Melissa F. Kean Book Selection
- “Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories,” Dr. Seuss (1958)
- “The South Through Time: A History of an American Region,” John Boles (1995)
- “Learn Hebrew Today: Alef-Bet for Adults,” Paul Michael Yedwab (1992)
- “Harriet the Spy,” Louise Fitzhugh (1964)
- “The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus,” Joel Chandler Harris (1906)
- “Tulane: The Emergence of a Modern University, 1945–1980,” Clarence L. Mohr and Joseph E. Gordon (2001)
- “Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford,” Rebecca S. Lowen (1997)
- “Gone with the Ivy: A Biography of Vanderbilt University,” Paul K. Conkin (1985)
- “Straight Man,” Richard Russo (1998)
- “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, Randall Jarrell (2010)
- “Lucky Jim,” Kingsley Amis (2012)
- “Stoner,” John Williams (1965)
- “Our Mutual Friend,” Charles Dickens (1864–65)
- “Dear Committee Members,” Julie Schumacher (2014)
- “Anecdotal Evidence: A Blog About the Intersection of Books and Life,” Patrick Kurp (2006–2019)
- “The Complete Essays of Montaigne,” translated by Donald M. Frame (1957)
- “The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories,” Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1899)
- “Every Thing That Rises Must Converge,” Flannery O’Connor (1965)
- “Complete Stories, 1960–1992,” Peter Taylor (2017)
- “The Power of the Powerless,” Václav Havel (1985)
- “Fabulous Small Jews,” Joseph Epstein (2003)
- “War and Peace,” Leo Tolstoy (1869)
C. Sidney Burrus Book Selection
- Richard Halliburton’s “Book of Marvels: The Occident” (1937) and , “Book of Marvels: The Orient” (1938)
- “Catch-22,” Joseph Heller (1955)
- “The Catcher in the Rye,” J.D. Salinger (1945)
- “Deliverance,” James Dickey (1970)
- Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflection at Sixty and Beyond,” Larry McMurtry (1999)
- “North Toward Home,” Willie Morris (1967)
- “Real Analysis,” H. L. Royden (1985)
- “Linear Algebra,” Gilbert Strang (2009)
- “Models and Metaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy, Max Black 1962
- “Models, Metaphors, and Analogies,” Daniela Bailer-Jones, Chapter 6 in “Philosophy of Science,” edited by Machamer and Silberstein (2002)
- “Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology,” Edward Lee (2017)
- “The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind,” Donella Meadows, et al (1972)
- “The Grand Contraption,” David Park (2005)
- “Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word,” Walter Ong (1982)
- “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” Thomas Kuhn (1962)
- “The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters,” Anthony Pagden (2013)
- “The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy,” Anthony Gottlieb (2000)
- “Anaximander,” Carlo Rovelli (2007)
- “Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age From the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane,” S. Frederick Starr (2013)
- “Isaiah Berlin’s Counter-Enlightenment,” edited by Joseph Mali and Rober Wokler (2003)
- “Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely,” Andrew Curran (2019)
- “Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities,” Richard DeMillo (2011)
- “The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook,” Menand, Reitter, & Wellmon (2017)
- “The Marketplace of Ideas,” Louis Menand (2010)
- “The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University,” Steven Brint (2002)
- “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid,” Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979)
- “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion,” Jonathan Haidt (2012)
- “Midnight’s Children,” Salman Rushdie (1981)
- “A World Lit Only by Fire,” William Manchester (1992)
- “Let Our Fame be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus,” O. Bullough (2010)
- “All the Light We Cannot See,” Anthony Doerr (2014)
- “How Not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking,” Jordan Ellenberg (2014)
- “Radical Hope,” Jonathan Lear (2006 )
- “Lost in Shangri-La,” Mitchell Zuckoff (2011)
- “Anaximander,” Carlo Rovelli (2007)
- “Linear Systems Analysis,” Paul Pfeiffer (1961)
