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Common Book Previous Selections

The following selections have been chosen as KU Common Books:

  • 2020-2021 - Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover
  • 2019-2020 - Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, Edited by John Freeman  
  • 2018-2019 - Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, Edwidge Danticat 
  • 2017-2018 - Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine
  • 2016-2017 - Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • 2015-2016 - A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  • 2014-2015 - The Center of Everything, Laura Moriarty
  • 2013-2014 - The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan
  • 2012-2013 -  Notes from No Man's Land, Eula Biss
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