With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 450 programs and their title selections, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2021-22. 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 | 2021-2022 |
| Aiken Technical College | Common Read | Burning Bright, Ron Rash |
| Alaska Pacific University | Alaska Pacific University | 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 | ||
| and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, by Naomi Klein | ||
| and Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, edited by Daniel Lerch | ||
| and The Winona LaDuke Chronciles: Stories from the Front Lines in the Battle for Environmental Justice, by Winona LaDuke | ||
| Albion College | Common Reading Experience | How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi |
| Allegheny College | Allegheny Listens Common Reading | How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi |
| Alvernia University | Common Reading | Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World, by Rabbi Michael Lern |
| American University | Writer as Witness | Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, by Brittney Cooper |
| Appalachian State University | Common Reading Program | Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, by Nora Krug |
| Arcadia University | Summer Reading | Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, by Mira Jacob |
| Arizona State University | Common Read | Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America, by Michael Eric Dyson |
| Arizona State University – West Campus | Summer Community Read | We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations that Matter, by Celeste Headlee |
| Arizona Western College | One Book Yuma | Falling, by T. J. Newman |
| Assumption University | COMPASS Reading | Inferno, by Dante |
| Augustana College (IL) | Augie Reads | When the Emperor Was Divine, by Juile Otsuka |
| Avila University | First-Year Experience Common Reading Program | Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Woodard and the Awakening of America, by Richard Gergel |
| Baldwin Wallace University | Common Read | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| Bard College | Language and Thinking Program | An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, an Epic, by Daniel Mendelsohn |
| Bard College at Simon’s Rock | Book One | How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, by Alexander Chee |
| Baylor University, Honors Program | Freshman Reading Project | Wit: A Play, by Margaret Edson |
| Benedictine University | Summer Reading | • “Diversity Wins: How Inclusion Matters,” by McKinsey & Company
• “Of History and Memory,” by Gerda Lerner (excerpt from Why History Matters) • “The Church Opposes Science: The Myth of Catholic Irrationality,” by Christopher Kaczor |
| Bergen Community College | Common Read | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Berry College | Summer Reading Program | Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by Judith Heumann |
| Bethel College | First Year Seminar | Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks |
| Bluegrass Community and Technical College | Common Read | The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, by Anthony Ray Hinton |
| Bluffton University | Summer Reading | No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process, by Colin Beavan |
| Boston College | Conversations in the First Year | Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle |
| Bowling Green State University | Common Reading | Suspended |
| Brandeis University | New Student Forum First-Year Book | Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, by Peter Godfrey-Smith |
| Brescia University | Common Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Bridgewater State University | One Book One Community | The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams |
| and A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, by Lev Golinkin | ||
| Bristol Community College | BCC OneBook Project | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman |
| Broward College | College Read | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| Brown University | First Readings | “Slavery and Justice Report,” Brown University |
| Bucknell University | First-Year Common Reading | The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Bunker Hill Community College | One Book Program | Citizen Illegal, by José Olivarez |
| Butler University | Common Reading Program | My Time Will Come, by Ian Manuel |
| Butte College | Book in Common | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| Cal State Polytechnic University Pomona | Common Read | The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, by Jamil Zaki |
| California State University – Bakersfield | One Book Project | A Dream Called Home: A Memoir, by Reyna Grande |
| California State University – Channel Islands | Campus Reading Celebration | A Dream Called Home: A Memoir, by Reyna Grande |
| California State University – Chico | Book in Common | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| California State University – Fullerton | One Book, One CSUF | They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei |
| California State University – Los Angeles | One Campus, One Book | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| California State University – Maritime | Common Reading Program | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| California State University – Northridge | Freshman Common Reading | When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele |
| California State University – Sacramento | One Book Program | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| California State University – San Marcos | Common Read | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| Calumet College of St. Joseph | First Year Experience Reader | The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities, by Will Allen |
| Calvin University | CORE 100: Community and Commitments | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Cardinal Stritch University | Common Read | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| Carnegie Mellon University – Tepper School of Business | Tepper Reads | Interior Chinatwon, by Charles Yu |
| and Gold Diggers, by Sanjena Sathian | ||
| Case Western Reserve University | Common Reading Program | Wade in the Water, by Tracy K. Smith |
| Catawba College | Common Summer Reading | “The Perils of Indifference,” by Elie Wiesel and “This is Water,” by David Foster Wallace |
| Catawba Valley Community College | Interdisciplinary Read | The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michele Richardson |
| Cedar Crest College | Common Read / Shared Reading | The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett |
| Central College | Common Reading Experience | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Central Michigan University | Community Read / Common Read | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Central Ohio Technical College | Freshman Reader | Playing Indian, by Philip J. Deloria |
| Chaffey College | One Book, One College | Come On In: 15 Stories About Immigration and Finding Home, edited by Adi Alsaid |
| Chattanooga State Community College | Writers @ Work | Orange World and Other Stories, by Karen Russell |
| Chesapeake College | One Maryland One Book | The Book of Delights: Essays, by Ross Gay |
| Christian Brothers University | Fresh Reads | Thick, and Other Essays, by Tressie McMillan Cottom |
| City College of San Francisco | One Campus, One Book | Free City!: The Fight for San Francisco’s City College and Education for All, by Marcy Rein, Mickey Ellinger and Vicki Legion and Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students, by Zaretta Hammond |
| Clarkson University | Common Book Project | • “Step Afrika! Brings Cultures Together Through the Art of Stepping,” interview with C. Brian Williams in The Brooklyn Reader
• “From Gumboots and Greek Letters: Preserving African American Heritage Through Stepping,” by Jennifer Uharriet • “What’s Your Story?” by Herminia Ibarra and Kent Lineback (Harvard Business Review) • “What’s Your Story?” by Nick Morgan (Forbes Magazine) • “The Two Kinds of Stories We Tell About Ourselves,” by Emily Esfahani Smith • “The Danger of a Single Story,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk) |
| Coconino Community College | CCC Common Reading | “American Tensions,” a repository of free, open-source content intended to inspire and cultivate civil conversations |
| Colgate University | Summer Reading | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| College of Charleston | The College Reads! | The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, by Hope Jahren |
| College of DuPage | One Book One College | The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, by Hope Jahren |
| College of Marin | COMmon Reading | A Long Petal of the Sea, by Isabel Allende |
| and The Stories of Eva Luna, by Isabel Allende | ||
| College of New Jersey | Summer Reading | The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity, by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris |
| College of Southern Nevada | One Book, One College | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| and Black Women’s History of the United States, by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross | ||
| College of St. Scholastica | Dignitas Summer Reading | Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi |
| College of William & Mary | One Book One Community | Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, by Eric Klinenberg |
| College of Wooster | Summer Reading | Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi |
| Collin County Community College | Book-in-Common | The Beauty in Breaking, by Michele Harper |
| Colorado College | Common Book Read | No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America, by Darnell L. Moore |
| Colorado Mountain College | CMC Common Reader | The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild, by Craig Childs |
| Colorado State University | Rams Read | The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming, by Natasha Bowens-Blair |
| Columbia College (MO) | One Read | Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, by Casey Cep |
| Columbus College of Art and Design | Common Reading Book | They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, by Hanif Abdurraqib |
| Community College of Baltimore County | Community Book Connection | Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm, by Thich Nhat Hanh |
| Concordia College, Moorhead (MN) | Summer Book Read | Suspended |
| Concordia University, Texas | Common Reader | A Dream Called Home: A Memoir, by Reyna Grande |
| Connecticut College | One Book, One Region | Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu |
| Cosumnes Community College | One Book | Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwal |
| Cottey College | First-Year Seminar Common Reader | The Girl Who Smiled Beads, by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil |
| Crafton Hills College | One Book, One College | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Cuesta College | Book of the Year | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| CUNY Baruch College | First Year Text | The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers, by Bridgett Davis |
| CUNY City College | Community Read | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| CUNY Hostos Community College | Hostos Reads Project | • “b.b. free,” by Gabby Rivera & Royal Dunlap (Graphic Story)
• “POETRY before PROSE,” by Marco Saavedra (from Archives in Poetry) • Excerpts from Domincana (novel) and dominicananyc (Instagram page), by Angie Cruz • “Positive Obsession,” by Octavia E. Butler (essay) |
| CUNY Queensborough Community College | Common Read | Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine |
| Cuyahoga Community College | Common Reading / Tri-C Reads | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| Dakota College at Bottineau | Campus Book Read | My Backyard Jungle: The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with It, by James Barilla |
| Dallas College | College Book | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson |
| Davenport University | First-Year Read | Habitudes: Images That Form Leadership Habits & Attitudes, by Tim Elmore |
| Davidson College | Reynolds Lecture | Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi |
| De Anza College | One Book, One College, One Community | The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, by Alicia Garza |
| Defiance College | First Year Common Read | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Delaware County Community College | College-Wide Reading Program | Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson |
| DePaul University – Honors Program | Summer Common Read | Suspended |
| Des Moines Area Community College | One Book One College | Know My Name, by Chanel Miller |
| Dickinson College | Common Read | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Dominican University | Freshman Read | Yasmina’s Necklace, Rohina Malik |
| Donnelly College | Common Read | Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, by Immaculée Ilibagiza and Steve Erwin |
| Drake University | Humanities Reads | The Glitter in the Green, by Jon Dunn and How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell |
| Drury University | Common Read | Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul, by Shawn and Lawren Askinosie |
| Duke University | Common Experience Summer Reading Program | Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid |
| Dunwoody College of Technology | Common Read | The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt |
| East Carolina University | Pirate Read | The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias, by Dolly Chugh |
| East Los Angeles College | One Book, One College (OBOC) | Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love, edited by Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond |
| East Stroudsburg University | One Book, One Campus | Suspended |
| Eastern Connecticut University | Big Read | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| Eastern Mennonite University | EMU Common Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Eastern Michigan University | Common Read | Suspended |
| Eastern Michigan University – Honors Program | Common Read | The Women of the Copper Country, by Mary Doria Russell |
| Eckerd College | Summer Reading | Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life, by Lulu Miller |
| Elizabethtown College | Classics Summer Reading Discourse / Open Book | Choosing Civility: Twenty-Five Riles of Considerate Conduct, by P.M. Forni and Inspirations: Selection from Classic Literature, edited by Paulo Coelho |
| Elms College | Common Read | My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor |
| Elon University | Common Reading | Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi |
| Emory University | Emory Integrity Project | Suspended |
| Emory University – Goizueta Business School | Common Read | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| Evergreen State College | Orientation Common Reading | Selections from Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by adrienne maree brown andTeaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom, by bell hooks |
| Excelsior College | Common Read | Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor E. Frankl |
| Fashion Institute of Technology | Common Read Program | Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| Feather River College | Book in Common | All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson |
| Finlandia University | Campus Read | An American Sunrise: Poems, by Joy Harjo |
| Fitchburg State University | Fitchburg Community Read | Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, by Jessica Bruder |
| Florida A&M University | Summer Reading Program | Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism, by Jelani Favors |
| Florida Atlantic University – Wilkes Honor College | Freshman Book | Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Florida College | Common Reading | 1984, by George Orwell |
| Florida Gulf Coast University | Eagles Read | Give a Sh*t: Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet, by Ashlee Piper |
| Florida International University | FIU Common Reading | Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body, by Rebekah Taussig |
| Florida SouthWestern State College | One Book One College | A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future, by David Attenborough |
| Florida State College at Jacksonville | Author Series Learning Community | Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina, by Michaela DePrince |
| Fordham College – Lincoln Center | First-Year Summer Read | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Fordham University – Rose Hill | First-Year Summer Read | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Fort Lewis College | Common Reading Experience | Postponed |
| Fort Scott Community College | Campus and Community Common Read | A Choice of Weapons, by Gordon Parks and |
| The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore | ||
| Francis Marion University | Common Text – University Life 101 | Get in Trouble, by Kelly Link |
| Frederick Community College | Frederick Reads | The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki |
| Gannon University | Gannon READS | Craig & Fred: A Marine, a Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other, by Craig Grossi |
| George Mason University | Mason|Reads | The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio |
| George Washington University – Elliott School of International Affairs | First-Year Reading | Call Me American, by Abdi Nor Iftin |
| Georgetown College | Common Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Georgetown University | Marino Family International Writers’ Academic Workshop | Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid |
| Georgia College & State University | GC Reads | Essay 1: “Righteous Incivility,” by Amy Olberding
Essay 2: “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” by Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay 3: “When to Break a Rule,” by Stephen Nadler Essay 4: “Escape the Echo Chamber,” by C Thi Nguyen Essay 5: “What We Can All Learn from Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” by Heather Elliott Essay 6: “There’s Nothing Virtuous About Finding Common Ground,” by Tayari Jones Essay 7: “Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation,” by John Lewis Essay 8: “‘I Love You, But You’re Wrong,’ And Other Salvos on the Front Lines of Civility,” by Neva Grant Essay 9: “Politics and the English Language,” by George Orwell Essay 10: “Sorry But Not Sorry,” by Nick Smith |
| Georgia Gwinnett College | Common Reading Initiative | American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, edited by America Ferrera |
| Georgia Southern University | Common Read | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| Georgia State University | First Year Book Program | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson |
| Glendale Community College (AZ) | GCC Reads | I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, by Erika Sánchez |
| Goucher College | Summer Reading | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Green River College | One Book | So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo |
| Greenfield Community College | Reading for Change | The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, by Jamil Zaki |
| Greenville Technical College | Common Read | With the Fire on High, by Elizabeth Acevedo |
| Guilford College | Common Reading | The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, by Jamil Zaki |
| Gustavus Adolphus College | Reading in Common Program | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil |
| Guttman Community College, CUNY | Summer Bridge Common Read | “City Limits,” by Colson Whitehead |
| Hamline University | Common Read | How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi |
| Harper College | One Book, One Harper | Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life by Sandra Beasley and Cinnamon and Gunpowder, by Eli Brown and Miriam’s Kitchen: A Memoir, by Elizabeth Ehrlich and A Taste for Spice, by Michael Krondl andHistory in a Jar: Jam, Jelly, Marmalade and the People Who Made It, by Sarah Hood and The People’s Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from the Civil Rights Era to Today, by Dave Hoekstra |
| Harrisburg Area Community College | One Book, One Community | The Life We Bury, by Allen Eskens |
| Harvard College | Community Conversations | • “Why they protest: Harvard students share why they took part in recent BLM protests and what this moment means to them” by Juan Siliezar. The Harvard Gazette. July 9, 2020.
• “Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All” by Viet Thanh Nguyen. TIME. June 25, 2020. • “Wearing a mask helps me blend in, but my facial disfigurement makes me who I am” by Ariel Henley. The Lily. July 4, 2020 • “It’s Going to Be a Lot More Lonely.’ A Dramatically Different Ramadan for U.S. Muslims Amid Coronavirus Lockdowns” by Sanya Mansoor. TIME. April 23, 2020 • “LGBTQ immigrants talk about waiting on 2 life-changing Supreme Court decisions” by Nicole Narea. VoxMedia. June 18, 2020 • “I’m a black climate expert. Racism derails our efforts to save the planet”. by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. The Washington Post. June 3, 2020. |
| Harvard Divinity School | Common Read | Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation, by Nick Estes, Melanie K. Yazzie, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, and David Correia |
| Hawkeye Community College | Hawkeye Reads | We The Interwoven: An Anthology of Bi-Cultural Iowa, Vol. II., by Andrea Wilson and Alisha Jeddeloh |
| Hesston College | Community Read | Suspended |
| Highland Community College | One Book, One Highland | When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele |
| Hiram College | First Year Common Reading | Citizen, by Claudia Rankine |
| Hofstra University | Common Reading | “The 1619 Project,” by Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times |
| Hollins University | Common Reading | The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez |
| Holy Family University | One Book, One Philadelphia | My Broken Language: A Memoir, by Quiara Alegría Hudes |
| Holy Names University | Common Reading | Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| Holyoke Community College | Common Read | “The Legacy of Black Hair & the Black Body,” from Blackberries & Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/Body Politics in Africana Communities, edited by Regina Spellers and Kimberly Moffitt |
| Honolulu Community College | Common Book | Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All, by Holly Korbey |
| Hope College | “Big Read” Holland Area Community | An American Sunrise: Poems, by Joy Harjo |
| Howard Community College | Book Connection | Everywhere You Don’t Belong, by Gabriel Bump |
| Illinois Central College | One Book One College | One of Us Is Lying, by Karen M. McManus |
| Illinois College | Summer Common Reading | No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, by Greta Thunberg |
| Illinois Valley Community College | One Book, One College | Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic, by Eric Eyre |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | Summer Reading Program | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Indiana University – School of Medicine | Common Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Indiana University Northwest | One Book…One Campus…One Community | Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, by
Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald |
| Indiana University Southeast | Common Experience | Uplifting Stories: True Tales to Inspire You to Take Action, by Ione Butler |
| Indiana University, Kelley School of Business | Common Read Program | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| Jacksonville State University | JSU Reads | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| James Madison University – Honors College | Common Read | Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling |
| Johns Hopkins University | Common Question | “What Is Progress?” 15 selected essays and videos |
| Johnson County Community College | Common Read | Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein |
| Kalamazoo College | Summer Common Reading | All Heathens, by Marianne Chan |
| Kalamazoo Valley Community College | Common Read | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| Kansas State University | K-State Book Network’s Common Reading | The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline |
| Kean University | Common Read | The Poet X, by Elizabeth Acevedo |
| Kent State University | Common Reading | Suspended |
| Knox College | Summer Common Reading | Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine |
| Lackawanna College | Lackawanna Reads One Book, One College | Look Back to Yesterday, by Tara Lynn Marta |
| Lafayette College | Community Reading Book | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| LaGrange College | Freshman Summer Reading Assignment | Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, by Jennifer L. Eberhardt |
| Lake Erie College | Common Reading | The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How., by Daniel Coyle |
| Lake Superior State University | Campus Read | Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman |
| Lakeshore Technical College | Common Read | Benign Bigotry: The Psychology of Subtle Prejudice, by Kristin J. Anderson |
| Lansing Community College | Beyond the Book | Mind and Matter: My Life in Math and Football, by John Ursche |
| and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer | ||
| and Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover | ||
| and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson | ||
| Lasell College | Common Reading | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| Le Moyne College | Summer Common Reading Assignment | “Sonny’s Blues,” by James Baldwin |
| Lenoir-Rhyne University | Campus Read | The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman |
| Lewis and Clark College | Common Reading | “Taking Up Space,” by Mareshah “MJ” Jackson |
| Lewis University | First Year Common Reader | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman |
| Lipscomb University | LIGHT Common Read | They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei |
| Lone Star College – University Park | ReadUP! | Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It, by Jamie Margolin |
| Los Angeles Valley College | One Book, One College | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Louisiana State University | Honors College Summer Shared Read | Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, by Elizabeth Rush |
| Lourdes University | Common Read/Summer Read | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon |
| Loyola Marymount University | LMU Common Book | • Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| • Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi | ||
| • White Tears / Brown Scars, by Ruby Hamad | ||
| • How to be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi | ||
| • The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee | ||
| Loyola University Chicago | Rambler Read | Thick: And Other Essays, by Tressie McMillan Cottom |
| Loyola University Chicago – Stritch School of Medicine | Common Read | Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America, by John Lewis |
| Loyola University Maryland | Common Text Program | The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose, by Chris Wilson and Bret Witter |
| Luther College | Summer Reading | The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett |
| Maine College of Art & Design | Common Reading | Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations, by Jonny Sun |
| Malone University | College Experience Common Book | Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman |
| Manchester Community College | Common Read | Call Me American, by Abdi Nor Iftin |
| Manhattan College | Common Text | So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo |
| Manhattanville College | First-Year Common Read | A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir, by Daisy Hernández |
| Mansfield University | Summer Reading | They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei |
| Marist College | Common Reading | Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, by Emmanuel Acho |
| Marquette University | Earth Month Common Read | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Maryland Institute College of Art | First-Year Read | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Maryville University | Maryville Reads | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT Reads | Sexual Citizens: Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, by Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan |
| Medical College of Wisconsin | Common Read | Know My Name, by Chanel Miller |
| Menlo College | Common Book | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| Mercer County Community College | Common Book | Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas |
| Meredith College | Summer Reading Program | Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| Messiah University | Common Reading Assignment | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Metropolitan Community College – Longview (MO) | Common Read | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi |
| Metropolitan Community College – Penn Valley (MO) | Common Read | The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food, by Ted Genoways |
| Metropolitan State University Denver | 1 Book/1 Project/2 Transform | A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, by Alicia Elliott |
| Miami Dade College – Hialeah Campus | Common Reading | Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, by Firoozeh Dumas |
| Miami University | Summer Reading Program | Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World, by Wil Haygood |
| Michigan Tech | Summer Reading | Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline |
| Middle Tennessee State University | Summer Reading Program | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Midway University | Common Read | The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown, edited by Catherine Burns |
| Midwestern University | Social Equity Common Read | How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi |
| Minnesota State University – Moorhead | One Book, One Community | Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, by Anton Treuer |
| Mississippi State University | Maroon Edition—MSU Common Reading Project | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Steven R. Covey |
| Mississippi University for Women | Common Reading Initiative | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Missouri State University | Common Reader | The Code: The Power of “I Will”, by Shaun Tomson with Patrick Moser |
| Molloy College | Common Reading Program | Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue |
| Monroe County Community College | One Book, One Community of Monroe County | The Women of the Copper Country, by Mary Doria Russell |
| Montcalm Community College | MCC Reads and One Book One County | Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship, by Michelle Kuo |
| and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, by Seth Grahame-Smith | ||
| Montcalm Community College | MCC Reads | The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man, by W. Bruce Cannon |
| Moorpark College | One Campus, One Book | The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas |
| Moraine Valley Community College | One Book, One College | All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson |
| Moravian University | InFocus Summer Reading | The Cancer Journals, by Audre Lorde |
| Moreno Valley College | One Book, One College | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| Mount Holyoke College | Common Read | The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward |
| Mount St. Mary’s University (MD) | Summer Reading Program | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Nassau Community College | Common Reading | Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| Nevada State College | Common Read Program | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman |
| New York University | NYU Reads / Common Read | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| North Carolina A&T State University | Text-in-Community | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| North Dakota State University | One Book, One Community | Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, by Anton Treuer |
