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Suggestions for Next Year's One Book, One Campus Title


One Book, Once Campus is a program that the Library will be doing every year, tying the work into the year's campus theme. The Library hopes to continue working with the American Democracy Project and with the General Education Committee on future One Book, One Campus selections and activities.

The Schurz Library and the One Book, One Campus committee would like your suggestions on potential titles for next year's One Book, One Campus title. When thinking of possible titles, please keep the following criteria in mind

Is the title still in print and available in paperback?
Would the title have a wide-appeal to students in a variety of disciplines?
Can a connection be made to the title and the campus theme? The campus theme for 2006-2007 is "Diversity and Dialogue."

Suggested Titles so far:

Anti-Semite and Jew by Jean-Paul Sartre
Between Man and Man by Martin Buber
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Color of Water by James McBride
The End of Blackness by Debra J. Dickerson
Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Gay Marriage: Why it is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America by Jonathan Rauch
Honky by Dalton Conley
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the Members of the Tectonic Theater Project
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: the Failure of Health Care in Urban America by Laurie Abraham
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Nigger: the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia by Dennis Covington
Spinning Into Butter by Rebecca Gilman
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua

Please e-mail your suggested titles to Julie Elliott.