Italy Reads Past Editions
2019
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Keynote Speaker: Ed Folsom
2018
Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Keynote Speaker: Fr. Mark Bosco
2017
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Keynote Speaker: Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, with special guest ESA Astronaut
Paolo Nespoli from ASI Mission VITA on the International Space Station
2016
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Keynote Speaker: Sarah Churchwell
2015
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Keynote Speaker: Alessandro Portelli
2014
A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway
Keynote Speaker: Silvia Ammary
2013
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Keynote Speaker: Jhumpa Lahiri
2012
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Keynote Speaker: Sarah Churchwell
2011
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Keynote Speaker: Cathy Fussell
2010
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Keynote Speaker: Buck Herron
2009
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Keynote Speaker: Charles J. Shields