Middlesex Community College

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