The process to select a First Year Common Reading begins with a call to nominate texts. A volunteer Task Force with students, faculty, and staff narrows down nominees to a group of semi-finalists. Next, a campus-wide vote identifies 2-3 finalists. Finally, First Year Program instructors decide to use one or more of these texts with the next class of first-year students.
Information about previous First Year Common Readings follows below.
The Manhattanville Common Reading for 2017-18 wasThe Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore.
Information about the book is available at the publisher's web site here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/116877/the-other-wes-moore-by-wes-moore/9780385528207/
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was the campus common reading for 2016-17.
The version assigned in courses was the Second Norton Critical Edition.
Below is a BBC video about the book from the Films on Demand library database.
Follow this link for more information on A Cup of Water Under My Bed as a first-year common reading.
Follow this link for more information on The Hate U Give as a First Year Common Reading.
The common reading for 2018-19 was Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.
Here is the official web site: http://designingyour.life/