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
Habegger, Alfred.	My wars are laid away in books: the life of Emily Dickinson	New York : Random House,	c2001.	PS 1541 D553H 2001
Hackworth, David H.	About face	New York : Simon and Schuster,	c1989.	U 53 H123a 1989
Haddon, Mark.	The curious incident of the dog in the night-time	New York : Doubleday,	2003	PZ 4 H127c 2003
Hajdu, David.	Positively 4th street: the lives and times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,	2001	ML 400 H154p 2001
Halberstam, David.	The children	New York : Random House,	c1998.	E 185.61 H157c 1998
Halberstam, David.	The reckoning	New York : Morrow,	c1986.	HD 9710 U52 H157r 1986
Haley, Alex.	Roots	Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday,	1976	E 185.97 H167r 1976
Halpern, Daniel, 1945-	The art of the story: an international anthology of contemporary short stories	New York, N.Y. : Viking,	1999	PN 6120.2 A784 1999
Hamburger, Philip.	Friends talking in the night: sixty years of writing for The New Yorker	New York : Alfred A. Knopf,	1999	PS 3515 H199f 1999
Hamby, Alonzo L.	Man of the people: a life of Harry S. Truman	New York : Oxford University Press,	1995	E 814 T867 H 1995
Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-	Moth smoke	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,	2000	PZ 4 H216m 2000
Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-	The reluctant fundamentalist	Orlando : Harcourt,	c2007.	PZ 4 H216r 2007
Hamilton, Denise.	Los Angeles noir	Brooklyn, N.Y. : Akashic Books,	c2007.	PZ 4 L879 2007
Hamilton, Laurell K.	Flirt	New York : Berkley Books,	2010	PZ 4 H218f 2010
Hammond, N. G. L. (Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière), 1907-2001.	The genius of Alexander the Great	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,	1997	DF 234.3 H227g 1997
Han, Suyin, pseud.	A mortal flower; China: autobiography, history.	New York, Putnam	[1966, c1965]	PR 6015 H233m 1966
Handlin, Oscar, 1915-	Liberty in America, 1600 to the present	New York : Harper & Row,	c1986- <c1992 >	E 183 H236L v.1 1986
Hansen, Brooks, 1965-	The chess garden, or, The twilight letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven	New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,	1995	PZ 4 H249c 1995
Hanson, Lawrence.	Noble savage; the life of Paul Gauguin	New York, Random House	[1955, c1954]	ND 553 G27 H251n
Hardwick, Elizabeth.	Sleepless nights	New York : Random House,	c1979.	PZ 3 H267s 1979
Hardy, Edward, 1957-	Keeper and kid	New York : Thomas Dunne BooksSt. Martin's Press,	2008, c2007.	PZ 4 H268k 2008
Harris, Charlaine.	A touch of dead : Sookie Stackhouse : the complete stories	New York : Ace Books,	2009	PZ 4 H313t 2009
Harris, Theodore F.	Pearl S. Buck; a biography,	New York, John Day Co.	[1969]	PS 3503 B922 H
Harrison, Jim, 1937-	True north: a novel	New York : Grove Press,	c2004.	PZ 4 H3189t 2004
Harrison, Kathryn.	The binding chair, or, A visit from the Foot Emancipation Society: a novel	New York : Random House,	c2000.	PZ 4 H319b 2000
Hart, James David, 1911-	A companion to California	New York : Oxford University Press,	1978	F 859 H325c 1978
Hart, Carolyn G.	Laughed 'til he died : a death on demand mystery	New York : William Morrow,	c2010.	PZ 4 H325L 2010
Haruf, Kent.	Plainsong	New York : Alfred A. Knopf,	1999	PZ 4 H338p 1999
Hatcher, John.	The Black Death : a personal history	Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press,	2008	PZ 4 H361b 2008
Havazelet, Ehud.	Like never before	New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux,	1998	PZ 4 H383L 1998
Hayman, Ronald, 1932-	Kafka: a biography	New York : Oxford University Press,	1982	PT 2621 K11h 1982
Hazo, Robert G.	The idea of love	New York, F. A. Praeger	[1967]	BD 436 H431i
Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-	The great fire	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,	2003	PZ 4 H431g 2003
Heaney, Seamus.	Beowulf. English & English (Old English)	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,	2000	PR 1583 H434B 2000
Heat Moon, William Least.	River-horse: the logbook of a boat across America	Boston : Houghton Mifflin,	1999	E 169.04 H437r 1999
Hecht, Julie	Do the windows open?	New York : Random House,	c1997.	PZ 4 H447d 1997
Hegi, Ursula.	Stones from the river	New York : Poseidon Press,	c1994.	PZ 4 H464s 1994
Hegi, Ursula.	Hotel of the saints: stories	New York : Simon & Schuster,	c2001.	PZ 4 H464h 2001
