CSSLibraryGuides: Faculty Reading Lists: Dr. LeAnn House

Dr. LeAnn House

We start the new academic year with a reading list from Dr. LeAnn House, Professor of Music, and winner of this year's Max A. Lavine Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. House's favorite or most influential books:

The Challenge of Art to Psychology by Seymour B. Sarason
Call Number: N71 .S18 1990

Publication Date: 1990

--on the essential need of humans to create art

The Great Pianists by Harold Schonberg
Call Number: ML397 .S3

Publication Date: 1963

----gripping reading that provides an outline of music history through the stories of great pianists

A Guide to Understanding the Bible by Harry Emerson Fosdick
--just what it says and very helpful

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Call Number: PR4745.A2 S38 1986

----or was it Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice which launched me into a love of English novels? No matter . . . from Thomas Hardy to Jane Austen to J.K.Rowling, what fun reading it is!!

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
Call Number: Popular Reading SOT

Publication Date: 2013

--one of those fun reads which helps you understand the world we live in from a new perspective

What are you reading now?
For Everything A Season by Joan Chittister
Desert Island Pick (this is your bonus title--the book that you can take along to the island for sheer reading pleasure)
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
--comedy, tragedy, history, poetry . . .

For other faculty fav book picks, visit our Faculty Reading List Guide.