* Years of Upheaval, by Henry Kissinger;

* Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard, by Harvard Student Agencies;

* The Zero Sum Society, by Lester C. Thurow;

* The want-ad section of the Wall Street Journal.

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Monroe Engel, senior lecturer in English, recommends four classics and an alumnus's latest:

* Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer;

* Middlemarch, by George Eliot;

* Civilization and its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud;

* Tess of the d' Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy;

* Rubbit is Rich, by John Updike '54.

Engel's own literary projects for the summer include Northrop Frye's The Great Code. Mather's translation of The Thousand Knights and One Knight, Irving Howe's edition of The Portable Kipling. The Letters of Oppenheimer, and a rereading of Andre Gide's The Counterfeiters.

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Dean of students Archie C. Epps III, whose workload dips when there are no students around, said he plans to finish Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy along with some Hugh Trevor-Roper history of 17th century England. For others he proposes reading:

* Death in a Tenured Position, by Amanda Cross, (a murder mystery that takes place in Harvard's English Department);