2013 Summer Reading (merged)

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<p>Always enjoy this thread and always find something to read...for my son it is</p>

<p>The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/the-yellow-birds-by-kevin-powers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/the-yellow-birds-by-kevin-powers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>From Marquette:</p>

<p>This year’s book is One Amazing Thing by Chitra Divakaruni.</p>

<p>In its eleventh year, the First Year Reading Program encourages all incoming first-year students to read a common text and discuss it with a small group of fellow students, led by a faculty member during New Student Orientation in August. Books will be distributed to all incoming first year students at each of the four Preview sessions in June. Students who do not attend Preview will receive their book in the mail in July.</p>

<p>One Amazing Thing is the twelfth book chosen for the program and was preceded by The Chosen by Chaim Potok (2002), A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind (2003), Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (2004), A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines (2005), Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang (2006), Bombingham by Anthony Grooms (2007), Run by Ann Patchett (2008), Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2009), Peace Like A River by Leif Enger (2010), The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore (2011), and Half a Life by Darin Strauss (2012).</p>

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<p>From Eckerd College:
Behind the Beautiful Forevers - the author, Katherine Boo, is coming to campus in September to speak</p>

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<p>Northeastern’s is the same as Eckerd - Katherine Boo will also be at NU in September also - guess she is making the rounds!</p>

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<p>The Katharine Boo book is amazing (and upsetting).</p>

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<p>Not assigned books, but D is reading “An American Insurrection”, the story of James Meredith and the integration of Ole Miss. H read it and recommended it to her. Then she’s following up with “Warriors Don’t Cry,” the story of one of the Little Rock 9. In between, I’m sure she’ll have her favorite chick lit on tap. H is reading new books by his favorite fiction authors, Lee Child and Walter Mosely (he does his heavy reading outside of summers), and I’m reading “The Warmth of Other Suns” along with a couple of my own favorite fiction writers-Iris Johansen and Clive Cussler.</p>

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<p>UVa SEAS: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr</p>

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<p>I always enjoy this list. Lots of great book ideas for summer reading. Please post by college first then book.</p>

<p>Brown University - Beautiful Souls by Eyal Press
UC Berkeley - [UC</a> Berkeley Summer Reading 2013](<a href=“http://reading.berkeley.edu/srl_2013.html]UC”>UC Berkeley Summer Reading 2013) you can also look up previous years lists from this link.
Clemson - The Iguana Tree, by Michel Stone
Cornell - 2013: When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Duke - Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
NYU - Eat The City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York
By Robin Shulman
St. John’s - My Beloved World by Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Saint Louis University - Tattoo’s on the Heart by Fr. Gregory Boyle
Seton Hall - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Tulane - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander</p>

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<p>Rice University - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain</p>

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<p>Tufts is doing: *[Whistling</a> Vivaldi | W. W. Norton & Company](<a href=“Whistling Vivaldi | Claude M Steele | W. W. Norton & Company”>Whistling Vivaldi | Claude M Steele | W. W. Norton & Company) *which is about stereotypes, but in response to the Boston bombing they added *How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America * by Moustafa Bayoumi.</p>

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<p>Here’s the other thread I started a couple weeks ago with more responses perhaps the mods can combine into one.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1505035-2013-summer-reading.html?highlight=summer+reading[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1505035-2013-summer-reading.html?highlight=summer+reading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Georgetown: In the Shadow of the Banyan.</p>

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<p>Pomona - The Center Cannot Hold - My Journey Through Madness by Elyn Saks about living with schizophrenia (she will be visiting campus to talk about the book also).</p>

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<p>For Vanderbilt the reading is “College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be” by Andrew Delbanco.</p>

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<p>Smith’s is Sonia Sotomayor’s memoir, My Beloved World.</p>

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<p>Beloit is also reading Boo’s book. I have no idea if she’s coming to campus.</p>

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<p>UMass Amherst’s summer reading is, No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process by Colin Beaven.</p>

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<p>Adding for Smith, Vanderbilt, Pomona, Eckerd, UNC, Northeastern, Beloit, Case Western and University of Maryland</p>

<p>Brown University - Beautiful Souls by Eyal Press
UC Berkeley - UC Berkeley Summer Reading 2013 you can also look up previous years lists from this link.
Case Western - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Clemson - The Iguana Tree, by Michel Stone
Cornell - 2013: When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Duke - Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Eckerd College - Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo also Northeastern and Beloit
University of Maryland - The Signal and The Noise by Nate Silver
NYU - Eat The City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York
By Robin Shulman
St. John’s - My Beloved World by Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Saint Louis University - Tattoo’s on the Heart by Fr. Gregory Boyle
Seton Hall - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Brown University - Beautiful Souls by Eyal Press
UC Berkeley - UC Berkeley Summer Reading 2013 you can also look up previous years lists from this link.
Clemson - The Iguana Tree, by Michel Stone
Cornell - 2013: When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Duke - Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
NYU - Eat The City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York
By Robin Shulman
UNC Home - Toni Morrison
Pomona - The Center Cannot Hold - My Journey Through Madness by Elyn Saks
St. John’s - My Beloved World by Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Saint Louis University - Tattoo’s on the Heart by Fr. Gregory Boyle
Seton Hall - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Smith- Sonia Sotomayor’s memoir, My Beloved World
Tulane - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
Vanderbilt - “College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be” by Andrew Delbanco</p>