Summer 2022
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow (2021)
Fall 2021
The Long Shadow of Temperament by Jerome Kagan and Nancy Snidman (2004)
The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive by W. Thomas Boyce, MD (2019)
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994)
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Summer 2021
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Spring 2021
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense by Robert Lawrence Smith
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Microaggressions in Everyday Life by Derald Wing Sue and Lisa Spanierman
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Fall 2020
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
Summer 2020
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America by William H. Frey
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Spring 2020
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civc Life by Eric Klinenberg
Winter 2020
The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite by Daniel Markovitz
How the Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice by Robert Pondiscio
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality by Agnes Horvath
Pattern language by Christopher Alexander
Crown Hall Dean’s Dialogues
Fall 2019
The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System and How to Fix It by Natalie Wexler
Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by E D Hirsch Jr
The Writing Revolution by Judith Hochman
Why Don’t Students Like School? By Daniel Willingham
We Were 8 years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Years That Matter the Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us by Paul Tough
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Out Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
Summer 2019
The Common Good by Robert Reich
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler
Sapiens by Yuval Harari
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
Power Moves by Adam Grant
Dear America by Jose Antonio Vargas
Born a Criminal by Trevor Noah
Hamilton the Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Summer 2018
The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges – and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Daniel Golden
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
The Birth of the New American Aristocracy by Mathew Stewart (The Atlantic)
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