Common Reader Archive

2024 - Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020, by Carl Phillips

2023 - The Rock Eaters, by Brenda Peynado

2022 - Dear Martin, by Nic Stone

2021 - Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living, by Karen Auvinen

2020 - Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, by Terry Tempest Williams

2019 - Work & Days, by Tess Taylor

2018 - The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez

2017 - Almost Famous Women, by Megan Mayhew Bergman

2016 - The Soul Thief, by Charles Baxter

2015 - From Sand Creek, by Simon J. Ortiz

2014 - We the Animals, by Justin Torres

2013 - Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, by Anne Fadiman

2012 - Bellocq's Ophelia, by Natasha Trethewey

2011 - Black Ice, by Lorene Cary

2010 - Song for Night (Akashic Books, 2007), by Chris Abani

2009 - Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time (HarperCollins 2002, Perennial 2003),  by Michael Perry

2008 - The Secrets of a Fire King, by Kim Edwards