Cayuga Reads is a collaborative effort of librarians and educators in Cayuga County. Organizations represented on the committee are the Auburn Enlarged City School District, Cayuga Community College, Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES and Seymour Library.

Books selected since the program's first year in 2006 are:

2006: Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

2007: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

2008: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

2009: Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde

2010: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (fiction), Murder in the Adirondacks: an American Tragedy Revisited by Craig Brandon (nonfiction) and A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (young adult fiction)

2011:The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (memoir), I Stay Near You: One Story in Three by M.E. Kerr