Past Summer Conference Book Discussions

  • There's a Boy in Here: Emerging from the Bonds of Autism by Judy & Sean Barron

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Getting To Ellen by Ellen Krug

  • The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

  • The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang

Additional Suggestions

  • Thrive by Arianna Huffington

  • Somalis in Minnesota by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf

  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

  • They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky by B. Ajak, B.Deng, A. Deng, J. Bernstein

  • A Simple Act of Gratitude by John Kralik

  • In Pursuit of Happiness by E. Perry Good and Jeffrey Hale

  • What Happy People Know by Dan Baker and Cameron Stauth

  • Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer

  • The Renaissance Soul by Margaret Lobenstein

  • The Trust Edge by David Horsager

  • Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements by Tom Rath, Ph.D. James K. Harter

  • How to Find Your Mission in Life by Richard Bolles

  • Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

  • Flawless Consulting by Peter Block

  • Fast Company Magazine

  • Inc. Magazine

  • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

  • You Majored in WHAT?: Mapping your Path from Chaos to Career by Katharine Brook 

  • Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin

  • Infidel by Ayann Hirsi Ali

  • I am Nujood: Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali

  • Nomad: From Islam to America by Ayaan Ali

  • A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley

  • Two Spirits, One Heart by Marsha Azumi

  • Whipping Girl by Julia Serano

  • Wrapped in Blue: A Journey of Discovery by Donna Rose