Wednesday, July 19, 2006

What College Students are Reading

An article in this weeks Charlotte Observer shared what some of the area colleges are having new students read over the summer. Any of these titles would be good discussion books for book clubs.

Appalachian State - "Freakonomics" by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

Davidson College - "The Dignity of Difference" by Jonathan Sacks

Furman University - "Blood Done Sign My Name" by Timothy Tyson

Queens University of Charlotte - "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" by Dai Sijie

UNC Chapel Hill - "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

University of South Carolina - "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder

Wake Forest University - "An Enemy of the People" by Henrik Ibsen

Wofford College - "Paco's Story" by Larry Heinemann.

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