SWC College Book

Classroom Activities

2023-2024 Becoming superman: my journey from poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
- American Writers Museum YouTube Introduction Video
- Politics and Prose video interview with the author
2022-2023 Crux: a cross-border memoir by Jean Guerrero
2021-2022 I was their American dream by Malaka Gharib and video interview with the author
2020-2021 Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond and video interview with the author
2019-2020 Sapiens: a brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari and video interview with the author
2018-2019 Educated by Tara Westover and interview with the author

2017-2018 Born A Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood by Trevor Noah and video interview with the author
2016-2017 Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates and interview with the author
2015-2016 All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and interview with the author
2014-2015 I Am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and interview with the author
2013-2014 When You Were Older by Catherine Ryan Hyde and interview with the author
2012-2013 Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls and interview with the author
2011-2012 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2010-2011 The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2009-2010 Last Lecture / Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow by Randy Pausch
2008-2009 Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility by Patricia Santana
2007-2008 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
2006-2007 Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
2005-2006 Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2004-2005 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
2003-2004 Lucky by Alice Sebold
2002-2003 Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
2001-2002 Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
2000 2001 Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
1999-2000 Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
1998-1999 The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle