Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Book in Common Selection for 2021-22

February 5, 2020
Laura Nice, Lecturer, Comparative Religion and Humanities 

The Book in Common Selection Committee is pleased to announce the shortlisted books for the 2021-2022 Book in Common: 

  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (2020) 
  • See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur (2020) 
  • There There by Tommy Orange (2018) 
  • What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha (2018) 

Please visit the Book in Common  website(opens in new window) for more information about the shortlisted books, and to provide  feedback(opens in new window).  You can also learn more about the  committee structure and process(opens in new window), as well as ways to get involved.  And, we would love to hear your  ideas(opens in new window) for future Book in Common choices.

On March 1, the Book in Common Selection Committee will begin its final review of the books and campus/community feedback on the shortlist to provide a recommendation to President Hutchinson.