Nelson J. Gilman Humanities Collection

The Nelson J. Gilman Humanities collection is a collection of selected literary fiction and popular non-fiction for recreational reading by faculty, students, and staff

Books are alphabetized by author's name.

Author	Title	Publisher	Year	Call Number
Bąch Ngô.	The classic cuisine of Vietnam/	New York : Barron's/Woodbury,	c1979.	TX 724.5 B118c 1979
Bach, Richard.	Jonathan Livingston Seagull	[New York] Macmillan	[1970]	PZ 10.3 B118j 1970
Bahá’}u’lláh, 1817-1892.	Bahá’í world faith/	Wilmette, Ill. : Bahá’í Pub. Trust	[1976]	BP 360 N277b 1956
Bail, Murray, 1941-	Eucalyptus: a novel/	New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,	1998	PZ 4 B153e 1998
Bailey, Paul, 1906-1987.	Those kings and queens of old Hawaii: a mele to their memory/	Los Angeles : Westernlore Books,	1975	DU 624.9 B155t 1975
Bainbridge, Beryl, 1933-	Master Georgie : a novel/	New York : Carroll & Graf,	1998	PZ 4 B162m 1998
Baker, Carlos, 1909-1987.	Ernest Hemingway; a life story	New York, Scribner	[1969]	PS 3515 H488B 1969
Baker, Nicholson.	A box of matches/	New York : Random House,	c2003.	PZ 4 B168b 2003
Baker, Russell, 1925-	Growing up/	New York : Congdon & Weed : Distributed by St. Martin's Press,	c1982.	PS 3552 B168g 1982
Bakopoulos, Dean.	Please don't come back from the moon/	Orlando : Harcourt,	c2005.	PZ 4 B166p 2005
Balakian, Peter, 1951-	Black dog of fate: a memoir/	New York : BasicBooks,	c1997.	PS 3552 A443 B171b 1997
Baldwin, Shauna Singh.	What the body remembers: a novel/	New York : N.A. Talese,	c1999.	PZ 4 B182w 1999
Bank, Melissa.	The girls' guide to hunting and fishing/	New York, N.Y. : Viking,	1999	PZ 4 B218g 1999
Banville, John.	The sea/	New York : Knopf,	2005	PZ 4 B219s 2005
Banville, John.	Shroud/	New York : Knopf ; Distributed by Random House,	2003, c2002.	PZ 4 B219sh 2003
Bao Ninh.	The sorrow of war: a novel of North Vietnam/	New York : Pantheon Books,	[c1995]	PZ 4 B221s 1995
Barich, Bill.	Big dreams: into the heart of California/	New York : Pantheon Books,	c1994.	F 866.2 B252b 1994
Barker, Nicola, 1966-	Darkmans/	New York : Harper Perennial,	c2007.	PZ 4 B2545d 2007
Barker, Pat.	Another world/	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,	1999	PZ 4 B255a 1999
Barker, Pat.	The ghost road/	New York : Dutton,	1995	PZ 4 B255g 1995
Barkhordar-Nahai, Gina.	Moonlight on the avenue of faith/	New York : Harcourt Brace,	c1999.	PZ 4 B2552m 1999
Barnes, Julian.	England, England/	New York : Alfred A. Knopf,	1999, c1998.	PZ 4 B261e 1999
Barnes, Julian.	The lemon table/	New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House,	2004	PZ 4 B261L 2004
Barnes, Julian.	Love, etc./	New York : Alfred A. Knopf,	2001, c2000.	PZ 4 B261Lo 2001
Barreno, Maria Isabel, 1939-	The three Marias: new Portuguese letters/	Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday,	1975	PQ 9264 B271n 1975
Barrett, Andrea.	Ship fever and other stories/	New York : Norton,	c1996.	PZ 4 B274s 1996
Barrett, Paul (Paul M.)	American Islam: the struggle for the soul of a religion/	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,	2007	BP 67 B274a 2007
Barry, Sebastian, 1955-	A long long way/	New York : Viking,	2005	PZ 4 B281L 2005
Barth, John.	Once upon a time: a floating opera/	Boston : Little, Brown,	1994	PZ 4 B284o 1994
Barth, John.	Giles goat-boy; or, The revised new syllabus.	Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday,	1966	PZ 4 B284g
Barzun, Jacques, 1907-	From dawn to decadence: 500 years of western cultural life, 1500 to the present/	New York : HarperCollins,	c2000.	CB 245 B296f 2000
Barzun, Jacques, 1907-	Science: the glorious entertainment.	New York, Harper & Row	[1964]	CB 358 B296s
Barzun, Jacques, 1907-	The house of intellect.	New York, Harper	[1959]	AZ 221 B296h
Basbanes, Nicholas A., 1943-	A gentle madness: bibliophiles, bibliomanes, and the eternal passion for books/	New York : H. Holt and Co.,	1995	Z 992 B297g 1995
Bate, Walter Jackson, 1918-1999.	Samuel Johnson/	New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,	c1977.	PR 3533 B328s 1977
Bates, Judy Fong, 1949-	Midnight at the Dragon Café/	New York, N.Y. : Counterpoint,	c2005.	PZ 4 B329m 2005
Bateson, Mary Catherine.	With a daughter's eye: a memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson/	New York : W. Morrow,	c1984.	GN 21 M36 B329w 1984
Bateson, Mary Catherine.	Peripheral visions: learning along the way/	New York : HarperCollins Publishers,	c1994.	BF 318.5 B329p 1994
Bathurst, Bella.	The lighthouse Stevensons: the extraordinary story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson/	New York : HarperCollins Publishers,	c1999.	VK 1061 B332L 1999
Bauer, Yehuda.	Rethinking the Holocaust/	New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press,	c2001.	D 804.348 B344r 2001
Bausch, Richard, 1945-	Rebel powers/	Boston : Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence,	1993	PZ 4 B351r 1993
Baxter, Charles, 1947-	Shadow play: a novel/	New York : Norton,	c1993.	PZ 4 B355sh 1993
Baxter, Charles, 1947-	Saul and Patsy/	New York : Pantheon Books,	c2003.	PZ 4 B355s 2003
Bayley, John, 1925-	Elegy for Iris/	New York : St. Martin's Press,	c1999.	PR 6063 U7 B358e 1999
Beah, Ishmael, 1980-	A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier/	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,	2007	DT 516 B365L 2007
Beattie, Ann	Perfect recall: new stories/	New York : Scribner,	c2001.	PZ 4 B369p 2001
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.	Adieux: a farewell to Sartre/	New York : Pantheon Books,	c1984.	PQ 2603 B385a 1984
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.	Les belles images.	New York, Putnam	[1968]	PZ 3 B386b
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.	America day by day/	Berkeley : University of California Press,	c1999.	E 169.02 B386a 1999
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.	The prime of life.	Cleveland, World Pub. Co.	[1962]	PQ 2603 B386p 1962
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.	A very easy death/	New York : Putnam,	[1966, c1965]	PQ 2603 B386v 1965
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.	The coming of age.	New York, Putnam	[1972]	WT 100 B386c 1972
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.	The woman destroyed.	New York, Putnam	[1969]	PZ 3 B386w
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.	How it is.	New York, Grove Press	[1964]	PZ 3 B396h
Bedford, Sybille, 1911-2006.	Aldous Huxley: a biography/	New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House,	1974	PR 6015 H986 B 1974
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956.	Zuleika Dobson,	New York, The Modern Library	[1926]	PZ 3 B415z
Beernink, K. D.	Ward rounds:	Wallingford, Pa., Washington Square East Publishers,	1970 [c1969]	PS 595 B415w 1970
Begley, Louis.	About Schmidt	New York : Alfred A. Knopf,	1996	PZ 4 B417a 1996
Begley, Louis.	The man who was late/	New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House,	1993, c1992.	PZ 4 B417m 1993
Begley, Louis.	Wartime lies/	New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House,	1991	PZ 4 B417w 1991
Begley, Louis.	Mistler's exit/	New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House,	1998	PZ 4 B417mi 1998
Bell, Christine, 1951-	The Pérez family/	New York : W.W. Norton,	c1990.	PZ 4 B433p 1990
Bell, Quentin.	Virginia Woolf; a biography.	New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	[1972]	PR 6045 O72 B434v 1972
Bellow, Saul.	More die of heartbreak/	New York : Morrow,	c1987.	PZ 3 B448m 1987
Bellow, Saul.	The actual/	New York : Viking,	1997	PZ 3 B448a 1997
Bellow, Saul.	Herzog	New York, Viking Press	[1964]	PZ 3 B448h 1964
Bellow, Saul.	To Jerusalem and back: a personal account/	New York : Viking Press,	1976	DS 107.4 B448t 1976
