🐻📚 I made a list of 238 Books by Cornellians!! filter by Genres, with a short…
🐻📚 I made a list of 238 Books by Cornellians!! filter by Genres, with a short AI-generated description for each!! full list in the comments!!
🐻 E. B. White 1921 - Charlotte’s Web
A pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte become friends
🐻 Kurt Vonnegut ’44 - Slaughterhouse-Five
Vonnegut’s classic antiwar novel centered on the firebombing of Dresden
🐻 Lauren Weisberger ’99 - The Devil Wears Prada
A young assistant endures the fashion industry’s most impossible boss
🐻 Nicola Yoon ’94 - Everything, Everything
A girl allergic to the world finds love without leaving home
🐻 Toni Morrison, MA ’55 - Beloved
A former slave’s haunting memories of bondage and motherhood linger on
🐻 Jandy Nelson ’87 - I’ll Give You the Sun
Twin siblings grow apart then reconnect through art and self-discovery
🐻 Ken Blanchard, PhD ’67 - The One Minute Manager
Quick, effective management techniques that boost productivity in one minute
🐻 Melissa Bank, MFA ’87 - The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
A young woman’s witty, spirited journey through love and modern dating
🐻 Téa Obreht, MFA ’08 - The Tiger’s Wife
Family legends and Balkan folklore weave through a granddaughter’s search for truth
🐻 Thomas Pynchon ’59 - The Crying of Lot 49
Oedipa Maas uncovers a vast underground postal conspiracy in California
🐻 William Strunk Jr. 1900 - The Elements of Style
The classic guide to clear, concise English writing style
🐻 Sheryl WuDunn ’81 - Half the Sky
A passionate call to fight oppression of women in the developing world
🐻 Julie Orringer ’94 - The Invisible Bridge
A Hungarian Jewish student in 1930s Paris falls into a forbidden love
🐻 Michael Greger ’95 - How Not to Die
Foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse killer diseases
🐻 Matt Ruff ’87 - Lovecraft Country
A Black veteran battles cosmic horror and racism in 1950s Chicago
🐻 Susan Choi, MFA ’95 - Flashlight
Performing arts students struggle and thrive in 1980s suburban America
🐻 Chris Pavone ’89 - The Expats (Kate Moore, #1)
An expat mother harboring secrets faces danger when they surface abroad
🐻 James Magruder ’82 - The Miser
A miserly widower’s obsession with money torments his rebellious children
🐻 Philipp Meyer ’99 - The Son
An epic multigenerational saga spanning 150 years of Texas frontier life
🐻 Victor LaValle ’94 - Lone Women
A woman with a dark secret homesteads in 1890s Montana
🐻 Will Guidara ’01 - Unreasonable Hospitality
Essential hospitality lessons from the co-owner of Eleven Madison Park
🐻 Manuel Muñoz, MFA ’98 - Bless Me, Ultima
A boy’s life transformed by a mystical healer in New Mexico
🐻 Roger Lowenstein ’76 - When Genius Failed
The spectacular rise and devastating collapse of Long-Term Capital Management
🐻 Barry Eisler ’86, JD ’89 - The Killer Collective
Betrayal, vengeance, and depraved secrets in a fast-paced spy thriller
🐻 Jade Song ’18 - Chlorine
A dark coming-of-age tale blurring literary fiction and body horror
🐻 NoViolet Bulawayo, MFA ’10 - We Need New Names
A young girl’s unflinching journey from Zimbabwe to America seeking hope
🐻 George Cockcroft ’54 - The Dice Man
A psychiatrist lets dice make all his life decisions with wild results
🐻 Julie Schumacher, MFA ’86 - Dear Committee Members
Hilarious recommendation letters reveal a professor’s crumbling academic world
🐻 Andrew Ross Sorkin ’99 - 1929
A spellbinding narrative of the 1929 stock market crash and aftermath
🐻 Lorrie Moore, MFA ’82 - A Gate at the Stairs
A young woman navigates racism and war in post-9/11 America
🐻 Signe Pike ’03 - The Lost Queen
The untold story of a forgotten queen in sixth-century Scotland
🐻 Brian Andrews, MBA ’03 - Tier One (Tier One #1)
A Navy SEAL gets a new identity and fights terrorism in covert ops
🐻 Richard Price ’71 - Lush Life
A tale of two Lower East Sides colliding in modern New York
🐻 Bill Nye ’77 - Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
Bill Nye defends evolution and confronts the science of creationism
🐻 Henry Neff ’95, BA ’96 - The Hound of Rowan (The Tapestry, #1)
A boy discovers a Celtic tapestry that leads to a magical academy
🐻 Thomas Perry ’69 - The Old Man
