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Common Read 2022-2023
Through research, interviews, and stories of lived experience, returns us to our inherent connectedness where we find strength, safety, and support in vulnerability and generosity, in asking for help, and in being accountable. Showing up—literally and figuratively—points us toward the promise of our collective vitality and leads us to the liberated wellbeing we all want. |
Past Common Read Titles
Year | Title | Author |
2020-22 | postponed due to the shut down of campus operations | |
2019-20 | Callings | Dave Isay |
2018-19 | A Selfish Plan to Change the World | Justin Dillon |
2017-18 | In the Country We Love | Diane Guerrero |
2016-17 | Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant | José Ángel Navejas |
2015-16 | On the Run | Alice Goffman |
2014-15 | She's Not There | Jennifer Finley Boylan |
2013-14 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot |
2012-13 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot |
2011-12 | Live from Fresno y Los | Stephen D. Gutierrez |
2009-10 | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance | Barack Obama |
2008-09 | Paper Daughter | M. Elaine Mar |
2007-08 | Not a Genuine Black Man | Brian Copeland |
2006-07 | Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
2005-06 | A Lesson Before Dying | Earnest J. Gaines |
2004-05 | Hunger of Memory | Richard Rodriguez |