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Robert Tamarin
UMass Lowell Dean of Sciences 1. The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin 2. Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell 3. The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe 4. A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson 5. Startup Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle, Dan Senor 6. A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe 7. Rabbit, Run, John Updike 8. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown 9. We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates 10. Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin Visual: Documentaries, Exposes, and Historical Dramas 1. The Lottery 2. Waiting for Superman 3. John Adams ( HB0) 4. Penn and Tell's Bull**** (R rated) 5. The Boys of 2nd Street Park |
Bridget Marshall
UMass Lowell Faculty, Department of English 1. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley 2. Dracula, Bram Stoker 3. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood 4. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides 5. Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World, Sarah Vowell 6. Straight Man, Richard Russo 7. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris 8. Beloved, Toni Morrison 9. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell 10. Life of Pi, Yann Martel |
Patricia Yates
Assistant Dean, Career Services 1. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving 2. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett 3. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand 4.The Novel, James Michener 5. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 6. The Princes of Tides, Pat Conroy 7. Among School Children, Tracy Kidder 8. If You Don't Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails, Barbara Corcoran 9. Please Understand Me II, David Keirsey 10. Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lesson of Life, Tim Russert |
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Troy Roberts
Friend of the UMass Lowell Honors Program 1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 2. The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara 3. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck 4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith 5. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown 6. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood 7. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren 8. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 9. I, Claudius, Robert Graves 10. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens |
Doreen Arcus
Faculty, Department of Psychology Former Director of the Honors Program 1. Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear 2. Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver 3. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry 4. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood 5. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini 6. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt 7. The Secret History of the War on Cancer, Devra Davis 8.The State of Boys Rebellion, Michael D'Antonio 9. Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins 10. The Great Influenza, John M. Barry |
Linda Kistler
Retired Faculty, Dean, Past Athletic Department Faculty Rep. Published Author of Two
Fiction Books
1. The Idea Factory, Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner 2. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan 3. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien 4. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak 5. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand 6. The Road, Cormac McCarthy 7. Crytonomicon, Neal Stephenson 8. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John LeCarre 9. Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer 10. The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande |
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David Kalivas
1. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and The Road to 9/11,
Lawrence WrightProfessor of History, Director of Commonwealth Honors Program Middlesex Community College 2. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, Joseph Stiglitz 3. The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over Ameican History, Jill Lepore 4. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson 5. Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East, Rashid Khalidi 6. Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire, Bernard Lewis 7. When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity During the Last Days of Rome 8. Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times, Morris Rossabi, Richard E. Rubenstein 9. Hypatia of Alexandria, Maria Dzielska 10. The Places in Between (travel diary of a walk across Afghanistan, 2002), Rory Stewart |
Dana Skinner
Athletic Director UMass Lowell 1. Playing the Enemy,
John Carlin
2. Lincoln on Leadership, Donald Phillips3. Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela 4. A Call to Heroism, Peter Gibbon 5. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown 6. Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand 7. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin 8. Profiles in Courage, John Kennedy 9. Jackie Robinson, Arnold Rampersad 10. Make Gentle the Life of this World, Maxwell Kennedy Taylor |
Robert Kunzendorf
1. Escape from Evil, Ernest BeckerFaculty, Psychology Department UMass Lowell 2. Friday Night Lights, Buzz Bissinger 3. Denial of Death, Ernest Becker 4. The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the greatest mathematical clash of all time, Jason Socrates Bardi 5.Discovery of the Unconscious, Henri Ellenberger 6. Gallileo (play), Bertold Brecht 7. Calligula (play), Albert Camus 8. Game, Set, and Match, by Len Deighton (spy story) 9. Hook, Line, and Sinker, by Len Deighton (spy story cont.) 10. Faith, Hope, and Charity, by Len Deighton ( spy story finale) |
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Julie Nash
Acting Dean, College of FAHSS UMass Lowell 1. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe 2. Persuasion, Jane Austen 3. Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin 4. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte 5. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie 6. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 7. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison 8. Hamlet, William Shakespeare 9. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley 10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain |
Peter Weston
UMass Lowell Math and Honors Adjunct Professor 1. The Radiance of Being, Allan Combs 2. The Phenomenon of Man, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 3. The Ever-Present Origin, Part One, Jean Gebser 4. The Integral Yoga, Sri Aurobindo 5. Integral Psychology, Ken Wilbur 6. Spiral Dynamics, Mastering Values, Leadership and Change, Don Beck and Christopher Cowan 7. Pyschology of the Future, Stanislav Grof 8. A New Science of Life, Rupert Sheldrake 9. Cosmos and Psyche, Richard Tarnas 10. Science and the Akashic Field, An Integral Theory of Everything, Ervin Laszlo |
Bill Moloney
Faculty and a Founder of the Department of Computer Science Voice of Reason UMass Lowell 1. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving 2. Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand 3. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer 4. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe 5. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville 6. The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene 7. Collapse, Jared Diamond 8. Trinity, Leon Uris 9. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 10. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess |
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Charlotte Mandell
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education UMass Lowell 1. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. Harry Potter (all 7 books), JK Rowling 4. Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann 5. A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson 6. The Ghosts of Belfast, Stuart Neville 7. The Power of One, Bryce Courtney 8. A Great Deliverance, Elizabeth George 9. The Number one Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander Smith 10. Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin |
Jim Canning
Faculty, Department of Computer Science Director, Commonwealth Honors Program UMass Lowell 1. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving 2. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo 3. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand 4. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5. Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley with Ron Powers 6. My Antonia, Willa Cather 7. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck 8. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte 9. Across Five Aprils, Irene Hunt 10. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Beth Donaghey
Coordinator, Commonwealth Honors Program UMass Lowell 1. The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. Barabbas, Par Lagerkvist 3. Maus, Art Spiegelman 4. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka 5. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 6. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw 7. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte 8. Children of the Resistance, Lore Cowan 9. Irish Trilogy, Walter Macken 10. The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life, Laurie Notaro |
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Anita Greenwood
Dean, College of Education UMass Lowell 1. I, Claudius, Robert Graves 2. Persuasion, Jane Austen 3. Rosalind Franklin - The Dark Lady of DNA, Brenda Maddox 4. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides 5. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon 6. Fountainhead, Ayn Rand 7. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 8. Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov 9. The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester 10. Will in the World - How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Stephen Greenblatt Sneak Listen: Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto |
Ester Carroll
Database Administrator, Office of Institutional Research UMass Lowell 1. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 3. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyan, Edward Fitzgerald 4. Salem's Lot, Stephen King 5. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte 6. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 7. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood 8. Art Buchwald's Paris, Art Buchwald 9. Least Innocent Blood Be Shed, Philip Hallie 10. Narrative of teh Life of Frederick Douglas, Frederick Douglas |
Jacqueline Moloney
Executive Vice Chancellor A Founder of the Honors Program UMass Lowell 1. Bread and Wine, Ignazio Stone 2. People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks 3. March, Geraldine Brooks 4. The Once and Future King, E.H. White 5. The March, E. Doctorow 6. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Thurston 7. Garden of Last Days, Andre Dubus 8. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin 9. Encouraging the Heart, Kouzes and Posner 10. Let Your Life Speak, Palmer Parker |
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Stephen Pennell
Former Director and a Founder of the Honors Program Head of the Mathematical Sciences Dept. UMass Lowell 1. USA Trilogy, John Dos Passos 2. Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 3. Dune, Frank Herbert 4. The Mind-Body Problem, Rebecca Goldstein 5. Virgin Time, Patricia Hampl 6. Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick 7. An American Childhood, Annie Dillard 8. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula LeGuin 9. Friend of My Youth, Alice Munro 10. At Play in the Fields of the Lord |
Young Adult Books You May
Have Missed
1. Across Five Aprils. Irene Hunt 2. Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech 3. Johnny Tremain, Ester Forbes 4. Moon Over Manifest, Clare Vanderpool 5. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor 6. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak 7. Bridge to Terabethis, Katherine Patterson 8. Hattie Big Sky, Kirby Larson 9. Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery 10. Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver |
Steven Tello
Associate Vice Chancellor for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development 1. The Myths of Innovation, Scott Berkun 2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey 3.The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell 4. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, Steven Johnson 5.The World is Flat: A Brief History fo the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman 6. The Andrmeda Strain, Michael Chrichton 7. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier 8. The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac 9. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Norman Maclean 10.One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Poems: 1. Because I Could Not Stop for Death, Emily Dickenson 2. Bells, Edgar Allen Poe 3. Howl, Alan Ginsburg 4. When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom'd, Walt Whitman 5. My Favorite Things, John Coltrane (poetic song) |
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Ahmed Abdelal
Provost University of Massachusetts Lowell 1. Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer, Tim Jeal 2. The Road, Cormac McCarthy 3. The Cat's Table, Michael Odaatje 4. Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff 5. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck |
Partha Chowdhury
Professor of Physics University of Massachusetts Lowell 1. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 2. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver 3. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 4. 1984, George Orwell 5. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway 6. Lord of the Flies, William Golding 7. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 8.The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carre 9. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck 10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury |