Past books
Fall 2024
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities by Davarian L. Baldwin.
Partners: MIT Press
Watch: MIT Reads: A Conversation with Davarian L.Baldwin (YouTube)
Spring 2024
Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football by John Urschel and Louisa Thomas
Partners: This book was selected in collaboration with students enrolled in 21W.022, Writing and Experience: Reading and Writing Autobiography, a subject offered by Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication (WRAP).
Watch: From the NFL to MIT: A conversation with Prof. John Urschel & Louisa Thomas (MIT only)
Fall 2023
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong.
Partners: Women and Gender Services, the Disabilities Employee Resource Group, student members of disabled@mit, and Disability and Access Services.
Watch: “Disability Visibility”: Can You See Us Now? (MIT only)
Spring 2023
Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley by Carolyn Chen
Co-sponsors: MIT Libraries and the MIT Press Bookstore.
Watch: A Conversation with Carolyn Chen: “Work Pray Code” (MIT only)
Fall 2022
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Dr. Vivek H. Murthy
Co-sponsors: Health Promotion Working Group; MIT Libraries; Division of Student Life’s DSL Reads program (a SEAbord initiative)
Watch: Belonging and Connectedness at MIT: Community voices, October 2022
Spring 2022
Clap When You Land, by Elizabeth Acevedo
Co-sponsors: MIT Global Languages; MIT Libraries; MIT Program in Women’s and Gender Studies
Watch: Conversation with the author, April 2022 (MIT only)
Fall 2021
Sexual Citizens, by Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan
Co-sponsors: Institute Discrimination and Harassment Response Office; Violence Prevention and Response; PLEASURE@MIT; MIT Libraries; Women’s and Gender Studies; Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation; Undergraduate Association; Graduate Student Council; Mind Hand Heart
Watch: Conversation with the authors, October 2021 (MIT only)
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Spring 2021
The Privileged Poor by Anthony Abraham Jack
Partner: FLI@MIT
Conversation with the author, April 2021 (MIT only)
Fall 2020
There There by Tommy Orange
Partner: Indigenous Peoples Advocacy Committee and American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Fall 2019
A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernández
Partner: Hermanas Unidas
Spring 2019
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
Partner: School of Architecture + Planning
Fall 2018
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
Partner: MIT Black Students’ Union
Spring 2018
Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Partner: Alpha Chi Omega
Fall 2017
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Partner: My Sister’s Keeper
Spring 2017
Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
Partner: MIT Literary Society
Winter 2017
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Partner: Black Women’s Alliance
Fall 2016
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Partners: LBGTQ@MIT and the Gender Fluidity Group
MIT Reads began in the Fall of 2016