New Student Book Experience
2012 Nominations

Selected Book:

• Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Selection Finalists:

• Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

• Black Ice by George Fosty

• Dog’s Purpose by Bruce Cameron

• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

• The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

• Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb

• Raising Elijah by Sandra Steingraber

• Say You’re One of Them by Uwen Akpan

• Spit Back a Boy by Ian Haley Pollock

• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

• Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Beals

Additional Nominations:

• 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

• After Dachau by Daniel Quinn

• Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo

• An Imperfect Offering by James Orbinski

• Anarchy Evolution by Greg Graffin

• Anthem by Ayn Rand

• Beowulf, Seamus Heaney (translator)

• Bible, Quaran and Science by Maurice Bucaille

• Bossypants by Tina Fey

• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

• Brooklyn by Colin Toibin

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

• Diary of Anne Frank

• The Difference by Scott E. Page

• Don’t Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Female Man by Joanna Russ
• Flatland by Edwin Abbott
• Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas
• Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
• Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof
• Heart and the Fist by Eric Greitens
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Information by James Gleick
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Jim and Casper Go to Church by Jim Henderson
• Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Losing Our Religion by S.E. Cupp
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Old School by Tobias Wolff
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• Search Engines by Bruce Croft
• Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
• The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
• Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
• Suburbia by Eric Bogosian
• Thicker Than Oil by Rachel Bronson
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• A Time to Betray by Reza Kahlili
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman
• Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen