The Most Costly Journey (El viaje más caro)
Our Vermont Reads 2022 choice, The Most Costly Journey (El viaje más caro), tells the stories of 19 migrant farm workers from Latin America in their own words.
America the Violent: How Group Terror Has Shaped the Nation’s Life
Through a combination of both fiction and non-fiction, this series explores the connection between mob violence and American culture, historically spurred often by racism.
Pandemics, Surreal and the Real
This series created by the Quechee Library looks at the Covid-19 pandemic through fiction.
The March Trilogy
The “March” Trilogy was written by civil rights icon John Lewis, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and award-winning graphic artist Nate Powell. All three volumes illustrate the story of Lewis’s commitment to nonviolent protest in the pursuit of social justice.
Gilded Age: Then and Now
This series starts with the 1893 Columbian Exposition and continues through the Gilded Age. Three novels and a narrative history illustrate that spectacular time period in ways that in turn illuminate our own era.
Border Crossings
A book of short stories, a memoir and two novels bring us to present day consideration of migration, immigration and refuge.
20th Century US Conflicts: The Rise of a Superpower
The Spanish-American War and its related conflict in the Philippines marked the debut of the United States as a world power. How have successive wars increased that power – or callled it into question?
Our Civil War Legacy
Discuss the crucial final month of the war and how, but for a handful of important decisions and a good deal of luck, the outcomeof the War and of the countrymight have been very different
World War II: The Loss of the Age of Innocence
These novels richly illustrate coming-of-age themes against the backdrop of World War II with three memorable protagonists- an Army bombardier, a girl on the American homefront, and a teenage survivor of the Nazi genocide.
Vermont Reads Past Picks
Vermont Reads is Vermont Humanities’ statewide community reading program. These books are all high-quality young-adult level works that offer food for thought for all ages.
