The 2016-17 UUA Common Read

A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.

Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.

Elegantly weaves together the most insightful activist scholarship with vivid testimonials by incarcerated people as they fight back against oppression and imagine freedom

The David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country’s main water source

Nine prominent liberal religious thinkers examine Darwin's contributions to theology, spirituality and ethics.

Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives—including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and more

A testament to the healing power of community and the beauty of trans people, history, and culture

An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in this “searingly honest memoir that manages to be at once a scalding indictment and a heartfelt love letter” (Scott Stossel, author of My Age of Anxiety).

The bestselling young adult non-fiction book on sexuality and gender that's been challenged across the country.

Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual. Transgender. Queer. Intersex. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for YOU.