<p>Asking again, what are some of the books that students read for fun in the colleges you know about?</p>
<p>It might help if you explained what you were trying to learn from your books question. Are you trying to find out if these kids have the same interests that you do? It seems to be really important to you, but noone knows how to answer. There are just way too many books out there, and too many tastes at each school, to give you a short representative list. Any kind of book that you can think of is probably being read by some kid at an "intellectual" college right now- murder mysteries, 19th century romance novels, sci fi, etc. Harry Potter is as common as anywhere else. At intellectual schools books that are thought of as intellectual, on tons of subjects including things as different as philosophy, neuroscience, and sociology, are obviously going to be a little more common than at most other places. Still, those are by no means the only thing that kids there read, and they are read at plenty of less "intellectual" colleges too.</p>
<p>If you want to hear a list of random book titles that might be read at one of these colleges, I can come up with some for you, but I don't think they'd really be helpful in informing you in any meaningful way about what your experience at a particular school might be. Most really "intellectual" books are rare and obscure almost by definition. I guess most people read Emerson, Thoreau, Locke, Smith, Marx, Rousseau, etc. either for class or for fun by the time they graduate from one of these schools, but plenty of people in high school read those too.</p>