Ever wondered what your favorite professor considered their top five reads?
Lauren Byler-
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
Atonement by Ian McEwan
anything by Jane Austen
Star Glover-
Ursula Vernon (Digger)
Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Terry Pratchett (Discworld)
Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird)
Lynda Barry (One Hundred Demons)
Christopher Higgs-
Tender Buttons (1914) by Gertrude Stein
A Thousand Plateaus (1980) by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari
Book Beginning What and Ending Away (2013) by Clark Coolidge
Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) by Claudia Rankine
The Vorrh (2015) by B. Catling
Angela Keshishyan-
1. Black Dog of Fate -- Peter Balakian
2. The Bastard of Istanbul -- Elif Shafak
3. All the Light There Was - Nancy Kricorian
4. Me as her again - Nancy Agabian
5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Joanne Martin-
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Nate Mills-
Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin
Emily Dickinson, Complete Poems
Edward P. JonesThe Known World
Edith WhartonThe Age of Innocence
Charlotte Bronte,Jane Eyre
Martin Pousson-
1. Train Dreams, Denis Johnson
2. We the Animals, Justin Torres
3. The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner
4. Blood Lyrics, Katie Ford
5. Preparation for the Next Life, Atticus Lish
Keli Rowley-
1. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
2. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
4. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
5. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Mahta Rosenfeld-
" These five are the characters that have stayed with me, years after I read the novel".
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
The Space Between Us Thrity Umrigar
The Invisible Wall Harry Bernstein
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye Rachel Joyce
Little Bee Chris Cleave
Jutta Schamp-
1. Jack Kerouac Big Sur
2. Henry Miller's Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
3. Anton Nimblett Sections of an Orange
4. Lelawatee Manoo-Rahming Curry Flavour
5. Ben Okri Astonishing the Gods
Cheryl Spector-
Has her own link to what she is currently reading:
http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao08e/
However, these would be “some” of her favorites:
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre and then Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories
The New Yorker magazine (published almost weekly; available via Oviatt Library)
Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
And of course, David Levithan, Every Day (the 2015-2016 Freshman Common Reading at CSUN)
Danielle Spratt-
Jane Austen, Persuasion
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Toni Morrison, Paradise
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Honorable mention would be something like Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit (one of my oldest favorites), and recent-ish things I've read and really liked include Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her and Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures.
Colleen Tripp-
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Honorable mention would go to some of my favorite children's books--Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, JK Rowling's Harry Potter series, and Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series--as well as some of my favorite gothic narratives, like Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno."
Steven Wexler
Five books that I'm currently reading:
The Philosophy of Information by Luciano Floridi
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Godel's Proof by Ernest Nagel
Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger
Film Genre:From Iconography to Ideology by Barry Keith Grant
Kimberly Young-
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
The Boss by Victoria Chang
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston