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First-Year Summer Reading Book List
Last updated: September 2008

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

     
  • A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr 
  • A Home on the Field: How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America by Paul Cuadros 
  • A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind 
  • A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League by Ron Suskind 
  • A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest Gaines 
  • A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah 
  • A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah 
  • A Long Way Gone: Memories of a Boy Soldier  
  • A Multimedia CD by various 
  • A Tale of Three Kings by Gene Edwards 
  • A Woman in Amber by Agate Nesaule 
  • Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point by David Lipsky 
  • After Long Silence by Helen Fremont 
  • All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein 
  • All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg 
  • All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki 
  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque  
  • All-Bright Court by Connie Porter 
  • America 1908 by Jim Rasenberger  
  • An American Story by Debra Dickerson 
  • An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore 
  • An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina 
  • Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 
  • Antigone by Sophocles 
  • Applebee’s America by Douglas B. Sosnick, Matthew J. Dowd, and Ron Rournier 
  • Approaching the Qur'án: The Early Revelations by Michael Sells 
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan 
  • Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama 
  • Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 
B
     
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
  • Barefoot Heart by Elva Trevino Hart
  • Bayou Farewell: the Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast by Mike Tidwell
  • Being America by Jedediah Purdy
  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
  • Billy Collins Live -- Audio CD by Billy Collins
  • Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  • Blood Done Sign My Name, A True Story by Timothy B. Tyson
  • Bombingham by Anthony Grooms
  • Book 1: The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, & Rameck Hunt with Lisa Frazier Page
  • Book 2: Creeker by Linda Scott Derosier
  • Book 3: Joe College by Tom Perrotta
  • Book 4: No Disrespect by Sister Souljah
  • Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne
  • Breakfast is Compulsory by Dr. Wallace N. Jamison
C
     
  • Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  • Caucasia by Danzy Senna
  • Choosing Civility by P.M. Forni
  • Clay's Quilt by Silas House
  • Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo
  • Colored People by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
  • Complications by Atul Gawande
  • Copenhagen (play) by Michael Frayn
  • Cradle-to-Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
  • Crash (movie)
  • Creating Minds by Howard Gardner
D
     
  • Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fullman
  • Dreaming Me: From Babtist to Buddhist, One Woman's Sprirtual Journey by Jan Willis
  • Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
  • Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
  • Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital
E
     
  • E=MC2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
  • Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
  • Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Endurance by Alfred Lansing
  • Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben
  • Enrique's Journey by Texas Tech University
  • Epitaph for a Peach by David Mas Masumoto
  • Escape From Slavery by Bok, Francis, with Edward Tivnan
  • Essay-"Of the Wings of Atlanta" by W.E.B. DuBois
F
     
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Farewell, I’m Bound To Leave You by Fred Chappell
  • Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
  • Fat Land by Greg Critser
  • Feed by M.T. Anderson
  • Feed by M.T. Anderson
  • Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature & Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Finding Fish by Antwon Fisher
  • First They Killed My Father by Oung Ung
  • First They Killed My Father by Luong Ong
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubne
  • Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton and Rose Friedman
  • Freedom Writers Diary-How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves And The World Around Them by Erin Gruwell and Freedom Writers
  • Funny in Farsi by FirooZeh DuMas
G
     
  • Garbage Land:On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte
  • God Grew Tired of Us by John Bul Dau
  • Granny D: You're Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell by Doris Haddock
H
     
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
  • Haven by Ruth Gruber
  • Heroic Leadership by Chris Lowney
  • Honky by Dalton Conley
  • Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
  • Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang
  • Hunger for Memory by Richard Rodriguez
I
     
  • Icy Sparks by Gywn Hyman Rubio
  • If Harry Potter Ran General Electric by Tom Morris
  • If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
  • In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
  • Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  • Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman
J
     
  • John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
  • Journey From the Land of No, a girlhood caught in revolutionary Iran by Roya Hakakian
K
     
  • Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher
  • Kindred by Octavia Butler
  • King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
  • Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
L
     
  • Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
  • Letters from Yellwostone by Dinae Smith
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martell
  • Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
  • Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
  • Lost Mountain by Erik Reece
M
     
  • May Out West by May Swenson
  • Memories of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah
  • Miles to Go Before I Sleep A Survivor's Story of Life After a Terrorist Hijacking by Jackie Nink Pflug
  • Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home by Nando Parrado
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
  • My Life as a Move from "Into Woods" by Bill Roorbach
  • My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
  • My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury
N
     
  • Naked in Baghdad by Ann Garrels
  • Napoleon's Buttons by LeCouteur & Burreson
  • Napoleon's Buttons: 17 Molecules That Changed History by Penny Le Couteur & Jay Burreson
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  • Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places by Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Never Let Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Nickel and DImed: On [Not] Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Night by Elie Wiesel
  • No Place to Hide by Robert O'Harrow, Jr.
O
     
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
  • Ordinary Grace by Kathleen Brehony
  • Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives by Christopher Gergen & Gregg Vanourek
  • Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing by Robert Wolff
P
     
  • Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
  • Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • Persepolis: Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
  • Plainsong by Kent Haruf
  • Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lerter Brown
Q
     
R
     
  • Rading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
  • Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
  • Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall
  • Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall
  • Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
  • Respect: An Exploration by Respect: An Exploration
  • Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
S
     
  • Sailing Around the Room by Billy Collins
  • Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
  • Small Wonder by Barbara Kingslover
  • Socrates Cafe by Christopher Phillips
  • Something To Declare by Julia Alvarez
  • Sounds of the River by Da Chen
  • Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
  • Suburban Nation by Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck
T
     
  • Tapestries of Hope: Threads of Love by Marjorie Agosin
  • Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 by Rafe Esquith
  • Tell Them Who I Am by Elliot Liebow
  • The American Dream: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation by Dan Rather
  • The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders by Jacob Needleman
  • The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Best of Enemies by Osha Gray Davidson
  • The Best Things in Life by Peter Kreeft
  • The Book of Sarahs by Catherine E. McKinley
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • The Cheating Culture by David Callahan
  • The Chosen by Chaim Potok
  • The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
  • The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Haddon, Mark
  • The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Sister Helen Prejan
  • The Ditchdigger's Daughters by Yvonne Thornton, MD
  • The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World by Mark Hertsgaard
  • The Federalist Papers #10 by James Madison
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
  • The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
  • The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Le Thi Diem Thuy
  • The Ghost Map by Steve Johnson
  • The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
  • The Guardians by Ana Castillo
  • The Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
  • The Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman
  • The Legacy of Luna by Julia Butterfly Hill
  • The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
  • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
  • The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  • The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
  • The Mercury 13:The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight by Martha Ackmann
  • The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols
  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Odyssey (Chapter 9) by Homer
  • The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream by Davis, Jenkins, Hunt, & Page
  • The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin
  • The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
  • The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
  • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
  • The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
  • The Things We Carried by Tim O'Brien
  • The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
  • The White by Deborah Larsen
  • The Words We Live By by Linda R. Monk
  • The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
  • They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak and Judy A. Bernstein.
  • Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, David O. Relin
  • Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  • Time by Mark Haddon
  • Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  • Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
  • Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
  • Twenty Something Essays by Twenty Something Writers by Matt Kellogg and Jillian Quint, Editors
U
     
  • Ultimate Punishment by Scott Turow
  • Undressing the Bear, from An Unspoken Hunger by Terry Tempest Williams
V
     
W
     
  • Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • War is a Force That Gives Meaning by Chris Hedges
  • Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
  • We Are All The Same by Jim Wooten
  • West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary
  • What Is The What by Dave Eggers
  • What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson
  • What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson
  • What's Your Excuse? Making the Most of What You Have by John Foppe
  • When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
  • When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
X
     
Y
     
Z
     
  • Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez

 

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