With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2022-23 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 420 programs and their title selections, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2022-23. 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.
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University |
Program Name |
2022-2023 Title |
| Aims Community College | Campus Read | Tell Me Who You Are: A Road Map for Cultivating Racial Literacy, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| Alaska Pacific University | Books of the Year | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer and |
| All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson and | ||
| Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle and | ||
| Talking Across the Divide: How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Even Change the World, by Justin Lee and | ||
| Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together by, Van Jones and | ||
| My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem | ||
| Albion College | Common Reading Experience | How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi |
| American University | Writer as Witness | Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, by Laila Lalami |
| American University – Humanities Program | AU Common Read | On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong |
| Appalachian State University | Common Reading Program | Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community, edited by Susan E. Keefe |
| Arcadia University | Summer Reading | Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever, by Kareem Rosser |
| Arizona State University | Common Read | The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio |
| Arkansas State University – Neil Griffin College of Business | First Year Experience | Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, by Edward Humes |
| Assumption University | COMPASS Reading | First Year Anthology of Common Reading |
| Augustana College (IL) | Augie Reads | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Avila University | First-Year Experience Common Reading Program | This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman |
| Baldwin Wallace University | Common Read | Suspended |
| Bard College | Language and Thinking Program | Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, by Mary Shelley and |
| Antigone, by Sophocles | ||
| Bard College at Simon’s Rock | Book One | The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, by Molly McCully Brown |
| Baylor University, Honors Program | Freshman Reading Project | Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment, by Maxine Bedat |
| Bellarmine University | Book in Common | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Benedictine University | Summer Reading | • “10 Practical Ways to Improve Happiness,” by Arthur C. Brooks
• “Why Can’t Scientists Talk Like Regular Human Beings?” from Scientific American • “Wholehearted Living,” from The Gifts of Imperfection, by Brené Brown • A report about a life-saving treatment developed by college students • An examination of the ethical debate surrounding the death penalty |
| Bergen Community College | Common Read | Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly |
| Berry College | Summer Reading Program | The Moth Presents All These Wonders, edited by Catherine Burns |
| Bismarck State College | Campus Read | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| Bluegrass Community and Technical College | Common Read | The House of Broken Angels, by Luis Alberto Urrea |
| Bluffton University | Summer Reading | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Boston College | Conversations in the First Year | Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up—and What We Make When We Make Dinner, by Liz Hauck |
| Brandeis University | New Student Forum First-Year Book | Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert |
| Brenau University | Common Reader | The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir, by Michele Harper |
| Brescia University | Common Read | The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose, by Chris Wilson and Bret Witter |
| Bridgewater State University | One Book One Community | Voyage of Mercy, by Stephen Puleo |
| Bristol Community College | BCC OneBook Project | The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking, by Roman Krznaric |
| Broward College | College Read | American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, edited by America Ferrera |
| Brown University | First Readings | “Slavery and Justice Report,” Brown University |
| Bucknell University | First-Year Common Reading | They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei |
| Bunker Hill Community College | One Book Program | White Space: Culture, Race, & Writing, by Jennifer De Leon |
| Butte College | Book in Common | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| Cal State Polytechnic University Pomona | Common Read | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| California State University – Bakersfield | One Book Project | A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School, by Carlotta Walls LaNier with Lisa Frazier Page |
| California State University – Chico | Book in Common | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| California State University – East Bay | Common Read | How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community, by Mia Birdsong |
| California State University – Fullerton | One Book, One CSUF | One of the Good Ones, by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite |
| California State University – Maritime | Common Reading Program | Know My Name, by Chanel Miller |
| California State University – Monterey Bay | Common Reading Experience | How to Break Up with Your Phone, by Catherine Price |
| California State University – Northridge | Freshman Common Reading | Suspended |
| California State University – Sacramento | One Book Program | Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law, by Haben Girma |
| California State University – San Marcos | Common Read | Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell and |
| Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe and | ||
| Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, by Art Spiegelman and | ||
| Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich and | ||
| The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats | ||
| California Lutheran University | Common Reading | Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, by Deborah A. Miranda |
| Calvin University | CORE 100 – Community and Commitments | Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, by N. T. Wright |
| Cardinal Stritch University | Common Read | The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland, by Jim DeFede |
| Carlow University | Carlow R.E.A.D.S. | Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, by Vivek H. Murthy, MD |
| Carnegie Mellon University – Tepper School of Business | Tepper Reads | Joan Is Okay, by Weike Wang |
| Case Western Reserve University | Common Reading Program | The Fortunes, by Peter Ho Davies |
| Catawba College | Common Summer Reading | “Solitude and Leadership,” by William Deresiewicz and “The Quest for Peace and Justice,” by Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Catawba Valley Community College | Red Hawk Read | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| Central College | Common Reading Experience | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Central Washington University | Big Read | Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, by Ross Gay |
| Chaffey College | One Book, One College | The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead |
| Chesapeake College | One Maryland One Book | What’s Mine and Yours, by Naima Coster |
| Christian Brothers University | Memphis Reads | Noor, by Nnedi Okorafor |
| Clark University | First-Year Common Read | Parable of the Sower : A Graphic Novel Adaptation, by Octavia E. Butler |
| Clemson University | Common Read | What Noise Against the Cane, by Desiree C. Bailey |
| Colgate University | Summer Reading | How Beautiful We Were, by Imbolo Mbue |
| College of Charleston | The College Reads! | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith |
| College of Marin | COMmon Reading | The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine |
| College of New Jersey | Summer Reading | Hey Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction, by Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
| College of William & Mary | One Book One Community | The New American, by Micheline Aharonian Marcom |
| College of Wooster | Summer Reading | Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi |
| Collin County Community College | Book-in-Common | Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout, by Lauren Redniss |
| Colorado College | Common Book Read | Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life, by Katherine E. Standefer |
| Colorado Mountain College | CMC Common Reader | Woman of Light, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine |
| College of St. Scholastica | One Campus, One Read | See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, by Valarie Kaur |
| Colorado State University | Rams Read | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Columbia College (MO) | One Read | The Big Door Prize, by M.O. Walsh |
| Columbus College of Art & Design | First-Year Common Read | How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir, by Saeed Jones |
| Community College of Baltimore County | Community Book Connection | Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert |
| Community College of Philadelphia | One Book, One College | Heavy: An American Memoir, by Kiese Laymon |
| Concordia College, Moorhead (MN) | Summer Book Read | Suspended |
| Connecticut College | One Book, One Region | Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by Judith Heumann |
| Cosumnes Community College | One Book | Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald |
| Cottey College | First-Year Seminar Common Reader | A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, by Alicia Elliott |
| Crafton Hills College | One Book, One College | This Is How It Always Is, by Laurie Frankel |
| Cuesta College | Book of the Year | A Dream Called Home: A Memoir, by Reyna Grande |
| CUNY Baruch College | First Year Text | Brown Girls, by Daphne Palasi Andreades |
| CUNY City College of New York | Community Read | The Book of Delights: Essays, by Ross Gay |
| CUNY Queensborough Community College | Common Read | The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir, by Michele Harper |
| Cuyahoga Community College | Common Reading / Tri-C Reads | Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner |
| Dallas College | Common Book | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson |
| Davidson College | Reynolds Lecture | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith |
| Defiance College | First Year Common Read | The Art of Inventing Hope: Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel, by Howard Reich |
| Delaware County Community College | College-Wide Reading Program | Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World, by Kimberly Nicholas |
| DePaul University – Honors Program | Summer Common Read | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon |
| Des Moines Area Community College | One Book One College | Somewhere in the Known World: A Collective Refugee Memoir, by Kao Kalie Yang |
| Dickinson College | Common Reading | The Hurting Kind: Poems, by Ada Limón |
| Dodge City Community College | Read and CONQuer | True Biz, by Sara Nović |
| Donnelly College | Common Read | Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, by Zena Hitz |
| Duke University | Common Experience Summer Reading Program | Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University, by Theodore D. Segal and “How To Save a Planet” (podcast) and “Bending the Arc” (film) |
| Eastern Connecticut State University | Big Read | Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu |
| Eastern Mennonite University | EMU Common Read | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| Eastern Michigan University, Honors College | Honors Common Read | Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, by Stuart Brown |
| Eckerd College | Summer Reading | After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America, by Jessica Goudeau |
| Elmhurst University | One Book, One Elmhurst | American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, edited by America Ferrera |
| Elms College | Common Read | Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever, by Kareem Rosser |
| Elon University | Common Reading | Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling |
| Evergreen State College | Orientation Common Reading | “Seeing the World Through Moss-Colored Glasses” and “Learning to See,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (from Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses) and |
| Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom, by bell hooks | ||
| Excelsior University | Common Read | My Time Among The Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| Fairmont State University | Common Book Project | The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow |
| Fitchburg State University | Fitchburg Community Read | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| Florida College | Common Reading | Animal Farm, by George Orwell |
| Florida International University | FIU Common Reading | App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream, by Michael Sayman |
| Florida SouthWestern State College | One Book One College | David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell |
| Florida State College at Jacksonville | Author Series Learning Community | From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home, by Tembi Locke |
| Foothill College | Community Reading Project | Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, by Art Spiegelman |
