The List: History of faculty selections for common reading project
Spring 2012 – "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama" by Gwen Ifill (2009, Random House).
Fall 2011 – "Murder City: Cuidad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields" by Charles Bowden (2010, Nation Books).
Spring 2011 – "The World is Bigger Now" by Euna Lee with Lisa Dickey (2010, Broadway Books, Crown Publishing Group).
Fall 2010 – “The Death and Life of American Journalism" by Robert McChesney and John Nichols (2010, Nation Books).
Spring 2010 – “Journalistas: 100 years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists,” edited by Eleanor Mills, with Kira Cochrane (2005, Carroll & Graf).
Fall 2009 – "Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America," edited by Bruce Shapiro (2003, Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books).[Book Club suspended during furlough/budget crisis]
Spring 2009 – “Writing War: The Best Contemporary Journalism About Warfare and Conflict from Around the World,” edited by Clint Willis (2003, Thunder’s Mouth Press).
Fall 2008 – “Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice,” by Eric Lichtblau (2008, Pantheon).
Spring 2008 – “Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72,” by Hunter S. Thompson (1973).
Fall 2007 – “The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation,” by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (2006, Knopf).
Spring 2007 – “All Governments Lie! The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone,” by Myra MacPherson (2006, Scribner).