Previous Books

Past College Books

Academic Year Title Author

2022-2023

The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead

2021-2022

Come On In: 15 Stories About Immigration and Finding Home Ed. Adi Alsaid

2020-2021

Symptoms of Being Human Jeff Garvin

2019-20

The Best We Could Do Thi Bui

2018-19

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

2017-18

The Book of Unknown Americans

Christina Henríquez

2016-17

Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell

2015-16

Twilight: Los Angeles: 1992

Anna Deveare Smith

2014-15

Daytripper

Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon

2013-14

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

2012-13

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

2011-12

The Botany of Desire

Michael Pollan

2010-11

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

2009-10

Three Cups of Tea

Greg Mortenson

2008-09

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

2007-08

Inlandia

Gale Wattawa (ed.)

2006-07

The Kite Runner

Khaleed Hosseini

2005-06

Lives on the Boundary

Mike Rose

2004-05

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

2003-04

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Eric Schlosser

2002-03

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

2001-02

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

2000-01

Slaughterhouse Five

Kurt Vonnegut

1999-2000

The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver

1998-99

A Lesson Before Dying

Ernest J. Gaines

1997-98

The Tortilla Curtain

T.C. Boyle

1996-97

The Beak of the Finch

Jonathan Weiner

1996-97

The French Lieutenant's Woman

John Fowles

1995-96

The House of Spirits

Isabel Allende

1994-95

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

1994-95

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

1993-94

A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley