The Annual Book Party is the final NMSP event of the fall semester. Students enjoy lunch while mingling with faculty, staff, and other NM Scholars before finding the perfect book (or two) to read over holiday break. The books are curated by Dr. Hobson Wildenthal and are for students to keep.
Our 2017 Annual Book Party included the following titles:
| Title | Author |
| A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel | Amor Towels |
| Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk | Ben Fountain |
| Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Mind | Charlies Seife |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman |
| Truman | David McCullough |
| Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years—and a World of Change Apart | Diccon Bewes |
| The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Elizabeth Kolbert |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies | Geoffrey West |
| Toscanini: Musician of Conscience | Harvey Sachs |
| Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power | Howard French |
| The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 | James Shapiro |
| Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right | Jane Mayer |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond Ph.D |
| Selected Poems | John Updike |
| Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: Third Edition | Joseph A. Schumpeter |
| The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits, | Judson Brewer |
| Nothing to Be Frightened Of | Julian Barnes |
| The Noise of Time: A Novel | Julian Barnes |
| A Thousdand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
| Mother Night | Kurt Vonnegut |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| 20 of Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam | Mark Bowden |
| Salt: A World History | Mark Kurlansky |
| The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction | Mark Lilla |
| The Undoing Project: Afriendship That Changed Our Minds | Michael Lewis |
| The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail–but Some Don’t | Nate Silver |
| Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power | Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn |
| On the Move: A Life | Oliver Sachs |
| Oaxaca Journal | Oliver Sacks |
| The Island of the Colorblind | Olvier Sacks |
| Between the Woods and the Water | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l’Etoile/The Night Watch/ Ring Roads | Patrick Modiano |
| Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History | Penny Le Couterur & Jay Burreson |
| The Mind-Body Problem | Rebecca Goldstein |
| Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics | Richard H. Thaler |
| The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition | Richard Rhodes |
| The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey | Rinker Buck |
| Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Robert M. Sapolsky |
| Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow |
| Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History | S. C. Gwynne |
| Midnight’s Children: A Novel | Salman Rushdie |
| Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War | Stephen Platt |
| Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move | Steven Vogel |
| Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War | Svetlana Alexievich |
| Capital in the Twenty First Century | Thomas Piketty |
| On Tyranny: Twenty Lessoons from the Twentieth Century | Timothy Snyder |
| Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II | Vicki Croke |
| Nabokov: Novels 1955-1962: Lolita / Pnin / Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Royals Series) | William Shakespeare |
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