Past Honors Book Labs
| Book Title | Author | Term | Lab Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | George Orwell | 2025 Fall | Dr. Colin Flint |
| Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home | Nora Krug | 2025 Fall | Prof. Doris McGonagill |
| Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe | Ian Stewart | 2025 Fall | Prof. James Pitts |
| Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally | Emily Ladau | 2025 Fall | Dr. Naima Bhana Lopez |
| Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future | Jason Stanley | 2025 Fall | Dr. Trav Franks |
| Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | 2025 Fall | Prof. Rosa Thornley |
| I Sat Alone by the Gate | Mary Effendi | 2025 Fall | Prof. Jeiran Hasan |
| Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor | Yossi Klein Halevi | 2025 Fall | Prof. Deb Monson |
| Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation | Jack Reid | 2025 Fall | Dr. Amanda Katz |
| Tender Is the Flesh (Cadaver Exquisito) | Agustina Bazterrica | 2025 Fall | Prof. Lucia Sanchez-Gilbert |
| The Complete Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi | 2025 Fall | Dr. Taylor Rose-Dougherty & Dr. Marta Halaczkiewicz |
| The Creation of Patriarchy | Gerda Lerner | 2025 Fall | Dr. Danielle Stewart |
| The Undocumented Americans | Karla Cornejo Villavicencio | 2025 Fall | Prof. Marcia Leroux and Sophia Martinez Abudu |
| An Edible History of Humanity | Tom Standage | 2025 Summer | Sarah Berry |
| Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future | Patty Krawec | 2025 Summer | Melissa Tehee |
| Chaos: Making a New Science | James Gleick | 2025 Summer | James Pitts |
| Floating Coast | Bathsheba Demuth | 2025 Summer | Stefani Crabtree |
| Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections | Alex Guerrero | 2025 Summer | Mike Ashfield |
| Solito: A Memoir | Javier Zamora | 2025 Summer | Nelda Ault-Dyslin |
| The Alignment Problem | Brian Christian | 2025 Summer | Matt Young |
| Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries | Rick Emerson | 2025 Summer | Katie Luder |
| Wanderlust: A History of Walking | Rebecca Solnit | 2025 Spring | Amanda Katz |
| The Ecology of Commerce | Paul Hawken | 2025 Spring | Chase Anderson |
| Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age | Cory Doctorow | 2025 Spring | Yassin Nacer & Shawn Hall |
| Timefullness | Marcia Bjornerud | 2025 Spring | James Pitts & Carol Dehler |
| Humility is the New Smart | Edward D. Hess and Katherine Ludwig | 2025 Spring | Maria Givler |
| The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale | Art Spiegelman | 2025 Spring | Marta Halaczkiewicz |
| Christmas in Montpelier | Ross Peterson | 2025 Spring | Mary Heers |
| The Pain Chronicles | Melanie Thompson | 2025 Spring | Mary Ellen Greenwood |
| More than a Body | Lexie Kite, Lindsay Kite | 2025 Spring | Maryann Schneider |
| I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World | Martin Luther King Jr. | 2025 Spring | Patrick Mason |
| Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines | Joy Buolamwini | 2025 Spring | Rebecca Y. Bayeck |
| Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most | Cassie Holmes | 2025 Spring | Sarah Tulane |
| Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland | Jonathan M. Metzi | 2025 Spring | Stephen Van Geem |
| Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance | Jessamyn Stanley | 2025 Spring | Taylor Rose-Dougherty & CR Grimmer |
| The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI | Ray Kurzwell | 2025 Spring | Zach Gompert |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | 2025 Spring | Jose Brandao |
| Atlas of the Heart |
Brené Brown | 2024 Fall | Rosa Thornley |
| Connections are Everything: A college Student's Guide to Relationship-Rich Education |
Peter Felton, Leo M Lambert, Isis Artze-Vega, and Oscar R. Miranda Tapia | 2024 Fall | Chase Anderson |
| Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of our Planet |
Ben Goldfarb | 2024 Fall | Dr. Laura Gelfand |
| Darwin's First Theory |
Rob Wesson | 2024 Fall | Dr. James Pitts |
| Femina: A new History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It |
Janina Ramirez | 2024 Fall | Dr. Alexa Sand |
| Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language |
Keith Allan and Kate Burridge | 2024 Fall | Dr. Sofia Monzon |
| Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will |
Kevin J. Mitchell | 2024 Fall | Dr. Zachariah Gompert |
| Free Speech on Campus |
Eriwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman | 2024 Fall | Dr. Chris Babits |
| Homosexuality and Civilization |
Louis Crompton | 2024 Fall | Professor Raymond Veon |
| Kindred |
Octavia E. Butler | 2024 Fall | Cree Taylor |
| The Methuselah Effect |
Patrick Cox | 2024 Fall | Dr. Rebecca Bayeck |
| The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for You, and How to Get Good At It |
Kelly Mcgonigal | 2024 Fall | Dr. Sarah Tulane |
| In the Beginning, The Sun: The Dakota Creation Story |
Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) | 2024 Fall (Blanding) |
Dr. Danielle Ross |
| Pioneering The Vote: The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and The West |
Neylan McBaine | 2024 Fall (Price/Zoom) |
Dr. Sunshine Brosi |
| Think Again |
Adam Grant | 2024 Fall (Zoom) |
Dr. Amanda Deliman |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 2024 Summer | Dr. Wayne Hatch |
| Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know | Nadine Strossen | 2024 Summer | Dr. Chris Babits |
| Sapphistries: A global History of Love between Women | Leila J. Rupp | 2024 Summer | Professor Raymond Veon |
| The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World | Catherine Nixey | 2024 Summer | Professor Raymond Veon |
| The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition | Don Norman | 2024 Summer | Dr. Mario Harper |
| The Evolution of Charles Darwin | Diane Preston | 2024 Summer | Dr. James Pitts |
| 1984 | George Orwell | 2024 Spring | Professor Colin Flint |
| Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution | R.F. Kuang | 2024 Spring | Katie Luder and Rachel Lawyer |
| Darwin's Backyard | James Costa | 2024 Spring | Dr. James Pitts |
| Don't Mean Nothing | Susan O'Neill | 2024 Spring | Professor Molly Cannon and Dr. Susan Grayzel |
| Heart Berries: A Memoir | Terese Marie Mailhot | 2024 Spring | Dr. Amanda Katz |
| Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need | Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman | 2024 Spring | Dr. Michelle Burrows |
| The Creative Act: A Way of Being | Rick Rubin | 2024 Spring | Dr. Michael Dixon |
| The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories | Stacie Shannon Denetsosie | 2024 Spring | Dr. Danielle Ross |
| The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers Kindle Edition | Mark Gevisser | 2024 Spring | Professor Raymond Veon |
| The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks | Jeanne Theoharis | 2024 Spring | Professor Victoria Grieve |
| The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative |
Thomas King | 2024 Spring | Professor Travis Franks |
| The Unquiet Country | Patrick Milian | 2024 Spring | Dr. CR Grimmer |
| Trapped, The Story of Floyd Collins | Robert Murray and Roger Brucker | 2024 Spring | Mary Heers |
| Won't Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System | Andrew Gumbel | 2024 Spring | Dr. Katie Kraus |
| The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories | Stacie Shannon Denetsosie | 2024 Spring (Blanding) | Dr. Danielle Ross |
| Heart Berries: A Memoir | Terese Marie Mailhot | 2024 Spring (Uintah Basin) | Dr. Amanda Katz |
| A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldan | Samanth Suramanian | 2023 Fall | Dr. Zach Gompert |
| An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | Ed Yong | 2023 Fall | Dr. Sara Freeman |
| Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World | Meredith Broussard | 2023 Fall | Dr. LuEttaMae Lawrence |
| Homosexuality and Civilization | Louis Crompton | 2023 Fall | Professor Raymond Veon |
| Lessons of the Lost | Scott Hammond | 2023 Fall | Dr. Scot Allgood |
| Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life | Katherine E. Standefer | 2023 Fall | Dr. Katie Potter |
| Real Artists Don’t Starve | Jeff Goins | 2023 Fall | Dr. Jeiran Hasan |
| The Homeboy Way | Thomas Vozzo | 2023 Fall | Dr. Ryan Seedall |
| The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World | Andrea Wulf | 2023 Fall | Dr. James Pitts |
| The Responsible Company | Yvon Chouinard & Vincent Stanley | 2023 Fall | Chase Anderson |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas Kuhn | 2023 Fall | John Redfield |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | 2023 Fall | Dr. Joseph Tainter |
| Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau | Craig Childs | 2023 Fall | Dr. Alexa Sand |
| Underland: A Deep Time Journey | Robert Macfarlane | 2023 Fall | Dr. Doris McGonagill |
