We’ve compiled a list of over 470 common reading programs and their title selections, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2019-20. 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. You may also access our lists for First-Year Reading 2020-21 and First-Year Reading 2018-19.
| UNIVERSITY | PROGRAM NAME | 2019-2020 |
| Adelphi University | Adelphi Community Reads | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Alaska Pacific University | Books of the Year | Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward and Threadbare: Class and Crime in Urban Alaska, by Mary Kudenov and Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, edited by Paul Hawken |
| Albion College | Common Reading Experience | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| Allegheny College | Allegheny Listens Common Reading | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman |
| Alvernia University | Common Readings | The Road to Character, by David Brooks |
| American University | Writer as Witness | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert |
| Appalachian State University | Common Reading Program | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Arcadia University | Summer Reading | Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement, by The March for Our Lives Founders |
| Arizona State University – West Campus | Summer Community Read | This I Believe: Life Lessons, edited by Dan Gediman |
| Arkansas State University | Common Reader | This I Believe II: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman |
| Asbury College | How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds, by Alan Jacobs | |
| Assumption College | First-Year Common Book | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| Augustana College (IL) | Augie Reads | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Austin Peay State University | The Peay Read | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Avila University | Common Reading Program | A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age, by Matt Richtel |
| Bard College | An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, an an Epic, by Daniel Mendelsohn | |
| Bard College | Language and Thinking Program | Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley and Darwin: A Norton Critical Edition, edited by Philip Appleman and Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore |
| Bard College at Simon’s Rock | Book One | Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, by Stephen Carter |
| Bates College | Common Reading | “Dolores” (film) |
| Bay Path University | First-Year Read | The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible, edited by Catherine Burns |
| Baylor University, Honors Program | Freshman Reading Project | All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr |
| Bellarmine University | Book in Common | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Benedictine University | Summer Reading | The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die, by Keith Payne |
| Berea College | Summer Read | Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, by Adam Alter |
| Berry College | Summer Reading Program | The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters, by Wes Moore |
| Bismarck State College | Campus Read | Running with the Antelope: Life, Fitness, and Grit on the Northern Plains, by Melanie Carvell |
| Bloomfield College | Orientation Reading Component summer reading | “The Beautiful People,” by Charles Beaumont and “Looks Just Like You” episode from The Twilight Zone (TV) |
| Bluegrass Community and Technical College | Common Read | Same Sun Here, by Silas House and Neela Vaswani |
| Bluffton University | Summer Reading | The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World, by Eric Weiner |
| Boise State University | Campus Read | 10 Essays
• “Letter to my Son,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates • “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr • “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt • “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 • “Why Bother?” by Michael Pollan • “Why is College in America So Expensive?” by Amanda Ripley • “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” by Peter Singer • “Pursuing Happiness as a Trans Woman of Color,” by Kai Cheng Thom |
| Boston College | Conversations in the First Year | The Master Plan My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose, by Chris Wilson and Bret Witter |
| Boston College – Woods College of Advancing Studies | Manresa Experience | A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home, by Steve Pemberton |
| Bowling Green State University | Common Reading | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Brandeis University | New Student Forum First-Year Book / Summer Reading | Swing Time, by Zadie Smith |
| Brescia University | Common Read | The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, by Lauren Markham |
| Bridgewater State University | One Book One Community | The Library Book, by Susan Orlean |
| Brookhaven College | Open Book Project | Where Am I Eating?: An Adventure Through The Global Food Economy, by Kelsey Timmerman |
| Broward College | College Read | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi |
| Brown University | First Readings | The Idiot, by Elif Batuman |
| Bucknell University | First-Year Common Reading | Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel |
| Bunker Hill Community College | One Book Program | If They Come for Us: Poems, by Fatimah Asghar |
| Butte College | Book in Common [w/ CSU Chico] | In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World, Lauren E. Oakes |
| Cal State Polytechnic University Pomona | Common Read | Becoming, by Michelle Obama |
| California State University – Bakersfield | One Book Project | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer |
| California State University – Channel Islands | Campus Reading Celebration | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| California State University – Chico | Book in Common [w/ Butte College] | In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World, Lauren E. Oakes |
| California State University – East Bay | Common Read | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| California State University – Fullerton, College of Education | One Book, One College | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| California State University – Maritime | Common Reading Program | Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, by Elizabeth Kolbert |
| California State University – Monterey Bay | Common Reading Experience | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| California State University – Northridge | Freshman Common Reading | The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, by Lauren Markham |
| California State University – Sacramento | One Book Program | Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, by Joshua Davis |
| California State University – San Marcos | Common Read | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Calumet College of St. Joseph | First Year Experience Reader | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Cardinal Stritch University | Common Read | The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez |
| Carlow University | Common Reader | Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue |
| Carthage College | First-Year Read | The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Du Bois |
| Case Western Reserve University | Common Reading Program | The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy, by Paige Williams |
| Catawba College | Common Summer Reading | Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level, by Saundra Yancy McGuire |
| Catawba Valley Community College | Interdisciplinary Read | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Central College | Common Reading Experience | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Central Methodist University | Freshman Community Read | Rules for a Knight, by Ethan Hawke |
| Centre College | First-Year Book | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Chaffey College | One Book, One College | The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui |
| Chesapeake College | One Maryland One Book | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Christian Brothers University | Fresh Reads | Memphis: 200 Years Together, edited by Jonathan Judaken and Karen Golightly |
| Claflin University | Common Reader | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Clarion University of Pennsylvania | Common Read | Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, by Bill McKibben |
| Coastal Carolina Community College | One Book, One Community | Call Me American, by Abdi Nor Iftin |
| Coconino Community College | CCC Common Reading | Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger |
| Colgate University | Colgate Community Reads | Home Fire, by Kamila Shamsie |
| College of Charleston | The College Reads! | Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, by Eli Saslow |
| College of Menominee Nation – Keshena | Community Read | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| College of New Jersey | Summer Reading | No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America, Darnell Moore |
| College of St. Scholastica | Dignitas Summer Reading | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| College of the Holy Cross | Summer Reading | The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells |
| College of William & Mary | Common Book for Freshmen | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| College of Wooster | Summer Reading | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| Collin County Community College | Book-in-Common | The Leavers, by Lisa Ko |
| Colorado College | Common Book Read | The Round House, by Louise Erdrich |
| Colorado Mountain College | CMC Common Reader ; CHECK DATES OF BOOK SELECTIONS | The Choice: Embrace the Possible, by Dr. Edith Eva Eger |
| Colorado School of Mines | Mines Common Read | The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life, by Shawn Achor |
| Colorado State University – College of Business | Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyou | |
| Columbia College (MO) | One Read / Community Reading Program Sponsored by the Daniel Boone Regional Library | Nomadland: Surviving American in the Twenty-First Century, by Jessica Bruder |
| Columbus College of Art and Design | Summer Reading | Holy Moly Carry Me, by Erika Meitner |
| Columbus State University | Freshman Common Reading | Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, by Adam Alter |
| Community College of Aurora | Big Read | Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, by Valeria Luiselli |
| Community College of Baltimore County | Community Book Connection | Threads: From the Refugee Crisis, by Kate Evans |
| Concordia College, Moorhead (MN) | Summer Book Read | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Connecticut College | One Book, One Region | Hey, Kiddo, by Jarrett Krosoczka |
| Cornell College | First Year Seminar | Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, by Carlo Rovelli |
| Cornell University – Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Common Reading Program | Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans |
| Cosumnes Community College | One Book | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Cottey College | First-Year Seminary Common Reader | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann |
| CUNY Baruch College | First Year Text | Family Life, by Akhil Sharma |
| CUNY Brooklyn College | Common Reading Selection | Becoming, by Michelle Obama |
| CUNY Hostos Community College | Hostos Reads Project | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| CUNY Queensborough Community College | Common Read | The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho |
| Cuyahoga Community College | Common Reading | An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, by Hank Green |
| D’Youville College | Common Read | The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead |
| Davenport University | First-Year Read | Habitudes: Images That Form Leadership Habits & Attitudes, by Tim Elmore |
| Davidson College | Common Reading Book | My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South, by Issac J. Bailey |
| Defiance College | First Year Common Read | Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, by Bich Minh Nguyen |
| Delaware County Community College | College-Wide Reading Program | The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lepore |
| Des Moines Area Community College | One Book One College | Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, by Joshua Davis |
| Dominican College | Freshman Read | Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream, by Ibtihaj Muhammad |
| Donnelly College | Common Reading | Trespassing Across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland, by Ken Ilgunas |
| Drake University | Humanities Reads | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil |
| Duke University | Common Experience Summer Reading Program | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| East Carolina University | Pirate Read | The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder, by Richard Louv |
| East Los Angeles College | One Book, One College (OBOC) | When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele |
| East Stroudsburg University | One Book, One Campus | Beartown, by Fredrik Backman |
| Eastern Mennonite University | EMU Common Read | Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid |
| Eastern Michigan University | Common Read | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Eastern Michigan University – Honors College | Honors Common Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Eastfield College | The Common Book | Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, by Joshua Davis |
| Eckerd College | Summer Reading | Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, by Peter Godfrey-Smith |
| El Centro College | Common Book | March: Book One, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Illustrated by Nate Powell |
| Elms College | Common Read | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Elon University | Common Reading | Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging, by Alex Wagner |
| Emory University | Emory Integrity Project | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Evergreen State College | Orientation Common Reading | Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom, by bell hooks |
| Fashion Institute of Technology | Common Read Program | What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, by Lesley Nneka Arimah |
| Feather River College | Book in Common | A Fire Story, by Brian Fies |
| Finlandia University | Campus Reading | Climate Change Musings and Studies from Lake Superior’s North Shore, by Katya Gordon |
| Fitchburg State University | Fitchburg Community Read | Maus: My Father Bleeds History, by Art Spiegelman |
| Flagler College | First Year Book | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Florida College | Common Reading | “An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?” by Immanuel Kant |
| Florida International University | FIU Common Reading | Determined: One Boy’s Holocaust Survival Story, by Martin Baranek |
| Florida SouthWestern State College | One Book One College | 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari |
| Florida State College at Jacksonville | Author Series Learning Community | Craig & Fred: A Marine, a Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other, by Craig Grossi |
| Fort Valley State University | Common Read | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Francis Marion University | Common Text – University Life 101 | An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones |
| Frederick Community College | Frederick Reads | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| George Mason University | Mason|Reads | We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimanada Ngozi Adichie |
| Georgetown University | Marino Family International Writers’ Academic Workshop | Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan |
| Georgia College & State University | GC Reads | • The Foreigner’s Home, by Toni Morrison
• A Latina Judge’s Voice, by Sonia Sotomayor • I am in a State of Shock, by Flannery O’Connor • Tell Me Where it Hurts, by Atul Gawande • All Praises to the Pause; The Universal Moment of Reflection, by Alice Walker • Escape the Echo Chamber, by C Thi Nguyen • How Much of the Internet is Fake, by Max Read • A Letter to my Nephew, by James Baldwin • The Little Man at Chehaw Station, by Ralph Ellison • The Myth of the Moral Middle, by Tayari Jones • Off Course, on a Warming Planet, by Steven Mufson • Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell • A Small Place, by Jamaica Kincaid • Would the World Be More Peaceful if There Were More Women Leaders? by Josie Glausiusz |
| Georgia Gwinnett College | Common Reading Initiative | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Georgia Southern University | Common Read | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| Georgia State University | First Year Book Program | March, Book Three, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell |
| Gettysburg College | First-Year Reading | Heads of the Colored People: Stories, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires |
| Goucher College | Summer Reading | Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, by Valeria Luiselli |
| Green River College | One Book | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Grinnell College | Common Reading | The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez |
| Gustavus Adolphus College | Reading in Common Program | While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change, by M. Jackson |
| Hamline University | Common Read | On the Come Up, by Angie Thomas |
| Harding University | Harding Read | The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, by Stephen Covey |
| Harrisburg Area Community College | One Book/One Community | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann |
| Hartwick College | New Student Read | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| Harvard University | Community Conversations | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Hawkeye Community College | Hawkeye Reads | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Henderson State University | Reddie Read Program | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| Hesston College | Community Read | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| Hilbert College | Hilbert College Reads | What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen, by Kate Fagan |
| Hiram College | First Year Common Reading | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman |
| Hobart and William Smith Colleges | Common Read | Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren |
| Hofstra University | Common Reading | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil |
| Holy Names University | University Common Reading | Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi |
| Hope College | “Big Read” Holland Area Community | In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alavrez |
| Housatonic Community College | One Book, One College | Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad, by Krystal A. Sitel |
| Howard Community College | Book Connection | Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA Evidence, by Tim Junkin |
| Illinois Central College | One Book One College | How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World, by Steven Johnson |
| Illinois College | Summer Common Reading | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | Summer Reading Program | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Indiana University – School of Medicine | Common Read | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Indiana University Northwest | One Book…One Campus…One Community | They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays, by Hanif Abdurraqib |
| Indiana University Southeast | Common Experience | The Laramie Project and the Laramie Project Ten Years Later, by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project |
| Indiana University, Kelley School of Business | Common Read Program | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Jacksonville State University | JSU Reads | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Johnson County Community College | Common Read | Voices from the Rust Belt, edited by Anne Trubek |
| John Woods Community College | One Book, One College | Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owen |
| Juniata College | Summer Reading | Fallen Mountains, by Kimi Cunningham Grant |
| Kalamazoo College | Summer Common Reading | Spaceman of Bohemia, by Jaroslav Kalfař |
| Kansas State University | K-State Book Network’s Common Reading | Darius the Great Is Not Okay, by Adib Khorram |
| Kent State University | Common Reading | Thirteen Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State, by Joe Eszterhas and Michael Roberts and This We Know: A Chronology of the Shootings at Kent State, May 1970, by Carole A. Barbato Laura L. Davis & Mark F. Seeman |
| Lackawanna College | Lackawanna Reads One Book, One College | Note to Self: Inspiring Words from Inspiring People, by Gayle King |
| Lafayette College | Community Reading Book | The Book of Delights: Essays, by Ross Gay |
| Lakeland University | Community Book Read | The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai |
| Lake Superior State University | Campus Read | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Lansing Community College | One Book One LCC | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| Lasell College | Common Reading | Read the Boston Globe |
| Le Moyne College | Summer Common Reading Assignment | Going to Meet the Man, by James Baldwin |
| Lehigh University | Summer Reading | Carry On: A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely Family, by Lisa Fenn |
| Lenoir-Rhyne University | Campus Read | We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, by Jonathan Safran Foer |
| Lewis University | First Year Common Reader | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Lone Star College – University Park | ReadUP! | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Los Angeles Valley College | One Book, One College | The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui |
| Louisiana State University | Honors College Summer Shared Read | Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, Jose Antonio Vargas |
| Loyola Marymount University | LMU Common Book | Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, by Valeria Luiselli |
| Loyola University Chicago | First-Year Text | Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, by Eve L. Ewing |
| Loyola University Maryland | Common Text Program | Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, by Sarah Smarsh |
| Luther College | Summer Reading | The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border, by Francisco Cantú |
| Manchester Community College | Common Read | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| Manhattanville College | First-Year Common Read | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Mansfield University | Summer Reading | The Strange of Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Marist College | Common Reading | The Power, by Naomi Alderman |
| Mary Baldwin University | Common Reading | Counting Descent, by Clint Smith |
| Maryville University | Maryville Reads | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| Marywood University | Marywood Reads | Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, by Erica Armstong Dunbar |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT Reads | A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir, by Daisy Hernandez |
| and There There, by Tommy Orange | ||
| Massasoit Community College | One Book, One College | March: Book One, Book Two, and Book Three, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Illustrated by Nate Powell |
| MassBay Community College | OneBook Project | The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker |
| Medgar Evers College | Big Read | The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison |
| Medical College of Wisconsin | Common Read | Your Heart is the Size of Your Fist, by Dr. Martina Scholtens |
| Meredith College | Summer Reading Program | Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik |
| Messiah College | Common Reading Assignment | Learning for the Love of God: A Student’s Guide to Academic Faithfulness, by Donald Opitz and Derek Melleby |
| Metropolitan State University Denver | 1 Book/1 Project/2 Transform | We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet, by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and Justin Spizman |
| Miami University | Summer Reading Program | One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture, by Stephanie Anderson |
| Michigan State University | One Book, One Community | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond |
| Michigan State University – James Madison Residential College | JMC Summer Reading | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Michigan Tech | Summer Reading | Dear Martin, by Nic Stone |
| MIdAmerica Nazarene University | Common Reader | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi and |
| A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas and Night, by Elie Wiesel | ||
| Middle Tennessee State University | Summer Reading Program | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Millersville University of PA | One Book One Campus | Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi |
| Minnesota State University – Moorhead | One Book, One Community | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Mississippi State University | Maroon Edition—MSU Common Reading Project | Hold on with a Bulldog Grip: A Short Study of Ulysses S. Grant, by John Marszalek |
| Mississippi University for Women | Common Reading Initiative | When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi |
| Missouri State University | Common Reader | Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel |
| Moore College of Art & Design | Common Read | Why Art?, by Eleanor Davis |
| Molloy College | Common Read | Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement, by The March for Our Lives Founders |
| 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 | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Montana State University | Common Reading | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Montcalm Community College | One Book, One Country | The Marsh King’s Daughter, by Karen Dionne |
| Moorpark College | One Campus, One Book | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| Moraine Valley Community College | One Book, One College | I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov |
| Moravian College | Common Reading Program | Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo |
| Morgan State University | Common Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Young Adult Edition), by Bryan Stevenson |
| Mount Holyoke College | Common Read / MHC Common Reading | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| Muhlenberg College | Summer Reading | Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid |
| Nassau Community College | Common Text | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, by William Kamkwamba |
| Naugatuck Valley Community College | One Book, One College | Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng |
| Nevada State College | Common Read Program | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| New York University | Common Read | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| North Carolina State University | Common Reading Program | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| North Dakota State University | One Book, One Community | Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History, by Keith O’Brien |
| North Idaho College | NIC Common Reading Program: Cardinal Reads | Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger |
| North Iowa Area Community College | Common Read | Who Owns the Ice House?: Eight Life Lessons From an Unlikely Entrepreneur, by Gary G. Schoeniger and Clifton L. Taulbert |
| North Lake College | Blazer Common Book | The Martian, by Andy Weir |
| Northeastern State University | Common Read | The Working Poor: Invisible in America, by David K. Shipler |
| Northeastern University | First Pages | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Northern Arizona University | Flagstaff Reads/NAUreads | How To Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention and Discovery, by Kevin Ashton |
| Northern Illinois University | First Year Common Reading Experience | When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matters Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele |
| Northern Michigan University | One Book, One Community | Harborless, by Cindy Hunter Morgan and The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas, by Jerry Dennis |
| Northern Michigan University | Diversity Common Reader Program | Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, by Janet Mock |
| Northern State University | Common Read | Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self, by Manoush Zomorodi |
| Northern Vermont University – Johnson | Common Reading Initiative | Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds |
| Northwestern University | One Book, One Northwestern | Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly |
| Norwalk Community College | NCC Common Read | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| Notre Dame of Maryland University | Common Reading | Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, by Valeria Luiselli |
| Occidental College | First-Year Summer Reading | • “How Blackface Feeds White Supremacy,” by Brent Staples
• “On Being White… And Other Lies,” by James Baldwin • “White Lines,” by Ian Haney López • “Heads of the Colored People: Four Fancy Sketches, Two Chalk Outlines, and No Apology,” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires • “Heads of the Colored People: Four Fancy Sketches, Two Chalk Outlines, and No Apology.” Marlon Riggs (video) • “The Urgency of Intersectionality.” Crenshaw, Kimberlé (video) |
| Ohio Northern University | Campus Common Reading | A multi-faceted exploration of mindsets, growth and learning. You will have a chance to participate in innovative welcome online activities, view a few TED Talks, read essays, and discuss what you have learned with faculty, staff, students. The welcome activity is a 30-minute online program that includes survey questions, short reading passages, and brief reflection exercises. Along with the online welcome activity, you will be reading a variety of short texts about growth, learning, resilience, and college life. |
| Ohio State University – Newark | One Book, One Community | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Oklahoma City University | OKCU Reads | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| Oregon State University – Cascades | Campus Read | Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self, by Manoush Zomorodi |
| Otterbein University | Common Book | A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Had Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight, by Maria Toorpakai |
| Owensboro Community & Tech. College | Common Reading | We Are Called to Rise, by Laura McBride |
| Pacific Lutheran University | Common Reading | Octavia Butler’s Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, by Damian Duffy and John Jennings |
| Pacific University | FYS Summer Reading | The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez |
| Palm Beach State College | Common Reader | This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman |
| Pennsylvania State University – Altoona | Common Read | And It Begins Like This, by LaTanya McQueen |
| Pennsylvania State University – Berks | Common Reading Program | Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level, by Saundra Yancy McGuire |
| Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg | Penn State Harrisburg Reads | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Pennsylvania State University – New Kensington | First-Year Summer Reading | Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling |
| Piedmont Virginia Community College | One Book Project | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander |
| Pierce College | One Book, One Campus | The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship and the Redemptive Power of Music, by Steve Lopez |
| Polk State College | Common Read Program | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| Pomona College | First-Year Book | If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin |
| Princeton University | Princeton Pre-Read | Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy, by James Williams |
| Providence College | Common Reading Program | Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Gregory Boyle |
| Purdue University | Big Read | The Odyssey, by Homer (trans. Emily Wilson) |
| Purdue University Northwest – Calumet Campus | One Book, One University | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Queens University of Charlotte | The Common Read Program | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander |
| Ramapo College of New Jersey | FYS Summer Reading | The Rent Collector, by Camron Wright |
| Reading Area Community College | One Book, One College | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Reedley College | One Book, One College | The Library Book, by Susan Orlean |
| Regis College | Common Reading Program | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Regis University | One Book, One Regis | Sabrina & Corona, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Community Read | Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species, by Peter Nowak |
| Rhode Island College | Open Books-Open Minds | Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren |
| Rhodes College | Rhodes Reads | Memphis: 200 Years Together: An Anthology, edited by Jonathan Judaken and Karen Golightly |
| Rider University | Shared Read Program | The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy, by Anna Clark |
| Rocky Mountain College | Common Read | Earth-Blood & Star-Shine, by Lowell Jaeger |
| Roger Williams University | Common Reading | Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence, by Danielle Allen |
| Rowan College of South Jersey | One Book, One College | Ginny Moon, by Benjamin Ludwig |
| Russell Sage College | Summer Reading | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Rutgers University, Camden | Summer Read | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond |
| Rutgers University, Honors College, New Brunswick | Summer Reading | The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, by Amitav Ghosh |
| Rutgers University, SAS Honors Program | Summer Reading | The Leavers, by Lisa Ko |
| Saddleback College | One Book, One College | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Saint Francis University | Summer Reading | Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid |
| Saint Mary’s College of California | FYE Common Reading | This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman |
| Saint Michael’s College | Common Text | The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border, by Francisco Cantú |
| Saint Paul College | Campus Common Book | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond |
| Salem State University | First Year Reading Experience (FYRE) | The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez |
| Sam Houston State University | Common Reader Program | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Saint Louis University | Campus Read | Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat |
| San Diego State University | One Book One San Diego | The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai |
| San Jose State University | SJSU Reading Program | Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, by Joshua Davis |
| San Juan College | One Book, One Community | Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor |
| Santa Clara University | Common Reading | “The Moral Bucket List,” by David Brooks |
| Seattle University | Common Text | So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo |
| Seton Hall University | Summer Reading | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Shepherd University | Common Reading | Concussion, by Jeanne Marie Laskas |
| Siena College | Summer Reading For First Year Seminar | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Siena Heights University | Summer Reader | Growing Up Black in White, by Kevin D. Hofmann |
| Simmons University | First Year Read | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| Skidmore College | Summer Reading Program | Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling |
| Smith College | Smith Reads | How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate, by Andrew J. Hoffman |
| Somerset Community College | SCC Common Read | Celia, A Slave, by Melton McLaurin |
| South Dakota State University | Common Read | Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, by Adam Alter |
| Southeastern Louisiana University | Common Read | Calling a Wolf a Wolf, by Kaveh Akbar |
| St. Bonaventure University | All Bonaventure Reads | Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas |
| St. Edward’s University | Freshman Common Text | Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas |
| St. Peter’s University | Common Reading | 1984, by George Orwell and The Hunger Games: Book 1, by Suzanne Collins |
| St. Petersburg College | SPC Reads | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| Stanford University | Three Books Program | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| and Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley, by Cary McClelland | ||
| and The Just City Essays: 26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity, edited by Toni L Griffin, Ariella Cohen, David Maddox | ||
| Stevens Institute of Technology | First Year Reading Program | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert |
| Stockton University | Freshman Common Reading | Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hand Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund |
| Stony Brook University | First-Year Reading | Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, by Janet Mock |
| SUNY Brockport | Freshman Summer Reading Program | The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border, by Francisco Cantú |
| SUNY Corning Community College | One Book, One College | Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, by Eli Saslow |
| SUNY Cortland | Common Reading | Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, by Margaret Atwood |
| SUNY Geneseo | Common Summer Book Read | Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson |
| SUNY New Paltz | One Book, One New Paltz | Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, by Eli Saslow |
| SUNY Old Westbury | Common Read | What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America, by Michael Eric Dyson |
| SUNY Oneonta | Common Read | Disgraced, by Ayad Akhtar |
| SUNY Onondaga Community College | Common Read | Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat |
| SUNY Oswego | Oswego Reading Initiative | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Susquehanna University | Common Reading Program | The Power of Stories: Susquehanna University Common Reading Anthology 2019-2020 |
| Sussex County Community College | Campus Novel | Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by Salman Rushdie |
| Sweet Briar College | Common Read | Circe, by Madeline Miller and The Odyssey, by Homer (Emily Wilson, trans.) |
| Syracuse University | Syracuse Reads Program | Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren |
| Texas A&M International University | Campus Read | Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World, by Christina Rickardsson |
| Texas A&M University | Common Ground Reading Initiative | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Texas A&M University | Brazos Valley Reads | The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead |
| Texas A&M University – Commerce | Book in Common | Marie & Pierre Currie: A Tale of Love and Fallout, by Lauren Redniss |
| Texas A&M University – Texarkana | Common Reading Experience | The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by Jonathan Haidt and Nobody Cares: Essays, by Anne Donahue |
| Texas Christian University | TCU Common Reading | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Texas Southmost College | Common Reader | Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, Jose Antonio Vargas |
| Texas State University | Common Reading | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Texas Women’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 | No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America, by Darnell L. Moore |
| The University of Akron | Common Reading Program | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| The University of Scranton | Royal Reads | The Bread of Angels: A Journey of Love and Faith, by Stephanie Saldaña |
| Thomas College | Common Read | A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey From the Inner City to the Ivy League, by Ron Suskind |
| Tiffin University | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore | |
| Towson University – Honors College | Honors College Read | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Trinity University | Reading TUgether | On Immunity: An Inoculation, by Eula Biss |
| Tufts University – Medical School | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha | |
| Tulane University | Tulane Reading Project | Vengeance, by Zachary Lazar |
| Tulsa Community College | TCC Common Book | Redeployment, by Phil Klay |
| University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, Honors College | Common Book Experience | The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez |
| University of Alaska, Anchorage | Books of the Year | Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward and Threadbare: Class and Crime in Urban Alaska, by Mary Kudenov and Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, edited by Paul Hawken |
| University of Alaska, Southeast | One Campus, One Book | If Our Bodies Could Talk: Operating and Maintaining a Human Body, by James Hamblin |
| University of Arizona, Honors Program | Common Reading Program | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | One Book One Community | I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor’s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope, by Chessy Prout |
| University of California, Berkeley | On the Same Page | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| University of California, Davis | Campus Community Book Project | Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives, by Gary Younge |
| University of California, Los Angeles – Medical School | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman | |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | UCSB Reads | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| 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 | Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds, by Mary Shelley |
| University of California, Santa Cruz – Kresge College | Summer Reading Assignment | Mortimer Adler, “How to Mark a Book” Purdue University Academic Success Center, “Improving note-taking skills” David Bartholomae, Anthony Petrosky, and Stacey Waite. “Introduction: Ways of Reading.” Eric Liu, “How to Get Power”, in We Humans Eric Liu, “Why Ordinary People Need to Understand Power” [~17” video lecture], in TED: Ideas Worth Spreading bell hooks, “Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education,” in Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory Reyna Grande, excerpts from A Dream Called Home |
| University of California, Santa Cruz – Merrill College | Summer Reading Assignment | • Read The New York Times
• “Metacognition Is Not Cognition,” by Howard Tinberg • “Who Gets to Graduate?” by Paul Tough • “The Effort Effect,” by Marina Krakovsky |
| University of California, Santa Cruz – Oakes College | Summer Reading Project | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander |
| University of Chicago – Harris Public Policy | Common Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus | One Book, One Campus | Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic, by Sam Quinones |
| University of Colorado, Boulder | One Read | Sabrina & Corina, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine |
| University of Dallas | UD Reads | All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr |
| University of Dallas | The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic: And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, by Steven Johnson | |
| University of Delaware | First Year Common Reader | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| University of Denver | One Book, One DU | The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom, by Helen Thorpe |
| University of Evansville, Honors Program | Common Read | Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, by Eli Saslow |
| University of Houston | Provost Summer Read Program | Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone, by Brené Brown |
| University of Houston – Clear Lake | Common Reader Program | Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, by Joshua Davis |
| University of Houston – Downtown | Freshman Common Reader Program | American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, by America Ferrera |
| University of Idaho | Common Read | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | One Book One Campus | Heads of the Colored People: Stories, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires |
| University of Iowa | One Community, One Book | The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, by Lauren Markham |
| University of Kansas | KU Common Books | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman |
| University of Kansas Medical Center | One Book | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| University of Kentucky – Lewis Honors College | Common Reading Experience | An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones |
| University of La Verne | One Book, One University | Take This Man: A Memoir, by Brando Skyhorse |
| 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 | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| University of Mary Washington | Common Read | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| University of Maryland | First Year Book | Demagoguery and Democracy, by Patricia Roberts-Miller |
| University of Miami | One Book, One U | One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture, by Stephanie Anderson |
| University of Michigan – Dearborn | Community Read | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| University of Michigan – Flint | Common Read | Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward |
| University of Michigan, Engineering | Engineering Common Reading Experience | Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, by Kristen Iverson |
| University of Minnesota – Twin Cities | CEHD Reads | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| University of Mississippi | Common Reading Experience | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond |
| University of Missouri – Honors College | Honors College One Read | The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai |
| University of Missouri – St. Louis | Common Read | If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin |
| University of Missouri, Law School | Mizzou Law One Read | Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance |
| University of Montana | Griz Reads | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| University of Mount Olive | Common Reading | Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea, by Sungju Lee |
| University of Nebraska – Omaha | Common Reader Experience | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Common Reader for COLA 100E | A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey From the Inner City to the Ivy League, by Ron Suskind |
| University of New Haven | Honors Common Read | Antigone, by Sophocles |
| University of North Alabama | One Book | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| University of North Carolina – Asheville | Summer Reading | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| University of North Carolina – Charlotte | Common Reading Experience | Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, by Joshua Davis |
| University of Northern Iowa | President’s Diversity Common Read | Lou Sullivan: Daring to be a Man Among Men, by Brice D. Smith |
| University of Oregon | Common Reading | Under the Feet of Jesus, by Helena María Viramontes |
| University of Pennsylvania | Penn Reading Project | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil |
| University of Pennsylvania – School of Social Policy & Practice | One Book, One SP2 | Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, by Charlene A. Carruthers and White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo |
| University of Pittsburgh, Pitt Public Health | One Book One Community | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| University of Portland | ReadUP – One Book Together | The Leavers, by Lisa Ko |
| University of Richmond | One Book, One Richmond | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| University of Saint Joseph | Common Read | The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible, edited by Catherine Burns |
| or Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts, by Jaron Lanier or Facing the Unknown or Failing Up: How to Aim Higher, Take Risks, and Never | ||
| University of San Diego | Just Read! | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman |
| University of South Alabama | Common Read | When the Emperor Was Divine, by Julie Otsuka |
| University of South Carolina | First-Year Reading Experience | Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling |
| University of South Carolina Aiken | Freshman Reading Book | Piecing Me Together, by Renee Watson |
| University of South Carolina Upstate | PREFACE | Border Child, by Michel Stone |
| University of South Florida – Sarasota Manatee | Common Read | Ready Player One, by Ernest Kline |
| University of Southern Maine | Common Read | How to Be an Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi |
| University of Tampa | Common Reading | Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level, by Saundra Yancy McGuire |
| University of Tennessee – Chattanooga | Read2Achieve | The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die, by Keith Payne |
| University of Tennessee – Martin | Common Read | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| University of Texas at Tyler | Common Reading | The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them), by Lucy Jones |
| University of Toledo | Common Read / UT First Read: A Common Read Experience | Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, by Adam Alter |
| University of Utah, Honors College | Summer Reading | Five Ways to Forgiveness, by Ursula K. Le Guin |
| University of Vermont | First-Year Summer Reading | • Arts and Creativity – As Lie Is To Grin: A Novel, by Simeon Marsalis
• Cultural Crossroads – Black Is the Body, by Emily Bernard • Honors College – Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehesi Coates • Innovation and Entrepreneurship – The Book of Beautiful Questions, by Warren Berger • Liberal Arts Scholars – What The Best College Students Do, by Ken Bain • Leadership and Social Change – Educated, by Tara Westover • Outdoor Experience – The Nature Fix, by Florence Williams • Sustainability – Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer • Wellness Environment – Notorious RBG, by Irin Carmon & Shan Knizhnik |
| University of Virginia – Curry School of Education | Curry Common Read | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| University of Virginia, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | Common Reading Experience | Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyou |
| University of Wisconsin – Madison | Go Big Read | The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by Deborah Blum |
| University of Wisconsin – Madison, Chadbourne Residential College | Common Read | American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, by America Ferrera |
| University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee | Common Reading Experience | “I’m an American,” by Teran Powell (Radio Series) |
| Ursinus College | Summer Readings – Common Intellectual Experience | Dear Ijeawele: or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and “Allegory of the Cave,” from The Republic of Plato, by Plato |
| Utah State University | Common Literature Experience | My Beloved World, by Sonya Sotomayor |
| Utah Valley University | Freshman Reading Program | The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen’s Escape from War to Freedom, by Nujeen Mustafa with Christina Lamb |
| Utah Valley University – Honors Program | Freshman Reading Program | When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi |
| Vanderbilt University | Commons Reading | The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity, by Kwame Anthony Appiah |
| Vanderbilt University – School of Medicine | Summer Reading | In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope, by Dr. Rana Awdish |
| Vassar College | Common Reading | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| Ventura College | One Book, One Campus | Into the Beautiful North, by Luis Alberto Urrea |
| Villanova University | One Book | I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives, by Martin Ganda |
| Villanova University – School of Business | Read to Lead | Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey, by John L. Hennessey |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Common Reading | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond |
| Viterbo University | First Year Student Common Read | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Wagner College | Summer Reading Assignment | Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Shapiro |
| Wake Forest University | Project Wake | 35 Titles to choose from:
• Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson • The Happiness of Pursuit, by Chris Guillebeau • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans • How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship, by Cicero • The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver • Turtles All The Way Down, by John Green • The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, by Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu • The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, by Samuel Johnson • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin • Everbody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz • The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho • Eleanor and Park, by Rainbow Rowell • Aristotle’s Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life, by Edith Hall • Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, by Ellen Forney • Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation, by Sharon Salzberg • Us Against You, by Fredrik Backman • The High Price of Materialism, by Professor Tim Kasser • All About Love: New Visions, by bell hooks • Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren • Into the Wild, by John Krakauer • The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking, by Oliver Burkeman • The Pursuit of Happiness, by Richard Dresser • The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin • Happy for No Reason, by Marci Shimoff • Chemistry, by Weike Wang • Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward • Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain–and How to Fight Back, by Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever • Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert • Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee • An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones • A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman • Becoming, by Michelle Obama • The Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt • The Year of Living Danishly, by Helen Russell • The Myths of Happiness, by Sonja Lyubomirsky |
| Wallace State Community College | Common Read Initiative | Big Fish, by Daniel Wallace |
| Wartburg College | Knight Reading | Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement, by The March for Our Lives Founders |
| Washburn University | iRead | Eisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World, by Louis Galambos |
| Washington College | First Year Book Program | “Only Connect. . . The Goal of a Liberal Education,” by William Cronon and “Against Conformity,” by Michael S. Roth |
| Washington State University | WSU Common Reading | Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World, by Paul Collier and Alexander Betts |
| Washington State University – Tri-Cities | Common Reading | Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World, by Paul Collier and Alexander Betts |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Common Reading Program | Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, by Nadine Strossen |
| Wesleyan University | First Year Matters Common Reading | Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum, by Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner |
| West Kentucky Community & Technical College | One Book Read | Nothing Like an Ocean: Stories, by Jim Tomlinson |
| West Texas A&M University | Readership WT | Call Me American, by Abdi Nor Iftin |
| West Virginia University | Campus Read | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Western Carolina University | One Book | We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter, by Celeste Headlee |
| Western New England University | Summer Reading Assignment | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Western Washington University | Western Reads | Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging, by Alex Wagner |
| Westfield State University | First Year READ | Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic, by Sam Quinones |
| Westminster College (MO) | One Read / Community Reading Program Sponsored by the Daniel Boone Regional Library | Nomadland: Surviving American in the Twenty-First Century, by Jessica Bruder |
| Westminster College (PA) | The Next Chapter: First Year Program | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Westmont College | Westmont Summer Reads | Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest, by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum |
| Wichita State University | WSU Reads | Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans |
| William Woods University | One Read / Community Reading Program Sponsored by the Daniel Boone Regional Library | Nomadland: Surviving American in the Twenty-First Century, by Jessica Bruder |
| Williams College | Williams Reads | Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid |
| Winona State University | WSU Common Book Project | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Winthrop University | Common Book Project | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Wisconsin Lutheran College | Campus Read | A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold |
| Yavapai College | Rider’s Read | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
