The Honors Program hosts faculty-led book discussions throughout the year. Discussions are held over dinner, usually in professors' homes, and all books are provided by the Honors Program through support from the Honors Program Annual Fund. If you are interested in leading a book discussion, please contact Maria de Rocher (derocher@uga.edu; 706-542-6908).

Book Discussions (fall 2009)

Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir (Neely Tucker)
Discussion Leader: Dr. Sharon Nickols, College of Family & Consumer Sciences

Surprise, Security and the American Experience (John Lewis Gaddis)
Discussion Leader: Dr. Brock Tessman, Department of International Affairs

Killers of the Dream (Lilllian Smith)
Discussion Leader: Dr. David Williams, Director of the Honors Program and Professor of Religious Studies

The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
Discussion Leader: Jessica Hunt, Honors Program Scholarships Coordinator

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (David W. Blight)
Discussion Leader: Dr. Luke Naeher, Department of Environmental Health Sciences

Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge our Misguided Drug Rehab System (Lonny Shavelson)
Discussion Leader: Dr. Brian Bride, School of Social Work

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Maxine Hong Kingston)
Discussion Leader: Dr. Kam-ming Wong, Department of Comparative Literature

Deliverance (James Dickey)
Discussion Leader:Dr. Hugh Ruppersburg, Senior Associate Dean of Franklin College and Professor of English

Book Discussions (spring 2009)

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Christopher Browning)
Discussion Leader: Dr. Jerome S. Legge, Jr., Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs

Time of Our Singing (Richard Powers)
Discussion Leader: Dr. Pamela Kleiber, Associate Director of the Honors Program

Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian)
Discussion Leaders: Dr. Carl Bergmann, Associate Research Scientist at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Dr. Harry W. Dickerson, Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine

Synchronicity, Science, and Soulmaking: Understanding Jungian Synchronicity Through Physics, Buddhism, and Philosophy (Victor Mansfield)
Discussion Leader: Dr. Bonnie Cramond, Professor of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology, College of Education

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Discussion Leader: Dr. Margaret A. Amstutz, Chief of Staff, Office of the President

The Wizard of the Crow (Ngugi wa Thiong’o)
Discussion Leader: Dr. Sharon Y. Nickols, Faculty Associate in the African Studies Institute and Professor in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences

Creating a World Without Poverty (Muhammad Yunus)
Discussion Leader: Dr. William Kisaalita, Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Programming, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Jeffrey Toobin)
Discussion Leader: Professor Jere Morehead, Vice President for Instruction and Professor in the Terry College of Business, Department of Legal Studies

Netherland (Joseph O’Neill)
Discussion Leader: Dr. Hugh Ruppersburg, Senior Associate Dean of Franklin College and Professor of English