One Campus, One Book: CSUN's Freshman Common Reading Program, 2009-2010
We have chosen our five finalists! We expect to announce the winning title in mid-January 2009. Click each title or cover image for more information:
Mark Salzman, 2003.
Suggested by:
Sharron Kollmeyer Gerfen
David Quammen, 2006.
Suggested by:
Jerry Stinner
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, 2006.
Alan Bennett, 2004.
Suggested by:
Carolyn Darin
Steve Lopez, 2008.
Suggested by:
Sharron A. Kollmeyer Gerfen
Here are some other books we thought about for 2009-2010:
Dai Sijie, 2002.
Suggested by:
Christopher Leu
Edward J. Larson, 2006.
Suggested by:
Jerry Stinner
Gloria DeLaTorre Wycoff, 2004.
John Pomfret, 2006.
Suggested by:
Amy Reynolds
Dalton Conley, 2000.
Suggested by:
Ilene Rubenstein
Steven Johnson, 2005.
Suggested by:
Erin Delaney
Lloyd Jones, 2007.
Suggested by:
George Uba
James McBride, 1996.
Suggested by:
Kitty Nard
Yu Hua, 2003.
Suggested by:
Kitty Nard
Still more books we thought about for 2009-2010:
Tracy Kidder, 2003.
Suggested by:
Ronit Sarig
John Williams, 1988. Rpt. 2007.
Suggested by:
George Uba
Daphne Scholinski, 1998.
Suggested by:
Helen Dosick
Hisham Matar, 2007.
Suggested by:
George Uba
Ana Castillo, 1993.
Suggested by:
Randal Cummings
Robert Coles and Robin Bowman, 2007.
Suggested by:
Emmanuel Sabaiz
And even more books we thought about for 2009-2010:
Harlan Cohen, 2007.
Suggested by:
Jamison Keller
Rick Shenkman, 2008.
Suggested by:
Michael Schofield
John Stossel, 2004.
Suggested by:
Shirley Svorny
Barbara Kingsolver, 2007.
Suggested by:
Mary C. Schaffer
Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, 2008.
Suggested by:
Adam Gifford
Mark Bauerlein, 2008.
Suggested by:
Michael Schofield
And finally, the very last of the other books we thought about for 2009-2010:
Stephen Jay Gould, 1992.
Suggested by:
Jerry Stinner
Thomas de Zengotita, 2005.
Suggested by:
Sharon Klein
Randy Pausch, 2008.
Suggested by:
G. Jay Christensen and Merril Simon
Mary Mustard Reed (BA CSUN, 1979), 2008.