For many years, LCC has had a common reading program, where people across campus read the same book over the course of a semester or the school year. This school year, our book is The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green. John Green is famous for his YA novels, like The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska, but The Anthropocene Reviewed is his first work of non-fiction. The book is made up of lots of short essays that end in a stared review. Essay topics vary wildly, from Diet Dr. Pepper, to air conditioning, to velociraptors, to the board game Monopoly, to viral meningitis. There is something in this book for everyone, and John Green’s depth of research is sure to teach you something new. Students and employees can pick up a copy of the book, for free, from the Office of Empowerment (A&S, Suite 1317) and faculty can make requests for class sets. You can find more information about the book, its themes, and the program on the LCC Library’s Reading Guide.