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Includes a broad selection of fiction and non-fiction books of interest to first-year programs.

Freshman Year Reading 2010 (Knopf Doubleday Group only)

Random House, Inc. Freshman Year Reading 2009



FYE Adoptions
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Seattle University has selected The Open Road as its common reading book.
book cover The University of Alabama at Birmingham has chosen Mountains Beyond Mountains for its Freshman Year Experience program.
book cover Stanford University incoming Freshman will read My Own Country this fall.



San Jose State has chosen Color of the Sea for their 2009 Campus Reading Program this fall.
Virginia Tech has selected Ecological Intelligence for the 2009-2010 Common Book Project.


Featured Author

Funny in Farsi offers readers an intimate look at the immigrant experience through the lens of an exceptional—and exceptionally funny—Iranian family. Author Firoozeh Dumas’s poignant descriptions of what it feels like to be a stranger in a strange land will resonate with anyone who has ever experienced social alienation at any stage of life.

Listen to Firoozeh Dumas discuss her work below and student reactions and discussions:
Random House Speakers Bureau
Freshman Year Reading

Random House, Inc. publishes a broad selection of fiction and non-fiction books appropriate for first-year and Freshman Reading programs. The books suggested here should help initiate reflection and discussion among your incoming first-year students, who will begin their academic lives with a shared experience. They'll be prepared to discuss the stories of others and, thus, ready to share their own.

Many authors featured below are available to visit college campuses as part of a first-year program. Please email us for further information.

To order examination copies of any of these titles, please follow the instructions on our Examination Copy page.

Conference Update

Join Us at the Sixth Annual Random House FYE Luncheon

Random House cordially invites you to its Sixth Annual FYE Luncheon at the First Year Experience conference in Denver, Colorado.

Click here to access the invitation.

RSVP soon as space is limited (see invitation for directions). Attendence is first come, first served.



Author Luncheon, co-sponsored by Knopf Doubleday, Harper Collins, Macmillan and Penguin

Monday, February 15, 11:45-1:15, Plaza Ballroom Salons D&E

Speakers include:

Thomas Cahill, author of A Saint on Death Row
Kevin Michael Connolly, author of Doubletake
Colin Beavan, author of No Impact Man
Mahbod Seraji, author of Rooftops of Tehran

Please email acmart@randomhouse.com or stop by our booth (214,216) with questions or to request tickets.

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