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Reading Culture: Previous Themes

Fall 2014 - Love in the Time of Cholera

Spring 2015 - This Earth of Mankind

Fall 2015 - Biography of a Runaway Slave

Spring 2016 - Brother, I'm Dying

Fall 2016 - The Unquiet Dead

Spring 2017 - Strength in What Remains

Fall 2023 - Growing up Aboriginal in Australia

Spring 2024 - Daytripper

Fall 2017 - Like Water for Chocolate

Spring 2018 - Long Way Home

Fall 2018 - The Refugees

Spring 2019 - Born a Crime

Fall 2019 - Black Sugar

Black Sugar book

Fall 2022 - The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

Spring 2023 - Patron Saints of Nothing

Spring 2024 - The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon

Spring 2021 - Welcome to Lagos

Spring 2020 - Death Note

Spring 2020 - Ghosts of the Tsunami

Fall 2020 - The Map of Salt and Stars

Fall 2020 - We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled

Fall 2021 - Under Red Skies

Spring 2023 - Alternative Alamat

Falll 2023 - The Things She's Seen

Spring 2022 - Pakistan

Previous Committee

Reading Culture Committee: Comprised of a diverse group of interdisciplinary faculty and librarians including Megan McGregor (History), Laura Ayers (Anthropology), Ilija Gallego (Psychology), Bennie Ables (History), Ann Bragdon (Anthropology), Michael Ronan (English), Tiffany Driver (Student Life Coordinator), Sheila Gary (Library), Melissa Miller-Waters (English), Marilyn Douglas-Jones (English), Nicole Zaza (English), Cecilia Bonnor (English), Cathy Douse-Harris (HR Generalist), Maria Straus (Dean of College Readiness), Cindy Belmar (Library), Bryant Evans (Geography), Robin Raborn ( Associate Chair College Readiness), Michael Stafford (Exec. Director Library), Daniel Flores (Philosophy, Honors College), Melinda Payne (English), and Kent McGaughy (History).

Reading Culture Committee: A diverse group of interdisciplinary faculty and librarians including Bennie Ables (History), Shawn Anderson (Library), Laura Ayers (Anthropology), Cindy Belmar (Library), Cecilia Bonnor (English), Dominique Brown (Student Life), Ann Bragdon (Anthropology), Jennifer Crispin (Library), Bryant Evans (Geography), Daniel Flores (Philosophy), Ilija Gallego (Psychology), Sheila Gary (Library), Francis Hernandez-Chawlani (CE-English Language Skills), Mary Lawson (English), Desmond Lewis (INRW), Melissa Miller-Waters (English), Megan McGregor (History), Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi (Psychology), Melinda Payne (English), Robin Raborn (Student Success), Colleen Reilly (Visual & Performing Arts), Courtney Smith (English), Michael Stafford (Library), and Nicole Zaza (English)

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