Some 2015 University Common Reading Lists

Some 2015 University Common Reading Lists

Appalachian State A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Arcadia Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming

Auburn Half a Life by Darin Strauss

Austin Peay Where am I Wearing? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes by Kelsey Timmerman

Baker The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal

Ball State Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas

Cal State Northridge Every Dayby David Levithan

Case Western Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Usand What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele

Clemson We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Coastal Carolina A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention by Matt Richtel

Dominican At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcon

Duke Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

East Stroudsburg The Postmortal by Drew Magary

Elon Why We Can't Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Florida International The Prince of Los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco

Florida State This is Our Story by Wendi Adelson

George Mason A Lesson Before Dyingby Ernest Gaines

Gettysburg Flight by Sherman Alexie

Hiram “Borders” is their theme for 2015-16 and Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea is their book choice

Hofstra Topdog/Underdog bySuzan-Lori Parks

Hood Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua Davis

Indiana East Positive by Paige Rawl

Johns Hopkins Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar

Kent State The Terrorist’s Son by Zak Ebrahim with Jeff Giles

Lafayette The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

Lehigh 2015 Summer Reading Program’s “Technology and the Digital World” theme: The Most Human Human by Brian Christian and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Loyola Marymount Southland by Nina Revoyr

Millersville Memory of Waterby Emmi Itäranta

Mt. Holyoke Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

NC State Stand Up That Mountain:The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail by Jay Erskine Leutze

Northwestern The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King

Ohio State The Good Food Revolutionby Will Allen

Penn State The Boom by Russell Gold

Penn “Year of Discovery” is the 2015 Academic Theme: The Big Sea by Langston Hughes

Princeton Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude Steele

Purdue David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

Rowan Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes

Stanford 3 Books: Physics for Future Presidents by Richard Muller, My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki, and Radioactive by Lauren Redniss

Texas Christian The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

Texas State …y no se lo tragó la tierra / …And the Earth Did Not Devour Him by Tomas Rivera

Tuskegee The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

U. Akron Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey through His Son’s Addiction by David Sheff

U. Alaska Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes

U. Arkansas Outcasts United: An American Town, A Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference by Warren St. John

U. Calgary Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepalby Conor Grennan

UC Berkeley This year’s list—“Summer Sampler: Selections from First-Year Courses”—offers a suggestions from faculty who teach those courses.

UCLA I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson

U. Delaware Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

U. Florida Double Take by Kevin Connolly

U. Illinois Springfield March Volumes 1 and 2 by Congressman John L. Lewis and Andrew Aydin and Illustrator Nate Powell

U. Kentucky Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton

U. Michigan The College of Engineering will read The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

U. New Orleans Aunt Alice v. Bob Marley: My Education in New Orleans by Kareem Kennedy

UNC Charlotte The Postmortalby Drew Magary

U. North Carolina Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

U. Oklahoma Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent by Edward Luce

U. Oregon The Emotional Life of Your Brainby Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D. and Sharon Begley

U. Richmond Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

U. S. Carolina Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple

U. Tennessee The Circle by Dave Eggers

U. Vermont The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

USF Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen

VCU The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

Villanova The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

Washington State Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson