Alumni often ask for reading recommendations from their favorite Engineering School professors. In our SEAS Reads column, we present you with another installment of these recommendations. Enjoy!

Hossein Haj-Hariri

Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor
• Why Not Me? The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency by Al Franken
• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

Robert G. Kelly

Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

• The Fifth Horseman by James Patterson

P. Paxton Marshall

Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs
Professor, Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Collapse by Jared Diamond
• 1491 by Charles C. Mann
• Wealth and Democracy by Kevin Phillips

Mary Lou Soffa

Owen R. Cheatham Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science

• The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History by John M. Barry
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd