Past Books
Previous Reading Selections
2022 "How the Word is Passed" by Clint Smith
2021 "The Story of More" by Hope Jahren
2020 "The Line Becomes a River" by Francisco Cantu
2019 "Rising Out of Hatred" by Eli Saslow
2018 "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
2017 "The Big Thirst" by Charles Fishman
2016 "True American" by Anand Giridharadas
2015 "Freedom Summer" by Bruce Watson
2014 "The Good Soldiers" by David Finkel
2013 "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel
2012 "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer
2011 "The Known World" by Edward P. Jones
2010 "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson
2009 "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
2008 "Longitude" by Dava Sobel
2007 "Jewel" by Bret Lott
2006 "Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague" by Geraldine Brooks
2005 "River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze" by Peter Hessler.
2004 "Middle Passage" by Dr. Charles Johnson
2003 "Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins" by Steve Olson
2002 "Everything You Think You Know About Politics...And Why You Are Wrong" by Kathleen Hall Jamieson