2021: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi and Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
2019: Live from Cairo by Ian Bassingthwaighte
2017: The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro, Master Thieves by Stephen Kurkjian, and Moxie & The Art of Rule Breaking by Erin Dionne using the theme of the 1990 heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
2016 Summer Read: The Tumbling Turner Sisters by Juliette Fay
2015: The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
2013: Wayland Reads Poetry kicked off by former Poet Laureate of the United States Robert Pinsky
2011: Zeitoun by David Egger
2009: Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo