Common Reading

Since 2000, the first-year class has participated in the Common Reading as part of the orientation program for new students. Previous Common Readings have included Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains (2006), Ruth L. Ozeki's My Year of Meats (2005), and Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2004). This fall, as in other years, the book will be the subject of student and faculty discussions.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman

Common Read 2009