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
Lahiri, Jhumpa.	The namesake	Boston : Houghton Mifflin,	2003	PZ 4 L183n 2003
Lahiri, Jhumpa.	Unaccustomed earth	New York : A.A. Knopf	2008	PZ 4 L183u 2008
Lam, Vincent.	Bloodletting & miraculous cures	New York : Weinstein Books,	c2007.	PZ 4 L213b 2007
Landes, David S.	The wealth and poverty of nations: why some are so rich and some so poor	New York : W.W. Norton,	c1998.	HC 240.9 W4 L2 1998
Landis, James David.	Longing	New York : Harcourt,	c2000.	PZ 4 L257L 2000
Langguth, A. J., 1933-	Patriots: the men who started the American Revolution	New York, NY : Simon and Schuster,	c1988.	E 208 L278p 1988
Langguth, A. J., 1933-	Our Vietnam: the war, 1954-1975	New York : Simon & Schuster,	c2000.	DS 558 L278o 2000
Lao-tzu.	Tao te ching	New York, Knopf,	1972	BL 1900 L298t 1972
Lapham, Lewis H.	An American album: one hundred and fifty years of Harper's magazine	New York : Franklin Square Press,	c2000.	PS 507 H295a 2000
Lapierre, Dominique.	The city of Joy	Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday,	1985	BJ 1595 L313c 1985
Larson, Nathan	The Dewey Decimal system: a novel	Akashic Books	c2011	PZ 4 L3339d 2011
Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004, author.	The girl who kicked the hornet's nest	New York : Alfred A. Knopf,	2010	PZ 4 L334gi 2010
Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004.	The girl who played with fire	New York : Alfred A. Knopf	2009	PZ 4 L334g 2009
Lash, Joseph P., 1909-	Eleanor and Franklin; the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers	New York, Norton	[1971]	E 807.1 R780 1971
Lash, Joseph P., 1909-	Eleanor: the years alone	New York, Norton	[1972]	E 807.1 R781 1972
Lasson, Frans.	The life and destiny of Isak Dinesen.	New York, Random House	[1970]	PT 7710 D583 S
Le Carré, John, 1931-	The incongruous spy; two novels of suspense.	New York, Walker	[1964]	PZ 4 L433i 1964
Le Carré, John, 1931-	Absolute friends	Boston [Mass.] : Little, Brown,	c2003.	PZ 4 L433a 2003
Le Carré, John, 1931-	The little drummer girl	New York : Knopf,	1983	PZ 4 L433Li 1983
Le Carré, John, 1931-	The looking glass war	New York, Coward-McCann	[1965]	PZ 4 L433L 1965
Le Carré, John, 1931-	Smiley's people	New York : Knopf,	1980, c1979.	PZ 4 L433sm 1980
Le Carré, John, 1931-	A small town in Germany	New York, Coward-McCann	[1968]	PZ 4 L433s 1968
Le Carré, John, 1931-	The spy who came in from the cold; Call for the dead; A murder of quality; The looking-glass war; A small town in Germany	New York : OctopusHeinemann,	1979	PZ 4 L433sp 1979
Le Carré, John, 1931-	Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy	New York, Knopf,	1974	PZ 4 L433t 1974
Le Carré, John, 1931-	A perfect spy	New York : Knopf,	1986	PZ 4 L433p 1986
Le Carré, John, 1931-	The mission song	New York : Little, Brown and Co.,	2006	PZ 4 L433m 2006
Le Carré, John, 1931-	The Russia house	New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House,	1989	PZ 4 L433r 1989
Le Carré, John, 1931-	The honourable schoolboy	New York : Knopf,	1977	PZ 4 L433h 1977
Le Carré, John, 1931-, author.	Our kind of traitor	New York : Viking,	2010	PZ 4 L433o 2010
Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel.	The beggar and the professor : a sixteenth-century family saga	Chicago : University of Chicago Press,	1997	WZ 140 GS9 L433b 1997
Le, Nam, 1979-	The boat	New York : Alfred A. Knopf	2008	PZ 4 L4332b 2008
Leather, Edwin.	The Vienna elephant	New York : Dodd, Mead,	c1977.	PZ 4 L438v 1977
Leclerc, Gustavo.	Urban Latino cultures: la vida latina en L.A.	Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications,	c1999.	F 869 L89 U72 1999
