U.S. News and World Report dishes about what other colleges across the country are making their incoming freshmen read this summer (besides Harry Potter):
Case Western Reserve University
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
by David K. Shipler
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
The Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Skidmore College
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
Smith College
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
University of Dayton
The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen
by David Bornstein
University of Washington
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
Colgate University
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth Change
by Tim Flannery
Seton Hall University
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
College of Wooster
The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and John Cronin