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UCSB Reads Books:
2023: Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
2022: Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
2021: When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele
2020: Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
2019: The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
2018: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
2017: Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
2016: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
2015: Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
2014: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan
2013: Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
2012: Moby Duck: The True Story of 28,000 Bath Toys Lost at Sea, and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools--Including the Author--Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn
2011: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2010: Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
2009: Ethics for the New Millennium by Dalai Lama
2008: The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy by Pietra Rivoli
2007: Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
UCSB Reads 2023 Advisory Committee:
| Lupita | Barragan | Community Member, UCSB Alum |
| Ingrid | Bowman | Faculty, Linguistics |
| Somayeh | Dodge | Faculty, Geography |
| Brian | Donnelly | Faculty, English |
| Jessica | Dubrovner | UCSB Undergraduate Student |
| Kaaronica | Evans-Ware | UCSB Graduate Student |
| Margaret | Fisher | UCSB Graduate Student |
| David | Gartrell | UCSB Librarian |
| Allison | Gray | Director, Goleta Valley Public Library |
| Michelle | Grue | Faculty, College of Creative Studies and Writing Program |
| Tomoyuki | Ichiba | Faculty, Statistics & Applied Probability |
| Derek | Katz | Faculty, Music |
| Erin | Khue Ninh | Faculty, Asian American Studies |
| Rebecca | Metzger | UCSB Library |
| Erin | Nerstad | Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center |
| Sharleen | O'Brien | Director, Health & Wellness |
| Caitlin | O'Hara | Director of Public Lectures & Special Initiatives |
| Behrooz | Parhami | Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Kathy | Patterson | Faculty, Writing Program |
| Andrew | Plantinga | Faculty, Bren School |
| Alex | Regan | UCSB Library |
