The UC Berkeley School of Law Library proudly presents its biggest and most diverse reading list to date. A big shout out to our contributors (faculty, staff, administrators, students, kids - you know who you are). If you can’t find something you like on this list you simply ain't tryin. Too busy to read - just listen - for the first time we’ve included several audio book reviews.

As you head up the steps and out of the Law Library for the summer, take this list with you, plunge in, and enjoy. Best. List. Ever.

Arcadia by Lauren Groff
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece selected and edited by Joan Reardon
Ballerina Bess by Dorothy Jane Mills/Dorothy Z. Seymour
Big Nate Strikes Again by Lincoln Peirce
Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis
Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach and Two Cultures Clashing by Jim Yardley
California: a History by Kevin Starr
Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
Catherine the Great : Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Drift: the Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
The Flight of Gemma Hardy: a Novel by Margot Livesey
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larsen
Murder in the Marais: An Aimée Leduc Investigation, Vol. 1 by Cara Black
The Orphan Master's Son: a Novel by Adam Johnson
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Revolutionary Constitution by David J. Bodenhamer
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Sound: A Novel by T.M. Wolf
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Taken by Robert Crais
What Money Can’t Buy by Michael J. Sandel
White House Burning by Simon Johnson and James Kwak
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Audiobooks

Summer Reading 2012