| North Idaho College | NIC Common Reading Program: Cardinal Reads | Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor, by Virginia Eubanks |
| North Iowa Area Community College | Common Read | Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, by Eli Saslow |
| North Lake College | Blazer Common Book | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson |
| Northeastern State University | Common Read | The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose, by Chris Wilson and Bret Witter |
| Northeastern University | First Pages | Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi |
| Northern Illinois University | First Year Common Reading Experience | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| Northern Kentucky University | Common Experience Readings | “Student Activism, Diversity and the Struggle for a Just Society,” by Robert A. Rhoads and “This is What Democracy Looks Like,” by The Center for Cartoon Studies and “How to Citizen: Democracy Means People Power, Literally,” by Baratunde Thurston (podcast) |
| Northern Michigan University | Two Books Two Communities | Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie, edited by Peggy Wolff and Teacher/Pizza Guy: Poems, by Jeff Kass |
| Northern Michigan University | Diversity Common Reader Program | We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura |
| Northern State University | Common Read | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| Northern Vermont University – Johnson | Common Read | Indivisible: Poems for Social Justice, by Gail Bush and Randy Meyer |
| Northwest Florida State College | NWF READS | St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, by Karen Russell |
| Northwestern College | Common Read | The Chosen, by Chaim Potok |
| Northwestern University | One Book, One Northwestern | The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, by Hope Jahren |
| Northwood University | Omniquest Program | Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt, by Arthur C. Brooks |
| Norwalk Community College | NCC Common Read | The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman |
| Norwich University | First Read | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Notre Dame of Maryland University | Common Reading | Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi |
| Oakland Community College | Academic Literacy | The Monk of Mokha, by Dave Eggers |
| Oakland University – Honors College | Common Read | An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, by Hank Green |
| and How To Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery, by Kevin Ashton | ||
| Occidental College | First-Year Summer Reading | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| Ohio State University – Newark | One Book, One Community | Playing Indian, by Philip J. Deloria |
| Oklahoma State University, The College of Human Sciences | Freshman Reading Program | The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play, by Neil Fiore |
| Otterbein University | Common Book | Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling |
| Owens Community College | The BIG Read | How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir, by Saeed Jones |
| Owensboro Community & Tech. College | Common Reading | The Birds of Opulence, by Crystal Wilkinson and Next Door to the Dead, by Kathleen Driskell |
| Pacific Lutheran University | Common Reading | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| Pacific University | FYS Summer Reading | Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship, by Michelle Kuo |
| Pennsylvania State University – Altoona | Common Read | Ghostographs: An Album, by Maria Romasco Moore |
| Pennsylvania State University – Berks | Common Reading Program | Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth |
| Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg | Penn State Harrisburg Reads | The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die, by Keith Payne |
| Pennsylvania State University – New Kensington | First-Year Summer Reading | All Minus One: John Stuart Mill’s Ideas on Free Speech |
| Piedmont Virginia Community College | One Book Project | You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen, by Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall |
| Pierce College | One Book, One Campus | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Polk State College | Common Read Program | American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, by America Ferrera |
| Pomona College | Orientation Book | “Medea,” by Euripides and “Mojada,” by Luis Alfaro |
| Post University | Common Read | Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| Pratt Institute | Common Reading | The Colossus of New York, by Colson Whitehead |
| Princeton University | Princeton Pre-Read | Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility, by Jennifer M. Morton |
| Providence College | Common Reading Program | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Purdue University | Big Read | Binti: The Complete Trilogy, by Nnedi Okorafor |
| Purdue University Northwest – Calumet Campus | 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 |
| Queens University of Charlotte | Common Read Program | Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet–One Bite at a Time, by Mark Hyman |
| Ramapo College of New Jersey | FYS Summer Reading | Never Caught: The Washington’s’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar |
| Randolph-Macon College – Honors College | Summer Common Read | A Fire Story, by Brian Fies |
| Raritan Valley Community College | CommUNITY Reads | Wildbranch: An Anthology of Nature, Environmental, and Place-based Writing, edited by Florence Caplow and Susan A Cohen |
| Reed College | Welcome to Reed | Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison |
| Reedley College | One Book, One College | The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, by Timothy Egan |
| Regent University | Common Read | Suspended |
| Regis University | One Book, One Regis | Suspended |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Community Read | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Rhode Island College | Open Books-Open Minds | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| Rhodes College | Rhodes Reads | Thick: And Other Essays, by Tressie McMillan Cottom |
| Rider University | Shared Read Program | Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, by Emmanuel Acho |
| Rivier University | One Book, One Campus | The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman |
| Rochester Community and Technical College | Common Read | A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota, by Kao Kalia Yang |
| Roosevelt University – Institute of Continued Learning | ICL Read | Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon, by Robert Kurson |
| Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | Common Read | Suspended |
| Rowan College of South Jersey | One Book, One College | The Book of Lost Friends, by Lisa Wingate |
| Roxbury Community College | One Book, One Campus | American Sunrise: Poems, by Joy Harjo |
| Russell Sage College | Summer Reading | The Distance Between Us, by Reyna Grande |
| Rutgers University, SAS Honors Program | Summer Reading | Your House Will Pay, by Steph Cha |
| Saddleback College | One Book, One College | Suspended |
| Saint Francis University | Summer Reading | When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi |
| Saint Joseph’s University | SJU Reads | Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine |
| Saint Louis University | Campus Read | Grand Union, by Zadie Smith |
| Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota | Freshman Read | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Saint Michael’s College | Common Text | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| 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) | Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| Sam Houston State University | Common Reader Program | Counting Descent: Poems, by Clint Smith |
| San Antonio College | One Book-One Read-One SAC | The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, by Jamil Zaki |
| San Diego State University | One Book One San Diego | Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by Judith Heumann |
| San Jose State University | SJSU Reading Program | Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine |
| San Juan College | One Book/One Community | A Dream Called Home: A Memoir, by Reyna Grande |
| Santa Barbara City College | SBCC Reads | Exhalation, by Ted Chiang |
| Santa Clara University | Common Reading | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Santa Rosa Junior College | Work of Literary Merit | Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Common Text | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson |
| Seattle University | Common Text | Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas |
| Seton Hall University | Summer Reading | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Shepherd University | Common Reading | Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, by Catherine Clinton |
| Siena College | Summer Reading For First Year Seminar | The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead |
| Sierra College – Rocklin | Book in Common | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson |
| Sierra Nevada College | Common Read | World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, by Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
| Simmons University | First Year Read | Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi |
| Skidmore College | Summer Reading Program | How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi |
| Slippery Rock University | Common Read | The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, by Deesha Philyaw |
| Smith College | Smith Reads | Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid |
| Somerset Community College | SCC Common Read / Summer Bridge Common Read | Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler |
| South Dakota State University | Common Read | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Southeastern Louisiana University | Common Read | We Cast a Shadow, by Maurice Carlos Ruffin |
| Southern Methodist University – Honors Program | Summer Reading | No Name in the Street, by James Baldwin |
| Southern University and A&M College | College Success Common Read | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective College Students, by Sean Covey |
| St. Bonaventure University | All Bonaventure Reads | Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America, edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter |
| St. Edward’s University | Common Read | Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds |
| St. Olaf College | Common Read | Waste: One Women’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret, by Catherine Coleman Flowers |
| St. Petersburg College | SPC Reads | Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking, by Michael Syed |
| Stanford University | Three Books Program | Know My Name, by Chanel Miller |
| and Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover | ||
| and Notes From the Field, by Anna Deveare Smith | ||
| and “Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TedX) and “Empathy Gym,” by Jamil Zaki (podcast) | ||
| Stark State College | Common Read | Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly |
| Stetson University | Stetson R.E.A.D. | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson |
| Stevens Institute of Technology | First Year Reading Program | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil |
| Stockton University | Freshman Common Reading | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Stony Brook University | One Book, One Community | Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu |
| Stony Brook University | First-Year Reading | Suspended |
| SUNY Binghamton | Common Read | Conditional Citizens, by Laila Lalami |
| SUNY Brockport | Freshman Summer Reading Program | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| SUNY Cortland | Common Reading | How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith |
| SUNY Geneseo | Common Summer Book Read | This Is One Way to Dance: Essays, by Sejal Shah |
| SUNY New Paltz | One Book, One New Paltz | Hag-Seed, by Margaret Atwood |
| SUNY Oneonta | Common Read | The 57 Bus, by Dashka Slater |
| SUNY Onondaga Community College | Common Read | Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, by Jennifer L. Eberhardt |
| SUNY Oswego | Oswego Reading Initiative | Knitting the Fog, by Claudia D. Hernández |
| Susquehanna University | Common Reading Program | Adaptability: Susquehanna University Common Reading Anthology 2021-2022
• “The Art of Adaptation,” by Sarai Mannolini-Winwood • “I Promise We’ll Have Fun,” by Nadina LaSpina • “My Mustache, My Self,” by Wesley Morris • “Cloud Dragon Skies,” by N.K. Jemisin • “Women Are Hit Harder By Climate Change,” by Jessica Wapner • “Ghost Language,” by Hasanthika Sirisena • “The Heart of the Hopi,” by Aaron Levin • “Code-Switching Is Not Trying to Fit into White Culture,” by Ida Harris • “Debunking the Myths of Happiness,” by Jason Marsh • “View from a Wheelchair,” by Jeffrey P. Whitman • “Taking Imagination Seriously,” by Janet Echelman • “Creating a Gender Inclusive Campus,” by Genny Beemyn and Susan R. Rankin • “Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World,” by Randy Robertson • “We Are All Bystanders,” by Jason Marsh and Dacher Keltner • “What I Learned Inside the NBA Bubble,” by Sam Anderson |
| Sussex County Community College | College Novel | Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens |
| Sweet Briar College | Common Reading | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Tarrant County College-Northwest Campus | Common Reader | The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez |
| Texas A&M International University | Common Read | Failing Up: A Professor’s Odyssey of Flunking, Determination, and Hope, by Dr. Barbara Hong |
| Texas A&M University – Commerce | Book in Common | Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, by Joshua Davis |
| Texas A&M University – Kingsville | Javelina Common Read | We’ll Fly Away, by Bryan Bliss |
| Texas A&M University – San Antonio | Common Reading Experience | Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know, by Malcolm Gladwell |
| Texas Christian University | TCU Common Reading | March Trilogy, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell |
| Texas State University | Common Reading | This Book Will Make You Kinder: An Empathy Handbook , by Henry James Garrett |
| Texas Woman’s University | Book-in-Common | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| The Citadel | Summer Reading Program | A Few Good Men, by Aaron Sorkin |
| The College of New Jersey | Summer Reading | The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity, by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris |
| The University of Scranton | Royal Reads | The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin |
| Thomas College | Common Read | We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Towson University – Honors College | Honors College Read | The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move, by Sonia Shah |
| Trinity University | Reading TUgether | Long Shot: The Triumphs and Struggles of an NBA Freedom Fighter, by Craig Hodges |
| Trinity Washington University | Trinity Reads | My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor |
| Truckee Meadows Community College | Whole Campus Book Club | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| and An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | ||
| Tufts University – Medical School | Common Read | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson |
| Tulane University | Tulane Reading Project | Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi |
| Tulsa Community College | Public Good Reads | Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre, by Randy Krehbiel |
| Tuskegee University | Year-Long Common Reading Experience (YLCRE) | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| and Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington | ||
| Union Theological Seminary | EDS at Union Community Read | 1619 Project, The New York Times Magazine |
| United States Air Force Academy | Common Read | They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei |
| United States Military Academy | Common Read | Intimations: Six Essays, by Zadie Smith |
| University at Albany – Honors College | Common Read | The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, by Anthony Ray Hinton and We Who Believe in Freedom: Activism and the Struggle for Social Justice, by Alice Green |
| University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, Honors College | Common Book Experience | The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, by John T. Edge |
| 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 andDrawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, edited by Paul Hawken and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, by Naomi Klein and Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, edited by Daniel Lerch 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 | American Sunrise: Poems, by Joy Harjo |
| University of Arizona, Honors Program | Common Reading Program | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman |
| University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | One Book One Community | Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting Pot Cuisine, by Edward Lee |
| University of Arkansas, Fort Smith | Big Read | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann |
| University of California, Berkeley | On the Same Page | The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio |
| University of California, Davis | Campus Community Book Project | How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi |
| University of California, Irvine | UCI Great Big Read | The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Common Experience | “The Social Dilemma” (Netflix documentary) |
| University of California, San Diego – John Muir College | Muir College Writing Program | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| University of California, San Diego – Revelle College | One Book Revelle | The Tradition, by Jericho Brown |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | UCSB Reads | Exhalation, by Ted Chiang |
| University of California, Santa Cruz | The Deep Read | Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| University of California, Santa Cruz – Cowell College | Summer Reading | The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich andUnflattening, 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 Chicago – Harris Public Policy | Common Read | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson |
| University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus | One Book, One Campus | Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More, by Janet Mock |
| University of Colorado, Boulder | Buffs One Read | American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, edited by America Ferrera |
| University of Dallas | UD Reads | Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, by Nora Krug |
| University of Delaware | First Year Common Reader | Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert |
| University of Evansville, Honors Program | Common Read Experience | How Beautiful We Were, by Imbolo Mbue |
| University of Georgia – School of Social Work | Social Justice Common Book Initiative | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| University of Hawaii at Manoa | Common Read Program | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| University of Houston – Clear Lake | Common Reader Program | Becoming Nicole: The Extraordinary Transformation of an Ordinary Family by Amy Ellis Nutt |
| University of Idaho | Common Read | Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth |
| University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | One Book One Campus | Suspended |
| University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign – School of Art + Design | One Book One School | How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi |
| University of Iowa | One Community, One Book | Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Aftermath of Incarceration, by Dr. Reuben Jonathan Miller |
| University of Iowa | Common Reader – Interpretation of Literature | There Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston |
| University of Kansas | KU Common Books | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| University of Kentucky | One Book, One Lexington Community Reads | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| University of La Verne | One Book, One University | Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, by Mira Jacob |
| 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 School of Law | Common Read | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander |
| University of Maine, Honors College | Honors Read | Becoming Nicole: The Extraordinary Transformation of an Ordinary Family by Amy Ellis Nutt |
| University of Mary Washington | Common Read | Living on Auto-Pilot, an episode from PBS’s Hacking Your Mind series |
| University of Maryland | First Year Book | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| University of Miami | One Book, One U | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond |
| University of Michigan – Dearborn | Community Read | Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, by Jacob Soboroff |
| University of Michigan – Flint | Common Read | The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, by J. Drew Lanham |
| University of Michigan, Engineering | Engineering Common Reading Experience | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| University of Minnesota – Twin Cities | CEHD Reads | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| University of Mississippi | Common Reading Experience | World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, by Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
| University of Missouri – Kansas City | Social Justice Lecture Series | Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace, by Vandana Shiva |
| University of Missouri – Kansas City | First Semester Experience | Hag-Seed, by Margaret Atwood and Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace, by Vandana Shiva |
| University of Missouri, Honors College | Honors College One Read | Friday Black: Stories, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |
| University of Missouri, Law School | Mizzou Law One Read | Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner |
| University of Montana | Griz Reads | The Displaced, by Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| University of Nebraska – Lincoln | One Book, One Nebraska | Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, by Robert Kolker |
| University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Common Reader for FYS and SYS | Suspended |
| University of North Alabama | One Book Initiative | Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness, by Jennifer Berry Hawes |
| University of North Carolina – Asheville | Common Word Community Read | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson |
| and The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home, by Denise Kiernan | ||
| University of North Carolina – Charlotte | Common Reading Experience | The 57 Bus, by Dashka Slater |
| University of Northern Iowa | President’s Diversity Common Read / Cornerstone Common Read | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson |
| University of Notre Dame – Glynn Family Honors Program | Summer Reading | The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael Sandel |
| and The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell | ||
| and Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson | ||
| University of Oregon | Common Reading | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| University of Pennsylvania | Penn Reading Project | Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, by August Wilson |
| University of Pennsylvania – Wharton School of Business | Common Read | Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, by Adam Grant |
| University of Pittsburgh – Bradford | Common Read | Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin |
| University of Pittsburgh – Pitt Public Health | One Book One Community | The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, by Hope Jahren |
| University of Portland | ReadUP – One Book Together | Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi |
| University of Puget Sound | Tacoma Reads | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson |
| University of Richmond | One Book, One Richmond | All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson |
| University of Saint Joseph | Common Read | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| University of San Diego | Just Read! | Suspended |
| University of San Diego – Kroc School of Peace Studies | Summer Reading | • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, by Adam Grant
• The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace, by John Paul Lederach • How Change Happens, by Duncan Green • Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, by Zeynep Tufekci |
| University of San Francisco | One Community, One Book | So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo |
| University of South Alabama | Common Read | So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson |
| University of South Carolina | First-Year Reading Experience | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| University of South Carolina Upstate | PREFACE | The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, by Hope Jahren |
| University of South Dakota – Honors Program | Honors First-Year Reading Project | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| University of Tennessee – Chattanooga | Read2Achieve | So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo |
| University of Texas at Austin – Honors Program | Plan II Honors Program | Where We Come From, by Oscar Cásares |
| University of the District of Columbia | Freshman Book | I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography, by John Thompson with Jesse Washington |
| University of Utah, Honors College | Muse Project | They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei |
| and The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose, by Chris Wilson | ||
| University of Vermont – Honors College | First-Year Summer Reading | Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| University of Virginia – Curry School of Education | Curry Common Read | Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong |
| University of Virginia – Echols Scholars Program | Common Read | Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong |
| University of Washington – Department of Global Health | Common Book | Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas |
| University of Washington – Department of Health Sciences | Common Book | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| University of Washington – Department of Urban Design & Planning | Common Book | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| University of Wisconsin – Madison | Go Big Read | Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi |
| University of Wisconsin – Madison, Chadbourne Residential College | Common Read | American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, by America Ferrera |
| 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, by Plato | ||
| Ursinus College | One Book, One Ursinus | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Utah Valley University | Freshman Reading Program | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Valencia College – Osceola Campus | Common Reading | The Old Drift, by Namwali Serpell |
| and The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig | ||
| Vanderbilt University | Commons Reading | When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi |
| Vassar College | Common Reading | Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, by Jia Tolentino |
| Vaughn College | Common Reading | Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First, by Dorothy Roberts |
| Victor Valley College | One Book, One College | The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline |
| Villanova University | One Book | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Villanova University – School of Business | Read to Lead | No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, by Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Common Reading | Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, by Elizabeth Rush |
| Viterbo University | First Year Student Common Read | Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, by Danielle Allen |
| Wagner College | Summer Reading Assignment | Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, by Julie Lythcott-Haims |
| Wake Forest University | Project Wake | Project Wake theme is “Re-:” 35 Titles to choose from. |
| Wallace State Community College | Common Read Initiative | Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate |
| Wartburg College | Knight Reading | Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| Washburn University | iRead | American Pandemic: Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, by Dr. Nancy Bristow |
| Washington State University | WSU Common Reading | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman |
| Washington State University – Tri-Cities | Common Reading | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman |
| Washington State University – Vancouver | Freshman Common Read | Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Common Reading Program | Becoming, by Michelle Obama |
| Wayne State College – Honors Program | Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans | |
| Wellesley College | Thrive! Common Read | Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History, by Blair Imani and Monique Le |
| Wells College | First-Year Read | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson |
| Wesleyan University | First Year Matters Common Experience | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| West Kentucky Community & Technical College | One Book Read | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman |
| West Shore Community College | Common Read | The Women of Copper County, by Mary Doria Russell |
| West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine | Summer Reading Project | In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope, by Rana Awdish |
| West Virginia University | Campus Read / Common Read | The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border, by Francisco Cantú |
| West Virginia Wesleyan College | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover | |
| Western Carolina University | One Book | The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma, by Alex Kotlowitz |
| Western Connecticut State University | Community Read/Common Read | Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America, by Maria Hinojosa |
| Western Michigan University | University Common Read | Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience, edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond |
| Western Michigan University | We Talk Common Read | Don’t Label Me: How To Do Diversity Without Inflaming The Culture Wars, by Irshad Manji |
| Western Michigan University – School of Medicine | Common Read | The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis, by Thomas Goetz |
| Westfield State University | First-Year READ | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Westminster College (MO) | One Read | Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, by Casey Cep |
| 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 | The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction, by Justin Earley |
| Wichita State University | WSU Reads | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| William Woods University | One Read | Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, by Casey Cep |
| Williams College | Williams Reads | Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities, by Craig Steven Wilder |
| Winona State University | WSU Common Book Project | The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, by Jamil Zaki |
| Winthrop University | Common Book Project | The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea, by Hyeonseo Lee |
| Yale Divinity School | All-School Read | Notes of a Native Daughter: Testifying in Theological Education, by Keri Day |
| Yavapai College | Rider’s Read | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Yeshiva University | Freshman Reads | To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility, by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks |
