Overview UB Reads
UB Reads was designed to give the UB community - faculty, staff and students - a chance to explore and discuss topics of global impact through a shared reading experience. Each year, a new book is chosen by the UB community that reflects topics and issues of global importance.
The objectives of the program are:
- To expose first-year students to themes related to the goals of a successful first year experience
- To encourage and facilitate engaging discussions among faculty, staff, students, and families around a common theme
- To promote thinking critically about a text from a variety of perspectives
- To provide theme-based programming throughout the first semester
- To promote lifelong appreciation for out-of-class reading
The program has works with UB's Distinguished Speaker Series, bringing many authors to campus to discuss their work with students and the community.
Here are previous UB Reads books:
- 2008: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Trade)
- 2007: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah* (Sarah Crichton Books)
- 2006: Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of Dalai Lama by the Dalai Lama* (Harper San Francisco)
- 2005: There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz* (Anchor Books)
- 2004: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich* (Owl Books)
- 2003: Finding Fish: A Memoir by Antwone Fisher* with Mim Eichler Rivas (Harper Torch)
- 2002: Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom* (Doubleday)
- 2001: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins (Putnam)
- 2000: John Glenn: A Memoir by John Glenn with Nick Taylor (Bantam Books)
* Authors who have visited UB
