Reading Programs, Resources, and Communities: You've Gotta Read This! Library Reading Group

Reading for fun shouldn’t stop just because you’re in college. Created for first-year students in the fall of 2013, this program was launched by the library as a way to provide intellectually engaging opportunities for students to gather on campus. By reading and discussing a great book together, we hope to help build community among students and do our part in supporting the campus initiative of improving the intellectual climate on campus. Selected from books suggested by faculty and staff in Musselman Library’s annual summer reading guide, You’ve Gotta Read This!, the discussions are a fun, easy way to take a break from class reading and enjoy a new book with others. 

Past selections in this program are: 

Spring 2019

• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (co-facilitated by Josef Brandauer in Health Sciences and Paula Trillo in Biology)​
  • Reading & Discussion Guide

​​Spring 2018

• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
  • Reading & Discussion Guide

Fall 2017

• ​The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen (co-facilitated by Kim Davidson from the Center for Public Service) 
  • Reading & Discussion Guide

Spring 2017

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (co-facilitated by Tiffany Lane from the Office of LGBTQA Advocacy & Education)​
  • Reading & Discussion Guide

Fall 2016

• ​Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (co-facilitated by Prof. Julie Hendon in Anthropology)
  • Reading & Discussion Guide

Spring 2016

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (co-facilitated by Divonna Stebick in Education).​
  • Reading & Discussion Guide

Fall 2015

• ​Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (co-facilitated by Prof. Jill Ogline Titus from the CWI) 
  • Reading & Discussion Guide

Spring 2015

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (co-facilitated by Amy Dailey in Health Sciences)​
  • Reading & Discussion Guide

Fall 2014

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak​

​Spring 2014

• ​Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (co-facilitated by Kathy Cain in Psychology).  

Fall 2013

• ​The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie (co-facilitated by Sarah Principato in Environmental Studies)
• Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer (co-facilitated by Ryan Kerney in Biology)