Past Common Texts
Past Common Text Selections:
2023: What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha
2022: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
2021: The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose by Chris Wilson
2020: Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
2019: Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
2018: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
2017: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
2016: How To Win an Election by Quintus Tullius Cicero (translated by Philip Freeman)
2015: Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris
2014: The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
2013: the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, by Mark Haddon
2012: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
2011: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
2010: The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
2009: Acts of Faith, by Eboo Patel
2008: Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder
2007: When the Emperor Was Divine, by Julie Otsuka
2006: Travels of a T-Shirt in a Global Economy by Pietra Rivoli