With the fall semester fast approaching, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2018-19 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 500 programs and their title selections, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2018-19. We will continue to update this listing to provide the most comprehensive record of programs available anywhere and welcome information about titles and institutions we might have overlooked. Please feel free to contact us here with additional information.
| University | Program Name | 2018-2019 |
| Adams State University | Common Reading Experience | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Adelphi University | Adelphi Community Reads | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil |
| Alaska Pacific University | Books of the Year | The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, ed. Daniel Lerch and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, by Naomi Klein and The Winona LaDuke Chronicles: Stories from the Front Lines in the Battle for Environmental Justice, by Winona LaDuke |
| Albion College | Common Reading Experience | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| Allegheny College | Allegheny Listens Common Reading | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Alvernia University | Common Readings | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford |
| American University | Writer as Witness | Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, by Arlie Russell Hochschild |
| Appalachian State University | Common Reading Program | The Laramie Project, by Moisés Kauffman and the Tectonic Theatre Project |
| Arcadia University | Summer Reading | Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty that Sparked a National Debate, by Helen Prejean |
| Arizona State Univeristy – School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership | Student Common Read | Democracy: An American Novel, by Henry Adams |
| Arizona State University – West Campus | Summer Community Read | Every Day, by David Levithan |
| Arkansas State University | Common Reader | The Secret World of Red Wolves: The Fight to Save North America’s Other Wolf, by T. Delene Beeland |
| Assumption College | First-Year Common Book | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, by Frederick Douglass |
| Auburn University | Auburn Connects! Common Book | One Amazing Thing, by Chitra Divakaruni |
| Augustana College (IL) | Summer Reading | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Aurora University – George Williams College | GWC Common Read | Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| Austin Peay State University | Peay Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Avila University | Common Reading Program | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwame |
| Bard College at Simon’s Rock | Book One | Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, by Gregory Pardlo |
| Barton College | Summer Reader | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Bates College | Common Reading | Real American: A Memoir, by Julie Lythcott-Haims |
| Bay Path University | First-Year Read | The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown, edited by Catherine Burns |
| Baylor University, Honors Program | Freshman Reading Project | How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds, by Alan Jacobs |
| Bellarmine University | Book in Common | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Bellevue College | BC Reads! | March Trilogy, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell |
| Berry College | Summer Reading Program | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| Bismarck State College | Campus Read | Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren |
| Bloomfield College | Orientation Reading Component summer reading | “The Decline of the Newspaper: An Overview,” by Adam Berger and “The Decline of Reading: An Overview,” by Micah L. Issitt and Kathryn Cook |
| Bluffton University | Summer Reading | Think No Evil: Inside the Story of the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting . . . and Beyond, by Jonas Beiler |
| Boise State University | Campus Read | 13 Essays
• “Letter to my Son,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates • “On Self-Respect,” by Joan Didion • “Redfaced and Shaking” by Natashia Deón • “Nobel Laureate Speech” by Malala Yousafzai • “The New American Divide,” by Charles Alan Murray • “Liberal Education & the Republic of the Imagination,” by Azar Nafisi • “Diversity Isn’t ‘Being in the Room’—It’s Whites Giving Up Their Seats,” by Ernest Owens • “How Diversity Works,” by Katherine W. Phillips • “Why Bother?” by Michael Pollan • “Does Truth Matter – Science, Pseudoscience, and Civilization,” by Carl Sagan • “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” by Peter Singer • “Pursuing Happiness as a Trans Woman of Color,” by Kai Cheng Thom • “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr |
| Boston College | Conversations in the First Year | Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans |
| Boston College – Woods College of Advancing Studies | Manresa Experience | Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Father Greg Boyle |
| Bowling Green State University | Common Reading | Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, by Adam Alter |
| Brandeis University | New Student Forum First-Year Book | Billy Flynn’s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain |
| Brazosport College | GATOR Reading Program | Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth and An Invisible Thread, by Laura Schroff |
| Brescia University | Common Read | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Bridgewater State University | One Book One Community | Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: One Woman’s Desperate, Funny, and Healing Journey to Explore 30 Religions by Her 30th Birthday, by Reba Riley |
| Bristol Community College | BCC OneBook Project | Ready Player One, by Ernst Cline |
| Brookhaven College | Open Book Project | Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel |
| Broward College | College Read | The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown, edited by Catherine Burns |
| Brown University | First Readings | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond |
| Bucknell University | First-Year Common Reading | Antigonick, by Anne Carson |
| Buena Vista University | Common Read University Seminar / Summer Reading | Grit: The Power and Passion of Perserverance, by Angela Duckworth |
| Bunker Hill Community College | One Book Program | The Years of Zero—Coming of Age Under the Khmer Rouge, by Seng Ty |
| Butler University | Common Reading Program | Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother, by Sonia Nazario |
| Butte College | Book in Common [w/ CSU Chico] | All They Will Call You, by Tim Z. Hernandez |
| Cal State Polytechnic University Pomona | Common Read | So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson |
| California Lutheran University | Freshman Seminar | Teach Yourself How to Learn, by Saundra McGuire |
| California State University – Bakersfield | One Book Project | Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World, by Baz Dreisinger |
| California State University – Channel Islands | Campus Reading Celebration | Hunger, by Roxanne Gay |
| California State University – Chico | Book in Common [w/ Butte College] | All They Will Call You, by Tim Z. Hernandez |
