You have easy access to all the books in Summit (Washington, Oregon, and Idaho college libraries) as well as Seattle Public Library, and your own personal collections. Reading in many subjects and genres is great, for lots of reasons. But if you wanted to, you could make a lot of Bingos with just books from the law library, and I have three examples for you.
Diagonally, top left to bottom right:
- A Seattle Arts & Lectures speaker: Luis Alberto Urrea, The Devil's Highway: A True Story (2004)
- Published when author was under 35: Scott Turow, One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School (1997) (originally published in 1977, when Turow was 28)
- Free square
- One-word title: Charles L. Black Jr. & Philip Bobbitt, Impeachment: A Handbook (2018). (It's OK not to count a subtitle when you're looking for one-word titles.)
- Set in summer: Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (1997)
Right column, top to bottom:
- Made into a movie: Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action (1996)
- Suggested by an elder: Depends on how old you are, of course. I'm older than most law students, so consider a recommendation from me: James Forman, Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (2017)
- Recommended by a librarian or an independent bookseller: Depends on what librarians and booksellers you talk to, of course. I'm a librarian, so here's another recommendation: Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2017)
- By an author from Mexico or Canada: Tony Penikett, Reconciliation: First Nations Treaty Making in British Columbia (2012)
- Set in summer: Robert Whitaker, On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation (2008)
I made these lists quickly and then saw that all of the authors were men. I can do better than that. Here's a Bingo with law library books by women. Fourth row, left to right:
- Fiction: Deborah Johnson, The Secret of Magic (2015)
- Comics: Nadja Baer, The United States Constitution: A Round Table Comic (2012). See also Fred Fordham, To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel (2018) (author is a man, but it's an adaptation of a book by a woman).
- Book about disability: Elyn Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (2007). See also Discussions on Disability Law and Policy (Patricia C. Kuszler & Christy Thompson Ibrahim eds., 2014)
- One-word title: Alex Rosenblat, Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work (2018) (this book isn't actually in the law library, but the author gave a colloquium in the law school this year, so that's close enough for me). See also Margaret Jane Radin, Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law (2013)
- By an author from Mexico or Canada: Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (1997)
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