2022 Book Selection Process Notes
The College Reads! committee reviewed books for 2022 The College Reads! program in the fall of 2021. The committee selected How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith (2021).
2022 The College Reads! Book Nomination List
| Title | Authors(s) |
| A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas | Warren Berger |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
| Basic Economics | Thomas Sowell |
| Being Heumann: An unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activits | Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World | Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West |
| Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson |
| Charleston Syllabus | Chad Williams (Editor), Kidada E. Williams (Editor), Keisha N. Blain (Editor) |
| Crying in H Mart | Michelle Zauner |
| Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance | Edgar Villanueva |
| Economic Facts and Fallacies | Thomas Sowell |
| End the Fed | Ron Paul |
| Extreme Ownership: How US Navy SEALs Lead and Win | Jocko Willink, Leif Babin |
| Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America | Charles Murray |
| Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital | Sheri Fink |
| Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One–Click America | Alec MacGillis |
| God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning (hardcover only) | Meghan O’Gieblyn |
| Gold from the Well | Julie Daugherty & Jocelyn "Josh" Apo |
| Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law | Haben Girma |
| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
| How the Word is Passed | Clint Smith |
| How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy | Jenny Odell |
| Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men | Caroline Perez |
| Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson |
| Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson |
| Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller | Chanel Miller |
| Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance | Hanif Abdurraqib |
| Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth about Extreme Misogyny and how it Affects Us All | Laura Bates |
| Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning | Cathy Park Hong |
| MOVING UP WITHOUT LOSING YOUR WAY: THE ETHICAL COSTS OF UPWARD MOBILITY | Jennifer M. Morton |
| Outliers: The Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell |
| Plastic Free. How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too | Beth Terry |
| Red Blood, Yellow Skin, A Young Girl's Survival in War-Torn Vietnam | Linda L.T. Baer, formerly Nguyen Thi Loan |
| Remarkables | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation | Roosevelt Montas |
| Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools | Jonathan Kozol |
| Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen | Arin Andrews |
| Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel |
| Stranger than Fanfiction | Chris Colfer |
| Such a Fun Age | Kiley Reid |
| Talking to strangers | Malcom Gladwell |
| The Aalchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir | Justus Rosenberg |
| The Birth of All Things | Marcus Amaker |
| The Body Keeps the Score | Bessel van der Kolk |
| The Book of Eels | Patrik Svensson |
| The Central Park Five | Sarah Burnes |
| The Death of Expertise | Tom Nichols |
| The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity | Nadine Burke Harris M.D. |
| The Intuitionist | Colson Whitehead |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| The Life Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit | John V. Petrocelli |
| The Quiet Zone | Stephen Kurczy |
| The Red Tent | Anita Diamamt |
| The Talent Code | Daniel Coyle |
| The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good f=For You and How to Get Good At It | Kelly McGonigal |
| The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett |
| The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution | Linda R. Monk |
| The World Without Us | Alan Weisman |
| The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store | Cait Flanders |
| There, There | Tommy Orange |
| This Book Will Make You Kinder (book with illustrations) | Henry James Garrett |
| Transcendent Kingdom: A novel | Yaa Gyasi |
| Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts | Rebecca Hall |
| Washington Black | Esi Edugyan |
| Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy | Cathy O'Neil |
| What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism | Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner |
| When Breathe Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi |
| Why We Sleep | Matthew walker |
| World of Wonders | Aimee Nezhukumatahil |