Lederer, William J., 1912-	Complete cross-country skiing and ski touring	New York, Norton	[1972]	GV 854 L473c 1972
Lee, Chang-rae.	Aloft	New York: Riverhead Books,	2004	PZ 4 L477a 2004
Lee, Chang-rae.	A gesture life	New York : Riverhead Books,	1999	PZ 4 L477g 1999
Lee, Helie.	Still life with rice: a young American woman discovers the life and legacy of her Korean grandmother	New York : Scribner,	c1996.	E 184 K6 L478s 1996
Lee, Gus.	Tiger's tail: a novel	New York : Alfred A. Knopf,	1996	PZ 4 L478t 1996
Lee, Sky.	Disappearing Moon Cafe	Seattle, Wash. : Seal Press,	1991	PZ 4 L481d 1991
Lehrer, Jonah.	Proust was a neuroscientist	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.,	2007	NX 180 N48 L522p 2007
Leites, Nathan Constantin, 1912-1987.	The rules of the game in Paris	Chicago, University of Chicago Press	[1969]	DC 34 L533r 1969
Lem, Stanislaw.	Memoirs found in a bathtub	New York, Seabury Press	[1973]	PZ 3 L544p 1973
Lem, StanisLaw.	The investigation	New York, Seabury Press	[c1974]	PZ 3 L544s 1974
Lemann, Nancy.	The fiery pantheon	New York : Scribner,	c1998.	PZ 4 L547f 1998
Lemmon, Tzemach	The dressmaker of Khair Khana : five sisters, one remarkable family, and the woman who risked everything to keep them safe	New York: Harper	c2011	DS 375 K2 T998d 2011
Leonard, Elmore, 1925-	Tishomingo blues	New York : Morrow,	c2002.	PZ 4 L581t 2002
Lescroart, John T., author.	Damage	New York : Dutton,	2011	PZ 4 L626d 2011
Lescroart, John T.	A plague of secrets : a novel	New York : Dutton	2009	PZ 4 L626p 2009
Lesser, May H., 1927-	The art of learning medicine	New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts	[1974]	WZ 330 L638a 1974
Lesser, Wendy.	The amateur: an independent life of letters	New York : Pantheon Books,	c1999.	PN 4874 L638a 1999
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-	The four-gated city	New York, Knopf [distributed by Random House]	1969	PZ 3 L639f
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-	Under my skin	New York : HarperCollins,	c1994.	PR 6023 E833 L639u 1994
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-	The cleft	New York : HarperCollins,	c2007.	PZ 4 L639c 2007
Lethem, Jonathan.	The fortress of solitude: a novel	New York : Doubleday,	2003	PZ 4 L647f 2003
Levenstein, Harvey A., 1938-	Seductive journey: American tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age	Chicago : University of Chicago Press,	c1998.	DC 34.5 A44 L665s 1998
Levey, Michael	Florence: a portrait	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,	1996	DG 734.23 L663f 1996
Levi, Jonathan, 1955-	A guide for the perplexed: a novel	New York : Turtle Bay Books,	1992	PZ 4 L664g 1992
Lévi-Strauss, Claude.	The raw and the cooked	New York, Harper & Row	[1969]	BL 304 L664r 1969
Lévi-Strauss, Claude.	From honey to ashes	New York, Harper & Row	[1973]	F 2230.1 F6 L664f 1973
Levitt, Steven D.	Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything	New York : William Morrow,	c2005.	HB 74 P8 L666f 2005
Lewis, Norman.	Naples '44	New York : Pantheon Books,	c1978.	D 811 L675n 1978
Lewis, Oscar, 1893-1992.	The big four; the story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the building of the Central Pacific.	New York, London, A.A. Knopf,	1938	F 860 L675b
Lewis, Oscar, 1914-1970.	La vida: a Puerto Rican family in the culture of poverty--San Juan and New York.	New York : Random House,	c1966.	F 128.9 P85 L675v 1966
Lewis, Pam, 1943-	Perfect family	New York : Simon & Schuster,	2008	PZ 4 P675p 2008
Li, Leslie, 1945-	Bittersweet	Boston, MA : C.E. Tuttle,	1992	PZ 4 L693b 1992
Li, Dun Jen, 1920-	The ageless Chinese: a history	New York : Scribner,	c1978.	DS 735 L693a 1978
Li, Leslie, 1945-	Bittersweet	Boston, MA : C.E. Tuttle,	1992	PZ 4 L693b 1992
Liang, Heng.	Son of the Revolution	New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House,	1983	DS 778 L693s 1983
Lidz, Franz.	Unstrung heroes: my improbable life with four impossible uncles	New York : Random House,	c1991.	CT 274 L53 L715u 1991
Liebrecht, Savyon, 1948-	Apples from the desert: selected stories	New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York,	1998	PZ 4 L717a 1998
Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-	Death in life; survivors of Hiroshima.	New York, Random House	[1968, c1967]	D 767 L722d
Limón, José Eduardo.	American encounters: greater Mexico, the United States, and the erotics of culture	Boston : Beacon Press,	c1998.	E 183.8 M6 L734a 1998
Lindy, Annabel	Her Story: Essays on the Goddess in Our Lives			At bindery
Lipman, Elinor.	The pursuit of Alice Thrift: a novel	New York : Random House,	c2003.	PZ 4 L764p 2003
Lippman, Laura, 1959-	What the dead know	New York : William Morrow,	c2007.	PZ 4 L766w 2007
Lisle, Laurie.	Portrait of an artist: a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe	New York : Seaview Books,	c1980.	ND 237 O5 L771p 1980
Liu, Aimee.	Cloud mountain	New York : Warner Books,	1997	PZ 4 L783c 1997
Lively, Penelope, 1933-	Moon tiger	New York : Grove Press,	1988, c1987.	PZ 4 L784m 1988
Lively, Penelope, 1933-	Heat wave: a novel	New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers,	c1996.	PZ 4 L784h 1996
Lively, Penelope, 1933-	Spiderweb	New York : HarperFlamingo,	c1998.	PZ 4 L784s 1998
Lively, Penelope, 1933-	The photograph	New York : Viking,	2003	PZ 4 L784p 2003
Lively, Penelope, 1933-	Cleopatra's sister: a novel	New York : HarperCollinsPublishers,	c1993.	PZ 4 L784c 1993
Lodge, David, 1935-	Small world: an academic romance	New York : Macmillan Pub. Co.,	1985, c1984.	PZ 4 L822s 1985
Lodge, David, 1935-	Thinks--: a novel	New York : Viking,	2001	PZ 4 L822th 2001
Lodge, David, 1935-	Therapy: a novel	New York : Viking,	1995	PZ 4 L822t 1995
Lodge, David, 1935-	Deaf sentence	New York, N.Y. : Viking	2008	PZ 4 L822d 2008
Loh, Sandra Tsing.	A year in Provence Van Nuys	New York : Crown Publishers,	c2001.	F 869 V44 L833y 2001
Long, David.	The inhabited world	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company,	2006	PZ 4 L848i 2006
Longhi, Jim, 1916-	Woody, Cisco & me: seamen three in the merchant marine	Urbana : University of Illinois Press,	c1997.	ML 400 L854w 1997
Lopate, Phillip, 1943-	The Art of the personal essay: an anthology from the classical era to the present	New York : Anchor Books,	c1994.	PN 6141 A784 1994
Lopate, Phillip, 1943-	The rug merchant	New York : Viking,	1987	PZ 4 L864r 1987
Lopate, Phillip, 1943-	Writing New York: a literary anthology	New York : Library of America : Distributed in the United States by Penguin Putnam, Inc.,	c1998.	PS 549 N5 W956 1998
Lopez, Steve	The soloist : a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music	New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons	2008	ML 418 A977 L864s 2008
Lord, Bette.	The middle heart	New York : Alfred A. Knopf,	1996	PZ 4 L866m 1996
Lowman, Margaret D.	Life in the treetops: adventures of a woman in field biology	New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press,	c1999.	QH 31 L918L 1999
Lurie, Alison.	The truth about Lorin Jones	Boston : Little, Brown,	c1988.	PZ 4 L967t 1988
Lurie, Alison.	Foreign affairs	New York : Random House,	c1984.	PZ 4 L967f 1984
Lux, Thomas, 1946-	God particles	Boston : Houghton Mifflin,	2008	PS 3562 L977g 2008

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