First-Year Reading Experience
Past Books
Past First-Year Reading Experience books include:
- 2012 Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
- 2011 No Impact Man by Colin Beavanr
- 2010 Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- 2009 The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- 2008 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 2007 When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
- 2006 Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- 2005 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- 2004 Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital
- 2003 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- 2002 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- 2001 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- 2000 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- 1999 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- 1998 Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
- 1997 The Bear by William Faulkner
- 1996 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1995 Rich in Love by Josephine Humphreys
- 1994 The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy
Questions or Comments?
To recommend a book for next year, click here.
With additional questions or comments, please contact:
Mary Elizabeth Sewell
Associate Director, University 101
1728 College Street
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: 803-777-8869
Email: FYRE@mailbox.sc.edu