Our Common Read invites participants to read and discuss the same book in a given period of time. A Common Read can build community and foster personal growth by giving diverse people a shared experience, shared language, and a basis for deep, meaningful conversations. 

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, we will discuss Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.

This book tells the story of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma in the 1920s. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, & sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. . . . In Killers of the Flower Moon, (a New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Finalist), David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes that eventually became one of the first major homicide investigations of the newly formed FBI.

One option to purchase is via the SW Indian Federation (A percentage of all purchases go to assist Dine people (Navajo) in need.)

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Register in advance for the discussion on Friday, October 13 at 5:00 PM on Zoom.

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Past Common Reads

  • Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  • Mistakes and Miricles by Nancy Palmer Jones and Karin Lin
  • Kindred by Octavia Bulter
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  • The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
  • The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
  • The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
  • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  • Breathe by Imani Perry
  • The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Michele Richarson
  • The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty
  • Choke Hold by Paul Butler
  • This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger 
  • Washington Black by Esi Edugyun
  • On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
  • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz OR An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese
  • The Overstory by Richard Powers
  • Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
  • Justice on Earth: People of Faith Working at the Intersections of Race, Class, and the Environment by Manish Mishra-Marzetti and Jennifer Nordstrom
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • The Book of Joy by Desmund Tutu & Dalai Lama
  • The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
  • Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning and Connection for the America We Want by Frances Moore Lappe & Adam Eichen
  • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Religion and Politics by Jonathan Haidt
  • Beyond Words: What Animals Think & Feel by Carl Safina
  • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
  • The Third Reconstruction by The Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II
  • Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War
  • LaRose by Louise Erdrich
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Behind the Kitchen Door by Sarumathi Jayaraman
  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
  • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander