2021
November 2021
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
October 2021
Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Clapham
September 2021
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
March 2021
The Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Khiznik
February 2021
Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free by Alexander Jefferson
February 2021
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
January 2021
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2020
November 2020
The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
October 2020
Conspiracy Theories: Philosophers Connect the Dots
edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene
September 2020
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
March 2020
2019-20 Great Michigan Read: What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
by Mona Hanna-Attisha
February 2020
Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott with Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis
January 2020
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
2019
November 2019
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
by Malaka Gharib
November 2019
SEPARATE: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation
by Steve Luxenberg
October 2019
“Master Harold”… and the Boys
by Athol Fugard
September 2019
Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire
March 2019
Notes from a Public Typewriter
by Michael Gustafson (Editor) and Oliver Uberti (Editor)
March 2019
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by Eric Weiner
February 2019
If I Stay
by Gayle Forman
January 2019
Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
2018
November 2018
Eat Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics
by Marion Nestle
October 2018
On Photography by Susan Sontag
September 2018
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
March 2018
"Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped win the Space Race"
By Margot Lee Shetterly
ABOUT THE BOOK
Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation.
Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.
The women of Langley’s all-black “West Computing” group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens.
February 2018
"Me Before You"
By Jojo Moyes
ABOUT THE BOOK
They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .
Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.
Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?
January 2018
"March: Book One"
By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (Illustrator)
ABOUT THE BOOK
In 2013, comics publisher Top Shelf Productions released March: Book One, the first installment of a three-volume graphic-novel memoir by civil rights hero and U.S. Congressman John Lewis. Co-written with Andrew Aydin, who also works in Lewis’ congressional office, and drawn by Nate Powell (BFA 2000 Cartooning), a graphic novelist and illustrator, March is both a work of history and inspirational text, dedicated to “the past and future children of the movement.”
The idea for the project, Lewis says, came from his memories of Martin Luther King and Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, the 1957 comic book about the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott; the publication became a tool for teaching nonviolent activism to Lewis' generation. A New York Times #1 bestseller, March has received universal acclaim and numerous honors.