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The New Commons Project: Final Round Two Selections

The New Commons Project: Final Selections

Kaeley Stewart Nominates Avatar: The Last Airbender by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino

David Frankenfield Nominates Timber Framing

Kat Zachary Nominates The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollen

Jefferson Navicky Nominates Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Bailey Parenteau Nominates Nier: Automata by Yoko Taro

Jonathan Cohen Nominates I and Thou by Martin Buber

Emma Ansara and Steve Engle Nominate Arundel by Kennth Roberts

Kristen Case Nominates "Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth

Karen Francomano Nominates The Sun (Magazine) by Sy Safransky

Megan Hultman Nominates "The Dark Secret Behind Your Favorite Makeup Products" by Refinery29

Jessica Casey Nominates The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin

Ashley Montgomery Nominates The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer

Alexandrea Luker Nominates The Belgariad and The Malloreon by David Eddings

Vas Prabhu Nominates Stories Student Art Exhibition by Students (7th Grade)

Kat Bachelder Nominates Seed: The Untold Story by Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel

John Rosenwald Nominates the Orpheus Myth

Emily Thibodeau Nominates Moon Pie by Simon Mason

Leo Robinson Nominates Minding the Gap by Bing Liu

Deb J. Howard Nominates Books by Louise Dickinson Rich

Erin Cadigan Nominates Illustrated Map of Falmouth by Edward La Salle

Miles Stevens Nominates The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Karen Wilson Nominates Fabergé Eggs by House of Fabergé

Stephanie Miller Nominates the Edna St. Vincent Millay Statue by Robert Willis

Marion Scharoun Nominates Daily Newspaper

Mike Wilson Nominates Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth

Eileen Patrick Nominates Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Kailee Richards Nominates Be Fearless: 5 Principles for a Life of Breakthroughs and Purpose by Jean Case

Miranda Smith Nominates Yellow Submarine by The Beatles and George Dunning

Shania Wilbur Nominates Wonder by R. J. Palacio

Henry Wanat Nominates the Whoopie Pie

Andrew LaVerdiere and Tucker Charles Nominates "We Could Be Free" by Vic Mensa

Amanda Whitten Nominates The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

Willie Murray Nominates Victory Lap by Nipsey Hussle

Steven Pane Nominates Venice, Italy

Breana Megivern Nominates Vactionland by Steve Rubin

Vanessa Brown Nominates Upheavals by Zackary Lavoie

Becky Paradis Nominates thepoeticunderground: reverie by Erin Hanson

James Page Nominates The Weight of Winter by Cathie Pelletier

Lark Pelletier Nominates The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Hannah Hargrove Nominates The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Grace Carlson Nominates The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Gretchen Legler Nominates the Life and Work of Terry Tempest Williams

Julia Cooke Nominates Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik

Andrea Bouthillette Nominates Songs with Our Eyes Closed by Tyler Kent White

Vas Prabhu Nominates Slab City Rendezvous by Red Grooms

Regan Vancil Nominates "Saturday Nights" by Khalid

Aislinn McDaniel and Libby Nominates "Same Love" by Macklemore

Samantha Taylor Nominates Final Fantasy: Distant Worlds 1-5 by Nobuo Uematsu

Nancy Crowel Nominates Works by Robert McCloskey

Rob Lively Nominates Storytelling by Mike Burns

Katie Shupp Nominates Requiem for the Orchard by Oliver de la Paz

Claudia Intama Nominates Representations of Race and Ethnic Backgrounds by Disney

Sarah Andrews Nominates Red Dead Redemption 2 by Rockstar Games

Allyssa Turner Nominates Rainbow by Kesha

Patrick Powers Nominates Rage Against the Machine by Rage Against the Machine

Madeline Leavy-Rosen Nominates Perfect by Ellen Hopkins

Peggy Hodkins Nominates "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mia Boynton Nominates A Passage to India by David Lean and The Jewel in the Crown

Claudia Intama Nominates Parasite by Bong Joon-ho

Bailey Parenteau Nominates Over the Garden Wall by Patrick McHale

Abigail Young Nominates Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Phil Carlsen Nominates New World Suite Number Three by Robert Bringhurst

Taylor-Jeffrey Doone Nominates "My Shot" (from Hamilton) by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Pat O'Donnell and Harper Burke Nominate My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Tyler Stinson Nominates Moxie