| Becoming a Data Head: How to Think, Speak, and Understand Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning | Alex J. Gutman & Jordan Goldmeier | 2023 Summer | Dr. Jia Zhao |
| Engage in Public Scholarship: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication | Alex D. Ketchum | 2023 Summer | Erica Finch |
| How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking | Jordan Ellenberg | 2023 Summer | Dr. Mario Harper |
| Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women | Leila Rupp | 2023 Summer | Professor Raymond Veon |
| The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness | Robert Waldinger, MD & Marc Schulz, Ph.D. | 2023 Summer | Dr. Gregory Madden |
| The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology | Tom Shippey | 2023 Summer | Professor Raymond Veon |
| They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South | Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers | 2023 Summer | Dr. Rebecca Baybeck |
| Waverly | Sir Walter Scott | 2023 Summer | Dr. James Pitts |
| Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World | Carl T. Bergstrom & Jevin D. West | 2023 Spring | Niki Fullmer and Rachel Wishkoski |
| Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality | Tomiko Brown-Nagin | 2023 Spring | Dr. Seedall |
| Gang Leader of a Day | Sudhir Venkatesh | 2023 Spring | Dr. Stephen Van Geem |
| Klara and the Sun | Kazou Ishiguro | 2023 Spring | Dr. Deanna Allred |
| Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space | Matthew Gandy | 2023 Spring | Dr. Brunson |
| The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek | Kim Michele Richardson | 2023 Spring | Rosa Thornley |
| The Book on Ending Homelessness | Iain De Jongz | 2023 Spring | Dr. Cann |
| The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe | Matthew Gabrielle & David Perry | 2023 Spring | Dr. Alexa Sand |
| The Challenger Launch Decision | Dr. Diane Vaughn | 2023 Spring | Dr. Scheaffer |
| The Dawn of Everything. A New History of Humanity | David Graeber and David Wengrow | 2023 Spring | Dr. Anna Cohen |
| The Last Cuentista (The Last Storyteller) | Donna Barba Higuera | 2023 Spring | Dr. Piotrowski |
| The Pink Line | Mark Gevisser | 2023 Spring | Professor Raymond Veon |
| The Quiet American | Graham Greene | 2023 Spring | Dr. Flint |
| The Things They Carried | Tim O’Brien | 2023 Spring | Drs. Cannon and Grayzel |
| World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments | Aimee Nezhukumatathil | 2023 Spring | Dr. Caron |
| Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America | Craig Childs | 2022 Fall | Dr. Lauren Hunt |
| The Best of Me | David Sedaris | 2022 Fall | Dr. Michaelann Nelson |
| The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race | Walter Isaacson | 2022 Fall | Jen Burbank |
| In the Dream House | Carmen Maria Machado | 2022 Fall | Dr. Adena Rivera-Dundas |
| How Fascism Works | Jason Stanley | 2022 Fall | Dr. Rachel Robison-Greene |
| The Good Lord Bird | James McBride | 2022 Fall | Mary Ellen Greenwood |
| Homosexuality and Civilization | Louis Crompton | 2022 Fall | Professor Raymond Veon |
| Landmarks | Robert Macfarlane | 2022 Fall | Dr. Doris McGonagill |
| The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century | Amia Srinivasan | 2022 Fall | Dr. Marissa Vigneault |
| Small Great Things | Jodi Picoult | 2022 Fall | Dr. Breanna Studenka |
| Zone One | Colson Whitehead | 2022 Fall | Dr. Jeremy Ricketts |
| Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones | James Clear | 2022 Summer | LoraLynn Allen |
| Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art | James Nestor | 2022 Summer | Dr. Nicholas Morrison |
| Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America | Rachel Hope Cleves | 2022 Summer | Dr. Chris Babits |
| Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World | Adam Grant | 2022 Summer | Dr. Travis Dorsch |
| Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women | Leila Rupp | 2022 Summer | Professor Raymond Veon |
| Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram X. Kendi | 2022 Summer | Professor Raymond Veon |
| Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising That Changed America | Martin Duberman | 2022 Summer | Dr. Debra Monson |
| Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution | Susan Stryker | 2022 Summer | Dr. Chris Babits |
| Untamed | Glennon Doyle | 2022 Summer | Dr. Sara Bakker |
| 1984 | George Orwell | 2022 Spring | Professor Colin Flint |
| Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist | Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner | 2022 Spring | Dr. Ryan Seedall |
| Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants | Robin Wall Kimmerer | 2022 Spring | Professor Rebecca Lawver |
| The Confessions of St. Augustine | St. Augustine | 2022 Spring | Dr. Richard Sherlock |
| Highway of Tears | Jessica McDiarmid | 2022 Spring | Professor Marilyn Cuch |
| How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy | Julian Baggini | 2022 Spring | Dr. Shannon Peterson |
| Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Max Tegmark | 2022 Spring | Dr. Mario Harper |
| Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle to Find Home in Rural America | Ayaz Virji with Alan Eisenstock | 2022 Spring | Dr. Rebecca Charlton |
| M Archive: After the End of the World | Alexis Pauline Gumbs | 2022 Spring | Dr. Adena Rivera-Dundas |
| The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 | David McCullough | 2022 Spring | Dr. Thomas Fronk |
| The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers | Mark Gevisser | 2022 Spring | Professor Raymond Veon |
| Scythe | Neal Shusterman | 2022 Spring | Dr. Amy Piotrowski |
| Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home | Leah Lax | 2022 Spring | Dallas Heaton |
| Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road | Matthew B Crawford | 2022 Spring | Professor Brian Champagne |
| Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights | Karen Bradshaw | 2021 Fall | Dr. Laura Gelfand |
| 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos | Jordan Peterson | 2021 Fall | Dr. Breanna Studenka |
| Animals in Translation | Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson | 2021 Fall | Dr. Mirella Meyer-Ficca |
| Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont | Robert Billott | 2021 Fall | Dr. Abby Benninghoff |
| First Nights: Five Musical Premiers | Thomas Forrest Kelly | 2021 Fall | Dr. Mitchell Colver |
| Homosexuality and Civilization | Louis Crompton | 2021 Fall | Professor Raymond Veon |
| Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI | David Grann | 2021 Fall | Marilyn Cuch |
| Consider the Lobster | David Foster Wallace | 2021 Fall | Professor John Ferguson |
| No One Eats Alone: Food as a Social Enterprise | Michael S. Carolan | 2021 Fall | Professor Denise Stewardson |
| Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) | Yuval Noah Harari | 2021 Fall | Dr. Ralph Meyer |
| Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music | Alex Ross | 2021 Fall | Dr. Alexa Sand and Dr. Christopher Scheer |
| Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheavals | Sadiya Hartman | 2021 Fall | Dr. Susan Grayzel |
| Wild Souls | Emma Marris | 2021 Fall | Dean Luecke |
| Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions | Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths | 2021 Summer | Dr. Mario Harper |
| Caste: The Origins of our Discontent | Isabel Wilkerson | 2021 Summer | Dr. Vijay Kannan |
| Finding Motherland: Essays about Family, Food, and Migration | Helen Thorpe | 2021 Summer | Professor Rebecca Charlton |
| Good Economics for Hard Times | Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo | 2021 Summer | Dr. Mario Harper |
| The Overstory: A Novel | Richard Powers | 2021 Summer | Professor Shane Graham |
| Parenting to a Degree: How Family Matters for College Women's Success | Laura T. Hamilton | 2021 Summer | Dr. Gabriele Ciciurkaite |
| Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith | Timothy Egan | 2021 Summer | Dr. Karin DeJonge-Kannan |
| The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World | Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman | 2021 Summer | Dr. Aaron Brough |
| Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World | David Epstein | 2021 Summer | Dr. Travis Dorsch |
| Reaganland: America's Right Turn, 1976-1980 | Rick Perlstein | 2021 Summer | Dr. Chris Babits |
| Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women | Leila J. Rupp | 2021 Summer | Professor Raymond Veon |
| Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram X. Kendi | 2021 Summer | Professor Raymond Veon |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | 2021 Summer | Liana Manibog |
| Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road | Matthew B Crawford | 2021 Summer | Professor Brian Champagne |
| 1984 | George Orwell | 2021 Spring | Professor Colin Flint |
| Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist | Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner | 2021 Spring | Dr. Ryan Seedall |
| Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants | Robin Wall Kimmerer | 2021 Spring | Professor Rebecca Lawver |
| The Confessions of St. Augustine | St. Augustine | 2021 Spring | Dr. Richard Sherlock |
| Highway of Tears | Jessica McDiarmid | 2021 Spring | Professor Marilyn Cuch |
| How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy | Julian Baggini | 2021 Spring | Dr. Shannon Peterson |
| Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Max Tegmark | 2021 Spring | Dr. Mario Harper |
| Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle to Find Home in Rural America | Ayaz Virji with Alan Eisenstock | 2021 Spring | Dr. Rebecca Charlton |
| M Archive: After the End of the World | Alexis Pauline Gumbs | 2021 Spring | Dr. Adena Rivera-Dundas |
| The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 | David McCullough | 2021 Spring | Dr. Thomas Fronk |
| The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers | Mark Gevisser | 2021 Spring | Professor Raymond Veon |
| Scythe | Neal Shusterman | 2021 Spring | Dr. Amy Piotrowski |
| Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi | 2021 Spring | Dr. Debra Monson |
| The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History | Darren Perry | 2021 Spring | Dr. Timothy Chenette |
| Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist | Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner | 2021 Spring | Dr. Brittan Barker |
| Educated: A Memoir | Tara Westover | 2020 Fall | Dr. Victoria Grieve |
| Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think | Hans Rosling | 2020 Fall | Dr. Breanna Studenka |
| Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game | Abby Wambach | 2020 Fall | Dr. Rose Judd-Murray |
| Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder | Craig Childs | 2020 Fall | Dr. Molly Cannon |
| Gay Life and Culture: A World History | Robert Aldrich Ed. | 2020 Fall | Professor Raymond Veon |
| The Light Between Oceans | M.L. Stedman | 2020 Fall | Professor Marlene Graf |
| Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés | Stoddard & Martin | 2020 Fall | Dr. Karin DeJonge-Kannan |
| True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News | Cindy L. Otis | 2020 Fall | Ms. Briana Bowen |
| The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming | David Wallace-Wells | 2020 Fall | Dr. Mirella Meyer-Ficca |
| Slow Looking: The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation | Shari Tishman | 2020 Fall | Dr. Donna Brown |
| Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State | Barton Gellman | 2020 August | Dr. Alexa Sand and Professor Briana Bowen |
| Denying to the Grave | Sara E. Gorman and Jack M. Gorman | 2020 August | Professor Denise Stewardson |
| Monster | Walter Dean Myers | 2020 August | Professor Rebecca Charlton |
| Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know | Malcolm Gladwell | 2020 August | Dr. Debra Monson |
| The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism | Naoki Higashida | 2020 August | Professor LoraLynn Allen |
| The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 2020 July | Dr. Mitchell Colver |
| White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism | Robin DiAngelo | 2020 July | Dr. Ryan Seedall |
| Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space | Amanda Leduc | 2020 July | Professor Raymond Veon |
| The Housekeeper and the Professor | Yoko Ogawa | 2020 July | Dr. Karin DeJonge-Kannan |
| No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis | Kathleen Bachynski | 2020 July | Dr. Chris Babits |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama | 2020 Spring | Dr. Ekaterina Arshavskaya |
| Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community | Robert Putnam | 2020 Spring | Anne Hedrich, Flora Shrode, Vicki Read |
| Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | 2020 Spring | Dr. Mehmet Soyer |
| Homosexuality & Civilization | Louis Crompton | 2020 Spring | Professor Raymond Veon |
| How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi | 2020 Spring | Dr. Andrea Hawkman |
| How We Decide | Jonah Lehrer | 2020 Spring | Dr. Lauren Hunt |
| Labyrinths | Jorge Luis Borges | 2020 Spring | Dr. Brian McCuskey |
| The Minutemen and Their World | Robert A. Gross | 2020 Spring | Dr. Julia Gossard |
| The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot | Robert McFarlane | 2020 Spring | Dr. Alexa Sand |
| One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy | Carol Anderson | 2020 Spring | Dr. Christy Glass and Dr. Marisela Martinez-Cola |
