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Newsweek 50 from July, 2009
The Library has most of the titles listed in the Newsweek article "What to Read Now. And Why."
Blue underlined titles below are books the Library has.
Some of the titles listed in Newsweek were published as short stories or essays within collections.
A collection will often have its own title. As a result, some of the links below will show you titles that are
different from the title of the story or essay as listed in Newsweek. 
- THE WAY WE LIVE NOW by Anthony Trollope
- THE LOOMING TOWER by Lawrence Wright
- PRISONER OF THE STATE by Zhao Ziyang
- THE BIG SWITCH by Nicholas Carr
- THE BEAR by William Faulkner
- WINCHELL by Neal Gabler
- RANDOM FAMILY by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- NIGHT DRAWS NEAR by Anthony Shadid
- PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL by Dan Ariely
- GOD: A BIOGRAPHY by Jack Miles
- THE UNSETTLING OF AMERICA by Wendell Berry
- A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND by Flannery O'Connor
- UNDERGROUND by Haruki Murakami
- DISRUPTING CLASS by Clayton Christensen
- AIR GUITAR by Dave Hickey
- LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman
- THE TROUBLE WITH PHYSICS by Lee Smolin
- CITY: REDISCOVERING THE CENTER by William H. Whyte
- DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? by Philip K. Dick
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN by Edmund S. Morgan
- THE MISSISSIPPI BOOKS by Mark Twain (Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer)
- AMONG THE THUGS by Bill Buford
- BROOKLYN by Colm Tóibín
- FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley
- BAD MOTHER by Ayelet Waldman
- GUESTS OF THE AYATOLLAH by Mark Bowden
- WHITTAKER CHAMBERS by Sam Tanenhaus
- MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
- AMERICAN PROMETHEUS by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- THE LOST by Daniel Mendelsohn
- GILEAD by Marilynne Robinson
- PICTURES AT A REVOLUTION by Mark Harris
- KIM by Rudyard Kipling
- WALKING WITH THE WIND by John Lewis
- THE LINE OF BEAUTY by Alan Hollinghurst
- THE DARK IS RISING by Susan Cooper (series: first title in the series is Over Sea, Under Stone)
- PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi
- UNDERWORLD by Don DeLillo
- WHY EVOLUTION IS TRUE by Jerry A. Coyne
- AMERICAN PASTORAL by Philip Roth
- THE BOTANY OF DESIRE by Michael Pollan
- THE REGENERATION TRILOGY by Pat Barker (series: Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road)
- SENATOR JOE MCCARTHY by Richard H. Rovere
- YEAR OF WONDERS by Geraldine Brooks
- THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG by Muriel Barbery
- GONE TOMORROW by Lee Child
- THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe
- AMERICAN JOURNEYS by Don Watson
- COTTON COMES TO HARLEM by Chester Himes
- THE NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF FILM by David Thomson
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