Posted By admin on November 3, 2009

Please send suggestions of titles to consider for next year’s Book of the Year. I’ll add them to the list below. The Committee will meet sometime this semester to make a list of possible titles, and needs your help!

Suggestions So Far:

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Some books that are being used elsewhere include:

Nudge by economist Richard H. Thaler and legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein

The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez (Chico State)

How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? Being Young and Arab in America, by Moustafa Bayoumi

The Devil’s Highway - Luis Alberto Urrea

Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father (U of Washington)

Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (Virginia Tech)

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