I often read what the college is reading that year – usually very interesting books. Bonnie
| 2018 -“Book of Unknown Americans” by Cristina Henriquez |
| 2017 – “Citizen: An American Lyric” by Claudia Rankine |
| 2016 – “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| 2015 – “Americanah” by Chimanda Ngozi Adichie |
| 2014 – “Orange is the New Black” by Piper Kerman |
| 2013 – “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Díaz |
| 2012 – “The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri |
| 2011 – “Half the Sky” by Nicolas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn |
| 2010 – no book chosen; articles and essays related to food: |
| 2009 – “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman |
| 2008 – “Caucasia” by Danzy Senna |
| 2007 – “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change” by Elizabeth Kolbert |
| 2006 – “Mountains Beyond Mountains” by Tracy Kidder |
| 2005 – “My Year of Meats” by Ruth Ozeki |
| 2004 – “Reading Lolita in Tehran” by Azar Nafisi |
| 2003 – “The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver |
| 2002 – “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” by Barbara Ehrenreich |
| 2001 – “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents” by Julia Alvarez |
| 2000 – “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place” by Terry Tempest Williams |