Each year, the Honors College selects a book as the Honors Common Book. All first-year students, HYO mentors, faculty, and staff read the book in community and participate in programming centered around the Honors Common Book. The experience of a common read enhances the HYO curriculum and builds community around common discussions and experience.
Previous common books include:
2024—Birding to Change the World by Trish O’Kane
2023—When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky by Margaret Verble
2022—Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
2021—The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge
2020—The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
2019—Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
2018—American War by Omar El Akkad
2017—Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
2016—A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
2015—Justice by Michael J. Sandel