Misty Krueger Nominates "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Gabrielle Elkin Nominates Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Jason Howes Nominates Minecraft by Markus Persson

Abby Breznyak Nominates milk and honey by Rupi Kaur

Zack Laflamme Nominates The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Camryn McGarry Nominates the Loom

Brittany Miranda Nominates LL Bean

Linda Britt Nominates 1984 by George Orwell

Jacob Dexter Nominates "Life On Mars?" by David Bowie

Cali Turner Nominates "Letter" by G Herbo & Southside

Rosemary Peterson Nominates Legally Blonde (musical) by Laurence O'Keefe, Nell Benjamin, and Heather Hach

Celeste Shinay Nominates Leaves of Grass by Fred Hersch Ensemble

Zion Hodgkin Nominates K-12 by Melanie Martinez

Liz Niznik Nominates Isako Isako by Mia Ayumi Malhotra

Steven Pane and Aaron Wyanski Nominates IPSA DIXIT: for soprano, flute, violin, and percussion by Kate Soper

Cali Turner Nominates Into the Wild by Sean Penn

Grace Barnard Nominates If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

Caneel Cheskin Nominates If My Body Could Speak by Blythe Baird

Jonathan Christopher Nominates "How Could You Leave Us" by NF

Holland Corson Nominates The Letter: An American Town and the 'Somali Invasion' by Ziad Hamzeh

Nicholas Berry Nominates the Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling

Anthony Cleaves Nominates Graduation by Kanye West

Kyle Burger-Ro Nominates "Glory" by John Legend (featuring Common)

Amber Kapilof Nominates The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Muriel Schleider Nominates the Franklin County Fiddlers

Emma Wentworth Nominates Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell

Doran Scott Nominates "4 Your Eyez Only" by J. Cole

Noah Erskine Nominates Fishing

Darrell Roberts Nominates Everybody by Logic

Alex Pierce and Steve Cude Nominate "Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles

Paul Riddell Nominates Dungeons and Dragons by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson

Cynthia Stancioff Nominates A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis by Meghan Sterling and Kathleen Sullivan

Stephen Grandchamp Nominates Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 by Chuck Person

Elizabeth Olbert Nominates Capital by Karl Marx

Burton Knapp Nominates Keyboard Instruments Through the Ages

Darrell Roberts Nominates Bob's Burgers by Loren Bouchard

Portia Hardy Nominates Blueberry Pie

Theo Cerami Nominates blud by Rachel McKibbens

Edin Sisson Nominates Black-ish by Kenya Barris

Emily Giguere and Alex Frost Nominate Blackfish by Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Elizabeth Olbert Nominates The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute

Kayla Begin Nominates Avatar: The Last Airbender by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino

Mackenzie Mayo and Sadie Nominate Atypical by Roba Rashid

Jennifer Alvin Nominates Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Kate Gaudet Nominates Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Amy Neswald Nominates Horses and Stars by Sam Baker

Rachel Beechin Nominates Abandoned Angel by Burt Kimmelman

Bryce Cundick Nominates Dungeons and Dragons by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson

Jesse Minor Nominates the Novels of Thomas Pynchon

Larry Ronco Nominates Rage Against the Machine's Self-Titled Debut Album

Clarissa Thompson and Steffon Gales Nominate March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

Jesse Minor Nominates the Dr. Bronner's Bottle

Samantha Taylor Nominates Team Ico's Shadow of the Colossus

Kristen Case Nominates Jos Charles' Feeld

Stephen Grandchamp Nominates Tig Notaro's Boyish Girl Interrupted

Alison Hooper Nominates Maria Padian's Wrecked

Susan Wahlstrom Nominates Robert Wise's "The Sound of Music"

Janet Brackett Nominates Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"

Karen Heath Nominates the Maine Waterways

Jay Terranova Nominates the Works of Peter, Paul and Mary

Tekia Cox Nominates Nahko and Medicine for the People's "My Country"

Harriet Manaker Nominates Amy Sherman-Palladino's "The Marvelous Mrs. Masiel"

Cheyenne Candow Nominates Mary Pope Osbourne's Magic Tree House Series

Josette Hartley Nominates Ruta Sepetys' "Between Shades of Gray"

Mason Therrien Nominates DC Comics' "Injustice: Gods Among Us"

Braden Brothers Nominates James Manos Jr.'s "Dexter"

Casey Watson Nominates The Black Eyed Peas "Where Is The Love?"

