What shall we read for the 2011-2012 BSC Campus Read?
Guidelines
- The book must be in print and in a price range of no more than $20 per book. Hardcover books will be considered this year for the first time.
- The book should be reasonably short -- 200-350 pages.
- The Campus Read selection should be an engaging read that will generate lively discussion.
- The book should explore any of the universal themes of literature such as coming of age, abuse of power, triumph over adversity, the importance of the individual, conflicts with self, others, and nature, etc.
The Campus Read Committee will take suggestions through December 1, 2010.
Please post your suggestions as a comment on the BSC Campus Read blog or contact one of these committee members:
- Lynette Borjeson Painter, Co-chair (Lynette.BorjesonPainter@bsc.nodak.edu)
- Erin Price, Co-chair (Erin.Price@bsc.nodak.edu)
- Marlene Anderson
- karen bauer
- Theresa Felderman
- Pamela Krueger
- Dan Leingang
- Janelle Masters
- Kitty Netzer
- Dan Rogers
- Jean Rolandelli
- Carla Sivesind
- Tom Stein
- Lynn Warnke
4 comments:
I think we should read either "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." or "For One More Day." They are both by Mitch Albom, and are amazing reads.
Suggestions forwarded to Campus Read Committee members:
1. "Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History" by Penny Le Couteur (suggested by Brent Reems)
2. "The Dream Maker" by Monica Hannan (suggested by Earl Torgerson)
3. "Mudbound" by Hillary Jordan (suggested by Kitty Netzer)
4. "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by Mark Haddon (suggested by Jane Greer)
I am suggesting "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.)" by Steven D. Levitt.
Jane Schulz
More suggestions forwarded to the Campus Read Committee:
1. A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
2. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
3. Alive: the Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Reed
4. Beautiful Boy by David Scheff
5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
6. Bringing It to the Table: on Farming and Food by Wendell Berry
7. Cherry by Mary Karr
8. Declining by Degrees edited by Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow
9. Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour
10. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
11. Genghis Khan: the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
12. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
13. The Horizontal World by Deb Marquart
14. How Can I Help? Stories and Reflections on Service by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
15. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
16. Liar's Club by Mary Karr
17. Life on the Color Line: the True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams
18. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
19. Lush Life: a Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hadju
20. My Druthers: Just One Guy's Dreams and Ideas of How to Make the World a Better Place and Return America to Democracy by Art Rude
21. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccoult
22. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
23. One Soldier's Story: War from the Bottom Up by Robert Hannon
24. Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
25. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
26. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
27. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
28. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
29. The Lemon Tree: an Arab, a Jew and the Heaert of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
30. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
31. The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
32. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
33. The Shack by William P. Young
34. The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green by Josh Braff
35. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
36. Tinkers by Paul Harding
37. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
38. Native Son by Richard Wright
39. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
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