Fall 2025/Spring 2026

(work in progress)

Fall

September

Wilfrid Lupano and Leonard Chemeneau's graphic novel: 
*The Library Mule of Cordoda

TBA

BH 2243

More at Goodreads

or 

link

October

Talya Tate Boerner's 
*The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee

Meet the author!
TBA
TBA

More at Boerner

November

Dima Alzayat's short story collection,*Alligator

TBA

BH 2243

More at Interview

Spring

February

TBA

TBA

Trammel Conference Room (BH 2243)

More at

March

Jane Austen's Emma

TBA

SC 108

This is part of NWACC's Spring Arts and Culture Festival. 

More at 


April (poetry month!)

TBA

TBA

Trammel Conference Room (BH 2243)

More at 

*copies of books are available to loan on a first come basis. Contact schesne@nwacc.edu. There is also usually one copy in the NWACC library and at many local libraries.

Fall 2024/Spring 2025

Fall

September

Sarah Mirk's graphic novel: *Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison

Wednesday, September 18, 3-4

BH 2243

More at Graphic Novel Prize

October

Luis Urrea's , *The Devil's Highway: A True Story

Wednesday, October 9, 5:30-6:30
Peterson Auditorium, SGBDC 1047
Part of NWACC's Hispanic Heritage Month

More at WHY

November

Edwidge Danticat's *The Dew Breaker

Wednesday, November 20, 2-3

BH 2243

with guest host Yanick St. Jean, Sociologist

More at Review

Spring

February

Cherie Dimaline's, *The Marrow Thieves

Thursday, February 13, 12-1 

Trammel Conference Room (BH 2243)

More at A Best Book of All Time

March

Canese Jarboe's Sissy

Wednesday, March 5, 12-1:15

SC 108

This is part of NWACC's Spring Arts and Culture Festival. 

More at Garden Door.

April (poetry month!)

Melissa Lozada-Olivia's, *Peluda

Wednesday, April 9, 12-1 

Trammel Conference Room (BH 2243)

More at Poems

*copies of books are available to loan on a first come basis. Contact schesne@nwacc.edu. There is also usually one copy in the NWACC library and at many local libraries.

Fall 2023/Spring 2024

 

Fall

September

Reginald Dwayne Betts' poetry, *Felon

Thursday, September 14, 10-11

BH 2243

More at NPR

October

Shehan Karunatilaka's *The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Friday, October 27, 11-12

BH 2243

More at Booker Prize

November

Grace M. Cho's memoir, *Tastes Like War

Thursday, November 30, 11-12

BH 2243

More at National Book Award Finalist

Spring

February

Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou's graphic novel, *Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

Wednesday, February 7, 3-4

Greenhouse Conference Room (BH 1444)

More at NYT

March

Rebekah Taussig's essay collection, *Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Thursday, March 7, 4:30-5:45

SC 108

This is part of NWACC's Spring Arts and Culture festival. 

April

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.'s debut bestseller, *Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Tuesday, April 16, 12-1

Greenhouse Conference Room (BH 1444)

More at Interview

*copies of books are available to loan on a first come basis. Contact schesne@nwacc.edu. There is also always one copy in the NWACC library.

Fall 2022/Spring 2023

Fall

September

Lauren Redniss's visual nonfiction, Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

Wednesday, 9/21, 3-4
BH 2243 and on Teams 

More at NPR

October

Francisco Cantu's memoir' The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

Tuesday, 10/11, 1:30-2:30 
BH 2243 and on Google Hangout

More at PBS

November

Charles Yu's novel, Interior Chinatown

Thursday, 11/17, 1:30-2:30
BH 2243 and on Google Hangout

More at NEA

December

Ada Limon's poetry, The Hurting Kind

Friday, 12/9, 11-12 
BH 2243 and on Zoom (password: NBC)

More at Milkweed

Spring

January

Join author Myriam J.A. Chancy as she discusses her novel, 
*What Storm, What Thunder!

Monday, 1/23, 2:30-3:30 on Teams

More at NPR

February

Yoko Ogawa's novel, *The Housekeeper and the Professor

Monday, 2/13, 4:00-5:00
BH 2243

More at Princeton

March

Jacob Tobias' memoir, *Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

Wednesday, 3/8, 10:30-11:45
Student Center 108

This is part of NWACC's Spring Arts and Culture festival. More at SACF.