A retired CIA operative’s peaceful life is shattered by his past
🐻 Stewart O’Nan, MFA ’92 - Last Night at the Lobster
A Red Lobster manager navigates the restaurant’s final shift before closing
🐻 Andrew Fukuda ’94 - The Hunt (The Hunt, #1)
In a dangerous world, a boy must hide his true human nature
🐻 Laurie Woolever ’96 - Care and Feeding
A food writer reflects on nourishing others and being nourished
🐻 Barry Strauss ’74 - 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
How Bronze Age civilizations collapsed simultaneously around 1177 BC
🐻 Anthony Fauci, MD ’66 - On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service
Dr. Fauci’s six-decade journey in medicine and public service
🐻 Michelle Knudsen ’95 - Library Lion
A lion visits the library and everyone loves him until rules break
🐻 Alli Frank ’92 - The Better Half
A forty-three-year-old woman finally gets her fresh start after divorce
🐻 Ben Shattuck ’09 - The History of Sound
Interconnected New England stories exploring how history echoes across centuries
🐻 Edward Bernays 1912 - Propaganda
Edward Bernays’ influential treatise on manipulating public opinion and society
🐻 Susie Luo, JD ’14 - Paper Names
An act of violence connects a Chinese American family and a lawyer
🐻 Diksha Basu ’05 - The Windfall
An Indian family’s life transforms when they suddenly become wealthy
🐻 Beth Morrison, PhD ’02 - The Emperor’s Revenge (Oregon Files, #11)
Juan Cabrillo and crew face their most dangerous mission yet
🐻 Brenda Janowitz ’95 - The Grace Kelly Dress
Three generations of women connected by Grace Kelly’s iconic wedding dress
🐻 David Oshinsky ’65 - Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital
Three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America’s most storied hospital
🐻 Helen Schulman ’83 - This Beautiful Life
A viral video scandal upends a privileged New York family’s life
🐻 Bill Maher ’78 - New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
Bill Maher’s sharp comedic commentary on American politics and culture
🐻 Linnea Hartsuyker ’00 - The Half-Drowned King (The Half-Drowned King, #1)
A young Viking fights to reclaim his family’s land and honor
🐻 Ozan Varol ’03 - Think Like a Rocket Scientist
Habits and strategies from a rocket scientist for creative problem-solving
🐻 Keri Blakinger ’14 - Corrections in Ink
A journalist’s journey from drug addiction through prison to redemption
🐻 Andrew Boryga ’13 - Victim
A fearless satire about a man willing to bend truth for success
🐻 Susan Brownmiller ’55 - Against Our Will
A landmark feminist history of rape and its political dimensions worldwide
🐻 Harold Bloom ’51 - How to Read and Why
A renowned critic guides readers on why and how to read deeply
🐻 Alejandro Varela ’01 - The Town of Babylon
A gay Latinx professor returns home after his husband’s infidelity
🐻 Andrea Cheng, MFA ’91 - The Year of the Book
A Chinese American girl discovers that friendship is complicated in any language
🐻 William Vollmann ’81 - Europe Central
Authoritarian cultures of Germany and USSR explored through composite fictional portraits
🐻 Jessica Saunders ’03 - Love, Me
Modern married life unravels when an old flame resurfaces
🐻 Nyani Nkrumah, PhD ’01 - Wade in the Water
Two voices tell a riveting coming-of-age story of resilience
🐻 Clifford Irving ’51 - Trial
A thrilling novel of criminal law exploring murder and morality of justice
🐻 William Gass, PhD ’54 - In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
Five masterful stories exploring consciousness, place, and the nature of language
🐻 Hendrik Willem van Loon 1905 - The Story of Mankind
A classic children’s history of civilization from ancient times to modern
🐻 Ann Coulter ’84 - Godless: The Church of Liberalism
Arguing that liberalism functions as America’s unofficial state religion
🐻 Christopher Reeve ’74 - Still Me
Christopher Reeve’s memoir of hope and resilience after devastating paralysis
🐻 Robert Atkins, MD ’55 - Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution
The bestselling low-carb diet revolution that changed how millions eat
🐻 Rachel Dodes ’99 - The Memo
A woman gets the chance to magically rewrite her life story
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