3 Books

To begin the freshman experience, Stanford's "Three Books" program brings authors to campus to discuss their works with an audience of new students. This year's program centered around ethics of war. (September 25, 2011)

A conversation with Lan Samantha Chang (Hunger), Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers: The Story of Success), and Abraham Verghese (My Own Country: A Doctor's Story). (September 16, 2009)

A conversation with the authors of the 2008 Three Books program. The three books: One! Hundred! Demons! by Lynda Barry, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, and ZZ Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere are discussed. (September 17, 2008)

A roundtable discussion featuring the authors of your summer reading, Lucille Clifton (Good Woman), N. Scott Momaday (The Way to Rainy Mountain), and Nancy Huddleston Packer (Jealous-Hearted Me). (September 19, 2007)

Authors David Henry Hwang, '79, M Butterfly, Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John, and Tobias Wolff, MA '78, Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of English, Old School discuss their works, their writing and themselves. Moderated by Professor Hazel Markus.

A roundtable discussion featuring the three authors of this year's required summer reading for freshmen and transfer students: Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner; Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains; and Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater.