Past Citizens Read Selections

  • Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich, October 2011
     
  • Portland's Goose Hollow by Tracy J. Prince with Bud Clark, September 2011
     
  • Spook Country by William Gibson, August 2011
     
  • Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, July 2011
     
  • Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus, June 2011
     
  • Open Secrets: Wikileaks, War and American Diplomacy by The New York Times staff & editors, May 2011
     
  • Brew to Bikes: Portland's Artisan Economy by Charles Heying, December 2010
     
  • Mink River by Brian Doyle, November 2010
     
  • Cold River Rising by Enes Smith, October 2010
     
  • Crashers by Dana Haynes, July 2010
     
  • The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss, June 2010
     
  • Another Way the River Has by Robin Cody, May 2010
     
  • A Force For Change: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936 by Kimberly Mangun, April 2010
     
  • The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, February 2010 (in conjunction with Everybody Reads, a project of the Multnomah County Public Library)
     
  • What We Love Will Save Us by David Oates, January 2010
     
  • Jumptown by Robert Dietsche, November 2009
     
  • Citizens Read: Artisan Cheese of the Pacific Northwest by Tami Parr, October 2009
     
  • Eden Within Eden: Oregon's Utopian Heritage by James J. Kopp, September 2009
     
  • The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow by Walter Mosley, July 2009
     
  • Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battle Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves by Oregon Attorney General John Kroger, June 2009
     
  • My Abandonment by Peter Rock, May 2009
     
  • Beauty of the City: A.E. Doyle, Portland's Architect, by Philip Niles, April 2009
     
  • Dance Lest We All Fall Down, by Margaret Willson, March 2009
     
  • The Grail: A Year Ambling and Shambling through an Oregon Vineyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild World by Brian Doyle, February 2009
     
  • Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror, by Steven T. Wax, January 2009
     
  • 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
     
  • The 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
     
  • 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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