Complete List of Books Recommended for Consideration as the
2007-2008 Freshman Common Reader

1. A Bridge Called Hope: Stories of Triumph from the Ranch of Rescued Dreams (Kim Meeder)
2. A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive (Dave Pelzer)
3. A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Ruby Payne)
4. A Mighty Heart (Mariane Pearl and Sarah Crichton) - FINALIST
5. A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (Jason Roberts)
6. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Daniel Pink)
7. Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (John De Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor)
8. An American Childhood (Annie Dillard)
9. An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore)
10. An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan (Jason Elliot)
11. Animal Liberation (Peter Singer)
12. Attitude 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know (John C. Maxwell)
13. Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women (Alexa Albert)
14. Bush Versus the Environment (Robert Devine)
15. Comfort Woman (Nora Okja Keller)
16. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (William McDonough and Michael Braungart)
17. Dawn (Elie Wiesel)
18. Do They Hear You When You Cry? (Fauziya Kassindja and Layli Miller Bashir)
19. Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket (Brian Halweil)
20. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Daniel Goleman)
21. Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization (Derrick Jensen)
22. Ethics 101 (John C. Maxwell)
23. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel (Jonathan Safran Foer) - FINALIST
24. Failing Forward: How to Make the Most of Your Mistakes (John C. Maxwell)
25. Fear No Evil: The Classic Memoir of One Man's Triumph over a Police State (Natan Sharansky and Stefani Hoffman)
26. Flags of our Fathers (James Bradley and Ron Powers)
27. Frontal Lobes Supercharge (Neil Slade)
28. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (David Allen)
29. Go Ask Alice (Anonymous)
30. Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
31. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
32. Hope Rising: Stories from the Ranch of Rescued Dreams (Kim Meeder)
33. How to Read a Book (Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren)
34. I'm the Teacher, You're the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom (Patrick Allitt)
35. Inspired to Serve: Today's Faith Activists (Mark H. Masse)
36. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Daniel Quinn)
37. Join Me (Danny Wallace)
38. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography – The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (Mark Mathabane)
39. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Richard Louv)
40. Leading Quietly (Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.)
41. Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He was Black (Gregory H. Williams)
42. Lucky: A Memoir (Alice Sebold) - FINALIST
43. Metro Girl (Janet Evanovich)
44. Monkey Beach: A Novel (Eden Robinson)
45. Monkey: A Journey to the West (David Kherdian)
46. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Tracy Kidder) - FINALIST
47. My Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College (Harlan Cohen)
48. My Sister's Keeper: A Novel (Jodi Picoult) - FINALIST
49. My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (James W. Loewen)
50. Nervous Conditions: A Novel (Tsitsi Dangarembga)
51. No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling and in Life (Kyle Maynard)
52. On Liberty (John Stuart Mill)
53. On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction (Karl Iagnemma)
54. One Man's Vision: The Life of Automobile Pioneer Ralph R. Teetor (Marjorie Teetor Meyer)
55. One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance (Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel)
56. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Azar Nafisi)
57. Relationships 101 (John C. Maxwell)
58. She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana (Haven Kimmel)
59. Six Men Who Pioneered the Modern Auto Industry (Unknown)
60. Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson)
61. Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
62. Stranger in the Village of the Sick: A Memoir of Cancer, Sorcery, and Healing (Paul Stoller)
63. Suite Francaise (Irene Nemirovsky)
64. Tears of a Tiger (Sharon M. Draper)
65. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Neil Postman)
66. The Accidental Buddhist (Dinty W. Moore)
67. The Anatomy of Peace (The Arbinger Institute)
68. The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
69. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Michael Pollan) - FINALIST 
70. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (James McBride) - FINALIST
71. The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
72. The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Luis Alberto Urrea) - FINALIST
73. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
74. The Giver (Lois Lowry)
75. The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
76. The Greatest Generation (Tom Brokaw)
77. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
78. The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
79. The Jane Austen Book Club: A Novel            (Karen Joy Fowler)
80. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
81. The Lovely Bones: A Novel (Alice Sebold)
82. The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger (Leon Hesser)
83. The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom (David Kupelian)
84. The Memory of Running (Ron McLarty)
85. The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan)
86. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Barry Schwartz) - FINALIST
87. The Power of Logical Thinking (Marilyn vos Savant)
88. The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
89. The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam (Boa Ninh)
90. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Anne Fadiman)
91. The Stand (Stephen King)
92. The Story of B (Daniel Quinn)
93. There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Alex Kotlowitz)
94. There Are No Shortcuts (Rafe Esquith)
95. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time (Greg Mortenson and David Relin)
96. Thunderstruck (Erik Larson)
97. Tonk (Unknown)
98. Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness (Dave Ramsey)
99. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Mitch Albom)
100. Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Clinton (Amanda B. Carpenter)
101. Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
102. Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution (Derrick Jensen)
103. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia  (Marya Hornbacher)
104. What Should I Do with my Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question (Po Bronson)
105. What's So Great About America (Dinesh D'Souza)
106. "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity (Beverly Daniel Tatum)
107. Winkie (Clifford Chase)
108. Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality (Robert C. Fuller)