| California State University – East Bay | Common Read | A Selfish Plan to Save the World: Finding Big Purpose in Big Problems, by Justin Dillon |
| California State University – Fresno | Reading About Water | Chasing Water: A Guide for Moving from Scarcity to Sustainability, by Brian Richter |
| California State University – Maritime | Common Reading Experience | The Leavers, by Lisa Ko |
| California State University – Monterey Bay | Common Reading Experience | When the Emperor Was Divine, by Julie Otsuka |
| California State University – Northridge | Freshman Common Reading | Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family, by Amy Ellis Nutt |
| California State University – Sacramento | One Book Program | Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family, by Amy Ellis Nutt |
| California State University – San Marcos | One Book, One University | The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, by Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
| Cardinal Strich University | Common Read | When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi |
| Carlow University | Common Reader | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Common Reading | The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch |
| Carthage College | First-Year Read | The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Du Bois |
| Case Western Reserve University | Common Reading Program | No Matter the Wreckage, by Sarah Kay |
| Catawba College | Common Community Reading | “Their Finest Hour,” by Winston Churchill |
| Catawba Valley Community College | Interdisciplinary Read | Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Addiction, by Sam Quinones |
| Catholic University of America | Summer Reading | CUA Primer, “In a Sense All Things” compilation |
| Centenary College of Louisiana | TREK Program | There’s Something I Want You To Do, by Charles Baxter |
| Central College | Common Reading Experience | Sentenced to Life: Mental Illness, Tragedy and Transformation, by Joan Becker |
| Central Methodist University | Freshman Community Read | Rules for a Knight, by Ethan Hawke |
| Central Ohio Tech College | One Book, One Community | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman |
| Centre College | First-Year Book | Tell Me How It Ends, by Valeria Luiselli |
| Chadron State College | Common Intellectual Experience | March (Book One), by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell |
| Chaffey College | One Book, One College | Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid |
| Chesapeake College | One Maryland One Book | Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA Evidence, by Tim Junkin |
| Christian Brothers University | Fresh Reads | The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead |
| Claflin University | Common Reader | The Rains: Voices for American Liberty, by Sulayman Clark |
| Clarkson University | Common Book Project | Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong, by Paul A. Offit, M.D. |
| College of Charleston | The College Reads! | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| College of New Jersey | Summer Reading | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| College of the Holy Cross | Summer Reading | The Rain in Portugal, by Billy Collins |
| College of the Redwoods | Book of the Year | The Madonnas of Echo Park, by Brando Skyhorse |
| College of William & Mary | Common Book for Freshmen | Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly |
| College of William & Mary – Richard Bland College | Common Read | Something Must be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia town, a Civil Rights Battle, by Kristen Green |
| College of Wooster | Summer Reading | Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, by Edward Humes |
| Collin County Community College | Book-in-Common | Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City, by Kate Winkler Dawson |
| Colorado College | Common Book Read | The Original Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley |
| Colorado Mountain College | CMC Common Reader | Fig, by Sarah Schantz and Ascend and Transcend, by Kimberly Harding |
| Colorado School of Mines | Mines Common Read | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Community College of Aurora | Big Read | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Community College of Baltimore County | Community Book Connection | Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi |
| Concordia College, Moorhead (MN) | Summer Book Read | The Power, by Naomi Alderman |
| Concordia University, Texas | Common Reader | The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi |
| Connecticut College | One Book, One Region | Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid |
| Corning Community College | One Book, One College | Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley |
| Cosumnes Community College | One Book | The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, by Archbishop Desmond Tutu & the Dalai Lama |
| Cuesta College | Book of the Year | Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me, by Ana Castillo |
| Cumberland County College | One Book, One College | The Orphan’s Tale, by Pam Jenoff |
| CUNY Baruch College | First Year Text / Freshman Text | The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America, by Russell Shorto |
| CUNY Hostos Community College | Hostos Reads! | How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds, by Alan Jacobs |
| CUNY, Queensborough Community College | Common Read | The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities, by Will Allen |
| Cuyahoga Community College | Common Reading / Tri-C Reads | Carry On: A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely Family, by Lisa Fenn |
| Dartmouth College | Shared Academic Experience | “The Epic of American Civilization,” by José Clemente Orozco [painting] |
| Davenport University | First-Year Read | Habitudes: Images That Form Leadership Habits & Attitudes, by Tim Elmore |
| Davidson College | Common Reading Book | Color and Character: West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equality, by Pamela Grundy |
| Defiance College | First Year Common Read | Prisoner of Her Past: A Son’s Memoir, by Howard Reich |
| Delaware County Community College | College-Wide Reading Program | Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, by Raj Patel |
| DePauw University | Common Read | “The Machine Stops,” by E. M. Forster and “A Hot Trend: The Internet, Social Media & The Elderly,” by Anita Kamiel and “Talk to Each Other, Not Your Phone,” by Sherry Turkle and “The Paradox Of Robots Taking All Our Jobs,” by Modeled Behavior and Adam Ozimek and “A World without Work Is Coming – It Could Be Utopia or It Could Be Hell,” by Ryan Avent |
| Des Moines Area Community College | One Book One College | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Dickinson College | Common Read | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Dominican College | Common Read | The Color of Water, by James McBride |
| Drake University | Humanities Reads | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Drake University | Bulldog Foundations | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Duke University | Common Experience Summer Reading Program | Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward |
| Earlham College | Summer Reading | “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” directed by Benh Zeitlin (film) |
| East Carolina University | Pirate Read | The Last Ballad, by Wiley Cash |
