What books have been used for first-year Common Read discussions?
Answer
Past common reading selections include the following:
- 2019: My Brother Moochie Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South
- 2018: Color and Character
- 2017: Good Kings Bad Kings
- 2016: Between The World and Me
- 2015: Americanah
- 2014: The Other Wes Moore
- 2013: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- 2012: Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey
- 2011: In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
- 2010: Here, Bullet
- 2009: Old School
- 2008: Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
- 2007: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- 2006: The Dignity of Difference
- 2005: The Kite Runner
- 2004: Two Souls Indivisible
- 2003: A Hope in the Unseen
- 2002: Nickel and Dimed
- 2001: On the Uses of a Liberal Education (essay)
- 2000: All Over but the Shoutin'
- 1999: A Gracious Plenty
- 1998: Snow Falling on Cedars
- 1997: My Own Country
- 1996: Life on the Color Line
- 1995: Kindred
- 1994: Fiela's Child
- 1993: Waiting for the Barbarians