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 Alex Beam, author of Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
recommends:
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham-Smith
bell hooks, author of Communion: The Female Search for Love
recommends:
Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience by Sharon Salzberg (to be published in August)
The Heart of the Soul: Emotional Awareness by Gary Zukav and Linda Francis
Lani Guinier, co-author of The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy
recommends:
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
 Frank Conroy, author of Dogs Bark but the Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now
recommends:
City of Bones by Michael Connelly
Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin
American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
Burning the Days: Recollection by Jim Salter
Carol Gilligan, author of The Birth of Pleasure
recommends:
Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems by Fatima Mernissi
Never by Jorie Graham
 Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections
recommends:
Big If by Mark Costello
Alan Dershowitz, author of Why Terrorism Works (to be published in September)
recommends:
The Deadhouse by Linda Fairstein
I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
(Dershowitz will be reading from his new book at the Boston Public Library on September 19th at 6pm)
Robert Caro, author of Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
recommends:
The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
The Company: A Novel of the CIA by Robert Littell
Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls
recommends:
Three Junes by Julia Glass
A Brief History of the Flood: Stories by Jean Harfenist
Donna Tartt, author of Little Friend (to be published in October)
recommends:
The Boxer Rebellion by Diana Preston
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
 Anne Bernays, co-author of Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York
recommends:
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The World at Night by Alan Furst
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Justin Kaplan, co-author of Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York
recommends:
The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena by Julia Blackburn
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
Tuxedo Park: a Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II by Jennet Conant
 Daniel Goleman, co-author of Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
recommends:
KA: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India by Roberto Calasso
Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience by Sharon Salzberg (to be published in August)
Mary Pipher, author of The Middle of Everywhere: The World's Refugees Come to Our Town
recommends:
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver
Tim O'Brien, author of July, July (to be published in October)
recommends:
John Adams by David McCollough
Diamond: a Journey to the Heart of an Obsession by Matthew Hart
(O'Brien will be reading from his new book at the Boston Public Library on October 23rd at 6pm)
 Dave Edmonds, co-author of Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers
recommends:
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
In the Lake by the Woods by Tim O'Brien
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