Book Club

Each semester, we select a book for participants to share thoughts and talk about the diversity related stories. Individuals read the book independently and we come together for a discussion over lunch.

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Past Common Reads:

  • While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence - Meg Kissinger
  • Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
  • Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century - Alice Wong
  • I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L. Sanchez
  • If They Come for Us - Fatimah Asghar
  • Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
  • Dear, America:  Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
  • The Privileged Poor:  How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students - Anthony Abraham Jack
  • The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo
  • The Fifth Diamond - Irene Weisberg Zisblatt
  • Becoming Nicole:  The Transformation of an American Family - Amy Ellis Nuit
  • The Sun Does Shine:  How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row - Anthony Ray Hinton
  • The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After – Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
  • Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention – Jamal Joseph
  • The Refugees – Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood – Trevor Noah
  • Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor – James J. O’Connell
  • Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream – Joshua Davis
  • Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation – Eli Clare
  • There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America – Alex Kotlowitz
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
  • Under the Overpass – Mike Yankoski
  • The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Say You Are One of Them – Uwem Akpan

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