For the eighth consecutive year, students at the Clinton School have compiled a list of books they recommend others read. The annual reading list began with the school’s second class in 2007.
“This book list is one of the school’s most interesting and anticipated traditions in which new students participate,” said Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford. “We have requests for it from people all over the country and the world.”
The Class of 2015’s list includes a number of nonfiction books on a variety of issues related to economics, the environment, international development, politics, and social justice. It also contains classic works of fiction. Authors featured include William Shakespeare, Carl Sandburg, Bill Clinton, Sonia Sotomayor, and Dr. Seuss.
The books are on display at the Clinton School’s Sturgis Hall, the renovated passenger train station adjacent to the Clinton Presidential Library. The selections of each class are permanently housed in the reading room at Sturgis Hall.
The Class of 2015 recommended reading list:
Read Admire: “Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema and the Transformative Power of Music by Tricia Tunstall
Anna Applebaum: “Oblivion” by David Foster Wallace
Romerse Biddle: “Back to Work. Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy” by Bill Clinton.
Quiana Brown: “Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime” by J. California Cooper
Brad Cameron: “The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change” by Al Gore
Paola Cavallari: “Gomorra” by Roberto Saviano
Ben Croner: “The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk” by Susan McDougal
Ruby DeSantiago: “Where the Red Fern Grows” by Wilson Rawls
Matt Devlin: “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” by Michael Chabon
Christian Eddings: “The Mis-Education of the Negro” by Carter G. Woodson
Mattea Fleischner: “The Blue Sweater: Bridging The Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World” by Jacqueline Novogratz
Haylee Fletcher: “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
David Ford: “Revolution in Guinea” by Amilcar Cabral
Dani Folks: “Mountains Beyond Mountains” by Tracy Kidder
Elaine Frigon: “Buddha’s Brain” by Rick Hanson, PhD
Luke Frauenthal: “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare
Katherine Grennier: “Oh the Places You’ll Go” by Dr. Seuss
Caroline Head: “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” by Jared Diamond
Brenda Hernandez: “My Beloved World” by Sonia Sotomayor
Lucas Hunt: “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography” by Albert Schweitzer
Tiffany Jacob: “The Half Brother” by Lars Saabye Christensen
Traci Johnson: “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank
Julian Kelly: “Cure for the Common Life” by Max Lucado
Bolton Kirchner: “The Environmental Imagination” by Lawrence Buell
Andrew Lovely: “Wherever You Go, There You Are” by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Thato Masire: “It’s Our Turn to Eat” by Michela Wrong
Brandon Mathews: “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
Allison Meyer: “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot
Hannah Minchow-Profitt: “Half the Sky” by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Hunter Mullins: “Blue Pills” by Frederik Peeter
Kristen Raney: “The Working Poor” by David ShipleR
Jeremy Ratcliff: “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco
Tatiana Riddle: “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan
Antoinette Schicchi: “The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America’s First Military Victory” by Robert V. Remini
Laetitia Tokplo: “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe” by Christopher Caldwell
Angela Toomer: “Honey and Salt” by Carl Sandburg
Sylvia Tran: “The Art of Happiness” by The Dalai Lama
Rebekah Tucci: “Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering and The Search For What Saves Us” by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker
Emily Wheat: “The Fault In Our Stars” by John Green
Lakaija Wood: “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander
Tshering Yudon: “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan
Rebecca Zimmermann: “Empire’s Workshop” by Greg Grandin