Program Description

Each year, our SAS Honors Program faculty, staff, and students work together to choose a book for new SASHP students to read over the summer. A good deal of thought and discussion goes into this decision, as we are looking for a book that is compelling, that can appeal to a wide audience, and that can provide ample topics for discussion through the summer and beyond.

At the start of the semester, the Honors Program sponsors a welcome event featuring a lecture with the author of the book for all new Honors Program students. The Summer Reading Book is also frequently the primary text for the fall SAS Honors Colloquium course.

Summer Reading Committee

If you would like to be a part of the committee that chooses our book for 2024, please contact Dean Kathy Sadowsky. Book suggestions are welcome!

The 2023 Book

american feverWe are pleased to announce that our 2023 Summer Reading book is American Fever by Dur e Aziz Amna

All new SAS Honors Program students are required to read American Fever and participate in our online book discussion.

Previous Summer Reading Books

A picture of the book Sourdough your house will pay tell me who you are the leavers the best we could do book cover Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler2013SpeedofDarkThe Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksThe Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin The Six Questions of Socrates by Christopher Phillips

Summer 2022: Sourdough by Robin Sloan

Summer 2021: Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

Summer 2020: Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi

Summer 2019: The Leavers by Lisa Ko

Summer 2018: The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

Summer 2017: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Summer 2016: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Summer 2015: Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

Summer 2014: World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler

Summer 2013: The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

Summer 2012: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Summer 2011: The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff

Summer 2010: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Summer 2009: The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen

Summer 2008: Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One
School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Summer 2007: The Six Questions of Socrates by Christopher Phillips

 

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