Past Common Reading Books

The 2020 Common Reading Experience selection is The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui.

Past common readings include:

• 2019 - The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
• 2018 - Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo`Crucet
• 2017 - Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo`Crucet
• 2016 - High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Dr. Carl Hart
• 2015 - How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
• 2014 - Here, Bullet by Brian Turner
• 2013 - The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen
• 2012 - A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
• 2011 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• 2010 - The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• 2009 - Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
• 2008 - Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
• 2007 - Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival by Jen Marlowe, Aisha Bain, and Adam Shapiro
• 2006 - Confluence: A River, The Environment, Politics & The Fate of All Humanity by Nathaniel Tripp
• 2005 - West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary
• 2004 - Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James Houston
• 2003 - The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
• 2002 - Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
• 2001 - An American Story by Debra Dickerson
• 2000 - A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
• 1999 - A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
• 1998 - The Other Side of the River by Alex Kotlowitz
• 1997 - Life on the Color Line by Gregory Williams
• 1996 - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• 1995 - Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
• 1994 - Black Ice by Lorene Cary
• 1993 - A Typical American by Gish Jen
• 1992 - Linden Hills by Gloria R. Naylor
• 1991 - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston