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2021 Book List

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by Richard Preston
Led by W. Renee Acosta

The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
by Alexander Pushkin
Led by Marina Alexandrova

Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Led by Deborah Beck

Free Speech on Campus (2018 new preface)
by Erwin Chemerinsky & Howard Gillman
Led by Christopher Bell

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein
Led by Matt Bowers

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
Led by Keith Brown

Atlas of AI
by Kate Crawford
Led by Simone Brown

The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Led by Douglas Buster

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP
by Sarah Schulman
Led by Charlotte Canning

How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
by Matt Ridley
Led by Carlos Carvalho

Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Led by Jim Cox

Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Alborn
Led by Patrick Davis

The Gifts of Imperfection
by Brené Brown
Led by Kathryn Dawson

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
edited by Alice Wong
Led by Andrew Dell’Antonio

The Language of God
by Francis S. Collins
Led by Kenneth Diller

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
by Oliver Stacks
Led by Juan Dominguez

The Little Bach Book
by David Gordon
Led by Michael Domjan

The Strange Order of Things
by Antonio Damasio
Led by Bob Duke

Nomadland
by Jessica Bruder
Led by Jen Ebbeler

Me and White Supremacy: Combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor
by Layla F. Saad
Led by Danica Fulbright Sumpter

We
by Evgeny Zamyatin
Led by Thomas Garza

Our Iceberg is Melting
by John Kotter & Holger Rathgeber
Led by Linda Golden

Blackout
by Connie Willis
Led by Venita Gordon

Letters to a Young Contrarian
by Christopher Hitchens
Led by Benjamin Gegg

Know My Name: A Memoir
by Chanel Miller
Led by Lauren Gutterman

The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dreams
by Paulo Coelho
Led by Mehdi Haghshenas

Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Jourey Through His Son’s Addiction
by David Sheff
Led by Lori Holleran Steiker

Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Led by Bren Iverson

Juneteenth
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Led by Joseph Peniel

Christmas: A Candid History
by Bruce David Forbes
Led by Brent Landau

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress
by Steven Pinker
Led by David Laude

A Technique for Producing Ideas
by James Webb Young
Led by Brad Love

The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
Led by Carol MacKay

Perfect Pitch: The Art of Selling Ideas
by Jon Steel
Led by John Murphy

Educated
by Tara Westover
Led by Nicole Murry

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Led by Amy Nathan Wright

Me and You
by Niccolo’ Ammaniti
Led by Antonella Olson

What If
by Randall Munroe
Led by Sonia Paban

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by Nicholas Carr
Led by Keryn Pasch

Blindness
by José Saramago
Led by Robert Prentice

The Silence of the Girld
by Pat Barker
Led by Adam Rabinowitz

The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World
by Charles C. Mann
Led by Stuart Reichler

Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Led by Elizabeth Richmond-Garza

Icebound
by Andrea Pitzer
Led by Kevin Robbins

The Fifth Season
by N.K. Jemisin
Led by Shelly Rodriguez

Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
Led by Michele Rountree

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
by Bell Hooks
Led by Aaron Sandel

Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Kimmerer
Led by Miriam Schoenfield

A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
Led by William Schwartz

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Led by Stephen Sonnenberg

Atomic Habits
by James Clear
Led by Dixie Stanforth

Factulness
by Hans Rosling
Led by Michael Starbird

Rising Strong: The Reckoning, The Rumble, The Revolution
by Brené Brown
Led by Mary Steinhardt

Grit: The Power of Perseverance and Passion
by Angela Duckworth
Led by Keri Stephens

Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Daniel James Brown
Led by Gwndolyn Stovall

Talking to My Daughter about the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism
by Yanis Varoufakis
Led by Stathis Tompaidis

Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Grann
Led by Heidi Toprac

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
by Judith Heumann
Led by Jessica Toste

Swann’s Way
by Marcel Proust (trans. Lydia Davis)
Led by Louis Waldman

Letters to My White Male Friends
by Dax-Devlon Ross
Led by Devin Walker

Make it Stick, The Science of Sccessful Learning
by Peter C. Brown
Led by Don Winget

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nasssim Nicholas Taleb
Led by Ken Wisian

Ruined
by Lynn Nottage
Led by Paul Woodruff

The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
Led by Jacqueline Woolley