SAC Reads!

Join the challenge! Set-up your Storygraph Account

The StoryGraph is an online app that helps you track your reading and choose your next book based on your mood and your favorite topics and themes.

Set a goal for the month or the year and track your progress as you become more committed to your reading habit. 

The Library Common Read provides a shared experience for you by bringing the campus community together to attend a variety of events and talk about the variety of human experience. (It's not just talking about a book).

Your benefits

Intellectual engagement

• The common read can help your academic transition to college: reading helps develop your focus.
• Your professor sees this as a way to help you across all your classes: even math classes want you to read.

Community engagement

• You are now part of a campus-wide dialogue: you'll talk with fellow students, staff, and faculty!
• You'll see civility in action by hearing and exploring different views and experiences: Caring is Sharing.

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling.

Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented tens of thousands of stories and The Moth: 50 True Stories (Hachette) was an international best seller. 

• The Moth

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"Carefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth... All These Wonders features voices both familiar and new: an astronomer gazing at the surface of Pluto for the first time, an Afghan refugee learning how much her father sacrificed to save their family, a hip-hop star coming to terms with being a “one-hit wonder,” a young female spy risking everything as part of Churchill’s “secret army” during World War II, and more."

The eternal music of the spheres

• The moon and stars talks /Tara Clancy https://themoth.org/stories/the-moon-and-stars-talks
• Unusual normality /Ishmael Beah https://themoth.org/stories/unusual-normality
• The quest for Chad /Arthur Bradford https://themoth.org/stories/the-quest-for-chad
• The house of mourning /Kate Braestrup https://themoth.org/stories/the-house-of-mourning
• The girl from Beckenham /Suzi Ronson https://themoth.org/stories/the-girl-from-beckenham
• God, death, and Francis Crick /Christof Koch https://themoth.org/stories/god-death-and-francis-crick

Things I've seen

• Fog of disbelief /Carl Pillitteri https://themoth.org/stories/fog-of-disbelief
• The two times I met Laurence Fishburne /Chenjerai Kumanyika https://themoth.org/stories/the-two-times-i-met-laurence-fishburne
• It matters a great deal /Kevin McGeehan https://themoth.org/stories/it-matters-a-great-deal
• A tale of two dinners /Bliss Broyard https://themoth.org/stories/a-tale-of-two-dinners
• Walking with RJ /Stephanie Peirolo https://themoth.org/stories/walking-with-rj

Keeping the lid on.

• Go the %&# to sleep /Adam Mansbach https://themoth.org/stories/go-the-f-ck-to-sleep
• Panic on the road to Jericho /Nadia Bolz-Weber https://themoth.org/stories/panic-on-the-road-to-jericho
• Jenny /Samuel James https://themoth.org/stories/jenny
• Déjà vu (again) /Cole Kazdin https://themoth.org/stories/deja-vu-again
• Call me Charlie /Josh Bond https://themoth.org/stories/call-me-charlie
• Modern family /Sara Barron https://themoth.org/stories/modern-family
• R2, where are you? /Tig Notaro https://themoth.org/stories/r2-where-are-you

Grace rushes in

• The shower /Tomi Reichental https://themoth.org/stories/the-shower
• Cut /Josh Broder https://themoth.org/stories/cut
• A phone call /Auburn Sandstrom https://themoth.org/stories/a-phone-call
• Who can you trust? /Mary-Claire King https://themoth.org/stories/who-can-you-trust
• A new home /Dori Samadzai Bonner https://themoth.org/stories/a-new-home
• Greener grass /Jane Green https://themoth.org/stories/greener-grass
• As if I was not there /Peter Pringle https://themoth.org/stories/as-if-i-was-not-there

Like a man does

• Stumbling in the dark /John Turturro https://themoth.org/stories/stumbling-in-the-dark
• Coming of age in a mausoleum /George Dawes Green https://themoth.org/stories/coming-of-age-in-a-mausoleum
• Downstairs neighbors /Shannon Cason https://themoth.org/stories/downstairs-neighbors
• Undercover in North Korea with its future leaders /Suki Kim https://themoth.org/stories/undercover-in-north-korea-with-its-future-leaders
• My grandfather's shoes /Christian Garland https://themoth.org/stories/my-grandfathers-shoes
• Leaping forward /Cybele Abbett https://themoth.org/stories/leaping-forward

To face the fear

• Prom /Hasan Minhaj https://themoth.org/stories/prom
• But also bring cheese /Kate Tellers https://themoth.org/stories/but-also-bring-cheese
• Tired, from New York /Jessi Klein https://themoth.org/stories/tired-from-new-york
• An impossible choice /Sasha Chanoff https://themoth.org/stories/an-impossible-choice
• Then you will know! /Moshe Schulman https://themoth.org/stories/then-you-will-know
• The price of freedom /Noreen Riols https://themoth.org/storytellers/noreen-riols

(the title matches the text of The Spy Who Loved Me)

By every claim of love

• Summer camp /Meg Wolitzer https://themoth.org/stories/summer-camp
• The weight of a ring /Amy Biancolli https://themoth.org/stories/the-weight-of-a-ring
• Light and hope /Bethany van Delft https://themoth.org/stories/light-and-hope
• Kidneys and commitments /Gil Reyes https://themoth.org/stories/kidneys-and-commitments
• On approach to Pluto /Cathy Olkin https://themoth.org/stories/on-approach-to-pluto
• Forgiveness /Hector Black https://themoth.org/stories/forgiveness
• California gothic /Taylor Negron. https://themoth.org/stories/california-gothic