Nominations
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2023-24 common book. We are looking for books that meet this year’s theme:
Authentic voice - Books that introduce readers to the lived experiences of an underrepresented group or culture as told by a member of that group or culture.
Nominations will closed.
How we pick books
The selection committee, made up of students, staff, and faculty, reviews nominations and narrows down the list of titles to one. Their work officially begins in the summer and ends in November.
| Spring 2022 | Select a theme Form a committee Solicit book nominations |
| Summer 2022 | Review book samples and narrow to 12 |
| Fall 2023 | Read books and narrow to 3 Solicit campus feedback the top 3 books Rank titles and get feedback from the Provost |
| Spring 2023 | Announce the book |
Nominated for the 2023-24 academic year
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas
The Summer We Got Free - Mia McKenzie
Lot: Stories - Bryan Washington
Jonny Appleseed - Joshua Whitehead
The Sweetness of Water - Nathan Harris
Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Guapa - Saleem Haddad
Melissa (previously published as GEORGE) - Alex Gino
A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight - Maria Toorpakai with Katherine Holstein
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America - Thomas King
Melissa (previously published as GEORGE) - Alex Gino
We Are Not From Here - Jenny Torres Sanchez
A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight - Maria Toorpakai with Katherine Holstein
Hunger- Roxane Gay
Shrill - Lindy West
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - Marjane Satrapi
Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation - Eboo Patel
Being Heumann - Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner
The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation - Jonathan Hennessey
Maus I & II - Art Spiegelman
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century - Alice Wong
Listening Is an Act of Love - Dave Isay
Letter to a Young Female Physician: Thoughts on Life and Work - Suzanne Koven
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto - George M. Johnson
This Land is My Land: A Graphic History of Big Dreams, Micronations, and Other Self-Made States - Andy Warner
Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story - Peter Bagge
Queer: A Graphic History - Meg-JohnBarker
They Called Us Enemy - George Takei
Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover
Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football -John Urschel
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet - Claire L. Evans
Lab Girl - Hope Jahren
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History - Lea Ypi
The Lives of Campus Custodians - Insights Into Corporatization and Civic Disengagement in the Academy - Peter Magolda
This Is How It Always Is - Laurie Frankel
Know My Name - Chanel Miller
Born A Crime; Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah
Last Summer on State Street - Toya Wolfe
Good Kings Bad Kings - Susan Nussbaum
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land - Taylor Brorby
Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces -Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Braiding Sweetgrass -Robin Wall Kimmerer
Kindred - Octavia Butler
Q & A - Vikas Swarup
Butterfly - From Refugee to Olympian - Yusra Mardini
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
City of Veils - Zoe Ferraris
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling
