Year | Theme | Book |
| 2011-2012 | Altered Landscapes | Tom Piazza City of Refuge |
| 2010-2011 | Searching for home Creating Community | Warren St. John
Outcasts United |
| 2009-2010 | Cherish What Remains | Ann Pancake
Strange as This Weather Has Been |
| 2008-2009 | Journeys - Lost and Found | Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
| 2007-2008 | Courage, Compassion, Commitment | Helena María Viramontes
Under the Feet of Jesus |
| 2006-2007 | Art, Politics and the Survival of the Human Spirit | Martin Goldsmith
The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany |
| 2005-2006 | Beyond Self: Living with Purpose | Tracy Kidder
Mountains Beyond Mountains |
| 2004-2005 | Trading Places: The U.S. As Others See US | Mark Hertsgaard
The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World |
| 2003-2004 | Dreams and Disappointments | Anthony Grooms
Bombingham |
| 2002-2003 | Change. Not So Easy | Ruth L. Ozeki
My Year of Meats |
| 2001-2002 | Making Contact | Mary Doria Russell
The Sparrow |
| 2000-2001 | Selves and Stories, Disguise and Disclosure | Helen Fremont
After Long Silence |
| 1999-2000 | Building Walls, Creating Doors | Alex Kotlowitz
There Are No Children Here |
| 1998-1999 | Legacies | Sharyn McCrumb
She Walks These Hills |
| 1997-1998 | Conscience & Courage: Personal Landscapes | Scott Russell Sanders
The Paradise of Bombs |
| 1996-1997 | Educating for Community:
Growing Apart and Staying Together | Gus Lee
China Boy |
| 1995-1996 | Culture, Conflict, and Community | Anna Deavere Smith
Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities |