Writing Across the Curriculum


MCC Good Reads
 

      Looking for a good book to read?  Take a look at the list of books below that come highly recommended by MCC faculty, staff and/or students!

     And if you have a book that you’d highly recommend for others, please send the WAC Committee your recommendation so we can add it to this growing list. (Please email Tom Laughlin at laughlint@middlesex.mass.edu with the following:
a)Book title, b) Author, c) Your name, and d) staff member or student at MCC.)


Enjoy!

Title

Author

Recommended
by

Staff or Student?
  The Kite Runner   Khalid Hussein   Pat Burns

  Staff and Student

  A Thousand Splendid Suns   Khalid Hussein   Pat Burns

  Staff and Student

  The House of the Scorpion   Nancy Farmer   Jean Cremins

  Staff

  The Last Lecture   Randy Pausch   Molly Sheehy

  Staff

  The Big House   George Howe Colt   Molly Sheehy

  Staff

  A Fine Balance   Rohinton Mistry   Lucy Ogburn

  Staff

  Hero's Walk    Anita Bidami   Lucy Ogburn

  Staff

  The God of Small Things   Arhundati Roy   Lucy Ogburn

  Staff

  River Town   Peter Hessler   Lucy Ogburn

  Staff

  Three Cups of Tea   Greg Mortenson   Lucy Ogburn

  Staff

  The Inheritance of Loss    Kiren Desai   Lucy Ogburn

  Staff

  Y the Last Man   Brian K. Vaughn Sanford Arbogast

  Staff

  Runaways    Brian K. Vaughn Sanford Arbogast

  Staff

  Ex Machina   Brian K. Vaughn Sanford Arbogast

  Staff

  Fahrenheit 451   Ray Bradbury Sanford Arbogast

  Staff

  Wizard’s First Rule   Terry Goodkind Sanford Arbogast

  Staff

  The Discworld Series   Terry Pratchett Sanford Arbogast

  Staff

  Mockingbird  (biography of Harper Lee) Charles Shields   Judy Wong

  Staff

The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom Donna Gray

Staff

Running with Scissors Augusten Burroughs Donna Gray

Staff

Night Elie Wiesel Donna Gray

Staff

Gift from the Sea Anne Morrow Lindbergh Donna Gray

Staff

The Mermaid Chair Sue Monk Kidd Donna Gray

Staff

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon

Donna Gray

 

Staff

There Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Kelsey Hellwig

Staff

Sister of My Heart Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Kelsey Hellwig

Staff

The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, & The Virgin's Lover Phillapa Gregory Denise LaFrance

 

Staff

Water for Elephants             Sara Gruen Denise LaFrance

Staff

Middlesex                            Jeffrey Eugenides Denise LaFrance

Staff

The Glass Castle                        Jeanette Walls  Denise LaFrance

Staff

The Thirteenth Tale           Diane Setterfield  Denise LaFrance

Staff

The Bullfighter Checks her Makeup: my encounters with extraordinary people

Susan Orlean

 
Ellen Royalty

Staff

 Confederates in the Attic   Tony Horwitz Ellen Royalty

Staff

Love in the time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Stacey Armstrong-Brown

Staff

Stones from the River 

Ursula Hegi

Dianne Luz

Staff

     
     
The Third Angel Alice Hoffman Jewel Davis Staff
Eat Pray Love Elizabeth Gilbert Jewel Davis Staff
Dry Augusten Burroughs Jewel Davis Staff
Rococo          Adriana Trigiani  Jewel Davis Staff
The Other Side of the Story   Marian Keyes Jewel Davis Staff
The Whistling Season Ivan Doig Beth Kelley Staff
Narcissus & Goldmund Herman Hesse Tom Laughlin Staff
The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende Tom Laughlin Staff
Ishmael Daniel Quinn Tom Laughlin Staff
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Tom Laughlin Staff
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera  Tom Laughlin Staff
The Woman Warrior: A Memoir of a Childhood Among Ghosts  Maxine Hong Kingston Tom Laughlin Staff
Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat  Tom Laughlin Staff
  

 

 

 
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