2003 Summer Reading ListEach spring, the College Store solicits from members of the Bates community their suggestions for good summer reads: Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks. Engrossing novel, set in England 1666 during an outbreak of plague. Makes great use of language of the period and is in the tradition of picaresque tales, like Moll Flanders. Blood Doctor, by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell). I take the risk of recommending a book I'm still reading because Rendell is such a good mystery writer. Her Barbara V...
2020 Summer Reading ListWelcome to the 24th annual Bates College "Good Reads" list! Click here to view a PDF version of the 2020 list.
2009 Summer Reading ListWelcome! I welcome you to the 13th Annual Bates College Store Non-required Reading List, or Good Reads for Leisure Moments XIII. As in the past, this list includes submissions from across the Bates College community. Enjoy! — Sarah Potter '77, College Store director • • • Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay A good story about prisoners of war during the Korean conflict, racism and the strength of friendships. I actually listened to this one in audio form, and the reader was superb as we...
2006 Summer Reading ListEach spring, the College Store solicits from members of the Bates community their suggestions for good summer reads: Lee Abrahamsen, Associate Professor of Biology: Blink — The Power of Thinking WithoutThinking by Malcolm Gladwell This very engaging book explores the value of making decisions in a moment — in the blink of an eye. Some part intuition, some part experience, and some part keen observation, Gladwell shows us how (and why) our split-second decisions are often just as useful as t...
2016 Summer Reading ListWelcome to the 20th annual Bates College Store "Good Reads" list! Click here to view a PDF version of the 2016 list.
2015 Summer Reading ListWelcome to the 19th annual Bates College Store "Good Reads" list! Click here to view a PDF version of the 2015 list.
2017 Summer Reading ListWelcome to the 21st annual Bates College "Good Reads" list! Click here to view a PDF version of the 2017 list.
2018 Summer Reading ListWelcome to the 22nd annual Bates College "Good Reads" list! Click here to view a PDF version of the 2018 list.
2021 Summer Reading ListWelcome to the 25th annual Bates College "Good Reads" list! Click here to view 2021 Good Reads
2019 Summer Reading ListWelcome to the 23rd annual Bates College "Good Reads" list! Click here to view a PDF version of the 2019 list.
2008 Summer Reading ListEach spring, the College Store publishes a list of good summer reads suggested by members of the Bates community. Without futher delay, Welcome to the 12th annual Bates College Store Non-required Reading List or Good Reads for Leisure Moments XII Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Relin Karen Palin recommended this book to me, and it is a really good read. It’s the story of Greg Mortenson’s journies to build schools in some of Pakistan’s most remote villages. It has adventure, hist...
2013 Summer Reading ListWelcome to the 17th annual Bates College Store "Good Reads" list! We invite you to browse and enjoy. We hope you'll find the perfect summer reading on this list. As always, we are eager to hear your thoughts! Receiving 3 or more recommendations on the 17th annual list! Bring Up the Bodies (Hillary Mandel) Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn) Hunger Games Trilogy (Suzanne Collins) My Beloved World (Sonya Sotomayor) Salvage the Bones (Jesmyn Ward) State of Wonder (Ann Patchett) Warmth of Ot...
2012 Summer Reading ListWelcome to the 16th annual Bates College Store "Good Reads" list! We invite you to browse and enjoy...and let us know your thoughts (bookstore@bates.edu). This year's titles receiving three recommendations or more: 11/22/63 by Stephen King The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Game of Thrones series by George R.R. Martin Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese As always, the list is presented in alph...
2014 Summer Reading ListWelcome to the 18th annual Bates College Store "Good Reads" list! Eighteen years already?! We invite you to browse and enjoy. We hope you'll find the perfect summer reading on this list. As always, we are eager to hear your thoughts! Receiving 3 or more recommendations on the 18th annual list! Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout, '77 Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri The Ocean at the End of the Lane by N...
2011 Summer Reading ListEach year, as a gift to the graduating class, the staff of the College Store solicits suggestions from the Bates community for interesting summer reading. The list, famously known as the Non-required Reading List, or Good Reads for Leisure Moments, is now in its 15th edition, with more than 110 contributors this year. And as always, we lead off with our "alpha" contributor, Associate Professor of Biology Lee Abrahamsen. For a couple of years I have been hooked on the novels of Bryce ...