Bellow, Saul.	Him with his foot in his mouth and other stories/	New York : Harper & Row,	c1984.	PZ 3 B448ha 1984
Bellow, Saul.	The dean's December/	New York : Harper & Row,	c1981.	PZ 3 B448d 1981
Bellow, Saul.	Ravelstein/	New York : Viking,	2000	PZ 4 B448r 2000
Bender, Aimee.	Willful creatures: stories/	New York : Doubleday,	2005	PZ 4 B458w 2005
Bennett, Alan, 1934-	The laying on of hands: stories/	New York : Picador USA,	2002	PZ 4 B471L 2002
Bennett, Alan, 1934-	Untold stories/	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,	2006	PZ 4 B471u 2006
Bennett, James Gordon, 1947-	My father's geisha/	New York : Delacorte Press,	[1990]	PZ 4 B471m 1990
Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940.	Make way for Lucia/	New York : Crowell,	c1977.	PZ 3 B474m 1977
Berberova, Nina Nikolaevna.	The book of happiness/	New York : New Directions,	1999	PZ 4 B484b 1999
Berberova, Nina Nikolaevna.	The tattered cloak and other novels/	New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House,	1991	PZ 4 B484t 1991
Berberova, Nina Nikolaevna.	Cape of storms/	New York : Published for James Laughlin by New Directions Pub.,	c1999.	PZ 4 B484c 1999
Berberova, Nina Nikolaevna.	The ladies from St. Petersburg: three novellas/	New York : New Directions,	c1998.	PZ 4 B484L 1998
Berger, Thomas, 1924-	Best friends: a novel/	New York : Simon & Schuster,	c2003.	PZ 4 B496b 2003
Berger, Thomas, 1924-	The return of little big man/	Boston : Little, Brown,	c1999.	PZ 4 B496r 1999
Berger, Thomas, 1924-	The feud: a novel/	New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence,	c1983.	PZ 4 B496f 1983
Berlin, Ira, 1941-	Many thousands gone: the first two centuries of slavery in North America/	Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,	1998	E 446 B515m 1998
Berlin, Isaiah, Sir.	The sense of reality: studies in ideas and their history/	New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux,	1997	D 16.8 B515s 1997
Bernardo, José Raúl.	The secret of the bulls: a novel/	New York : Simon & Schuster,	c1996.	PZ 4 B523s 1996
Berne, Eric.	Games people play: the psychology of human relationships/	New York : Ballantine Books,	1996, c1964.	HM 291 B525g 1964
Bernstein, Carl, 1944-	All the President's men	New York, Simon and Schuster	[1974]	E 860 B531a 1974
Bezmozgis, David, 1973-	Natasha and other stories/	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,	2004	PZ 4 B574n 2004
Biancolli, Louis Leopold.	The book of great conversations; ed. from historical sources in dramatic form and with biographical sketches.	New York, Simon and Schuster	[1948]	PN 6014 B578b
Bierman, John.	Dark safari: the life behind the legend of Henry Morton Stanley/	New York : Knopf,	1990	DT 351 S6 B588d 1990
Binstock, R. C.	Tree of heaven/	New York : Soho,	1995	PZ 4 B614t 1995
Birdwell, Dwight W.	A hundred miles of bad road : an armored cavalryman in Vietnam, 1967-68/	Novato, CA : Presidio,	c1997.	DS 559.5 B618h 1997
Bishop, Jim, 1907-1987.	FDR's last year, April 1944-April 1945	New York, W. Morrow,	1974	E 807 B622f 1974
Black, Benjamin, 1945-	Christine Falls: a novel/	New York : Picador,	2008, c2006.	PZ 4 B627c 2008
Blackburn, Julia.	The leper's companions/	New York : Pantheon Books,	c1999.	PZ 4 B628L 1999
Blaise, Clark.	Days and nights in Calcutta/	Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday,	1977	DS 421 B635d 1977
Bloom, Allan David, 1930-1992.	The closing of the American mind/	New York : Simon and Schuster,	c1987.	E 169.1 B655c 1987
Bloom, Amy, 1953-	Away: a novel/	New York : Random House,	c2007.	PZ 4 B655a 2007
Bloom, Harold.	The Western canon: the books and school of the ages/	New York : Harcourt Brace,	c1994.	PN 81 B655w 1994
Bloom, Harold.	Shakespeare: the invention of the human/	New York : Riverhead Books,	1998	PR 2989 B655s 1998
Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004.	The creators/	New York : Random House,	c1992.	CB 69 B724c 1992
Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004.	The seekers: the story of man's continuing quest to understand his world/	New York : Random House,	c1998.	CB 151 B724s 1998
Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004.	The Americans: the democratic experience	New York, Random House	[1973]	E 169.1 B724a 1973
Booth, Martin.	The industry of souls/	New York : St. Martin's Press,	1999, c1998.	PZ 4 B725i 1999
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.	Collected fictions/	New York : Viking,	1998	PQ 7797 B732c 1998
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.	Selected poems/	New York : Viking,	1999	PQ 7797 B732se 1999
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.	Selected nonfictions/	New York : Viking,	1999	PQ 7797 B732s 1999
Bosse, Malcolm J. (Malcolm Joseph)	The man who loved zoos/	New York : Putnam,	[1974]	PZ 4 B745m 1974
Bosse, Malcolm J. (Malcolm Joseph)	The warlord: a novel/	New York : Simon and Schuster,	c1983.	PZ 4 B745w 1983
Bosworth, Allan R. (Allan Rucker), 1901-	America's concentration camps	New York, Norton	[1967]	D 805 B747a 1967
Bottomore, T. B.	A Dictionary of Marxist thought/	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,	1983	HX 17 D554 1983
Bourdain, Anthony.	Kitchen confidential: adventures in the culinary underbelly/	New York : Bloomsbury,	c2000.	TX 649 B68 B768k 2000
Bourjaily, Vance Nye.	Now playing at Canterbury/	New York : Dial Press,	1976	PZ 3 B774n 1976
Bowie, Malcolm.	Proust among the stars/	New York : Columbia University Press,	c1998.	PQ 2631 P968Bo 1998
Bowman, David, 1957-	Let the dog drive: a novel/	New York : New York University Press,	c1992.	PZ 4 B787L 1992
Boyd, William, 1952-	Any human heart: a novel/	New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House,	2003, c2002.	PZ 4 B789a 2003
Boyle, T. Coraghessan.	T.C. Boyle stories: the collected stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle.	New York : Viking,	1998	PZ 4 B792tc 1998
Boyle, T. Coraghessan.	East is East: a novel/	New York : Viking,	1990	PZ 4 B792e 1990
Boyle, T. Coraghessan.	After the plague: stories/	New York : Viking,	2001	PZ 4 B792a 2001
Boyle, T. Coraghessan.	Talk talk: a novel/	New York : Viking,	2006	PZ 4 B792ta 2006
Boyle, T. Coraghessan.	Road to Wellville: a novel/	New York : Viking,	1993	PZ 4 B792ro 1993
Boyle, T. Coraghessan.	Drop City/	New York : Viking,	c2003.	PZ 4 B792d 2003
Boyle, T. Coraghessan.	Water music: a novel/	Boston : Little, Brown,	c1981.	PZ 4 B792w 1981
Boyle, T. Coraghessan.	The tortilla curtain: a novel/	New York : Viking,	1995	PZ 4 B792t 1995
Boyle, T. Coraghessan.	Riven rock/	New York : Viking,	c1998.	PZ 4 B792r 1998
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-	Now and forever/	New York : Morrow,	c2007.	PZ 4 B798n 2007
Brady, Frank.	James Boswell, the later years, 1769-1795/	New York : McGraw-Hill,	c1984.	PR 3325 B812j 1984
Bragg, Rick.	All over but the shoutin'/	New York : Pantheon Books,	c1997.	PN 4874 B813a 1997
Bragg, Rick.	Ava's man/	New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House,	2001	CT 275 B942B 2001
Bram, Christopher.	The notorious Dr. August: his real life and crimes/	New York : Morrow,	c2000.	PZ 4 B815n 2000
Brautigan, Richard.	The Hawkline monster; a gothic western.	New York, Simon and Schuster	[1974]	PZ 4 B825h 1974
Brautigan, Richard.	Willard and his bowling trophies: a perverse mystery/	New York : Simon and Schuster,	[1975]	PZ 4 B825w 1975
Brautigan, Richard.	Trout fishing in America	[New York, Dell publishing co.,	c1967]	PZ 4 B825t 1967
Breasted, Mary, 1943-	I shouldn't be telling you this/	New York : Harper & Row,	c1983.	PZ 4 B828i 1983
Brett, Simon.	The body on the beach: a Fethering mystery/	New York : Berkley Prime Crime,	2000	PZ 4 B845b 2000
Brewer, Jeannie.	A crack in forever: a novel/	New York, NY : Simon & Schuster,	c1996.	PZ 4 B847c 1996
Brewer, John, 1947-	The pleasures of the imagination: English culture in the eighteenth century/	New York : Farrar Straus Giroux,	1997	DA 485 B847p 1997
Brink, André Philippus, 1935-	Imaginings of sand/	New York : Harcourt Brace & Co.,	c1996.	PZ 4 B854i 1996
Brockmeier, Kevin.	The brief history of the dead/	New York : Pantheon Books,	c2006.	PZ 4 B8639b 2006
Brodkey, Harold.	Stories in an almost classical mode/	New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House,	1988	PZ 4 B864s 1988
Brookner, Anita.	Visitors: a novel/	New York : Random House,	c1997.	PZ 4 B872v 1997
Brookner, Anita.	Incidents in the Rue Laugier/	New York : Random House,	1995	PZ 4 B872i 1995
Brookner, Anita.	Family and friends/	New York : Pantheon Books,	1985	PZ 4 B872fa 1985
Brookner, Anita.	Falling slowly: a novel/	New York : Random House,	c1998.	PZ 4 B872f 1998
Brookner, Anita.	Dolly/	New York : Random House,	c1994.	PZ 4 B872d 1994
Brookner, Anita.	Undue influence/	London ; New York : Viking,	1999	PZ 4 B872u 1999
Brookner, Anita.	Hotel du Lac/	New York : Pantheon Books,	c1984.	PZ 4 B872h 1984
Brooks, Geraldine.	People of the book: a novel/	New York, N.Y. : Viking,	2008
Brooks, Geraldine.	March: a novel/	New York : Viking,	2005	PZ 4 B873m 2005
Brooks, Geraldine.	People of the book: a novel/	New York, N.Y. : Viking,	2008	PZ 4 B873p 2008
Brown, Alan, 1950-	Audrey Hepburn's neck: a novel/	New York : Pocket Books,	c1996.	PZ 4 B877a 1996
Brown, Dee Alexander.	Bury my heart at Wounded Knee; an Indian history of the American West	New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston	[1971, c1970]	E 81 B8776
Brown, Lester Russell, 1934-	Plan B 3.0: mobilizing to save civilization/	New York ; London : W. W. Norton,	2008	HC 79 E5 B878p 2008
Browne, Lewis, 1897-1949.	The world's great scriptures; an anthology of the sacred books of the ten principal religions	New York, The Macmillan company,	1946	BL 70 B878w 1946
Bruni, Frank.	Ambling into history: the unlikely odyssey of George W. Bush/	New York : HarperCollins,	c2002.	E 889 B896a 2002
Bryson, Bill.	A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail/	New York : Broadway Books,	c1998.	F 106 B916w 1998
Bryson, Bill.	In a sunburned country/	New York : Broadway Books,	c2000.	DU 105.2 B916i 2000
Buchwald, Art.	Leaving home: a memoir/	New York : G.P. Putnam's,	1994	PS 3503 U1828 Z47 1994
Buchwald, Art.	I'll always have Paris: a memoir/	New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons,	c1996.	PS 3503 U1828 Z469 1996
Budhos, Marina Tamar.	The professor of light/	New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons,	c1999.	PZ 4 B927p 1999
Bukharin, Nikola{012D} Ivanovich, 1888-1938.	How it all began/	New York : Columbia University Press,	c1998.	PZ 4 B932h 1998
Burciaga, José Antonio.	Drink cultura: Chicanismo/	Santa Barbara : Joshua Odell Editions/Capra Press,	1993	E 184 M5 B947d 1993
Burdick, Alan.	Out of Eden: an odyssey of ecological invasion/	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,	c2005.	QH 353 B951o 2005
Burdick, Eugene.	Fail-safe,	New York, McGraw-Hill	[1962]	PZ 4 B949f 1962
Burgin, Richard.	Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges.	New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston	[1969]	PQ 7797 B732B 1969
Burrows, Edwin G., 1943-	Gotham: a history of New York City to 1898/	New York : Oxford University Press,	1999	F 128.3 B972g 1999
Buruma, Ian.	Anglomania: a European love affair/	New York : Random House,	1998	DA 110 B974a 1998
Butler, Jon, 1940-	Becoming America: the revolution before 1776/	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,	2000	E 188 B985b 2000
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-	Possession: a romance/	New York : Random House,	c1990.	PZ 4 B993p 1990
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-	Elementals: stories of fire and ice/	New York : Random House,	c1998.	PZ 4 B993e 1998

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