Academic | Reading Programs
2010
The following titles were adopted by schools for First Year Experience and Campus-Wide Reading programs.
See adoptions for other years: 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012
Blonde Roots
Bernardine Evaristo
Rosemont College, Western Michigan University
The Braindead Megaphone
George Saunders
University of Western Florida
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
Buena Vista University, Hampshire College, Oakland University, SUNY Stony Brook, Ursinus College
Drown
Junot Díaz
Lehman College CUNY
Eight Habits for the Heart
Clifton L. Taulbert
Mississippi University
The Element
Ken Robinson
Augustana College
Everything Matters!
Ron Currie, Jr.
Duke University
Farm City
Novella Carpenter
Cuesta College
Farming of Bones
Edwidge Danticat
Nova Southeastern University
Finding Manana
Mirta Ojito
Florida Atlantic University
Food Rules
Michael Pollan
Santa Monica College
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Troy University
Gang Leader for a Day
Sudhir Venkatesh
Montana State University
Generation Debt
Anya Kamenetz
Philander Smith College
Ghost Map
Steven Johnson
Drew University, Westminster College
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The United States Academic Decathlon, Delaware Valley College
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie
Beloit College
The Help
Kathryn Stocket
Bowling Green State University, Caldwell Community College, Hastings High School
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
University of Michigan
How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?
Mustafa Bayoumi
Brooklyn College CUNY
How Starbucks Saved My Life
Michael Gates Gill
University of Illinois
In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
Linfield College, Texas Lutheran University
Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Old Dominion University
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Concordia University, Purdue University, Texas A&M Texarkana, University of Evansville, University of Louisiana – Lafayette
Lakota Way
Joseph M. Marshall III
Cal State Bakersfield
Life on the Color Line
Gregory Howard Williams
University of Cincinnati
Listening is an Act of Love
Dave Isay
Edgewood College, Holy Cross College, Howard Community College, University of Alaska Southeast, University of Mississippi
The Mind at Work
Mike Rose
Francis Marion University
My Freshman Year
Rebekah Nathan
Creighton University
Neighbors
Jan T. Gross
Illinois State University
The Odyssey
Homer
Salve Regina University
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan
Albion College, New College of Florida, Siena College, University of California Davis
Once Upon a Quinceanera
Julia Alvarez
Aurora University
The Pact
Sampson Davis
Dean College, Milton High School, Thomas College
The Pickup
Nadine Gordimer
Hofstra University
The Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
California State University Fresno
Secret Daughter
June Cross
Oklahoma City University
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Miami Dade College
Smashed
Koren Zailckas
Culver Stockton
The Soloist
Steve Lopez
Cumberland County College, Guilford Technical Community College, Mercyhurst College, University of Akron, University of La Verne, Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Something to Declare
Julila Alvarez
University of West Georgia
Speaking of Faith
Krista Tippett
Roberts Wesleyan College
Stealing Buddha's Dinner
Bich Minh Nguyen
Cumberland University, Madonna University
Stones into Schools
Greg Mortenson
Lyndon State, Sacred Heart, Washington State University
Storm of Steel
Ernst Junger
University of Michigan
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Creighton University, South Suburban College
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson
Auburn University, Austin College, Claremont Mckenna, College of Charleston, Duquesne University, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Loyola Marymount University, Mercer University, Minnesota State University, Mississippi State University, Missouri State University, Norwich University, Quinnipiac University, Rivier College, South Dakota State University, St. Edward's University, SUNY Buffalo, Texas Christian University, Vanderbilt University
Unforgiving Minute
Craig M. Mullaney
Villanova University
Velva Jean Learns to Drive
Jennifer Niven
Wilkes Community College
The Wal-Mart Effect
Charles Fishman
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
A Whole New Mind
Daniel Pink
Butler University
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
Alan S. Miller
Emmanuel College
