Each first-year student is required to read a common book over the summer to participate in a book discussion during orientation lead by a faculty or staff facilitator. This year, the discussion will take place during orientation on Saturday, August 21, 2010 immediately following The Life of the Mind program. 

This year's common reading book selection will be announced in early summer 2010. New students will need to obtain a copy for themselves and have read it before the Book Discussion session during orientation. 

Past Book Selections:
2009:       Old School
2008:       Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
2007:       The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2006:       The Dignity of Difference
2005:       The Kite Runner
2004:       Two Souls Indivisible
2003:       A Hope in the Unseen
2002:       Nickel and Dimed
2001:       On the Uses of a Liberal Education (essay)
2000:       All Over but the Shoutin’
1999:       A Gracious Plenty
1998:       Snow Falling on Cedars
1997:       My Own Country
1996:       Life on the Color Line
1995:       Kindred
1994:       Fiela’s Child
1993:       Waiting for the Barbarians