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Summer Reading Overview

For 14 years, Meredith's Summer Reading Program has brought together students, faculty, staff and alumnae in a common reading experience. This shared intellectual endeavor helps to foster the strong sense of community that is a hallmark of Meredith's campus.

The summer reading selection for 2012 is “The Glass Castle,” the New York Times Best-Selling memoir by Jeannette Walls. The author will speak at Meredith on Monday, August 27, 2011, at 7 p.m. in Jones Auditorium.

Previous Summer Reading Program books are listed below. To nominate a book for next year’s Program, please use the Book Nomination Form.

2011 – “Enrique’s Journey” by Pulitzer Prize-winner Sonia Nazario
2010 – "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide" by Pulitzer Prize-winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
2009 –
“Unbowed” by Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai
2008 – “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It” by Vice President Al Gore
2007 – “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by National Book Critics’ Circle Award-winner Anne Fadiman
2006 – "No Ordinary Time" by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doris Kearns Goodwin
2005 – "Telling Tales" by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer
2004 – "Naked in Baghdad" by NPR Foreign Correspondent Anne Garrels
2003 – "Night" by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel
2002 – "Ice Bound" by South Pole physician Jerri Nielson
2001 – "In the Time of the Butterflies” by author and essayist Julia Alvarez
2000 – "Tuesdays with Morrie" by best-selling author and journalist Mitch Albom
1999 – "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years" by Civil Rights pioneers Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with journalist Amy Hill Hearth

“Enrique’s Journey,” by Pulitzer Prize-winner Sonia Nazario2011 - “Enrique’s Journey,” by Pulitzer Prize-winner Sonia Nazario  
Half the Sky 2010 - "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide," by Pulitzer Prize-winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Unbowed2009 - “Unbowed,” by Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai

Inconvenient Truth2008 Meredith College SRP Book:“An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It” by Vice President Al Gore.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

2007 Meredith College SRP Book:
“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,” by National Book Critics’ Circle Award-winner Anne Fadiman.

No Ordinary Time

2006 Meredith College SRP Book:
"No Ordinary Time"by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Telling Tales

2005 Meredith College SRP Book:
"Telling Tales" edited by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer.

Naked In Baghdad: The Iraq war as seed by NPR's correspondent by Anne Garrels

2004 Meredith College SRP Book:
"Naked In Baghdad: The Iraq war
as seed by NPR's correspondent"

Night by Elie Wiesel,  Stella Rodway (Translator), Francois Mauriac2003 Meredith College SRP Book:
"Night" by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, Stella Rodway (Translator), Francois Mauriac.
Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle  for Survival at the South Pole by Dr. Jerri Nielsen2002 Meredith College SRP Book:
"Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle
for Survival at the South Pole"
by South Pole physician Jerri Nielsen.
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez2001 Meredith College SRP book:
"In the Time of the Butterflies"
by author and essayist Julia Alvarez.

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom2000 Meredith College SRP book:
"Tuesdays with Morrie" by best-selling author and journalist Mitch Albom.

 

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth1999 Meredith College SRP book:
"Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years" by Civil Rights pioneers Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with journalist Amy Hill Hearth.

 

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