April

Anna Malaika Tubb's debut bestseller, *The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Wednesday, 4/5, 12:00-1:00
BH 2239

More at Amazon 

May

bell hook's, *Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom

Friday, 5/5, 11:00-12:00
BH 2239

More at Notre Dame Learning

*copies of books are available to loan on a first come basis. 
Contact schesne@nwacc.edu. There is also always one copy in the NWACC library.

Fall 2021/Spring 2022

Fall

September

Kali Fajardo-Anstine's Sabrina and Corina* 

Thursday, 9/23, 2:00-3:00 - ZOOM LINK 

More at Latino Book Review

October

Doug Wright's play, I Am My Own Wife*

(hosted by playwright and theater professor, Ashley Edwards)

Thursday, 10/21, 12:00-1:00 - ZOOM LINK

More at goodreads.

November

Primo Levi's short story collection, The Periodic Table*

(hosted by political science professor, Matt Evans)

Thursday, 11/18, 2:00-3:00 - ZOOM LINK

More at Books

Spring

February

Tera Westover's Educated*

(hosted by writer and English professor, Lindsay Hutton)

Wednesday, 2/16, 12:00-1:00 - ZOOM LINK

More at PBS

March

Nic Stone's Dear Martin*

(part of the NWACC Spring Arts and Culture Festival, hosted by Sigma Kappa Delta)

Monday, 3/7, 3:00-4:15 (in person in Burns Hall 2239 and on ZOOM LINK)

More at Nic Stone

More at Goodreads.

April

Phuc Tran's Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In*

(hosted by English professor, Jim Laughton)

Tuesday, 4/12, 3:00-4:00 (ZOOM LINK)

More at NPR

More at Goodreads.

May

Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin)*

(hosted by writer and English instructor, Brody Parrish Craig)

Monday, 5//2, 3:00-4:00 (ZOOM LINK)

More at The New Yorker

*First come/first serve copies of the books for loan are available at the NWACC library and by emailing schesne@nwacc.edu. Note that Amazon new and (some cheaper used) books, too.

Fall 2020/Spring 2021

Fall

September

Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere                                         

(hosted by Journalism and English Professor, Denise Nemec)

Tuesday, 9/29, 4:00 - 5:00 - Zoom link

more at The Atlantic

October

Antoinette Nwandu's play, Pass Over

(hosted by playwright and theater professor, Ashley Edwards)

copies available by request: email schesne@nwacc.edu

Friday, 10/23, 11:00-12:00 - ZOOM LINK

More at The Guardian

November/December

Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore's A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

(hosted by political science professor, Matt Evans)

Digital copies are available: see Seven Things. Use NWACC sign in. Choose PDF if on computer/EPUB for phones.

Friday, 12/4, 12:00 -1:00 - ZOOM LINK

Spring

February

Luis Alfaro's play Oedipus El Rey

(hosted by playwright and theater professor, Ashley Edwards)

copies available by request: email schesne@nwacc.edu

Wednesday, 2/3, 1:30-2:30

Zoom link

 Watch livestream until 1/20 at Center Theatre.

March

Ayn Rand's novella Anthem

(hosted by Political Science professor, Dr. Matt Evans, and English professor, Sabrina Chesne)

Find the book free at Gutenberg

copies available by request: email schesne@nwacc.edu

Tuesday, 3/2, 10:30-11:45

Zoom link

April

Danez Smith's Homie

(hosted by writer and English instructor, Brody Parrish Craig)

copies available by request: email schesne@nwacc.edu

Wednesday, 4/14, 6:00-7:00

Zoom link

Fall 2019/Spring 2020

2019

September
George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy 
(hosted by Political Science professor Matt Evans)

Tuesday, 9/24, 12-1
BH 2243

More at People's World
 

 
October
Annie Baker's John 
(hosted by playwright and theatre professor Ashley Edwards)

Tuesday, 10/29 1-2
BH 2243


More at TheaterMania

November (Updated date)
Soniah Kamal’s Unmarriageable
(hosted by Austenist and English professor Sharon Fox) 

Monday, 12/2, 12-1
BH 2239 

 More at NPR

2020 

January

Imani Perry’s Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
(hosted by Political Science professor Matt Evans)

Wednesday, 1/29 12-1
BH 2243 

More at Slate

February (early March) 
Garrard Conley's Boy Erased
(Hosted by the NWACC's Spring Arts and Culture Festival)

Monday Film Screening

Author Talk Wednesday, 3/4 12-1:15, White Auditorium (BH 1030)

Book Club Thursday, 3/5 9-10, SC 108

More at conley