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Common Reading Photo Gallery
Previous Common Reading Book List
Previous Common Readings
Want to find some other good books to read? Here are the previous titles from OCTC's Common Reading series (these books are also available for check-out in the campus library):
Fall 2009: House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War by Stephen Berry (non-fiction - KY theme)
Spring 2009: In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason (novel - KY writer)
Fall 2008: Dismal Rock by Davis McCombs (poetry - KY theme)
Spring 2008: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (novel) - (as part of Owensboro's The Big Read project)
Fall 2007: Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York by Frank X Walker (poetry - KY writer)
Spring 2007: Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (memoir / essay)
Fall 2006: The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry (essay / memoir - KY writer)
Spring 2006: Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (novel)
Fall 2005: Rafting Rise by Joe Survant (poetry - KY writer)
Spring 2005: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (novel)
Fall 2004: A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House (novel - KY writer)
Spring 2004: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (novel)
MORE RECOMMENDED TITLES ARE LISTED HERE
See our Common Reading Photo Gallery for more pictures from the Common Reading program each semester.
See our Big Read Photo Gallery for pictures from Big Read events around Owensboro in the spring of 2008.