The Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition encourages students at Washington University to read for enjoyment and to develop personal libraries throughout their lives.

The competition started in 1988 and the collection contains the award-winning essays of both undergraduate and graduate students from 2003 to present. Details about the Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition are announced through the University Libraries.

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Essays from 2006

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The Kindred Spirits of my Dusty Upper Shelf , Wendy Xin

Undergraduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2006. 19th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.

Essays from 2005

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On My Friends , Temu Brown

Undergraduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2005. 18th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.

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Japan, The Ambiguous, and My Shelf , James W. Hofman II

Graduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2005. 18th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.

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From Salonika to America and Back , Devin Naar

Undergraduate Winner: 1st Place, 2005. 18th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.

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Well-Tempered Elegance: A Collection Of 1950s Literary Criticism , Rachel Slaughter

Graduate Winner: 1st Place, 2005. 18th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.

Essays from 2004

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Dissecting Meaning from the Parts: the Anatomy of a Personal Collection , Aimée Dowl

Graduate Winner: 1st Place, 2004. 17th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.

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Forbidden Passion into Personal Collection , Heide Spear

Graduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2004. 17th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.

Essays from 2003

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Constructing Meaning from the World: A Fusion of International Fiction, Poetry and Essays , Stephanie Hanson

Undergraduate Winner: 1st Place, 2003. 16th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.

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Zap! Pow! Out!: Twentieth Century Queer Comics , Michael Murphy

Graduate Winner: 1st Place, 2003. 16th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.

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Marginally Speaking: A Collection of Modernist and Post-Modernist Texts , Steven A. Pijut

Graduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2003. 16th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.

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Jesus, Muhammad and the Relentless War for Peace , Steve Scharre

Undergraduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2003. 16th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.