New Student Book Experience
Archive - 2010 Nominations

Selected Book:

• The Translator by Daoud Hari

Selection Finalists:

• A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey by Ron Suskind
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Fieldnotes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• Quantum Lyrics: Poems by A. Van Jordan
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin

Additional Nominations:

• 1984 by George Orwell
• A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
• A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
• A Slobbering Love Affair by Bernard Goldberg
• A Street in Marrakech by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• After Dachau by Daniel Quinn
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Vol. 1 by M.T. Anderson
• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
• Aya by Marguerite Abouet
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
• Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini
• The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah
• Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb
• The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
• Bliss by Oz Livaneli
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie
• Breaking Point by Alex Flinn
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• The Chesapeake Watershed: A Sense of Place and a Call to Action by Ned Tillman
• The Color of Water by James McBride
• Company by Max Barry
• Confessions by Augustine
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William Mcdonough
• Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Descartes Bones: A Skeletal Histor of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto
• Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie
• Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Endgame by Samuel Beckett
• Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Fade to Black by Alex Flinn
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter
• Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
• The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom
• Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
• Go Ask Alice by Ellen Hopkins
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• God Knows by Joseph Heller
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America by Tom Friedman
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
• Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
• Into the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
• Katie.com: My Story by Katherine Tarbox
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe by Leo Bretholz
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
• Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• My Antonia by Willa Catcher
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, trans. Ross
• Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick
• One-Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Out Stealing Horses by Per Patterson
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim
• Pride and Predjudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Rendevous with Rama by Arthur Clarke
• Republic by Plato
• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
• The Shack by William Paul Young
• Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
• The Simple Truth by David Baldacci
• Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• The Sisters Antipodes by Jane Alison
• Slaughter House-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Sold by Patricia McCormick
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience by Rob Hopkins
• The Turning of the World (The Soundscape) by R. Murray Schafer
• The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall
• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
• Way of a Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives by Daniel Millman
• The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
• The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs