2022 - Eva Hu, Abigail McNickle, Mark Wolf
2020 - Shwetabh “Tabo” Tarun
Tabo Tarun's collection - "My book collection serves as a reflection of my goals and interests during different stages of my life. During my childhood, I read fictional novels in order to escape into another reality. At the beginning of college, I read books focused on self-improvement and about the lives of high achievers. Now, as a junior in college, I read books about my future aspirations in medicine and policy."
2018 - Suzan Altinas, Christian Supiot
Suzan Altinas' collection - "Eventually I did recognize a trend in my collection. Subconsciously, I seem to collect mostly books that deal with issues of identity, with trying to see where you belong in society or (in an existential crisis-inducing way) in the grand scheme of things."
Christian Supiot's collection - "As part of my effort to expand the sources available for the research on French immigration of this periods, my collection is not only formed by those volumes of the Larousse Illustré belonging originally to my great grandfather, but I have continued expanding the core of the library to complete the publications of the encyclopedia with other titles published in the same style of green percaline covers and golden tittle letters up until 1930."
2016 - Levi Palmer, Sara Halpern
Levi Palmer's collection - "When I began building a library of books and spending an increased time reading during middle school, I wanted to absorb as much knowledge as I could. I certainly would have qualified as an introvert then, but over time, my passion for reading has led to sharing and connecting with others in ways that would not have existed for me as a non-reader. My bookshelves hold wildly different styles of books, each influenced by a time or person in my life. I make a point to introduce the great books I find to the different people in my life."
Sara Halpern's collection - "From reading written words to full texts as a child learning language, I learned to fiercely grasp my sense of curiosity the world in the past and present especially in the age of social media. The totality of my books reflect my ever-shifting ideas about belonging, cultural and social norms, and difference as a white, secular, middle-‐class, deaf Jewish woman growing up in the northeastern part of the United States who loves to escape her reality every often through the lives of others, fictional or otherwise."