Common Book Suggestions from Faculty, Staff & Students
The Shack – Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
by Wm. Paul Young
recommended by Jo Mucci
The Sound of Language
by Amulya Malladi
recommended by Mary Ellen Maney
The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
by Harry Bernstein
recommended by Elise Martin
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
recommended by Hayat Weiss
Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
recommended by Hayat Weiss
The Impossible Will Take a Little While
by Paul Loeb
recommended by Donna Duffy
Soul of a Citizen (a book that involves Lowell history)
by Paul Loeb
recommended by Donna Duffy
A Year of Eating Locally
by Barbara Kingsolver
recommended by Lynn Gregory
Here If You Need Me: A True Story
by Kate Braestrup
recommended by Susan Egan
The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
Dreams From My Father
by Barack Obama
recommended by Jessie Klein
Reunion
by David Daniel
recommended by Jo Mucci
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
by Michael Dorris
recommended by Esther Rosenman-Hochman
The Painted Drum
by Louise Erdrich
recommended by Esther Rosenman-Hochman
Digging to America
by Anne Tyler
recommended by Esther Rosenman-Hochman
Born on a Blue Day
by Daniel Tammet
recommended by Rebecca Newell
The Last Town on EarthÂ
by Thomas Mullen
recommended by Clea Andreadis
The Camel Bookmobile
by Masha Hamilton
recommended by Clea Andreadis
The Man in My Basement
by Walter Mosley
recommended by Clea Andreadis
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
recommended by Tom Laughlin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
recommended by Sandra Shapiro
Tinkers
by Paul Harding
recommended by Lynn Gregory
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Edited by Jay Allison & Dan Gediman
recommended by Darlene Furdock
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
recommended by Orian Greene
Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
recommended by Cynthia Lynch
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
recommended by Shelli DeMarkles
The Glass Castle
by Jeanette Walls
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
recommended by Sanford Arbogast
MAUS
by Art Speigelman
recommended by Cheryl Wotring
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton
recommended by Rob Kaulfuss
Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
recommended by Esther Hochman, Ellen Nichols, Tamara Havens
Nickel & Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
recommended by Cheryl Wotring
select a common author w/ several books as possibilities rather than a common book
recommended by Pamela Edington
The Color of Water
by James McBride
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
recommended by Orian Greene
Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
recommended by Jamie Williams
The Learning Tree
by Gordon Parks
recommended by Jamie Williams
All Souls
by Michael Patrick MacDonald
recommended by Clea Andreadis, Marilyn Black
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
recommended by Sue Hunt
My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
recommended by Denise Marchionda
When the Emperor Was Divine
by Julie Otsuka
recommended by Jean Trounstine
Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
recommended by Gail Mooney
Those Who Save Us
by Jenna Blum
recommended by Cathy McCarron
Perfumed Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
by Andrew Lam
recommended by Orian Greene
Smashed
by Koren Zailckas
recommended by Dorothy O'Connell
The Traveler
by John Twelve Hawks
recommended by Theresa Mullins
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J.K. Rowling and Mary GrandPre
recommended by Marion Cuoco
Thief
by Markus Zusak
recommended by Eileen Burbage
The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell
student recommendation from Writing Center box
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
student recommendation from Writing Center box
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
student recommendation from Writing Center box
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
student recommendation from Writing Center box
Digging to America
by Anne Tyler
recommended by Marilyn Black
The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy
by Pietra Rivoli
recommended by Barbara Dexter-Smith
Good Benito
by Alan Lightman
recommended by MCC Library staff
Luminous Fish: Tales of Science and Love
by Lynn Margulis
recommended by MCC Library staff
The Memory of Running
by Ron McLarty
recommended by MCC Library staff
Into the Forest
by Jean Hegland
recommended by Allyson O'Brien
The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
recommended by Pat Hyde
Children of Men
by P.D. James
recommended by Dona Cady