One Book, One College : Common Reading Programs
These books were chosen by college campuses as common reading experiences in 2007. The current list can be found here.
Acadia University (PA) - Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman (2007)
Agnes Scott Collge - American Woman: A Novel by Susan Choi (2007)
Albion College - Darfur Diaries: Stories of Surival by Jen Marlowe (2007)
American University - The Ponds of Kalambayi: An African Sojourn by Mike Tidwell (2007)
Appalachian State University - A Home on the Field by Paul Cuadros (2007)
Ball State University - The Color of Water by James McBride (2007)
Barton College (NC) - Applebee's
America: How Successful Political, Business, and Religious Leaders Connect with
the New American Community by Douglas B. Sosnik, Matthew J. Dowd & Ron
Fournier (2007)
Bellevue Community College -The Worst Hard
Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust
Bowl by Timothy Egan (2007)
Belmont University - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2007)
Bernard M. Baruch College, CUNY - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2007)
Berry College - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (2007)
Bowling Green State University - blog - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2007)
Buffalo State - 20th Century Americans Who Changed Our Minds and Our Lives, a compilation of articles, images, and music (2006)
California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo - All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki (2007)
California State University, Channel Islands - Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamon (2007)
California State University, Chico - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2007)
California State University, Northridge - The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (2007)
California State University, San Marcos - They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky by Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng, and Benjamin Ajak (2007)
Carleton College (Northfield, MN) - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2007)
Case Western Reserve University - The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler (2007)
Catawba College - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder and Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (2007)
Central College - The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini (2007)
Central Oregon Community College / Oregon State University, Cascades - Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (2006)
Champlain College - What is the What by Dave Eggers (2007)
Chandler-Gilbert Community College (AZ) - Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (2007)
Clemson University - The Ghost Map by Steve Johnson (2007)
Cleveland State University - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2007)
Coastal Carolina University (SC) - Goat by Brad Land (2007)
Coker College (SC) - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2007)
Colgate University - The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery (2007)
College of Charleston - Jewel by Brett Lott (2007)
The College of New Jersey - Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean (2007)
College of the Redwoods - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2007)
College of Wooster -
The Riverkeepers by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and John Cronin (2007)
Community College of Baltimore County - Come Hell or High Water by Eric Dyson (2007)
Concordia College (MN) - Sold by Patricia McCormick (2007)
Converse College (SC) - Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher (2007)
Cornell University - The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer (2007)
Creighton University - The
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini; My Freshman Year by Rebekah Nathan;
Surely You're Joking by Richard Feynman; Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
(2007); instructors choose one of the four for their section of a first
term seminar
Dartmouth College - Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pipe to the Pipeline by Lisa Margonelli (2007)
Duke University - The Best of Enemies by Osha Gray Davidson (2007)
East Tennessee State University - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2007)
Eastern Illinois University - A Hope in the Unseen by Ronald Suskind (2007)
Eastern Kentucky University - The Mercury 13 by Martha Ackmann (2007)
Elon University (NC) - An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (2007)
Emerson College - Howl on Trial: The Struggle for Free Expression edited by Bill Morgan and Nancy J. Peters (2007)
Fairfield University - blog - Lucky Child by Loung Ung (2007)
Farleigh Dickinson University (NJ) - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2007)
Florida Southern College - If Harry Potter Ran General Electric by Tom Morris (2007)
Florida State University - A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind (2007)
Fort Lewis College - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2007)
Franklin Pierce University - Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (2007)
Georgetown University - Knots by Nuruddin Farah (2007)
Goucher College - The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri (2007)
Graceland College (IA) - God Grew Tired of Us By John Bul Dau (2007)
Greensboro College - The Innocent Man by John Grisham (2007)
Guilford College (NC) - Big Fish by Daniel Wallace (2007)
Gustavus Adolphus College - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2007)
Hamline University - The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (2007)
Harrisburg Area Community College - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2007)
Hawaii Pacific University - The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (2007)
Hobart and William Smith Colleges - The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back by Bill Shore (2007)
Houston Community College Northwest - Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood (2007)
Howard Community College (MD) - Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver (2007)
Humboldt State University (CA) - Parable of the Sower by
Octavia Butler (2008)
Idaho State University - Affluenza by John De Graaf, David Wann and Thomas H. Naylor (2007)
Illinois Central College - Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (2007); the college participates with Peoria Reads
Illinois Wesleyan University - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2007)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert (2007)
Indiana University, South Bend - more - An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (2007)
Ithaca College - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (2007)
James Madison University - Federalist 10 by James Madison (2007)
Juniata College (PA) - Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah (2007)
Kalamazoo College - The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2007)
Keene State College (NH) - The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea (2007)
Kent State University - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2007)
Lafayette College (PA) - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (2007)
LaGuardia Community College - CUNY - An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (2007)
Lasell College (MA) - Twentysomething Essays by Twentsomething Writers by Matt Kellogg and Jillian Quint (eds). (2007)
Lehigh University - Freedom in Exile by the Dalai Lama (2007)
Lenoir-Rhyne College - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2007)
Lynchburg College - Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray (2007)
Loyola Marymount University (CA) - Chasing Spring: An American Journey through a Changing Season by Brian Stutz (2006)
Luther College - Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals (2007)
Manhattan College - The Ethics of What We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason (2007)
Marion College (WI) - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2007)
Marquette University - Bomingham by Anthony Grooms (2007)
Mars Hill College (NC) - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2007)
Marymount College (CA) - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2007)
Massasoit Community College - Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick (2007)
Massbay Community College - An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (2007)
Messiah College - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2007)
Michigan State University - Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy (2007)
Michigan Tech - They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of the Lost Boys from Sudan by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak, with Judy A. Bernstein (2007)
Middle Tennessee State University - An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina (2007)
Midlands Technical College (SC) - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2007)
Montana State University - Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (2007)
Moravian College - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2007)
Mount Holyoke - Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert (2007)
Mount Union College (OH) - Professors' Guide to Getting Good Grades in College by Lynn Jacobs and Jeremy Hyman (2007)
Murray State University - Something to Declare by Julia Alvarez (2007) Nebraska Methodist College - The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (2007)
New Mexico State University - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2007)
New York Institute of Technology - The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (2007)
Niagara University - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2007)
Nichols College (MA) - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2007)
Northern Arizona University - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Hadden (2007)
Northern Kentucky University - Lost Mountain by Erik Reece (2007)
Northwood University - Where Have All The Leaders Gone? by Lee Iacocca (2007)
Ohio State University - Life on the Color Line by Gregory Howard Williams and What is the What? by Dave Eggers (2007)
Ohio Wesleyan - Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Moseley (2007)
Ohio University - Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2007)
Okahoma City University - Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2007)
Otterbein College - Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes (2007)
Owensboro Community and Technical College (KY) - Buffalo Dance by Frank X. Walker (2007)
Parkland College (IL) - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2007); Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte
(2007)
Pennsylvania State University, Berks - Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (2007)
Queens University of Charlotte - Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson (2007)
Ramapo College of New Jersey - Long Way Gone: Memories of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah (2007)
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (IN) - The Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2007)
St. Ambrose University (IA) - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2007)
St. Bonaventure University - Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (2007)
Saint Joseph's University (PA) - Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Wiener (2006)
St. Louis Community College - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (2007)
St. Louis University - Heroic Leadership by Chris Lowney (2007)
St. Mary's College of Maryland - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (2007)
St. Michael's College (VT) - Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen (2007)
Salisbury University (MD) - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2007)
Sam Houston State University (TX) - What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson
San Diego State University - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2007)
San Jose State University - more - Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer (2007)
Sarah Lawrence College - The Book of Sarahs by Catherine E. McKinley (2007)
Seton Hall University - Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2007)
Skidmore College - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2007)
Smith College - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2007)
Southwest Minnesota State University - Soul of a Citizen by Paul Loeb (2007)
Spokane Falls Community College - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2007)
Stonehill College (MA) - Long Way Gone: Memories of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah (2007)
SUNY Brockport - Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home by Nando Parrado with Vince Rause (2007)
SUNY Oswego - Bomingham by Anthony Groom (2007)
Susquehanna University - When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - the Defining Crisi of the Twenty-First Century by Fred Pearce (2007).
Syracuse University - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2007)
Temple University - Black Ice by Lorene Cary (2007)
Texas Tech University - A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind (2007) Troy University - The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2007)
Union
College (NE) - Black Ice by Lorene Cary (2007)
University at Buffalo, SUNY - Long Way Gone: Memories of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah (2007)
University of Akron - Behind the Veil: An American Woman's Memoir of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis by Debra Johanyak (2007)
University of Alabama, Birmingham - All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg (2007)
University of Alaska, Anchorage and Alaska Pacific University - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra (2007)
University of Arizona in Tucson - West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary (2007)
University of California, Berkeley - Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills (2007); see also the Summer Reading List of books recommended by faculty.
University of Dayton
- The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank by David Bornstein (2007)
University of Florida - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (2007)
University of Maryland (College Park) - The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities by Mike Tidwell (2007)
University of Massachusettes, Amherst (Commonwealth College) - Dean's Book Course - more - Terror in the Name of God by Jessica Stern (Fall 2007) and A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky (Spring 2008)
University of Missouri - Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina (2007)
University of Montana - Missoula - Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (2007)
University of North Carolina at Charlotte - The Color of Water by James McBride (2007)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - The Death of Innocents by Helen Prejean (2007)
University of North Carolina, Wilmington - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2007)
University of Richmond - Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation by Ellen Bravo (2007)
University of South Carolina - When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (2007)
University of South Carolina, Aiken - The Color of Water by James McBride (2007)
University of St. Thomas - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (2007)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville -In the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. Cantor (2007)
University of Texas at Arlington - Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman (2007)
University of Vermont - Long Way Gone: Memories of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah (2007)
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (2007)
University of Washington - Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert (2007)
University of West Georgia - Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct by P.M. Forni (2006)
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh - A Long Way Gone by Ismael Beah (2007)
University of Wisconsin, Parkside - The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman et al (2007)
University of Wyoming - Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak by Kenneth S. Deffeyes (2007)
Utah State University - Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande (2007)
Virginia Commonweath University - Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2007)
Wartburg College - Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (2007)
Washington State University - Flu by Gina Kolata (2007)
West Kentucky Community College - The Girl with the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf; The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini; The Faith Club by Ranya Idlliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (2007-2008)
West Texas A&M - Night by Elie Wiesel (2007)
Wheaton (MA) - The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan (2007)
Whitman College - The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea (2007)
Widener University - Brown Bag Bookclub (various books)
Winthrop University - The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp (2007)
Woodbury University - I am Alive in Los Angeles by Mike Sonsken ("Mike the Poet") (2007)
York College (PA) - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (2007)
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