LVs Book Club

[Hoosier]

I read in Coach Kellie's postgame quotes that the LVs have a book club. I applaud such endeavors because even when I was teaching at UT years ago, too many students did not read much other than what was required. Consequently, I would like to start a thread to suggest books to the players that they might want to read and discuss in the future.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1892 by Frederick Douglass
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, 1990 by Ben Carson
Up From The Projects: An Autobiography, 2010 by Walter E. Williams
Discrimination and Disparities, 2nd ed., 2019 by Thomas Sowell

 

[Volfaninfl2]

I read in Coach Kellie's postgame quotes that the LVs have a book club. I applaud such endeavors because even when I was teaching at UT years ago, too many students did not read much other than what was required. Consequently, I would like to start a thread to suggest books to the players that they might want to read and discuss in the future.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1892 by Frederick Douglass
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, 1990 by Ben Carson
Up From The Projects: An Autobiography, 2010 by Walter E. Williams
Discrimination and Disparities, 2nd ed., 2019 by Thomas Sowell

Why can’t the books be fun?
Harry Potter
Outlander

We Were The Lucky Ones-true story about a brave Jewish family in World War II Poland

 

[madtownvol]

James Baldwin (1955), Notes of a native son
Spencer Crew (2019), Thurgood Marshall: A Life in American History
Howard Zinn (1994), You can't be neutral on a moving train
Joseph Stiglitz (2015), The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them
Toni Morrison (1971), Song of Solomon

 

[Rickster]

The Little Engine That Could

 

[Majors]

Mitch Rapp Series

 

[creekdipper]

Reach For the Summit
Raise the Roof
Sum It Up

 

[Majors]

The Little Engine That Could

Pop up or no?

 

[Rickster]

no

 

[Volfan2012]

I used to buy those Classic comic books a very condensed version of a 600 page book. They came in very handy for book reports and got a lot of A's because they existed with a lot less reading to be done.

 

[Lucy]

The Little Engine That Could

Little Toot
Similar genre

 

[Lucy]

I read in Coach Kellie's postgame quotes that the LVs have a book club. I applaud such endeavors because even when I was teaching at UT years ago, too many students did not read much other than what was required. Consequently, I would like to start a thread to suggest books to the players that they might want to read and discuss in the future.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1892 by Frederick Douglass
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, 1990 by Ben Carson
Up From The Projects: An Autobiography, 2010 by Walter E. Williams
Discrimination and Disparities, 2nd ed., 2019 by Thomas Sowell

How dang cool is that!!!!!!

 

[Rickster]

Little Toot
Similar genre

Powerful message

 

[creekdipper]

Little Toot
Similar genre

Related titles:

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Milagro Bean War by John Updike
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute

 

[Lucy]

Related titles:

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Milagro Bean War by John Updike
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute

Little Toot is a tug boat but I do appreciate the scholarly analysis

 

[BruisedOrange]

Great suggested list, OP!

You've already got one great title by Thomas Sowell, but this one of his might also provide them insight into many of the crazy Vol fans they encounter in this neck o' the woods...

Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2006) by Sowell​

For those going on to do graduate work...

Cynical Theories (2020) by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay​

For Christians, History or Poli Sci majors...

Live Not by Lies (2020) by Rod Dreher​

For fun & brain stretching...

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) by Edwin A. Abbott​

 

[Putbacks]

The Far Side (all of them) by Gary Larson
Proverbs
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck

The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad

The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey

A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Flannery O'Connor

 

[GameTime]

Travels with Charley.....John Steinbeck
Mr. Steinbeck travels around America in 1962, in a van...His only companion is his standard poodle, Charley...He wants to see America before he dies, and what makes us who we are...It's not political, just extremely fascinating...

"I was born lost, and take no pleasure in being found." Travels with Charlie

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Travels with Charley.....John Steinbeck
Mr. Steinbeck travels around America in 1962, in a van...His only companion is his standard poodle, Charley...He wants to see America before he dies, and what makes us who we are...It's not political, just extremely fascinating...

"I was born lost, and take no pleasure in being found." Travels with Charlie

Steinbeck saw how television was changing the way people spoke. He wanted to visit different regions of the country and soak in the regional dialects before they all died out.

Steinbeck was not in the best of health at the time, and his wife tried to talk him out of it.

 

[Orange Maniac]

Atlas Shrugged should be required reading for everyone.

 

[GameTime]

Steinbeck saw how television was changing the way people spoke. He wanted to visit different regions of the country and soak in the regional dialects before they all died out.

Steinbeck was not in the best of health at the time, and his wife tried to talk him out of traveling the country with Charley.

I read this book many years ago...Since the death of my wife, I have taken extended car trips with just my two dogs for company....They are great/wonderful companions...It is a fascinating book that most would enjoy....My book will be "Travels with Sparky and Maggie Mae...I Love My Dogs!"

 

[Franklin Pierce]

I read this book many years ago...Since the death of my wife, I have taken extended car trips with just my two dogs for company....They are great/wonderful companions...It is a fascinating book that most would enjoy....My book will be "Travels with Sparky and Maggie Mae...I Love My Dogs!"

I read a biography of Steinbeck by Jay Parini. I also have read Steinbeck: A Life In Letters. Fascinating reading regarding his writing, his competitors, money, and many other subjects.

I'm going by memory, but I believe it was his wife, Elaine, who insisted her husband take Charley with him.

And by the way, he flunked out of Stanford, yet won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

 

[krichunaka]

"In Harm's Way" - Doug Stanton.
So, you think YOU'RE having a bad day?
"Here, Captain McVay, you and the boys drop these explosives off at Tinian, than head on over to the Philippines. We've got your back."
One of the most devastatingly gruesome ~and avoidable~ catastrophes in our nation's history.
Might help put a few turnovers into better perspective.

Anything by Charles Dickens.
Because it's CHARLES DICKENS!
*Christmas Carol and Hard Times don't count.* (Didn't everybody have to read those?)

 

[creekdipper]

Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruth Ann Lum McCunn

Hombre by Elmore Leonard

Dune by Frank Herbert

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Clockers by Richard Price

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The Content of Our Character by Shelby Steele

Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The Huntress by Kate Quinn

Poetry 180 selected by Billy Collins

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Watchmen by Alan Moore

The March by E.L. Doctorow

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Watership Down by Richard Adams

 

[Lucy]

The Splendid and The Vile - Eric Larson
A saga of Churchill, family and The Blitz

The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman
A History of the First World War
Pulitzer Prize winner - the most haunting opening passage I have ever read

The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
The story of the great American Migration

Becoming - Michelle Obama
Opening line “I spent much of my childhood listening to the sound of striving.”
The specific reference is to the sound of piano lessons being taught downstairs by her aunt.
The larger reference is obviously to her own life.

Alienated America - Timothy P. Carney
Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
I read this book to try and understand the drivers of America’s growing divisions. Mr Carney is a conservative writer so a balance to Michelle Obama
In some ways a follow up to Bowling Alone. Very thought provoking.