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Past
Citizens Read Selections
- Sometimes
a Great Notion by Ken Kesey, March and April 2008
- A Long
Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, February
2008
(in partnership with Multnomah County Library's Everybody Reads)
- Strange
as this Weather has Been by Ann Pancake, January 2008
- Portland
Red Guide: Stories from Portland's Radical Past by
Michael
Munk, November 2007
- Community
and the Politics of Place by
Daniel
Kemmis, October 2007
- Animal,
Vegetable, Miracle by
Barbara Kingsolver & Plenty by Alisa Smith and
J.B. Mackinnon, September 2007
- Having
Everything Right: Essays of Place by Kim Stafford, June
2007
- The
Place You Love is Gone: Progress Hits Home by Melissa Holbrook
Pierson, May 2007
- The
Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz, April 2007
- The
Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki, March 2007
- Midnight
at the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates, February
2007
- Three
Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin,
January 2007
- Never
Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, November 2006
- Inherit
the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee, October
2006
- Omnivore's
Dilemma by Michael Pollan, September 2006
- Storm
Riders by Craig Lesley, July 2006
- City
Limits, by David Oates, June 2006
- Frontiers
Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West,
by Carl Abbott, May 2006
- Field
Notes from a Catastrophe, by Elizabeth Kolbert, April 2006
- American
Vertigo, Bernard-Henri Lévy, March 2006
- The
Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, February 2006
- Geography
of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
and/or The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil
Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the
Twenty-First Century, by James Howard Kuntsler, December
2005/January 2006
- Culture
War? The Myth of a Polarized America, by Morris P. Fiorina,
Samuel J. Abrams and Jeremy C. Pope, November 2005
- Freakonomics,
by by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, October 2005
- To
the Flag, by Richard Ellis, September 2005
- Cannery
Row, by John Steinbeck, August 2005
- Saturday,
by Ian McEwan, July 2005
- The
Plot Against America, by Philip Roth, June 2005
- The
United States of Europe, by T. R. Reid, May, 2005
- Collapse,
by Jared Diamond, April 2005
- The
Portland Edge, edited by Connie Ozawa, March 2005
- The
Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs,
February 2005
- Bobos
in Paradise, by David Brooks, January 2005
- No selection
for December 2004
- What's
the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank, November 2004
- The
Values Divide, by John White, October 2004
- Resistance,
by Barry Lopez, September 2004
- Paradise
Wild: Reimagining American Nature, by David Oates, August
2004
- Reading
Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi, July 2004
- Birth
of the Chaordic Age, by Dee Hock, June 2004
- The
Great Good Place, by Ray Oldenburg, May 2004
- The
Rise of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida, April 2004
- Portland:
People, Politics and Power: 1851-2001, by Jewel Lansing,
March 2004
- Better
Together, by Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein, February
2004
- Oregon's
Promise, by David Peterson Del Mar, January 2004
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