The Northern Kentucky University Book Connection Program seeks to build a sense of community among first-year students and to welcome them to the academic life of the university by engaging them in a campus-wide discussion of a book of current interest chosen by a committee of faculty and staff. All incoming first-year studentsare provided with a free copy of this book to read the book over the summer. First-year faculty are encouraged to feature the book in their courses. The capstone event of each year's Book Connection Program is an appearance by the author of the book soon after the beginning of school.

Book Connection Selections

2000 The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

2001 Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

2002 Honky by Dalton Conley

2003 Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

2004 Kindred by Octavia Butler

2005 All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein

2006 Restavec by Jean-Robert Cadet

2007 Lost Mountain by Erik Reece

2008 Love My Rifle More Than You by Kayla Williams

The NKU Book Connection Program is sponsored by:

The Office of First-Year Programs
The NKU Presidential Ambassadors
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Informatics
The Friends of the Steely Library
W. Frank Steely Library


For more information, contact John Alberti, Peg Adams, Jennie LaMothe, or the NKU Office of First Year Programs (859.572.5913).
Last updated: April 10, 2008.