Summer Reading
A central feature of 撸短视频鈥檚 First-Year Experience is the Summer Reading program.
- We want to highlight that intellectual engagement and education is not confined to the classroom or to academic calendars. On the contrary, learning is ongoing and transcends campus boundaries.
- Second, we want to provide the first-year class and the broader campus community a common intellectual experience centered on an engaging topic.
The summer reading helps us accomplish both of these goals. The summer reading selection is announced in late May/early June of each year.
Sincerely,
Professor Rachel Roe-Dale
Director of the First-Year Experience and Professor of Mathematics
Class of 2030 Selection
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
Edited by Michael Lewis, 鈥淲ho Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service鈥� asks a timely question: Who does the work of government, and why does that work matter? Through stories by Lewis and writers including Casey Cep, Dave Eggers, John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Vowell, and W. Kamau Bell, the book introduces readers to public servants whose often unseen work shapes daily life in profound ways. At once a civics lesson and a set of human stories, it invites first-year students to think about service, responsibility, expertise, and the many ways people contribute to the public good.
Geraldine Brooks, author of the included essay 鈥淭he Cyber Sleuth,鈥� and the subject of her essay, Jarod Koopman, will visit campus Monday, Sept. 28, for a keynote event.
past summer reading titles:
- Class of 2029: Stay True by Hua Hsu
- Class of 2028: Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
- Class of 2027: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Class of 2026: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Class of 2025: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Class of 2024:Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- Class of 2023: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We鈥檙e Wrong about the World鈥攁nd Why Things are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling R枚nnlund, and Ola Rosling
- Class of 2022: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- Class of 2021: The Book That Changed America: How Darwin鈥檚 Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation by Randall Fuller
- Class of 2020: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Class of 2019: Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
- Class of 2018: What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel
- Class of 2017: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
- Class of 2016: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
- Class of 2015: A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
- Class of 2014: Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
- Class of 2013: Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World by Eric Foner
- Class of 2012: A Tale of God's Will: A Requiem for Katrina soundtrack by Terence Blanchard
- Class of 2011: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- Class of 2010: Life on the Color Line by Gregory H. Williams
- Class of 2009: The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heanley
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Many thanks to the 撸短视频 Office of Special Programs and the McCormack Artist-Scholar Residency Fund for their support of the summer reading program.