• Chemical Principles
• Biological Science
• Fundamentals of Biochemistry
• Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry
• Cell and Molecular Biology
• Organic Chemistry as a Second Language
• General Chemistry: Atoms First

Ultimate Travel Library—Around the World in 80+ Books To compile our list of classic travel books, we asked dozens of travelers (writers, photographers, explorers, editors, and others) to name the books that have most enriched their senses of place and best informed their peregrinations. Here are their choices. Find these and other great travel books in our Ultimate Travel Library, organized by geographic region.

• Amsterdam, by Geert Mak (1999). The city is much more than a charming

backdrop for a Rembrandt or a safe haven for oldest-profession debauchery. Dutch journalist Mak tells the 800-year story of the city in a manner that's less history tome and more soap opera—in an erudite kind of way. Translated by Philippe Blom.

Read, or in the process... 2012

• The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck (poetry)
• Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling 3/12
• The Hunger Games 3/12
• Fear of Flying by Erica Jong 6/12
• The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean 8/12
• The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard 9/12
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson 10/12
• Noble House by James Clavell 11/12-12/12
• 1491 by Charles Mann 11/12
• Persuasion by Jane Austen 12/12
• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides 12/12
• The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling 12/12

2013

• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• On Liberty and Other Writings by J.S. Mill (parts)
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

• The Shark Chronicles: A Scientist Tracks the Consummate Predator by Musick & McMillan
• Among Whales by Roger Payne
• Eye of the Albatross by Carl Safina
• Captain Charles Moore's Plastic Ocean
• Beach Wars: 10,000 Years of Conflict and Change on a Barrier Beach
• Mattanza by Theresa Maggio (Bluefin Tuna Fishing in Sicily)
• The Last Fish Tale by Mark Kurlansky (Atlantic Ocean issues centered around Gloucester)
• Cod by Mark Kurlansky (One of the best books ever about ocean fisheries and you get recipes too)
• The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson (Good science and story too)
• Salmon Without Rivers by Jim Lichatowich (One of the most important books written about Pacific Salmon and their mismanagem...

Travel Books That Will Take You Far As the days get shorter and colder, vicarious adventure starts looking better than the real thing. Here, chosen in part to reflect the range of the planet's ecosystems, are half-a-dozen great books for the armchair explorer:

• 1. Arabian Sands (1959), by Wilfred Thesiger. From 1945-50, Thesiger

spent as much time as he could in the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula, where he rode camels, passed himself off as a half-witted slave to avoid being executed as an infidel, and enjoyed intense "comradeship in a hostile world" with the Bedouin. Then he came home and wrote a masterpiece about a ridiculously tough setting for humans to live in, and the ways in which they managed to do so.

• 2. Shackleton (1986), by Roland Huntford....

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For class

• Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh (Sp 2008)
• Complete Poems by Marianne Moore (Sp 2010)
• The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide (Su 2010)
• The Metamorphosis by Kafka (Su 2010)
• The Trial by Kafka (Sp 2009)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Su 2010)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Su 2010)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Su 2010)
• A Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes (Sp 2009)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Sp 2010)
• Heart of Darkness (Sp 2010)
• The Rattlebag (Su 2011)
• Poetry by Baudleaire, T.S. Eliot, Rilke (Su 2010)

What I came here for:

• an opportunity to think and work on my future
• to live somewhere else, not Washington state
• to take a break from academics, but still do something with potential
• get a part-time job that didn't stress me out (which leads to breaking out and stress shopping my meager paychecks away)
• read all I can about whatever I want
• let new people into my life
• explore a new city (it is okay to get lost)
• find balance