Book Selection Guidance

Dive into Reading: Exploring the Human Experience

Students, choose a book you'll enjoy! Self-directed readers enjoy the freedom to immerse themselves in subjects, genres, and authors that resonate with them, transforming reading into a deeply personal and enriching experience. This approach fosters intellectual curiosity, a sense of ownership over one’s learning, and a meaningful connection with the text. Unlike the fragmented content of social media, books provide a structured, immersive space to explore the complexities of the human condition, fostering empathy and critical thinking within a broader and more nuanced context.

Readers can choose from a wide range of genres, including but not limited to fiction, nonfiction, mystery, romance, speculative fiction, historical fiction, sports psychology, auto/biographies, self-help, and young adult literature.

Every student will choose a book, or more, to read for pleasure this summer.

The only requirements are that the book be . . .

on or above your reading comprehension level.
appropriate for you.
one you haven't read.
in addition to any assignment or books required for the summer.
NOT a movie you watched and claim is a book written by the main actor!

You may read your book . . .

on your own.
with a Marist faculty and/or staff member, team, club, your family or with a group of friends.

You may . . .

borrow up to 10 books from the Marist Library by May 22 to keep over the summer.
borrow a book from Sora using your @marist.com credentials.
borrow a book from your neighborhood public library or Libby App.
find eBooks and more here.
purchase a copy of the book.

Your book may be read in the following formats:

print
audio
eReader

Book Selection Guidance

Dive into Reading: Exploring the Human Experience

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