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The 7 Best Books From Nobel Prize Winners Who Didn't Win Their Medal For Literature (PHOTOS)

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“Elie Weisel's "Night" should be required reading for every child in 6th grade and up. And their parents. In no other book can you find the idea, the understanding, that the Holocaust was full of hate...and hope. The book is short, under 150 pages, and while many students in Jewish or International Studies read it, most students have never heard of it. Between this book, and Vonnegut's "Slaughter House Five", you can try to find the humanity in the evil that is war.”
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madgrrl   11:53 PM on 10/06/2010
What a haunting book - I think 6th grade might be young because for me, I found it both disturbing and hopeful - and a burden that stayed with me for many, many days following. How quickly humans - some with strength and honor - can quickly descend into animals when faced with dire situations. When faced with survival how we can abandon those we love. Who knows, they may not "get it" until later.
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Orhan Pamuk, Toni Morrison, Seamus Heaney, Saul Bellow, Pablo Neruda ... all great authors honored by the Nobel Committee with a Nobel Prize in Literature. But the winners of the Nobel for Literature aren't the only Nobel laureates to have written books. From Nelson Mandela to Elie Wiesel, winners of the Prize in fields from Peace to Medicine to Economics have written excellent books that transcend a specific field. So, which books are the best of the best? We've gathered five of our favorite books written by Nobel Prize winners not in the field of Literature. Who did we leave out? Which books do you recommend by other Nobel Prize winners?   MORE
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