For the tenth consecutive year, students at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service have compiled a list of books they recommend others read. ”This always interesting and diverse book list has become a much anticipated tradition here at the Clinton School,” said Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford. “We have requests for it from individuals, teachers, book clubs, libraries and bookstores from all over the country.”Authors featured in this year’s list include the Dalai Lama, Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo and Voltaire. Two students chose different books from Indian-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri. President Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope, Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, and Night by Elie Wiesel were also among the student selections.
The books will be on display at the Clinton School’s Sturgis Hall throughout the 2015-2016 school year and will be added to the school’s permanent collection. Printed lists will also be available at Wordsworth Books in Little Rock and at the Central Arkansas Library System’s main library.
Recommended Reading from the Class of 2017:
Khalid Ahmadzai: “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East” by Anthony Shadid
Kristen Alexander: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Ben Barber: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Nora Bouzihay: I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
Evan Brown: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Daniel Caruth: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Stacy Cox: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Abby Craig: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne
Xotchitl Delgado-Solorzano: The Lettered City by Angel Rama
Sarah Fowlkes: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead by Brene Brown
Cat French: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World by Bob Goff
Zach Glembin: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Thurman Green: Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
Zac Hale: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James Scott
Mary Henthorn: The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
Claire Hodgson: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Yohannis Job: Leadership and Self-Deception: Gettting Out of the Box by the Arbinger Institute
Salil Joshi: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Emily Kearns: Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons by Sylviane A. Diouf
Miki Kunishige: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
Arjola Limani: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Caitlin McAteer: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Piper Meeks: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Alexandre Meldem: Traite Sur La Tolerance by Voltaire
Colbert Nelson: Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper
Shem Ngwire: In Charge: Finding the Leader Within You by Dr. Myles Munroe
Hunter Owen: Stoner by John Williams
Beau Papan: The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
Elena Perry: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rob Pillow: The Politics of Rich and Poor by Kevin P. Phillips
Keith Preciados: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhard Tolle
Yvonne Quek: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Heather Rossi: The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
Merrill Schmidt: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
Marsha Scullark: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Jeremiah Sniffin: Shogun by James Clavell
Demas Soliman: Night by Elie Wiesel
Will Van Laningham: Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World by H. H. Dalai Lama
Mary Wolf: Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley
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