Past Honors Book Labs

Current Honors Book Labs

Book Title Author Term Lab Leader
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