Past Reads

2023
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid

2022
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner

2021
All American Boys
Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

2020
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Jose Antonio Vargas

2019
Reading With Patrick
Michelle Kuo

2018
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi

2017
$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
 Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer

2016
The Book of Unknown Americans
Cristina Henríquez

2015
A Tale For the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki

2014
Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys

2013
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander

2012
Born On A Blue Day: Inside The Extraordinary Mind Of An Autistic Savant
Daniel Tammet

2011
Life Is So Good
George Dawson and Richard Glaubman

2010
The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
Jerry Dennis

2009
Seeing In The Dark: How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering The Wonders Of The Universe
Timothy Ferris

2008
The Eighth Promise : An American Son's Tribute to his Toisanese Mother
William Poy Lee

2007
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Tracy Kidder

2006
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Jonathan Weiner

2005
Leo Africanus
Amin Maalouf; translated by Peter Slugett

2004
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race
Beverly Daniel Tatum

2003
Abraham Lincoln’s DNA, and Other Adventures in Genetics
Philip R. Reilly