What We have read
2024
- September - The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time by Bob Harris
- May - Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life by Kristen Ghodsee
- March - American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by David Baron
- January - Poverty, by America by Michael Desmond
2023
- January - Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow by Thad Sitton and James Conrad
- March - Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
- May - The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
- September - Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
- November - Restoring the Kinship Worldview by by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), Darcia Narváez PhD, et al.
2022
- November - Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith by Eric O. Jacobsen
- September - Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
- May - Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One by Majora Carter
- March - The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop
2021
- November - High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley
- September - Commonwealth: Transformation through Christian Community Development by Jimmy Dorrell
- May - Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath
- March - See No Stranger: A memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
- January - Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
2020
- November - The Art of Relevance by Nina Simon
- September - The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
- January - Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America by Peter Edelman
2019
- November - The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah
- September - White Fragility: Why it's so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- July - The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
- May - Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery by Robin Wallace
- March - We Could not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program by Steven Moss and Richard Paul
- January - Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
2018
- November - The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- September - Saving the School: The True Story of a Principal, a Teacher, a Coach, a Bunch of Kids and a Year in the Crosshairs of Education by Michael Brick
- July - No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City by Katherine Newman
- May - What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities - One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time by Dar Williams
- March - Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit
- January - The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist
2017
- November - Health Care Will Not Reform Itself: A User's Guide to Refocusing and Reforming American Health Care by George C. Halvorson.
- September - If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities by Benjamin R. Barber
- July - Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
- May - Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
- March - Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
- January - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
2016
- November - The End of White Christian America by Robert P. Jones
- September - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- July - The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer
- May - Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
- March - The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence by Gary A. Haugen and Victor Boutros
- January - The Road to Character by David Brooks
2015
- November - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- September - Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
- July - Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business by Gary Rivlin
- May - The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber
- March - Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado
- January - Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray
2014
- November - Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration by Marie Friedmann Marquardt, Timothy J Steigenga, Philip J. Williams, Manuel A. Vasquez
- September - Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough
- July - The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- May - David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
- March - Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy by David Sheff
- January - Whistling Vivaldi: How stereotypes affect us and what we can do by Claude M. Steele
2013
- November - Why Don't They Just Get a Job?: One Couple's Mission to End Poverty in Their Community by Liane Philips, Echo Montgomery Garrett
- September - Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- July - Generous Justice by Timothy Keller
- May - The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch
- March - Promises I can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage by Kathryn Edin and Maria J. Kefalas
- January - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
2012
- November - Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath
- September - American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare by Jason DeParle
- July - Bridges to Sustainable Communities by Philip E. DeVol
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