As 2024 came to a close, IU School of Medicine students from across the state participated in a month-long reading challenge during December. Students from all classes and campuses joined the friendly, intercampus competition to bring home the title of “Most Well-Read Campus."
Congratulations to this year’s title winner: the EVANSVILLE campus!
Evansville read an average of 2,174 minutes—congratulations to Emily Ryan, Sydney Young, Jenna Zirkelbach, Savannah Cook, Evalyn Sherer, Kolbe Roscoe, Tori Whichard, and Adalyn De Witt. Enjoy your pizza party, courtesy of the Wellness Coalition!
In addition to the excellence displayed by the Evansville campus, there was one reader who went above and beyond the other 84 participants and earned the title of “Top Reader” at IU School of Medicine for the second year in a row: Semanti Naiken, an MS2 in Indianapolis. Some facts courtesy of Naiken:
- Read 16,129 minutes (over 11 full days)!
- Number of books: 22
- Favorite book this month: "The Will of the Many" by James Islington
- Favorite book of all time: "All of Us Villains" by Amanda Foody and C.L. Herman
- Best part of the Read-A-Thon: Seeing what my classmates were reading on Goodreads!
Now that we have entered 2025, our students compiled what they read during last year’s Read-a-thon. Try out one of these books as you continue reading in the new year:
- "The Will of the Many" by James Islington*
- "Any Man" by Amber Tamblyn
- "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown
- "The Berry Pickers" by Amanda Peters
- "Beautiful World, Where Are You" by Sally Rooney
- "Carrie Soto is Back" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- "The Three-Body Problem" series by Cixin Liu
- "The Seven Realms" series by Cinda Williams Chima
- "The Shattered Realms" series by Cinda Williams Chima
- "A Court of Thorns and Roses" series by Sarah J. Maas
- "Funny Story" by Emily Henry
- "Dune" by Frank Herbert
- "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros
- "Throne of Glass" series by Sarah J. Maas*
- "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver
- "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
- "The Third Gilmore Girl" by Kelly Bishop
- "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi
- "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
- "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain
- "Minor Detail" by Adania Shibli
- "This is Going to Hurt" by Adam Kay
- "Pieces of Her" by Karin Slaughter
- "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- "The Grace Year" by Kim Liggett
- "Bride" by Ali Hazelwood
- "Before I Let Go" by Kennedy Ryan
*Read by more than one student.
Stay well IU!
