Winners were drawn recently in Belk Library’s first-year reading contest, open to all new Elon students. Held Aug. 30, the contest asked students to submit the title of a book that they thought all college students should read.
Pictured left to right in the photograph are this year’s winners, Lauren Fehnel, Sarah Maloney and Katie Coale.
Fehnel won a $30 campus shop gift card; her submission was “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding. Maloney, winner of a $20 gift card, submitted “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou. Coale won a $10 card for “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker.
A total of 113 valid entries were received for the contest. The books named most often by first-year students included:
- “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown (6 entries)
- “Angels and Demons” by Dan Brown, and “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger (4 entries each)
- “Tuesdays With Morrie” by Mitch Albom, The Bible, and “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (3 entries each).