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.	Being and time	New York, Harper	[1962]	B 3279 H465b 1962
Hellenga, Robert, 1941-	Blues lessons: a novel	New York : Scribner,	c2002.	PZ 4 H477b 2002
Hellenga, Robert, 1941-	The fall of a sparrow: a novel	New York : Scribner,	c1998.	PZ 4 H477f 1998
Heller, Joseph.	Closing time: the sequel to Catch-22	New York : Simon & Schuster,	c1994.	PZ 4 H477c 1994
Heller, Anne Conover.	Ayn Rand and the world she made	New York : Nan A. Talese,	c2009.	PS 3535 A547 Z68 2009
Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984.	An unfinished woman; a memoir.	Boston, Little, Brown	[1969]	PS 3515 H477u 1969
Helprin, Mark.	Winter's tale	San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,	c1983.	PZ 4 H483w 1983
Helprin, Mark.	A soldier of the great war	New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,	c1991.	PZ 4 H483s 1991
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.	A moveable feast	New York, Scribner	[1964]	PS 3515 H488m 1964
Henry, O., 1862-1910	O. Henry stories;	New York, Platt & Munk	[1962]	PZ 3 P849o 1962
Herriot, James.	All things bright and beautiful.	New York, St Martin's Press,	[1974, c1973]	SF 613 H567a 1973
Hersey, John, 1914-1993.	The child buyer: a novel in the form of hearings before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, & Public Morality of a certain State Senate, investigating the conspiracy of Mr. Wissey Jones, with others, to purchase a male child.	New York : Knopf,	1960	PZ 3 H572c 1960
Hersey, John, 1914-1993.	The call	New York : Knopf,	1985	PZ 3 H572ca 1985
Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962.	Siddhartha	[New York] New Directions,	[1951]	PT 2617 E85 H587s 1951
Heyerdahl, Thor.	The Ra expeditions.	Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday,	1971	G 530 H615r 1971
Heyerdahl, Thor.	Fatu-Hiva: back to nature	Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday,	1975, c1974.	DU 701 F3 H615f 1974
Hiaasen, Carl	Nature girl	New York : A.A. Knopf,	2006	PZ 4 H623n 2006
Hiaasen, Carl.	The downhill lie : a hacker's return to a ruinous sport	New York : Alfred A. Knopf	2008	GV 964 H623d 2008
Hibbert, Christopher, 1924-	The Great Mutiny: India, 1857	New York : Viking Press,	1978	DS 478 H488g 1978
Highbridge, Dianne, 1945-	In the empire of dreams	New York : Soho Press,	c1999.	PZ 4 H638i 1999
Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978.	Poets in a landscape	New York, Knopf,	1957	PA 6047 H638p 1957
Hijuelos, Oscar.	The mambo kings play songs of love	New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux,	1989	PZ 4 H639m 1989
Hijuelos, Oscar.	Mr. Ives' Christmas	New York : HarperCollins Publishers,	1995	PZ 4 H639mi 1995
Hijuelos, Oscar.	Empress of the splendid season	New York : HarperFlamingo,	c1999.	PZ 4 H639e 1999
Hillary, Edmund, Sir.	Nothing venture, nothing win	New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan,	1975	G 512 H5 H649n 1975
Hillenbrand, Laura, author.	Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption	New York : Random House,	c2010.	D 805 J3 H651u 2010
Hine, Darlene Clark	A shining thread of hope: the history of Black women in America	New York : Broadway Books,	c1998.	E 185.86 H662s 1998
Hine, Robert V., 1921-	Frontiers: a short history of the American West	New Haven : Yale University Press,	c2007.	F 591 H662f 2007
Hirshberg, Glen, 1966-	American morons: stories	Northborough, MA : Earthling Publications,	2006	PZ 4 H669a 2006
Hoagland, Edward.	African calliope: a journey to the Sudan	New York : Random House,	c1979.	DT 154 H678a 1979
Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-	The age of extremes: a history of the world, 1914-1991	New York : Pantheon Books,	c1994.	D 421 H684a 1994
Hochschild, Adam.	King Leopold's ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa	Boston : Houghton Mifflin,	1998	DT 655 H685k 1998
Høeg, Peter, 1957-	The quiet girl	New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,	2007	PZ 4 H693q 2007
Høeg, Peter, 1957-	Smilla's sense of snow	New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux,	1993	PZ 4 H693s 1993
Høeg, Peter, 1957-	The history of Danish dreams	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,	1995	PZ 4 H693h 1995
Hoelterhoff, Manuela.	Cinderella & company: backstage at the opera with Cecilia Bartoli	New York : Knopf,	1998	ML 420 B292c 1998
Hoffman, Allen	Big league dreams	New York : Abbeville Press,	c1997.	PZ 4 H699b 1997
Hoffman, Allen	Small worlds	New York : Abbeville Press,	c1996.	PZ 4 H699s 1996
Hoffmann, Peter, 1930-	The history of the German resistance, 1933-1945	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,	1977	DD 256.3 H711w 1977
Hollinghurst, Alan.	The line of beauty: a novel	New York : Bloomsbury ; [S.l.] : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck,	2004	PZ 4 H741L 2004
Holmes, Rupert.	Where the truth lies: a novel	New York : Random House,	c2003.	PZ 4 H752w 2003
Holt, Michael F. (Michael Fitzgibbon)	The rise and fall of the American Whig party: Jacksonian politics and the onset of the Civil War	New York : Oxford University Press,	1999	JK 2331 H758r 1999
Holton, Woody	Unruly Americans and the origins of the Constitution	New York : Hill and Wang,	2007	KF 4541 H758u 2007
Horn, Dara, 1977-	The world to come: a novel	New York : W.W. Norton & Co.,	c2006.	PZ 4 H813w 2006
Hornby, Nick.	A long way down	New York : Riverhead Books,	2005	PZ 4 H814L 2005
Horton, Richard.	The radicals behind the American Revolution: six who spoke for freedom	Bloomington, Ind. : AuthorHouse,	2005	E 206 H823r 2005
Horwitz, Tony, 1958-	Confederates in the attic: dispatches from the unfinished Civil War	New York : Pantheon Books,	c1998.	E 468.9 H824c 1998
Horwitz, Tony, 1958-	A voyage long and strange: rediscovering the new world	New York : Henry Holt and Co.,	2008	E 101 H824v 2008
Hosseini, Khaled.	A thousand splendid suns	New York : Riverhead Books,	2007	PZ 4 H829t 2007
Hosseini, Khaled.	The kite runner	New York : Riverhead Books,	2003	PZ 4 H829k 2003
Hourani, Albert Habib.	A history of the Arab peoples	Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press,	c1991.	DS 37.7 H841h 1991
Houston, James D.	Californians: searching for the Golden State	New York : Knopf,	1982	F 866.2 H843c 1982
Hoving, Thomas, 1931-	Making the mummies dance: inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York : Simon & Schuster,	c1993.	N 600 H846m 1993
Hoving, Thomas, 1931-	King of the confessors	New York : Simon and Schuster,	c1981.	NK 5943 H846k 1981
Howard, Thomas Frederick, 1946-	Sierra crossing: first roads to California	Berkeley : University of California Press,	c1998.	HE 356 C2 H852s 1998
Howe, Daniel Walker.	What hath God wrought : the transformation of America, 1815-1848	New York : Oxford University Press,	2007	E 338 H855w 2007
Howe, Irving.	World of our fathers	New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,	c1976.	F 128.9 J5 H856w 1976
Hufton, Olwen H.	The prospect before her: a history of women in Western Europe	New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House,	-1996	HQ 1587 H889p v.1 1996
Hughes, Robert, 1938-	The fatal shore	New York, N.Y. : Knopf ; New York : Distributed by Random House,	1987, c1986.	DU 115 H894f 1987
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.	Les miserables	New York : Modern Library,	n.d.	PQ 2286 H895m
Huneven, Michelle, 1953-	Jamesland	New York : A.A. Knopf,	2003	PZ 4 H934j 2003
Hunter, C. Bruce.	A guide to ancient Maya ruins	Norman, University of Oklahoma Press	[1974]	F 1435 H945g 1974
Huston, Nancy, 1953-	The mark of the angel	South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press,	c1999.	PZ 4 H972m 1999
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.	Time must have a stop	London : Chatto and Windus,	1945	PZ 3 H986ti 1945
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.	Mortal coils	New York, G.H. Doran	[1922]	PZ 3 H986m 1922
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.	Those barren leaves	New York, George H. Doran Company	[c1925]	PZ 3 H986t 1925
Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975.	Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963; a memorial volume,	New York, Harper & Row	[c1965]	PR 6015 H986a 1965
Hyde, Lewis, 1945-	Trickster makes this world: mischief, myth, and art	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,	1998	GR 524 H994t 1998
Hynes, James	Publish and perish: three tales of tenure and terror	New York : Picador USA,	1997	PZ 4 H997p 1997
Hynes, James	The lecturer's tale	New York : Picador USA,	2001	PZ 4 H997L 2001
Hynes, Samuel Lynn.	The growing seasons: an American boyhood before the war	New York : Viking,	2003	E 748 H97 H997g 2003
Hynes, Samuel Lynn.	The soldiers' tale: bearing witness to modern war	New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: A. Lane,	1997	U 42 H997s 1997

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