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.
Summer 2011
• The Princess Bride, William Goldman (contemporary fiction)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy (classic fiction)
• Stardust, Neil Gaiman (contemporary fiction)
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)
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)
Summer 2010
• The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak (contemporary fiction)
• The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas (classic fiction)
• Empress, Shan Sa (contemporary fiction)
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)
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)
Summer 2009
• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (contemporary fiction)
• The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (contemporary fiction)
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (classic fiction)
Spring 2009
• Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (contemporary fiction)
• The Writing Class, Jincy Willett (contemporary fiction)
• The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (contemporary fiction)