A
History of the KCC Reads Program
KCC Reads, the Common Reading Program at Kingsborough Community College, was inaugurated
at a meeting of the Faculty Assembly in Spring, 2001. Since that time, we have adopted
a number of wonderful and inspiring books and engaged in much valuable programming
around them.
Students have been enriched through this program in numerous ways everything from
producing art, making pottery and beautiful illustrations inspired by the books, holding
special art exhibits, expert lectures and keynote talks, and musical performances, as
well as various academic events: student debates, panel presentations, film screenings,
and roundtable discussions.
Through the KCC Reads program, students have done volunteer work and raised money
for worthy causes; they've developed as thinkers and
become better prepared for life beyond school.
Through this program, faculty and staff have also taken advantage of the many opportunities
to collaborate and work as an campus-wide community in nominating and selecting the
book, participating in reading groups, and organizing, holding and participating in
events programming around the books.
Over the fifteen years, KCC Reads has adopted the following books:
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2016 - 2017 & 2017 - 2018:
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
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2015 - 2016:
Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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2014 - 2015:
Just Kids, by Patti Smith
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2013 - 2014:
Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer
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2012 - 2013:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
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2011 - 2012:
Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann
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2010 - 2011:
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
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2009 - 2010:
Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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2008 - 2009:
Unbowed, by Wangari Maathai
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2007 - 2008:
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
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2006 - 2007: We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, by Philip Gourevitch
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2005 - 2006:
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students, by Miles Corwin
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2004 - 2005:
The Namesake,
by Jhumpa Lahiri
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2003 - 2004:
Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat
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2002 - 2003: The Color of Water, by James McBride
To the right, you will notice book covers for each year of the program. With the exception
of the years 2002-2006 and 2010-2012, clicking on any cover will take you to information regarding
that year's programming. Please take a minute to peruse the KCC Reads archive.
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Note: The KCC Library has a special KCC Reads History page under "Leisure Fiction
in the Stacks" at this link: http://kbcc.cuny.libguides.com/leisure_reading/KCC_reads
