This fall, the Hatfield Library offered our first-year and transfer students free ghost mugs stuffed with candy and other items such as pens and stickers. We also conducted a voluntary, informal survey– included in each mug was a slip of paper with a QR code to a survey question: “Which two books have influenced your life the most?”
A special thank you to all those who participated in this survey! Here are the results:
- Witches by Roald Dahl; Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
- Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien; The Shining by Stephen King
- All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven; and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins!
- Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell; and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Stranger by Albert Camus; Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- Warrior Cats by Erin Hunter; Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
- Demian by Herman Hesse; 1984 by George Orwell
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls; The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver; A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
