Below is a list of authors and their books that have been part of the Common Read Project.
- 2016: Sandra Steingraber: Living Downstream
- 2015: David Mas Masumoto: Epitaph for a Peach
- 2014: B. Lynn Ingram's and France Malamud-Roam: The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow
- 2013: Garret Keizer: The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want
- 2012: Laura Cunningham: A State of Change
- 2011: Allen Christenson: Popol Vlih: The Sacred Book of the Maya
- 2010: Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- 2009: Alan Weisman: The World Without Us
- 2008: Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma
- 2007: Anne Fadiman: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- 2006: Octavia Butler: Parable of the Sower
