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Michael Dorff
Professor - Mathematics Department

286 TMCB (801) 422-1752 michael_dorff@byu.edu


Favourite Books:

Fiction Non-Fiction
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
Blindness by Jose Saramago Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky " Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard Feynman
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald With Malice Toward None by Stephen Oates
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott  
Possession by A. S. Byatt  
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne  

Great Books that I Recommend:

Fiction Non-Fiction
“Seeing” by Jose Saramago “A Distant Mirror” by Barbara Tuchman
All the Names by Jose Saramago 1776 by David McCullough
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Bible As History by Werner Keller
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
East of Eden by John Steinbeck How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Longitude by Dava Sobel
The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Mayflower: A story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien The Millennium Problems by Keith Devlin
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien William Wallace by James A. MacKay
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold  
Martin Eden by Jack London  
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy  
My Antonio by Willa Cather  
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde  
Silas Marner by George Eliot  
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens  
Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy  
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee  
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James  
“Middlemarch” by George Eliot  
“Angle of Repose” by Wallace Stegner  
“Straight Man” by Richard Russo  
“The History of Love” by Nicole Krauss  
“The Moon and Sixpence” by Somerset Maugham  

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Very Good Books:

Fiction Non-Fiction
The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Arcanum by Janet Gleeson
Baudolino by Umberto Eco Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays by S. Hawking
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain The Code Book by Simon Singh
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon E=mc^2 by David Bodanis
Emma by Jane Austen Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift  
I, Claudius by Robert Graves  
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson  
Life of Pi by Yann Martel  
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel  
Moby Dick by Herman Meville  
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco  
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind  
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig  

Other Books that are interesting:

Fiction Non-Fiction
The China Garden by Liz Berry The Mystery of the Aleph by Amir Aczel
Ex Libris by Ross King Casino Moscow by Matthew Brzezinski
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco Cleopatra's Nose by Daniel J. and Ruth Boorstin
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Mozart by Peter Gay
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger Time Lord by Clark Blaise
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason When Least Is Best by Paul J. Nahin
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson  
“The Smithsonian Institution” by Gore Vidal  

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Fun Books:

Fiction
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams






















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