New Student Book Experience
Archive - 2008 Nominations

Selected Book:

• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

• Blindness by Jose Saramago
• Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe by Leo Bretholz
• The Life of Pi    by Yann Martel
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Additional Nominations:

• 1984 by George Orwell
• 2001:A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Age of Shiva by Manil Suri
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
• Alias Grace by  Margaret Atwood
• American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville by Bernard-Henry Levy and Charlotte Mandell
• Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
• Autobiography of Pete Rose by Pete Rose
• Best Friends, Worst Enemies, Understanding the Social Lives of Children by Michael Thompson and Catherine O'Neil Grace

• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
• Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years    by David Talbot
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
• Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok
• The Color of Water by James    McBride
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
• Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
• Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Keroauc
• Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
• Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
• The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
• Ender's Game   by Orson Scott Card
• Endless Love by Scott Spencer
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
• The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
• Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
• God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew and John and Elizabeth Sherrill
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
• Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts
• Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
• Intuition by Allegra Goodman
• The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
• Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, and How Baseball Got Big by Jose Canseco
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science by Steve Fuller
• L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
• Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
• Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza
• Life and Times of Michael K     by J. M. Coetzee
• Light in August by William Faulkner
• Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Euginides
• Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• My Old True Love by Sheila Kaye Adams
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America    by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Old School by Tobias     Wolff
• The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• Once an Eagle by Myrer Anton
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Open Me by Sunshine O'Donnell
• The Other Side of Truth by Beverly Naidoo
• The Pianist: the Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Wladyslaw  Szpilman
• A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class by Joseph Nocera
• Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII by Iris Chang
• Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
• The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
• Ruminations on College Life by Aaron Karo
• A Scanner Darkly by Philip Dick
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
• Sir Apropros of Nothing by Peter David
• The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
• The Source by James A. Michener
• Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio by Jeffrey Kluger
• The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama by Thomas Laird
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
• Summer by Edith Wharton
• Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why we Need Disease by Sharon Moelem and Jonathan Prince
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• To See You Again: A True Story of Love in a Time of War by Betty Schimmel and Joyce Gabriel
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Understanding Terrorism in America: from the Klan to al Qaeda by Christopher Hewitt
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
• Why are All the Black Kids Sitting together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

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