| Slow Looking: The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation | Shari Tishman | 2019 Fall | Donna Brown |
| Doughnut Economics | Kate Raworth | 2019 Fall | Rob Davies |
| How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching | Joshua Eyler | 2019 Fall | Karin DeJonge-Kannan |
| Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania | Erik Larson | 2019 Fall | Thomas Fronk |
| A Vindication of the Rights of Women | Mary Wollstonecraft | 2019 Fall | Brian McCuskey |
| Why We Sleep | Dr. Matthew Walker | 2019 Fall | Nicholas Morrison |
| The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion | Jonathan Haidt | 2019 Fall | Shannon Peterson |
| Personal History | Katharine Graham | 2019 Fall | Sydney Peterson |
| The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are | Brené Brown | 2019 Fall | Jeanne Davidson and Dory Rosenberg |
| Tattoos on the Heart | Gregory Boyle | 2019 Fall | Ryan Seedall |
| Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle | Thor Hanson | 2019 Fall | Kim Sullivan |
| Ill Met By Moonlight | W. Stanley Moss | 2019 Fall | Frances Titchener |
| Ovid’s Metamorphoses | Ovid | 2019 Fall | Felipe Valencia, Daniel Wack, and Erica Holberg |
| Gay Life & Culture: A World History | Robert Aldrich | 2019 Fall | Raymond Veon |
| American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America | Colin Woodard | 2019 Summer | Dr. Travis Dorsch |
| Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People | Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald | 2019 Summer | Dr. Melanie Domenech-Rodriguez |
| The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science | Norman Doidge | 2019 Summer | Dr. Breanna Studenka |
| Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril | Margaret Heffernan | 2019 Summer | Dr. Vijay Kannan |
| Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America | Ted Steinberg | 2019 Spring | Dr. Lawrence Culver |
| Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism | Safiya Umoja Noble | 2019 Spring | Rachel Wishkoski and Liz Woolcott |
| Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees | Thor Hanson | 2019 Spring | Dr. Kim Sullivan |
| Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny | Kate Manne | 2019 Spring | Dr. Erica Holberg, Dr. Felipe Valencia, and Dr. Daniel Wack |
| Fracking the Neighborhood: Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling | Jessica Smartt Gullion | 2019 Spring | Dr. Mehmet Soyer |
| Great American Documents | Ros Horton | 2019 Spring | Dr. Thomas Terry |
| Homosexuality & Civilization | Louis Crompton | 2019 Spring | Professor Raymond Veon |
| Massacre at Bear River: First, Worst, Forgotten | Rod Miller | 2019 Spring | Dr. Timothy Chenette |
| Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town's Secret to Happiness and Excellence | Karen Crouse | 2019 Spring | Dr. Matthew Vierimaa |
| The Promise of A Pencil | Adam Braun | 2019 Spring | Dr. Ryan Seedall |
| Think Wrong: How to Conquer the Status Quo and Do Work That Matters | John Bielenberg and Mike Burn | 2019 Spring | Dr. Paul Rogers |
| The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds | Michael Lewis | 2019 Spring | Dr. Dan Holland |
| The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World | Charles C. Mann | 2019 Spring | Dr. Chris Luecke |
| Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within | Karen Hering | 2019 Spring | Dr. Karin DeJonge-Kannan and Dr. Ann Austin |
| Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwell | 2018 Fall | Dr. Jennifer Grewe |
| Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography | Sara Lipton | 2018 Fall | Dr. Alexa Sand |
| The Evolution of Everything | Matt Ridley | 2018 Fall | Dr. Chris Fawson |
| The Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan | 2018 Fall | Dr. Susan Cogan and Dr. Ann Berghout-Austin |
| The Hero with a Thousand Faces | Joseph Campbell | 2018 Fall | Professor John Ferguson and Dr. Shannon Peterson |
| Keto Clarity | Jimmy Moore | 2018 Fall | Dr. Breanna Studenka |
| The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart | Jan Amos | 2018 Fall | Dr. Charlie Huenemann |
| Logicomix | Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou | 2018 Fall | Dr. David Brown |
| Sarah's Key | Tatiana de Rosnay | 2018 Fall | Dr. Julia Gossard |
| Stamped from the Beginning | Ibram X. Kendi | 2018 Fall | Dr. Jim Evans |
| Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? | Frans de Waal | 2018 Summer | Dr. Mirella Meyer-Ficca |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach | Douglas Hofstadter | 2018 Summer | Dr. Larry Cannon |
| The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business | Charles Duhigg | 2018 Summer | Dr. Travis Dorsch |
| Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything | Lydia Kang | 2018 Summer | Dr. Jessica Habashi |
| What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People | Joe Navarro | 2018 Summer | Professor Arron Preston |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | 2018 Spring | Dr. Abby Benninghoff |
| Privilege Through the Looking-Glass | Patricia Leavy | 2018 Spring | Dr. Mehmet Soyer |
| Ready Player One: A Novel | Ernest Cline | 2018 Spring | Dr. Ryan Moeller and Dr. Brian McCuskey |
| My Ántonia | Willa Cather | 2018 Spring | Dr. Evelyn Funda and Dr. Steve Shively |
| We Were Eight Years in Power | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2018 Spring | Dr. Stephen VanGeem |
| Lab Girl | Hope Jahren | 2018 Spring | Dr. Mark Koven |
| The Monkey Wrench Gang | Edward Abbey | 2018 Spring | Dr. Keri Holt and Dr. Judson Finley |
| The Genius of Birds | Jennifer Ackerman | 2018 Spring | Dr. Kim Sullivan |
| Original Means: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution | Jack Rakove | 2018 Spring | Dr. Thomas Terry |
| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | 2018 Spring | Dr. Marissa Vigneault |
| The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce | Deirdre McClosky | 2017 Fall | Dr. Christopher Fawson |
| Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson | 2017 Fall | Dr. Ryan Seedall |
| Like Water for Chocolate | Laura Esquivel | 2017 Fall | Professor Rebecca Charlton |
| March, Books 1, 2, and 3 | John Lewis | 2017 Fall | Dr. Steve Shively |
| The North Water | Ian McGuire | 2017 Fall | Dr. Laura Gelfand and Dr. Paul Crumbley |
| A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity | Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn | 2017 Fall | Dr. Sara Bakker |
| Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume 1 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 2017 Fall | Dr. Brian McCuskey |
| The Sports Gene | David Epstein | 2017 Fall | Dr. Matthew Vierimaa |
| Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang | 2017 Fall | Dr. John McLaughlin |
| 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created | Charles Mann | 2017 Summer | Dr. Lawrence Culver |
| Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live | Marlene Zuk | 2017 Summer | Dr. Carrie Durward |
| Thinking Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | 2017 Summer | Dr. Travis Dorsch |
| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | Barbara Kingsolver | 2017 Spring | Professor Rebecca Charlton |
| Beowulf Translated | Seamus Heaney | 2017 Spring | Dr. Christine Cooper-Rompato |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2017 Spring | Dr. Christy Glass |
| Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer | Pete Marra and Chris Santella | 2017 Spring | Dr. Kim Sullivan |
| Lean In | Sheryl Sandberg | 2017 Spring | Dr. Susan Cogan |
| On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life | Charles Darwin | 2017 Spring | Dr. Nat Frazer |
| Wild | Cheryl Strayed | 2017 Spring | Dr. Jennifer Sinor |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll | 2016 Fall | Dr. Brian McCuskey |
| The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World | Adrienne Mayor | 2016 Fall | Dr. Frances Titchener |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian | Sherman Alexie | 2016 Fall | Dr. Keri Holt and Dr. Steve Shively |
| Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement | Aubrey Daniels | 2016 Fall | Dr. Tyra Sellers |
| The Hare with Amber Eyes | Edmund de Waal | 2016 Fall | Dr. Laura Gelfand |
| Logicomix | Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou | 2016 Fall | Dr. David Brown |
| Memory Theater | Simon Critchley | 2016 Fall | Dr. Charlie Huenemann |
| Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Services in Social-Ecological Systems | Reinette Biggs, Maja Schlüter, and Michael L. Schoon | 2016 Fall | Dr. Jacopo Baggio |
| The Well-Tuned Brain: Neuroscience and the Life Well Lived | Peter C. Whybrow | 2016 Fall | Dr. Peter McNamara |
| Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel | Carl Safina | 2016 Summer | Dr. Robert Schmidt |
| The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World | Steven Johnson | 2016 Summer | Dr. Jessica Habashi |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare | 2016 Summer | Dr. Rob Behunin |