Monday, May 05, 2008

Book Picks for Recent Graduates

Ah, graduation! Time for cap and gown and enjoying the last few weeks before reality sets in.
Before you forget all about reading or books, Milne Library wants to send you off with some suggestions for your post-undergrad leisure time. Our suggestions come from The Millions, a book, arts and culture blog featured on NPR and in The New York Times.


What books do The Millions editors suggest?:
1. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
2. The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
3. Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy by Dave Hickey
4. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
5. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
6. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway


What books do you suggest? Post your comment to the blog!


1 Comments:

Blogger Bonnie J. M. Swoger said...

After college I discovered the books of Christopher Moore. They are wonderfully irreverent, laugh out loud funny and occasionally heretical.

See:

Lamb : the gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal

Practical demonkeeping : a comedy of horrors

Island of the sequined love nun

5/06/2008 9:44 AM  

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