10 books university leaders are reading

Here are some of the titles leading figures at universities around the country are currently perusing.

4. Bob Kustra, president of Boise State University

President Bob Kustra
Boise State University
Boise, Idaho

Kustra hosts weekly interviews with best-selling authors on Boise's NPR station and also writes a review of the books covered on the show for the Idaho Statesman. Kustra is currently reading:

"The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution," by Walter Isaacson

"The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America," by Douglas Brinkley

"All the Light We Cannot See," by Anthony Doerr, a Boise author and National Book Award Finalist

"The Narrow Road to the Deep North," by Richard Flanagan, Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2014

"Train Dreams," by Denis Johnson, National Book Award winner for “Tree of Smoke,” soon to be visiting professor at Boise State

"The Circle," by Dave Eggers

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