Beyond, or more appropriately, in part because of the extensive coverage of Ta-Nehisi Coates's book, Between the World and Me, several institutions -- universities, churches, libraries, and smaller reading groups -- have adopted the book. Some groups have announced selecting the book to cover in fall 2016 and 2017.
[Related: The curious minds of Colson Whitehead and Ta-Nehisi Coates]
Back in the fall of 2015 when the book came out, I coordinated a small online common read of Coates's book with a group here on my campus. I also heard that Howard University selected the book for students to read in a lead-up to Coates giving a talk there.
Here's a partial list of "common read" projects, book clubs, and reading groups that have been done on Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me as well as upcoming common reads on the book.
2015
• Donaldson Correctional Facility - Bessemer, Alabama
• Howard University - Washington, DC
• One Town, One Book Kickoff Event - Water Street Exeter, New Hampshire
• "Pop-up Teach-in" at Indiana University - Bloomington, Indiana
• Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - Edwardsville, IL
• The Atlantic - online book discussion
• Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Susquehanna Valley - Northumberland, Pennsylvania
2016 (January - August)
• Academic Business Officers Group, University of California - San Francisco, California
• CalTech Women's Club - Pasadena, California
• Chadbourne Residential College - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Columbia Univ. Southern Cal Book Club
• Denver Public Library - Denver, Colorado
• Diversity & Inclusion Book Club: Heart of West Michigan United Way - Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Downers Grove Public Library - Downers Grove, Illinois
• Durham Tech Library - Durham, North Carolina
• First Parish Unitarian Universalist - Needham, Massachusetts
• First Unitarian Universalist Church of Niagara - Niagara Falls, New York
• Harvard Club of Dallas - Dallas, Texas
• Jackson State University, Fannie Lou Hamer Institute - Jackson, Mississippi
• Lake Nokomis Presbyterian Church - Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Long Beach: Building Healthy Communities - Long Beach, California
• Looscan Neighborhood Library - Houston, Texas
• MIT Libraries, Diversity & Inclusion Book Group - Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Morehouse College - Atalanta, Georgia
• New York Public Library Fort Washington Branch Book Club - New York, New York
• North Decatur Presbyterian Church - Decatur, Georgia
• Oak Hill Presbyterian Church - St. Louis, MO
• Oak Park Public Library - Oak Park, Illinois
• Office of Social Justice, Inclusion, and Conflict Resolution, Rowan University - Glassboro, New Jersey
• One Book, One Community YWCA Great Lakes Bay Region - Saginaw, Michigan
• Public Library of Brookline, Book Group - Brookline, Massachusetts
• Reading Group in Minnesota
• Social Justice Book Club - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice Book Club - Lewes, Delaware
• St. Paul’s Episcopal Church - White River Junction, Vermont
• St. James' Episcopal Church - Leesburg, Virginia
• The California Council of Churches/IMPACT Justice Seekers Project et al. - Sacramento, California
• The Community Church of Chapel Hill, Unitarian Universalist - Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia - Columbia, Maryland
• Unitarian Church of Harrisburg - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• University of Maryland, Baltimore
• University of Washington Bothell - Bothell, WA
• Williamsburg Baptist Church Book Group - Williamsburg, Virginia
• Women's Voices Raised for Social Justice - St. Louis, MO
2016-2017
• Burlingame Public Library - Burlingame, California
• Charleston County Public Library - Charleston, South Carolina
• Clifton Baptist Church - Louisville, Kentucky
• Fit Oshkosh,Inc. Color-Brave Community Read - Oshkosh, Wisconsin
• Gustavus Adolphus College -- St. Peters, Minnesota
• Hiram College - Hiram, Ohio
• League of Women Voters - Edina, Minnesota
• Mount Holyoke College - South Hadley, Massachusetts
• Mount Holyoke Club of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois
• Penn State Brandywine - Media, Pennsylvania
• UCLA - Los Angeles, California
• University of Kansas - Lawrence, Kansas
• University of Michigan-Flint - Flint, Michigan
• University of Oregon - Eugene, Oregon
• Utah State University Honors Program - Logan, Utah
• Western Reads (Western Alumni group) - London, Ontario, Canada
• Western Washington University - Bellingham, WA
Related:
• Notations for a common reading experience of Ta-Nehisi Coates
• A Notebook on the work of Ta-Nehisi Coates
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