July 10, 2024
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The following is being sent on behalf of Alex Regan, Events & Exhibitions Program Manager, UCSB Library
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Dear Faculty,
The UCSB Library is pleased to announce its shortlist of five titles under consideration for UCSB Reads 2025, and we invite you to provide feedback to the advisory committee before August 19. Since one of the goals of UCSB Reads is curricular engagement, we are especially interested to know whether you would teach one or more of these titles during either Winter or Spring Quarter 2025. Please send me your feedback to aregan@ucsb.edu or fill out a short form at https://www.library.ucsb.edu/ucsbreadsvote.
The Library will provide free copies of the book to instructors that assign all or part of the selected book in courses and to all students enrolled in the courses.
The shortlist selections are (in alphabetical order):
- The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (2021) by John Green
- The Book of Delights: Essays (2019) by Ross Gay
- The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (2023) by Ned Blackhawk
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (2022) by Gabrielle Zevin
- Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality (2024) by Venki Ramakrishnan
UCSB Reads is an award-winning campus-wide and community-wide “one book” program led by UCSB Library. An advisory committee composed of UCSB faculty, staff, students, and community partners help the Library select an intellectually stimulating, interdisciplinary book by a living author that appeals to a wide range of readers and can be incorporated into the UCSB curriculum. The final pick will be announced in the fall.
Going into its 19th year, the UCSB Reads program will kick off at the beginning of Winter 2025 with a book giveaway for students and culminate in a public lecture with the author in Spring 2025. A variety of free events will be held along the way.