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.
African American Experience: The Harlem Renaissance
This series features a history of the era alongside texts that have come to define the Harlem Renaissance.
Mexican Americans: Experience and Identity
This series deals with the experiences of Mexicans living in the United States, from the struggles of migrant farmworkers and day laborers in California to coming of age stories of Chicanos as U.S. citizens.
B.I.G. (Big, Intense, Good)
A multi-session group is the ideal environment in which to relish these classic works of literature of a certain size and heft.
Poems to Share
These delightful and rich collections of short poems offer a great first foray into poetry for mixed-age groups.
African American Experience: South to North
This series pairs Isabel Wilkerson’s masterful history of this Great Migration with fiction and memoir that illuminate the north/south divide.
African American Experience: Memoirs and Essays
Personal writing by African-American authors can transcend self-reflection, becoming meditations on history, justice, and freedom from oppression.
