-led, and coffee and refreshments are provided at meetings. We would love to welcome any interested student to join the Book Club; please email the Book Club Coordinator, Sarah Timmons for more information and to become a member.

 

Scarlet PimpernelSummer 2011

The Princess Bride, William Goldman (contemporary fiction)

The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy (classic fiction)

Stardust, Neil Gaiman (contemporary fiction)

 

 

 

 

The Haunted Hotel

Spring 2011

The Haunted Hotel, Wilkie Collins (classic fiction)

Half-Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls (contemporary creative non-fiction)

Things I’ve Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi (contemporary non-fiction)

 

 

Into the Wild Fall 2010

Persuasion, Jane Austen (classic fiction)

Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer (contemporary non-fiction)

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky (classic short fiction)

 

 

 

The Book Thief book cover

 

Summer 2010

The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak (contemporary fiction)

The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas (classic fiction)

Empress, Shan Sa (contemporary fiction)

 

Reading Lolita in Tehran book cover Spring 2010

Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi (contemporary nonfiction)

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole (contemporary fiction)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë (classic fiction)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (contemporary fiction)

 

 

 

The Glass Castle

 

Fall 2009

The Importance of Being Earnest and other Plays, Oscar Wilde (classic drama)

The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (contemporary nonfiction)

The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald (classic fiction)

 

Pride and Prejudice book coverSummer 2009

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (contemporary fiction)

The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (contemporary fiction)

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (classic fiction)

 

Handmaids Tail

 

 

 

Spring 2009

Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (contemporary fiction)

The Writing Class, Jincy Willett (contemporary fiction)

The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (contemporary fiction)