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Campus Book Clubs

Campus Book Clubs

The Downs-Jones Library is proud to support all book clubs, read-ins, and author events on campus with the goal of bringing the Huston-Tillotson community together by creating common ground and shared experiences, and promoting a love of reading by introducing participants to books that encourage and inspire.

Whether it’s recommending titles, providing books (and eBooks) to readers, or welcoming groups into the library space, the Downs-Jones Library continuously promotes reading for learning, pleasure, and community in partnership with other departments on campus. We have worked with the President’s Office, the Center for Academic Innovation and Transformation, and the College of Arts and Sciences, among others, to bring new and classic titles to the attention of HT and Austin community members in a shared and sharing environment.

Book Clubs

  • Big Library Read
  • Black History Month Annual Book Club
  • Environmental Literature Campus Read
  • Honors Program Book Club
  • National Hispanic Heritage Month Book Club
  • The President’s Book Club
  • The President’s Reading List
  • School of Business and Technology/Parsley Energy Book Club

Books and Events

Spring 2024: 6th Annual Black History Month Book Club
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Fall 2023: English Classes Campus Read
Black Chameleon by Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

Spring 2023:5th Annual Black History Month Book Club
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Fall 2022: Environmental Literature Campus Read
The Confession of Copeland Cane by Keenan Norris

Spring 2022: W.E.B. DuBois Honors Program Book Club

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois

Spring 2022: 4th Annual Black History Month Book Club

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

2021-2022 Academic Year: The President’s Reading List

Black Buck (Mateo Askaripour)

You Are Your Best Thing (Tarana Burke and Brené Brown)

The City We Became (N.K. Jemisin)

Just As I Am (Cicely Tyson)

Find Where the Wind Goes (Dr. Mae Jemison)

Conjure Women (Afia Atakora)

The Other Black Girl (Zakiya Dalila Harris)

The Energy Bus (Jon Gordon)

Spring 2021: 3rd Annual Black History Month Book Club

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Fall 2020: School of Business and Technology/Parsley Energy Book Club

Let Them See You by Porter Braswell

2020-2021 Academic Year: The President’s Book Club

More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) by Elaine Welteroth

Spring 2020: 2nd Annual Black History Month Book Club

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines and

Sula by Toni Morrison

Fall 2019: National Hispanic Heritage Month Book Club

Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester

Spring 2019: 1st Annual Black History Month Book Club

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston