SWC College Book

Since 1998, the College Book is an annual SWC tradition for the campus community guided by the Library and the School of Languages and Literature to choose one book together to promote literacy and read, learn, and discuss its personal and academic importance. 

Classroom Activities

• 2025-2026 Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher
  • Boston Public Library video interview with Paola Mendoza
  • Professor Latinx video interview with Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher
• 2024-2025 You sound like a white girl: the case for rejecting assimilation by Julissa Arce
• 2023-2024 Becoming superman: my journey from poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
• 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