College professors dole out an incredible amount of required reading to their students.
But what if they could only choose one book?
When asked, professors at America's most prestigious colleges — those in the top 10, according to US News & World Report — shared with Business Insider the single book they think every student should read in 2017.
The topics of the books spanned issues from politics to social science to Shakespearean literature.
Read on to see what professors from schools like Princeton, Harvard, and Yale think you should read next year.
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Jill Abramson, Harvard: 'The Paranoid Style in American Politics,' by Richard Hofstadter
Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times and current Harvard English lecturer, recommends students read Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," first published in 1964.
Abramson says the book is "everything you need to know about the root of Donald Trump's rhetoric and fake news."
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James Berger, Yale: 'Orfeo,' by Richard Powers
James Berger is a senior Lecturer in English and American Studies at Yale University. He recommends the 2014 novel "Orfeo," by Richard Powers.
He implores students to read the book, explaining that:
"It is a story of music and genetics in our contemporary age of terror and surveillance. An idiosyncratic retelling of the Orpheus myth, an elderly avant garde composer who feels he has tried and exhausted every possible musical experiment, returns to his first love, biology, and seeks to inscribe a musical score onto the mutating DNA of bacteria. Yup.
"But his efforts are mistaken to be acts of bioterrorism, and so he flees into the 'underworld' of contemporary America, returning also to the various Euridices of his past. Amazing book —and you'll learn a hell of a lot about music, science, politics ... and even about Life!"
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Eric Maskin, Harvard, and Maurice Schweitzer, UPenn: 'The Undoing Project,' by Michael Lewis
Eric Maskin is a Harvard professor and received the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Maurice Schweitzer is a professor of operations, information, and decisions at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Both chose Michael Lewis' "The Undoing Project."
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Read Business Insider's December interview with Lewis, in which he discusses the book, the American presidential election, and how Wall Street has changed in recent years.
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