| East Stroudsburg University | One Book, One Campus | The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez |
| Eastern Mennonite University | EMU Common Read | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by David Isay |
| Eastern Michigan University – Honors College | Honors Common Read | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel |
| Eastern Washington University | EWU Common Read | The Good Food Revolution: Growing Health Food, People and Communities, by Will Allen |
| Eastfield College | Common Book | Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History, by Art Spiegelman |
| Eckerd College | Summer Reading | Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine |
| Edgewood College | Common Reading | How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century, by Louis V. Clark |
| Elms College | Common Reading | Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time, by Andrew Forsthoefel |
| Elon University | Common Reading | Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Town, a Civil Rights Battle, by Kristen Green |
| Emory University | Emory Integrity Project | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Evergreen State College | Orientation Common Reading | “Turning Strangers into Political Friends,” by Danielle Allen and “Trust Me,” by Stephen Dubner [podcast] |
| Fairleigh Dickinson University | College Writing Program | Friendswood, by Rene Steinke |
| Fashion Institute of Technology | Common Read Program | The 57 Bus: A True Story About Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives, by Dashka Slater |
| Finlandia University | Campus Read | Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls, by Lindsay King-Miller |
| Fitchburg State University | Fitchburg Community Read | Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng |
| Flagler College | First Year Book | American War, by Omar El Akkad |
| Florida A&M University | Freshman Summer Reading Program | The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters, by Wes Moore |
| Florida College | Common Reading | Hiroshima, by John Hersey |
| Florida International University | FIU Common Reading | A Stone of Hope: A Memoir, by Jim St. Germain |
| Florida State College at Jacksonville | Author Series Learning Community | The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Book Lover’s Adventures, by Josh Hanagarne |
| Fort Valley State University | Common Read | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Franklin College | Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar | |
| Fullerton College | One Book, One College | Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid |
| Gannon University | Gannon READS | Hot Dogs and Hamburgers: Unlocking Life’s Potential by Inspiring Literacy at Any Age, by Rob Shindler |
| Gavilan College | One Book Program | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| George Mason University | Mason|Reads | March (Book One), by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell |
| George Washington University | First Chapter | Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin, by Susana Herrera |
| Georgetown University | Marino Family International Writers’ Academic Workshop | Do Not Say We Have Nothing, by Madeleine Thien |
| Georgia College | GCReads | • “People Like Us” by David Brooks
• “Is Google Making us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr • “The Riddle of the Apostle Islands” by William Cronon • “Red Faced and Shaking” by Natashia Deon • “Solitude and Leadership” by William Deresiewicz • “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” by Ralph Ellison • “What Do Women Leaders Have in Common?” by Sharmilla Ganesan • “Tell Me Where it Hurts” by Atul Gawande • “The Weight of James Baldwin” by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansan • “The Default Power: the False Prophecy of American Decline” by Josef Joffe • “Why I like Country Music” by James Alan McPherson • “50 Years After 1968, We Are Still Living In Its Shadow” by Jon Meacham • “The American South will bear the worst of climate change’s cost” by Robinson Meyer • “The Mountain On the Landscape of Flannery O’Connor” by William F. Monroe • “The Dancing Mind” by Toni Morrison • “Liberal Education & the Republic of Imagination” by Azar Nafisi • “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell • “How Not to Die in America” by Molly Osberg • “How Diversity Makes us Smarter” by Katherine W. Phillips • “I, Pencil” by Leonard E. Reed • “With Drawl” by Laura Relyea • “Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Acts of Resistance” by Victor Rios • “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris • “The Presumption of Guilt” by Bryan Stevenson • “Total Inequality” by Derek Thompson • “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South” by Alice Walker • “This is Water: 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address” By David Foster Wallace • “The Terrifying Future of Fake News” by Charlie Warzel |
| Georgia Gwinnett College | Common Reading Initiative | The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy., by Tom Rinaldi |
| Georgia State University | First-Year Book Program | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond |
| Gettysburg College | First-Year Reading | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Glendale Community College | One Book One GCC | The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the LA Riots, by Brenda Stevenson |
| Goucher College | Summer Reading | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Green River College | One Books | Born Bright: A Young Girl’s Journey from Nothing to Something in America, by C. Nicole Mason |
| Grinnell College | Common Reading | Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi |
| Guilford College | Common Reading | In the Country We Love: My Family Divided, by Diane Guerrero |
| Gustavus Adolphus College | Reading in Common Program | The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities, by Will Allen |
| Hamline University | Common Reading | Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz |
| Hampshire College | Common Reading | Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler |
| Hampton University | HU Annual Read-In | The Principles of Leadership: The Harvey Leadership Model, by William R. Harvey |
| Harding University | Harding Read | Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis |
| Harrisburg Area Community College | One Book/One Community | Poison Study, by Maria V. Snyder |
| Hartwick College | New Student Read | Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans |
| Harvard University | Community Conversations | • “The Danger of a Single Story,” a TEDtalk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
•Five short essays written by recent and current Harvard students: “Trans-Formative Experiences” by Ming-Li Wu ’21; “Moving Forward” by Christopher Lewis ’20; “Living Beyond the Numbers” by Benjamin Schafer ’19; “Learning as Growth” by Laura Veira-Ramirez ’20; and “Finding Home Far from Nowhere” by Kiera O’Brien ’20 |
| Hawkeye Community College | Hawkeye Reads | Ready Player One, by Ernst Cline |
| Henderson State University | Reddie Read Program | Wine to Water: How One Man Saved Himself While Trying to Save the World, by Doc Hendley |
| High Point University | Common Read | We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter, by Celeste Headlee |
| Hilbert College | Hilbert College Reads | The Lightless Sky, by Gulwali Passarley |
| Hiram College | First Year Common Reading | Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley |
| Hobart and William Smith Colleges | Common Read | Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren |
| Hofstra University | Common Reading | Driver’s License (Object Lessons), by Meredith Castile |
| Hollins University | Common Reading | Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren |
| Holy Names University | University Common Reading | All American Boys, by Jason Reynolds and Brandon Kiely |
| Hood College | First-Year Read | Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family’s Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them, by Gina Kolata |
| Hope College | “Big Read” Holland Area Community | Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel |
| Howard Community College | Book Connection | A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, A Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home, by Steve Pemberton |
| Illinois Central College | One Book One College | Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, by Mary Shelley |
| Illinois College | Summer Common Reading / IC Connections summer reading text | The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | Summer Reading Program | Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family, by Amy Ellis Nutt |
| Indiana State University | Fall Read / Summer Reading Program | A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison, by Dwayne Betts |
| Indiana University East | OneBook | This Far by Faith: Twenty Years at Cass Community, by Faith Fowler |
| Indiana University, Kelley School of Business | Common Read Program | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Indiana University Northwest | One Book…One Campus…One Community | Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard |
| Indiana University Southeast | Common Experience | Where Am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes, Kelsey Timmerman |
| Jacksonville State University | JSU Reads | Suicide Notes, Michael Thomas Ford |
| John Wood Community College | One Book, One College | Ready Player One, by Ernst Cline |
| Johns Hopkins University | Common Read | The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, by Jo Ann Robinson and David J. Garrow |
| Juniata College | Summer Reading | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Kalamazoo College | Summer Common Reading | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| Kansas State University | K-State Book Network’s Common Reading | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Kent State University | Common Reading | Everyday Ambassadors: Make a Difference by Connecting in a Disconnected World, by Kate Otto |
| Kentucky Wesleyan University | Freshman Read | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| Knox College | Summer Common Reading | The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today, by Bryan Doerries |
| Lackawanna College | Lackawanna Reads One Book, One College | UGH!?! Not Another Diversity Book: When Multicultural Competence Meets a Real Reality, by Justin LaKyle Brown |
| Lafayette College | Community Reading Book | Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly |
| Lansing Community College | One Book One LCC | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Le Moyne College | Summer Common Reading Assignment | Going to Meet the Man, by James Baldwin |
| Lebanon Valley College | First-Year Common Reading Program | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Lehigh University | Summer Reading | No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine, by Rachel Pearson |
| Lenoir-Rhyne University | Campus Read | Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, by Lalai Lalami |
| Lewis University | First Year Common Reader | Saving Lives in Auschwitz: The Prisoners’ Hospital in Buna-Monowitz, by Dr. Ewa Bacon |
| Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania | Common Reading | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Lone Star College – Kingwood | Common Read | 1984, by George Orwell |
| Lone Star College – University Park | ReadUP! | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Los Angeles Valley College | One Book, One College | The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Louisiana State University – Honors College | Summer Shared Read | Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives, by Gary Younge |
| Loyola Marymount University | LMU Common Book | Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America, by Eboo Patel |
| Loyola University Chicago | First-Year Text | Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling, by Andrew Hoffman |
| Loyola University Maryland | Common Text Program | The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin and |
| Seuss-isms, by Dr. Seuss | ||
| Luther College | Summer Reading | The Odyssey, by Homer (trans. Emily Wilson) |
| Lynchburg College | Common Reading Experience | Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and The Start of a New Nation, by David A. Price |
| Malone University | Malone Reads | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Manchester Community College | Common Read | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Manhattanville College | First-Year Common Read | Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans |
| Mansfield University | Summer Reading | Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley |
| Marist College | Common Reading | It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of American School in the World’s #1 Failed State, by Jonathan Starr |
| Marymount Manhattan College | Summer Reading | The Colossus of New York, by Colson Whitehead |
| Maryville University | Maryville Reads | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts | First Year Reading | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT Reads | Dawn, by Octavia E. Butler |
| Massasoit Community College | One Book, One College | Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, by Monique M. Morris |
| MassBay Community College | OneBook Project | Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds, edited by David H. Guston |
| Medaille College | Freshman Summer Reading Program | Boy, Snow, Bird, by Helen Oyeyemi |
| Meredith College | Summer Reading Program | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| Messiah College | Common Reading Assignment | Learning for the Love of God, by Donald Opitz and Derek Melleby |
| Metropolitan Community College – Longview (MO) | Common Read | Some of My Best Friends Are Black, by Tanner Colby |
| Metropolitan Community College – Maple Woods (MO) | Common Read | Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, by Lalai Lalami |
| Metropolitan Community College – Penn Valley (MO) | Common Read | Hamilton: The Revolution, by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter |
| Metropolitan State University Denver | 1 Book/1 Project/2 Transform | The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, by Anthony Ray Hinton |
| Miami Dade College – Kendall Campus | A Good Read | The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead |
| Miami University | Summer Reading Program | Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, A Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing, by Wil Haygood |
| Michigan State University | One Book, One Community | My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor |
| Michigan Tech | Summer Reading | So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson |
| Middle Tennessee State University | Summer Reading Program | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Middlebury College | Summer Reading | The Origins of Others, by Toni Morrison |
| Minnesota State University – Moorhead | One Book, One Community | The Cartographer of No Man’s Land, by P. S. Duffy |
| Mississippi State University | Maroon Edition—MSU Common Reading Project | Calico Joe, by John Grisham |
| Mississippi University for Women | Common Reading Initiative | The World’s Largest Man, by Harrison Scott Key |
| Missouri State University | Common Reader | Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren |
| Mitchell College | Common Read | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by David Isay |
| Molloy College | Common Reading Program | Tough as They Come, by Travis Mills |
| Monmouth College (IL) | ILA Summer Reading | Becoming a Learner: Realizing the Opportunity of Education, by Matthew L. Sanders |
| Monroe County Community College | One Book, One Community of Monroe County / Big Read | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford |
| Montana State University | Common Reading | Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, by Michael Sandel |
| Montcalm Community College | MCC Reads | The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak |
| Montcalm Community College | One Book One County | Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir with Recipes from an American Family, by Kathleen Flinn |
| Moorpark College | One Campus, One Book | What the Best College Students Do, by Ken Bain |
| Moraine Valley Community College | One Book, One College | Ms. Marvel, by G. Willow Wilson |
| Moravian College | Common Reading Program | Hiroshima, by John Hersey |
| Mount Holyoke College | Common Read | The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez |
| Mount St. Mary’s University (CA) | Campus Read | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capό Crucet |
| Muhlenberg College | Summer Read | Swing Time, by Zadie Smith |
| Nash Community College | Nash Reads | Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg |
| Nassau Community College | Common Text | Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue |
| Naugatuck Valley Community College | One Book, One College | Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, by Joshua Davis |
| Nevada State College | Common Reading Program | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| New York University, College of Arts and Sciences and Tisch School of Arts | Freshman Dialogue | Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue |
| New York University, Gallatin School | Summer Reading | Incidents of a Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs |
| New York University, Liberal Studies | Summer Reading | The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward |
| New York University, Steinhardt School | New Student Reading | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert |
| New York Univerity, Tandon School of Engineering | First-Year Dialogue | Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth |
| Nichols College | Nichols Reads | Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah |
| Norfolk State University | Freshman Common Reader Program | “Black Panther,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Norwalk Community College | NCC Common Read | Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence, by Brian Clements |
| North Carolina A&T State University | Text-in-Community | Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck take you from Ordinary to Extraordinary, by Linda Kaplan-Thaler and Robin Koval |
| North Carolina State University | Common Reading Program | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer |
| North Central College | Summer Reading | Becoming a Learner: Realizing the Opportunity of Education, by Matthews L. Sanders |
| North Idaho College | NIC Common Reading Program: Cardinal Reads | Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger |
| North Iowa Area Community College | Common Read | The Terrorist’s Son: A Story of Choice, by Zak Ebrahim |
| North Lake College | Blazer Common Book | Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah |
| Northeastern State University | Common Read | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by David Isay |
| Northeastern University | First Pages | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond |
| Northern Arizona University | Flagstaff Reads/NAUreads | Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans |
| Northern Illinois University | First Year Common Reading Experience | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capό Crucet |
| Northern Kentucky University | Book Connection | The Distance Between Us, by Reyna Grande |
| Northern State University | Common Read | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Northern Vermont University -Johnson | Common Reading Initiative | 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives, by Dashka Slater |
| Northwestern University | One Book, One Northwestern | The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood |
| Northwood University | Omniquest Program | Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, by General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell |
| Norwich University | First Read | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Notre Dame of Maryland University | Common Reading | Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir, by Rachel Lloyd |
| Oakland University – Honors College | Common Read | Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior, by Leonard Mlodiniow |
| Occidental College | First-Year Summer Reading | How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, by Moshin Hamid |
| Ocean County College | Common Read | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Ohio Northern University | Campus Common Reading | Dreamland: The True Tale of American’s Opiate Epidemic, by Sam Quinones |
| Oklahoma City University | OCU Reads | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Oklahoma State University, , The College of Human Sciences | Freshman Reading Program | How to Break Up with Your Phone, by Catherine Price |
| Onondaga Community College | Common Read | The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood |
| Oregon State University – Cascades | Campus Read | A History of the World in 6 Glasses, by Tom Standage |
| Otterbein University | Common Book | The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead |
| Our Lady of the Lake University | Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah | |
| Owensboro Community & Technical College | OCTC Common Read | Getting Out, by Marsha Norman |
| Pace University | Common Reader | Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue |
| Pacific Lutheran University | Common Reading | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Pacific University | FYS Summer Reading | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Palm Beach State College | Common Reader | Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly |
| Palomar College | Palomar Reads | The Common Good, by Robert Reich |
| Pasadena City College | One Book, One College | Little Nation & Other Stories, by Alejandro Morales |
| Pennsylvania State University – Altoona | Common Read | Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid |
| Pennsylvania State University – Berks | Common Reading Program | The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—and How to Make the Most of Them Now, by Meg Jay |
| Pennsylvania State University – New Kensington | First-Year Summer Reading | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| Piedmont Virginia Community College | One Book Project | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert |
| Pierce College | One Book, One Campus | Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retalling, by Marc Mauer and Sabrina Jones |
| Polk State College | Common Read Program | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by David Isay |
| Pomona College | First-Year Book | Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid |
| Princeton University | Princeton Pre-Read | Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech, by Keith Whittington |
| Providence College | Common Reading Program | Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah |
| Purdue University | Big Read / Common Reading Program | The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead |
| Quinsigamond Community College | One Book Project | Hammer Head: the Making of a Carpenter, by Nina MacLaughlin |
| Ramapo College of New Jersey | FYS Summer Reading | The Leavers, by Lisa Ko |
| Regis College | Common Reading Program | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Community Read | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil |
| Rhode Island College | Open Books-Open Minds | Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid |
| Rhodes College | Rhodes Reads | The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead |
| Rider University | Shared Read Program | How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America, by Moustafa Bayoumi |
| Rivier University | One Book, One Campus | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by David Isay |
| Rocky Mountain College | Common Read | Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, by Kate Moore |
| Roger Williams University | Common Reading | The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, by Jeff Goodell |
| Rosemont College | First-Year Connections Seminar Common Read | Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle |
| Rutgers University, Camden | Summer Read | The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead |
| Rutgers University, Honors College, New Brunswick | Summer Reading | Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, by Steven Pinker |
| Rutgers University, SAS Honors Program | Summer Reading | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| Saddleback College | One Book, One College | Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, by David Sheff |
| St. Bonaventure University | All Bonaventure Reads | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| St. Edward’s University | Freshman Common Text | Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah |
| Saint Francis University | Summer Reading | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| St. Louis University | First Year Common Reading Program | “Into the Woods,” “Sweeney Todd,” and “West Side Story,” by Stephen Sondheim |
| Saint Mary’s University of California | FYE Common Reading | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota | Freshman Read | Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi |
| Saint Michael’s College | Common Text | Hamilton: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording), by Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| Salem College | Summer Read | What We Lose, by Zinzi Clemmons |
| Salem State University | First Year Reading Experience (FYRE) | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Sam Houston State University | Common Reader Program | What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism, by Dan Rather |
| San Jose State University | SJSU Reading Program | The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World, by John Carlos and Dave Zirin |
| San Juan College | One Book, One Community | March (Book One), by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell |
| Santa Barbara City College | SBCC Reads | The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival, by Alicia Partnoy |
| Santa Clara University | Common Reading | “The Moral Bucket List,” by David Brooks and “A New Model for Campus Health: Integrating Well-being Into Campus Life,” by Pam Watts |
| Seattle University | Common Text | Tulalip from My Heart: An Autobiographical Account of a Reservation Community, by Harriet Shelton Dover |
| Seton Hall University | Summer Reading | In Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet, by James Orbesen |
| Sewanee The University of the South | Common Book | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Shepherd University | Common Reading | The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea, by Hyeonseo Lee |
| Siena College | Summer Reading For First Year Seminar | Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley and Gris Grimly |
| Siena Heights University | Summer Reader | How To Fly A Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention and Discovery, by Kevin Ashton |
| Sierra Nevada College | Common Read | The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers, edited by Brian Turner |
| Simmons College | Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue | |
| Simpson University | On the Same Page | Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone, by Brené Brown |
| Skidmore College | Summer Reading Program | Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid |
| Smith College | Smith Reads | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Joy Fowler |
| Somerset Community College | SCC Reads | 1984, George Orwell |
| South Dakota State University | Common Read | Wrecked, by Maria Padian |
| Southeastern Louisiana University | Common Read | Battleborn, by Claire Vaye Watkins |
| Southern Methodist University | Common Reading | Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren |
| Spelman College | Summer Reading | American Marriage, by Tayari Jones and |
| The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead | ||
| St. John’s University | Freshman Summer Reading Book | Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey From a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League, by Dan-El Padilla Peralta |
| Stark State College | Common Read | The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt, by David Giffels |
| Stanford University | Three Books Program | Brother, I’m Dying, by Edwidge Danticat and |
| Signs Preceding the End of the World, by Yuri Herrera and | ||
| Native Speaker, by Chang-rae Lee | ||
| Stevens Institute of Technology | First Reading Program | Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, by Joshua Davis |
| Stockton University | Freshman Common Reading | Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel |
| Stony Brook University | First-Year Reading | My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor |
| SUNY Brockport | Freshman Summer Reading Program | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| SUNY Cortland | Common Reading | A Field Guide to Zombies and Surviving the Apocalypse! [course pack] |
| SUNY Maritime College | Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery, by Scott Kelly | |
| SUNY Old Westbury | First Year Common Reading Program | The Coming, by Daniel Black |
| SUNY Oneonta | Common Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| SUNY Oswego | Oswego Reading Initiative | Tell Me How It Ends, by Valeria Luiselli |
| Susquehanna University | Common Reading Program | 2018-19 theme, “Resilience,” in common reading anthology, Perspectives on Resilience.
• “On Campus, Failure Is on the Syllabus” by Jessica Bennett • “En La Calle San Sebastián” by Martín Espada • “Why Some People Are More Resilient Than Others” by Denise Cummins • “Gender equality, resilience to climate change, and the design of livestock projects for rural livelihoods” (2015) by Nicola J.C. Chanamuto and Stephen J.G. Hall • “The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print is Far From Dead” by Alexandra Alter • “Resilience in Immigrant and Refugee Families” by Jennifer Doty • Letter from WWI soldier Désiré Edmond Renault translated by Amanda DuCharme •”Black Men Emerging” by Derrick R. Brooms • “The Profound Emptiness of ‘Resilience'” by Parul Sehgal • “Resilience: Surfing the Waves with Style,” excerpt from The Mindful Twenty-Something by Holly B. Rogers • Excerpt from Get in the Game by Cal Ripken Jr |
| Sweet Briar College | Common Reading | Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Syracuse University | Syracuse Reads Program | Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah |
| Texas A&M International University | Campus Read /Freshman Read / “Reading the Globe” | First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, by Loung Ung |
| Texas A&M University | Brazos Valley Reads | Island of Bones and How Winter Began, by Joy Castro |
| Texas A&M University – Commerce | Book in Common | A Long Way Home, by Saroo Brierley |
| Texas A&M University – Texarkana | Common Reading Experience | Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create, by Cordelia Fine |
| Texas Christian University | TCU Common Reading | Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline |
| Texas State University | Common Reading | The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World, by Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman |
| Texas Woman’s University | Book-in-Common | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| The Citadel | Summer Reading Program | A Few Good Men, by Aaron Sorkin |
| The College of New Jersey | Summer Reading | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| Thomas College | Common Read | The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy., by Tom Rinaldi |
| Trinity University | Reading TUgether | The Prince of Los Cocuyos, by Richard Blanco |
| Trinity Washington University | Trinity Reads | Brother, I’m Dying, by Edwidge Danticat |
| Tufts University | Common Reading Program | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann |
| Tulane University | Tulane Reading Project | Beartown, by Fredrik Backman |
| University of Akron | Common Reading Program | Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, by David Sheff |
| University of Alabama – Birmingham | Common-Read Discussion Book | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi |
| University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, Honors College | Common Book Experience | American War, by Omar El Akkad |
| University of Alaska, Anchorage | Books of the Year | The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, ed. Daniel Lerch and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, by Naomi Klein and The Winona LaDuke Chronicles: Stories from the Front Lines in the Battle for Environmental Justice, by Winona LaDuke |
| University of Alaska, Southeast | One Campus, One Book | Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, by Joshua Davis |
| University of Arizona – Honors Program | Common Reading Program | On Trails: An Exploration, by Robert Moor |
| University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | One Book One Community | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| University of Arkansas, Fort Smith | Big Read | Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel |
| University of California, Berkeley | On the Same Page | The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood |
| University of California, Davis | Campus Community Book Project | The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, by Douglas Abrams |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | UCSB Reads | Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren |
| University of California, Santa Cruz – Cowell College | Summer Reading | Island of a Thousand Mirrors, by Nayomi Munaweera and Unflattening, by Nick Sousanis |
| University of California, Santa Cruz – Crown College | Summer Reading Assignment | “Bloodchild,” by Octavia E. Butler and “The Girl Who Was Plugged In,” by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Bradley Sheldon) and “Mono no Aware,” by Ken Liu |
| University of California, Santa Cruz – Oakes College | Summer Reading | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander |
| University of Central Arkansas | Summer Reading | The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit, by Michael Finkel |
| University of Central Florida | Common Reading | Dust Tracks on a Road, by Zora Neale Hurston |
| University of Chicago – Booth School of Business | Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want, by Nicholas Epley | |
| University of Cincinnati – McMicken College of Arts & Sciences | UC Common Read | Radioactive, by Lauren Redniss |
| University of Delaware | First Year Common Reader | Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren |
| University of Denver | One Book, One DU | Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way, by Molly Birnbaum |
| University of Detroit Mercy | Common Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| University of Evansville, Honors Program | Common Read | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| University of Georgia – College of Education | Big Read | To Live, by Yu Hua |
| University of Hartford – Hillyer College | Common Reading | The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg |
| University of Houston | Provost Summer Read Program | In The Country We Love: My Family Divided, by Diane Guerrero |
| University of Houston – Clear Lake | Common Reader Program | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by David Isay |
| University of Houston – Downtown | Freshman Common Reader Program | The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood |
| University of Idaho | Common Read | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | One Book One Campus | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| University of Iowa | One Community, One Book | Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship, by Michelle Kuo |
| University of Kansas | KU Common Books | Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, by Edwidge Danticat |
| University of Kansas Medical Center | One Book | Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan |
| University of La Verne | One Book, One University | Thank You for Your Service, by David Finkel |
| University of Louisiana – Monroe | Summer Reading Program | This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman |
| University of Maine, Honors College | Honors Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| University of Mary Washington | Common Read | “Dear Evan Hansen” (text and soundtrack) |
| University of Maryland | First Year Book | The Refugees, by Viet Than Nyguen |
| University of Maryland, Baltimore County | New Student Book Experience | Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Common Read | Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren |
| University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth | Summer Reading Assignment | Selections from Thisibelieve.org |
| University of Miami | One Book, One U | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| University of Michigan, Engineering | Engineering Common Reading Experience | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| University of Michigan – Flint | Common Read | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert |
| University of Minnesota – Twin Cities | CEHD Reads | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| University of Mississippi | Common Reading Experience | Collected Stories, by William Faulkner |
| University of Missouri – Kansas City | Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar | |
| University of Missouri, Honors College | Honors College One Read | First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, by Loung Ung |
| University of Missouri, Law School | Mizzou Law One Read | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander |
| University of Mount Olive | Common Reading | One Second After, by William Forstchen |
| University of Nebraska – Omaha | Common Reader Experience | My Antonia, by Willa Cather |
| University of North Carolina – Asheville | Summer Reading | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill | Carolina Summer Reading | Popular: Finding Happiness and Success in a World That Cares Too Much About the Wrong Kinds of Relationships, by Mitch Prinstein |
| University of North Carolina – Charlotte | Common Reading Experience | Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah |
| University of North Carolina – Greensboro | Keker First Year Common Read | The Distance Between Us, by Reyna Grande |
| University of Northern Iowa | Common Read | Lou Sullivan: Daring to be a Man Among Men, by Brice D. Smith |
| University of Notre Dame – Glynn Family Honors Program | Summer Reading | Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain or Sync, by Steven H. Strogatz or Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare or Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer or Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley or Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance or Dreams of My Father, by Barack Obama |
| University of Oregon | Common Reading | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| University of Pennsylvania | Penn Reading Project | The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder |
| University of Pittsburgh, Pitt Public Health | One Book One Community | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond |
| University of Portland | ReadUP – One Book Together | Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann |
| University of Rhode Island | Common Reading | The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony With Your Brain, by Terry Doyle and Todd Zakrajsek |
| University of Richmond | One Book, One Richmond | When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matters Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele |
| University of Saint Joseph | Common Read | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| University of Saint Mary | Common Read | The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy., by Tom Rinaldi |
| University of San Diego | Just Read! | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Schaefer |
| University of Scranton | Royal Reads | Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor, by James J. O’Connell, M.D. |
| University of South Alabama | Common Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| University of South Carolina | First-Year Reading Experience | A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas, by Warren Berger |
| University of South Carolina Aiken | First-Year Reading Experience | Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey From a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League, by Dan-El Padilla Peralta |
| University of South Carolina Upstate | PREFACE | The Weight of this World, by David Joy |
| University of South Dakota – Honors Program | Honors First-Year Reading Project | Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green |
| University of South Florida | Common Reading Experience | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| University of Southern Indiana | Bonding Through Books | The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change, by Adam Braun |
| University of Southern Mississippi – Honors College | Freshman Experience Summer Reading Program / The Big Read | Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan |
| University of South Carolina – Beaufort | First-Year Reading Experience | In The Country We Love: My Family Divided, by Diane Guerrero |
| University of Tennessee – Chattanooga | Read2Achieve | Immigration Essays, by Sybil Baker |
| University of Texas at Tyler | Common Reading | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| University of Toledo | Common Read | Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger and Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from The Best in The World, by Timothy Ferris |
| University of Utah – Honors College | Summer Reading | The Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler |
| University of Vermont | First-Year Summer Reading | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| University of Virginia, Curry School of Education | Curry Common Read | Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism, by Ron Suskind |
| University of Virginia, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | Common Reading Experience | Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly |
| University of Wisconsin – Madison | Go Big Read | The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, by Dan Egan |
| University of Wisconsin – Madison, Chadbourne Residential College | Common Read | How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America, by Moustafa Bayoumi |
| University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee | Common Reading Experience | “Fifty Years Ago, Protesters Took On The Miss America Pageant and Electrified the Feminist Movement,” by Roxanne Gay |
| University of Wisconsin – Stout | Honors Colloquium/ Into the Book | Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, by Kathryn Schulz and |
| Utah State University | Common Literature Experience | The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown |
| Utah Valley University | Freshman Reading Program | The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea, by Hyeonseo Lee |
| Vanderbilt University | Commons Reading | The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by Jonathan Haidt |
| Vassar College | Common Reading | Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay |
| Villanova University | One Book | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Common Reading | Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, by Valeria Luiselli |
| Virginia Wesleyan University | Common Read | Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng |
| Viterbo Univeristy | First Year Student Common Read | The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, by Kao Kalia Yang |
| Wagner College | Summer Reading Assignment | We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Wallace State College | Common Read Initiative | What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question by Po Bronson |
| Wartburg College | Knight Reading | Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Washburn University | iRead | The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan |
| Washington College | First Year Book | Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett |
| Washington State University | WSU Common Reading | Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything, by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith |
| Washington State University – Tri-Ciites | Common Reading | Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Common Reading Program | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie |
| Wesleyan University | First Year Matters Common Reading | A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain, by Christina Crosby |
| West Kentucky Community & Technical College | One Book Read | Water Street, by Crystal Wilkinson |
| West Texas A&M University | Readership WT | Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline |
| West Virginia University | Campus Read | Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel |
| Western Carolina University | One Book | The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez |
| Western Michigan University | University Common Read | American Gods, by Neil Gaiman |
| Western Washington University | Western Reads | Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, edited by Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha |
| Western Wyoming Community College | HMDV 1005 | The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood |
| Westminster College (MO) | One Read | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann |
| Westminster College (PA) | The Next Chapter: First Year Program | People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks |
| Westmont College | Westmont Summer Reads | An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus’ Rhythms of Work and Rest, by Alan Fadling |
| Wichita State University | WSU Reads | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| William Patterson University | The Common Experience | “Hidden Figures” (film) |
| William Peace University | Common Summer Reading | Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue |
| Williams College | Williams Reads | Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward |
| Winona State University | WSU Common Book Project | White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga |
| Winthrop University | Common Book Project | Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Town, a Civil Rights Battle, by Kristen Green |
| Wisconsin Lutheran College | Campus Read | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | Freshman Year Shared Reading | The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die, by Keith Payne |
| York College, CUNY | Common Reader | New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens, by Brooke Hauser |
| York County Community College | One Book One Community | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann |
| Young Harris College | Common Reading Book | The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters, by Sean B. Carroll |
