Nominations for Next Year
We are pleased to announce the KCC Reads
Common Reading Selection for 2016 - 2017:
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
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KCC Reads: Book Nominations, 2016 – 17
And the votes are in!
The Short List for 2016-17, from which next year's book will be chosen (in March '16), is as follows:
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates | nominated by Michael Smith and Cris Izaguirre
Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson | nominated by Debra Schultz
Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?, edited by John Brockman | nominated by Jay Bernstein
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin | nominated by Sheila Ridge
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The Long List for 2016 - 17:
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Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? Edited by John Brockman |
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto By Michael Pollan |
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The Moor’s Account By Laila Lalami |
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Between the World and Me (nominated twice) |
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Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras By Gloria Anzaldúa |
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind By Yuval Noah Harari |
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Dreaming in Cuban By Cristina García |
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao By Junot Díaz |
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Brooklyn |
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The Emperor of All Maladies |
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The Social Animal |
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The Moral Tribes |
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption |
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The Underground Girls of Kabul |
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Naked City |
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