Darrell Roberts Nominates Ishmael Baeh's "A Long Way Gone"

Sarah Otley Nominates BTS's "Idol"

Eryn Finnegan Nominates Anthony Bourdain's "Parts Unknown"

Stan Spilecki Nominates the Work of Bread and Puppet Theatre

John Rosenwald Nominates Indigenous Pottery Work

John Rosenwald Nominates Lao Tzu's "Daodejing"

John Rosenwald Nominates Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Sonnets to Orpheus"

Hope Williams Nominates Maya Angelou's "A Brave and Startling Truth"

Lowell Warren Nominates Janelle Monae's "Q.U.E.E.N."

Ryan Turner Nominates Beyonce's "Lemonade"

Bailey Shevenell Nominates J Cole's "Be Free"

Alexis Ramee Nominates Misty Copeland's Ballet Dancing

Eli Michaud Nominates Jordan Peele's "Get Out"

Elizabeth Leclerc Nominates Beyonce's "Formation"

Ike Libby Nominates Drake's "God's Plan"

Silas Hill Nominates Lalah Hathaway's "We are Young Gifted & Black"

Jay Hurteau Nominates Angie Thomas's The Hate You Give

Cora Curtis Nominates Solange Knowles' A Seat at the Table

Caroline Headley Nominates Jay-Z's "The Story of OJ"

Sarah Douglas Nominates the 1968 Black Power Salute and Beyonce's 2016 Super Bowl Half-Time Show

Emma Crovo Nominates Childish Gambino's Camp

Curtis Cole Nominates Jordan Peele's Get Out

Vanessa Brown Nominates Reyna Biddy's I Love My Love

Hannah Binder Nominates Sabaah Folayan's "Whose Streets?"

Olivia Bates Nominates Janelle Monae's Q.U.E.E.N.

Alexis Libby Nominates Jordan Peele's Get Out

Mary Ann Fournier Nominates Nagata Kabi's My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

Jessica Casey Nominates Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Nissa Flanagan Nominates John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany

Bryce Cundick Nominates Arrested Development

Aislinn Forbes Nominates Avatar: The Last Airbender

Harriet Manaker Nominates Broad City

Astra Pierson nomination

Mary Ann Fournier Nominates Queen's Greatest Hits

Clarissa Thompson Nominates Wendell Berry's "The Peace of Wild Things"

Foster NCP Nomination

Jim Logan nominates "Know Your Rights" by the Clash

Dan Gunn nominates Persuasion

LuAnn Yetter Nominates Highway 61 by Bob Dylan

Hayden Golden Nominates Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts

Tom Jessen Nominates John Coltrane's "Alabama"

Monica Klein Nominates Jane Elliott's Blues Eyes/Brown Eyes Experiment

Benjamin Friedlander Nominates The Stand Alone Device

Kenny Brechner and the Staff of DDG Nominate 2 Books about Resurrection!

Jonathan Cohen Nominates the Human Condition by Hannah Arendt

Peggy Yocum Nominates a Fan Tower by William Richard

Jeffrey Thomson Nominates The Iliad

Cheyenne Candow Nominates Illuminae by Aime Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Anthony Lewis Nominates The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Cameron Gelder Nominates The Velvet Underground and Nico

Misty Krueger Nominates Pride and Prejudice

Bill Jennings Nominates Monty Python's Flying Circus

Audrey Gidman Nominates The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert

Phillip Francis Nominates Living the Good Life by Helen and Scott Neering

Bryce Cundick Nominates Charles Portis's True Grit

Sarah Bay-Cheng Nominates The Simpsons

Maurice Murray Nominates Chekov's "The Bet"

Clarissa Thompson Nominates Maniac McGee by Jerry Spinelli

Julia Peck Nominates the website EcoArtTech.net

Samuel Borer Nominates 2 Dances by Jiří Kylián

James Thalen Nominates Katahdin: A Historic Journey by John Nuff

Lance Harvell Nominates A World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler

John Rosenwald Nominates the Sonnets to Orpheus

Louise Capizzo Nominates LOST TRAILS

Dylan Reynolds Nominates Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt

Jo Josephson Nominates the FEDCO Seed Catalog

Bob Neely Nominates Beethoven's 6th Symphony

Pete St. John Nominates The Lord of the Rings

Doug Reusch Nominates John Waldron's Tectonic Map

James Page Nominates Fable True by David Mallet

Connie Burns Nominates "The Glow of Copper," by Christopher Fahy

Kyle Clukey Nominates Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Katie LeBlanc Nominates "The Laugh of the Medusa" by Helene Cixous

Ethan Harman Nominates Dungeons and Dragons

David Levisque Nominates Schooner Fare's "Quebecois"

Eileen Kruetz Nominates the Poetry of Doug Rawlings

Michaela Zelie Nominates Banksy

Alicia Revitt Nominates Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Jonas Maines Nominates Shakespeare's HAMLET for the New Commons Project

Mana Abdi Nominates J. Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive

Mathew Revitt Nominates Cover Her Face by PD James

Brandon Becker Nominates Pirates of the Caribbean

Elizabeth Harrington Nominates the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Hailey and Jo Nominate Disney Pixar's Inside Out

James Jackson Sanborn Nominates Robert Persig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence

Daniel Picard & Sage Van Eekhout Nominate Parks and Recreation

Jessica Leibowitz Nominates Princess Mononoke

Isaac Michaud, Nicole Brewer, and William Garske Nominate Disney's Mulan

Drew Barton Nominates Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels

Laura Pulito Nominates Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma

Christa Grohoski Nominates Star Wars

Nancy Grant Nominates the Appalachian Trail

Jayne Lello Nominates David Mallett's Fable True

Elayna Chamberlin Nominates James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time

Andrea DeBaise Nominates I Know a Man...Ashley Bryan

Cassidy Marsh Nominates Pavement's Crooked Rain

Caitlin Hession Nominates Disney's WALL-E

Trevor Benson Nominates James Cameron's Avatar

McKinley Goozey Nominates The Iron Giant

Sonya Journey Nominates George Orwell's 1984

Abigail Brown Nominates The Last of Us

Hannah Zimmerman Nominates Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Julia Allen Nominates Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

Christina Dorman Nominates Hidden Figures

Tyler Gadaire Nominates Joss Whedon's Firefly

Betsy Paradis Nominates Skittacook by Janie C. Michaels

Cassidy Marsh Nominates Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

Jennifer Erikson Nominates Knowledge is Beauty by David McCandless

Brianna Rush Nominates Twin Peaks

Andy and Jim Nominate World War Z by Max Brooks

The Livermore Falls Book Group Nominates the Livermore Falls Book Group

Eireann Lorsung Nominates Reading Aloud

Wes McNair Nominates Poems by Emily Dickinson

Annie Moloney Nominates 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do by Kim Stafford

Kenneth Emerton Nominates Brokeback Mountain

Kirsten Corey Nominates Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Linda Britt Nominates Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Logan Holmes Nominates We Become What We Behold by Nicky Case

Aslinn Forbes nominates The Physician

Andrea Swiedom Nominates The True Cost by Andrew Morgan

Judy Johnson nominates The Wire

Jim Logan nominates "We Didn't Know" by Tom Paxton

Katie Worcester nominates All-American Badass

Stan Spilecki Nominates Fantasy Role-Playing Games

Michael Johnson nominates Dirt Road Home by Cheryl Savageau

Jim Logan Nominates Cisco Houston, Sings Songs of Woody Guthrie

Kara Chandler Nominates Damn by Kendrick Lamar

Sylvia Jadczak nominates Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Edward Hebert Nominates The Classic Canoe

Hanna Lavenson Nominates Inside Out and Back Again

Emma Parrish Nominates 1-800-273-8255 by Logic

Andre Siamundele Nominates Cracking the Codes by Shakti Butler

Charlie Eng Nominates Pure Heroine by Lorde

Scott Franzose Nominates Dr. Seuss

Noah Milne and Ian Nadeau Nominate 1-800-273-8255 by Logic

Jared Brown Nominates 1-800-273-8255 by Logic

Abriel Bordeau and Kelsey Dorman Nominate 1-800-273-8255 by Logic