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Mount Holyoke College’s Common Read for fall of 2022 is “Braiding Sweetgrass.” “Braiding Sweetgrass” centers Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to mainstream scientific methodologies.

Mount Holyoke’s 2021 Common Read, “The Fire This Time,” is a collection of “thoughtful, searing, and, at times, hopeful” essays and poems about race.

Mount Holyoke College welcomes Martha Jones to discuss her book “Vanguard,” how Black women defied both racism and sexism to fight for the right to vote.

Mount Holyoke College kicks off its Common Read of the year in conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The 1619 Project.

Mount Holyoke College’s Common Read for 2020 will be prose essays from The New York Times Magazine’s ongoing initiative The 1619 Project.

The 2019 Common Read event was an integral part of Mount Holyoke Orientation for the whole community.

Mount Holyoke’s 2018 Common Read is “The Book of Unknown Americans” by Cristina Henríquez.

Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric” is the 2017 Common Read and will be discussed by Mount Holyoke's class of 2021 as part of Orientation events.

Scholar-activist Rosa Clemente will lead a lunchtime discussion of the Common Read, Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates has been selected as the 2016 Common Read at Mount Holyoke College.