Recommend a book for a college freshman to read. It should be fun to read and it should lead to interesting discussions with other people who have read the book. Something that can be read in a couple of days, so not too long (80-120 pages is ideal).

Only the single favorite choice will win the poll.

The poll ends November 30, 2009. The poll supervisor is Andrew Myers (andru@cs.cornell.edu). Contact the poll supervisor if you need help.

Give each of the following choices a rank, where a smaller-numbered rank means that you prefer that choice more. For example, it would make sense to give your top choice (or choices) the rank 1. You may give choices the same rank if you have no preference between them. You do not have to use all the possible ranks. All choices are initially given the lowest possible rank. Note: “No opinion” is not the same as the lowest possible rank; it means that you choose not to rank this choice with respect to the other choices.

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 Choice Rank
The Trial - Franz Kafka (write-in)
Antigone - Sophocles
Timbuktu - Paul Auster (write-in)
Little Black Book of Stories - A. S. Byatt (write-in)
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (write-in)
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (write-in)




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