Summer Reading
A central feature of ΞΆΓάȦ’s First-Year Experience is the Summer Reading program.
Its purpose
is twofold.
- First, 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, as well as the broader campus community, with a common intellectual experience centered on an engaging topic. The summer reading helps us accomplish both of these goals.
Sincerely,
Professor Rachel Roe-Dale
Director of the First-Year Experience and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
Class of 2029 Selection
We will announce this year's Summer Reading in May. Please check back.
suggest a summer reading title
past summer reading titles:
- Class of 2028: Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
- Class of 2027: Klara and the Sun by 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’re Wrong about the World—and Why Things are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Ola Rosling
- Class of 2022: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- Class of 2021: The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s 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