Campus Announcement about the Book:
"'Nickel and Dimed' Next Up for Common Reading Program"--article available online and in CSUN's biweekly newspaper for the university community, @CSUN (February 4, 2008, p. 2).
The Runners-Up:
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China by John Pomfret
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
One Campus, One Book: Additional Titles Suggested for 2008-2009
Each of the following titles was suggested by someone at CSUN. Take a look; read some of them; think ahead; send us your ideas for 2009-2010; and if you're really interested, join next year's committee in January 2008. Please keep the Selection Criteria in mind.
Note: books in this list marked with two asterisks (**) were recommended by students.
- The Alchemist by Paul Coelho **
- Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
- Beloved by Toni Morrison **
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Camel Bookmobile by Marsha Hamilton
- Cane River by Lalita Tademy
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger **
- Character is Destiny: The Value of Personal Ethics in Everyday Life by Russell Gough
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Enough by Juan Williams
- The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat **
- The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
- Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
- Girls in Peril by Karen Lee Boren
- God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir by John Bul Dau
- In America (film) by Jim Sheridan
- Lives on the Boundary by Mike Rose **
- The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
- The Moths and Other Stories by Helena Maria Viramontes
- Night by Elie Wiesel **
- The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon
- Oil and Water: Two Faiths, One God by Amir Hussain
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Poor People by William Vollmann
- Push by Sapphire
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry **
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall by Mark Salzman
- Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes