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Previous Common Readings
Want to find some other good books to read? Here are the previous titles from OCTC's Common Reading series:
Fall 2008: Dismal Rock by Davis McCombs (poetry - KY-based book)
Spring 2008: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (novel) - (as part of Owensboro's The Big Read project)
Fall 2007: Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York by Frank X Walker (poetry - KY writer)
Spring 2007: Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (memoir / essay)
Fall 2006: The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry (essay / memoir - KY writer)
Spring 2006: Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (novel)
Fall 2005: Rafting Rise by Joe Survant (poetry - KY writer)
Spring 2005: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (novel)
Fall 2004: A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House (novel - KY writer)
Spring 2004: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (novel)
See our Common Reading Photo Gallery for more pictures from the Common Reading program.
See our Big Read Photo Gallery for pictures from Big Read events around Owensboro in the spring of 2008.
Some photos From Readings by the Authors or Related Presentations:
Davis McCombs, author of Dismal Rock - Fall 2008 - in the OCTC library
A view from the Kick-Off to the Big Read/ Common Reading (Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club) - Spring 2008
Frank X Walker, author of Buffalo Dance - Fall 2007
Wendell Berry, author of The Hidden Wound - Fall 2006
Lucy Anne Hurston, niece of Zora Neale Hurston - Spring 2005
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Silas House, author of A Parchment of Leaves - Fall 2004
