Sometimes in conjunction with UCSB, Westmont College, Antioch University and/or the Santa Barbara Public Library:
2019 (Fall): Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond, by Marc Lamont Hill
2018 (Fall): When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
2018 (Spring): The Little School, by Alicia Portnoy
2017: Into the Beautiful North, by Luis Alberto Urrea
2016: Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
2015: Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman
2014: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, by Timothy Egan
2013: Moonwalking With Einstein, by Joshua Foer
2013: The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien (part of the NEA Big Read)
2012: Moby-Duck, by Donovan Hahn
2011: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
2010: Enrique's Journey, by Sonia Nazario
2009: Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (part of the NEA Big Read)
2009: Ethics for the New Millennium, by the Dalai Lama
2008: The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy, by Pietra Rivoli