The history of Summer Reading titles for Luther's Paideia program:

• 2022: Francisco Cantú: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
• 2021: Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
• 2020: Thi Bui: The Best We Could Do
• 2019: Francisco Cantú: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
• 2018: Homer: The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson 
• 2017: Meline Toumani: There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia and Beyond
• 2016: Karen Joy Fowler: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
• 2015: Christina Henriquez, The Book of Unknown Americans
• 2014: George Orwell, Nineteen Eight-Four
  
• 2013: Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us
• 2012: Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• 2011: Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains
• 2010: David Faldet, Oneota Flow
• 2009: Eboo Patel, Acts of Faith
• 2008: Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues
• 2007: Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High
• 2006: Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains
• 2005: Kim Todd, Tinkering With Eden
• 2004: Mary Shelly, Frankenstein
• 2003: Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
• 2002: James McBride, The Color of Water
• 2001: A. R. Gurney, Another Antigone