The Common Reading Program at Appalachian State is excited to announce the 2024-2025 book selection: Hope Jahren’s The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, whose New York Times bestselling author, in this essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it, asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet?
The Common Reading Program at Appalachian State is excited to announce the 2023-24 book selection: John Elder Robison’s Be Different: My Adventures with Asperger’s and My Advice for Fellow Aspergians, Misfits, Families, and Teachers.
The Common Reading Program at Appalachian State is excited to announce the 2022-23 book selection: Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community. The book was published in 2020 as part of the ongoing Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies series.
The Common Reading Program at Appalachian State proudly announces the 2021-2022 book selection: Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug. The book has received a number of awards, most notably the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.
The book was a 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in General Nonfiction. According to the Pulitzer Prize website, Rising is a "rigorously reported story about American vulnerability to rising seas, particularly disenfranchised people with limited access to the tools of rebuilding."
Just Mercy details the injustices of a broken criminal justice system that punishes poor people, and Stevenson’s work to improve that system.
Appalachian will welcome the author to campus on Tuesday, September 17, 2019, when he will give an address at the Holmes Convocation Center at 7:00 p.m.
The Common Reading Program at Appalachian State is pleased to announce the 2018-19 book selection: The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project. The Laramie Project is a play about the community of Laramie, Wyoming in the aftermath of the 1998 tragic murder of Matthew Shepard, who was a gay student at the University of Wyoming. The murder was denounced as a hate crime and sparked a national debate.
The Common Reading Program at Appalachian State is pleased to announce the 2017-18 book selection: One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. One Amazing Thing is a fictional story about nine people from different backgrounds who become trapped together by an earthquake for days, using storytelling to help them survive while they hope and pray for rescue.
Born in Wales in 1967, Ronson is a journalist and the author of several highly acclaimed and best-selling books, including "The Men Who Stare at Goats" and "The Psychopath Test."
"So You've Been Publicly Shamed" is Ronson's most recent book. It begins with the author's surprising discovery that a Twitter account had been created under his name without his knowledge and that the account was active. The book goes on to explore a number of questions arising from the public dimensions of social media and how it reflects other forms of social control.
Ishmael Beah, born in Sierra Leone, West Africa, is the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and Radiance of Tomorrow, A Novel both published by Farrar Straus & Giroux.