| Fordham College – Lincoln Center | First-Year Summer Read | The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| Fordham University – Rose Hill | First-Year Summer Read | The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| Fort Lewis College | Common Reading Experience | Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz |
| Francis Marion University | Common Text – University Life 101 | The Ninth Metal, by Benjamin Percy |
| George Washington University | Common Read | The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, by Daniel H. Pink |
| Georgetown University | Marino Family International Writers’ Academic Workshop | The Sound of Things Falling, by Juan Gabriel Vasquez |
| Georgia College & State University | GC Reads | Essay 1: “Aftermath,” by Briohny Doyle
Essay 2: “Did Laughter Make the Mind?” by Chris Knight Essay 3: “Escape the Echo Chamber,” by C Thi Nguyen Essay 4: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr Essay 5: “Living With a Peacock,” by Flannery O’Connor Essay 6: “Righteous Incivility,” by Amy Olberding Essay 7: “The Love Story Story,” by Barbara H Rosenwein Essay 8: “This is Water,” by David Foster Waller Essay 9: “What We Can All Learn From Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” by Heather Elliott Essay 10: “When to Break a Rule,” by Stephen Nadler |
| Gettysburg College | Campus Book | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Goucher College | Summer Reading | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Greenfield Community College | Reading for Change | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| Greenville Technical College | Common Reading | Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, by Joshua Davis |
| Green River College | One Book | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Grinnell College | Common Reading | Suspended |
| Guilford College | Common Reading | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Gustavus Adolphus College | Reading in Common Program | Suspended |
| Guttman Community College, CUNY | Summer Bridge Common Read | “City Limits,” by Colson Whitehead |
| Hampshire College | Common Reading | Tastes Like War: A Memoir, by Grace M. Cho |
| Harvard College | Common Reading | • Chapter 11 from Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, by Claude Steele
• “Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All,” by Viet Thanh Nguyen • “Is That Ableist? Good Question,” by M. Leona Godin • Introduction from Redefining Realness : My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & so Much More, by Janet Mock • “Good genes are nice, but joy is better,” by Liz Mineo |
| Harvard Divinity School | Common Read | “Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery,” Harvard University |
| Hawkeye Community College | Hawkeye Reads | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| Hilbert College | Hilbert College Reads | Craig and Fred: A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other, by Craig Grossi |
| Hillsborough Community College | Common Read | Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| Hiram College | First Year Common Reading | The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, by Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall |
| Hofstra University | Common Reading | “What Disability Studies Has to Offer Medical Education,” by G. Thomas Couser |
| Holy Names University | University Common Reading | Tell Me Who You Are: A Road Map for Cultivating Racial Literacy, by Winona Gua and Priya Vulcht |
| Hope College | “Big Read” Holland Area Community | Circe, by Madeline Miller |
| Illinois Central College | One Book One College | Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, by Adam Grant |
| Illinois College | Summer Common Reading | Becoming a Learner: Realizing the Opportunity of Education, by Matthew L. Sanders |
| Illinois Valley Community College | One Book, One College | Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and Mother’s Will to Survive, |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | Summer Reading Program | Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens |
| Indiana University – School of Eduation | Common Read | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander |
| 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 | Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, by Debbie Irving |
| Indiana University Southeast | Common Experience | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| Indiana University, Kelley School of Business | Common Read Program | The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, by Lauren Markham |
| Jacksonville State University | JSU Reads | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| James Madison University – Honors College | Common Read / PREFACE | Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations, by Jonny Sun |
| Johns Hopkins University | Common Question | “What Is Democracy” [3 essays]
• “Letter From Birmingham City Jail,” by Martin Luther King, Jr. • “Turning Strangers into Political Friends,” by Danielle Allen • “On the Case for Creating Science Courts,” by Zeynep Pamuk |
| Johnson County Community College | Common Read | Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, by Rebekah Taussig |
| Kalamazoo College | Summer Common Reading | Felix Ever After, by Kacen Callender |
| Kansas State University | K-State Book Network’s Common Reading | The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disasters Strike—and Why, by Amanda Ripley |
| Kean University | Common Read | All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto, by George M. Johnson |
| Kent State University | Common Reading | Suspended |
| Lake Superior State University | Campus Read | The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities, by Will Allen |
| Lansing Community College | Beyond the Book | Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe and |
| How To Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi | ||
| Lasell College | Common Reading | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| Le Moyne College | Summer Common Reading Assignment | Hiroshima, by John Hersey and |
| “Eyes,” “Old Woman,” “A friend,” “Appeal,” and “Entreaty,” by Sankichi Tōge from Hiroshima: Three Witnesses | ||
| Lenoir-Rhyne University | Campus Read | Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America, by Michael Eric Dyson |
| Lewis and Clark College | Common Reading | “Am I honoring those who’ve come before me?” and “Greg Archuleta and Lifeways: Cultivating resilience through education,” and “Managing cultural resources for this generation and the next,” and “Teaming up: Crow’s Shadow & Hallie Ford Museum of Art,” by Steph Littlebird |
| Lone Star College – University Park | ReadUP! | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| Lorain County Community College | One Book, One Campus | The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World, by Melinda Gates |
| Los Angeles Valley College | One Book, One College | Maus I, by Art Spiegelman |
| Louisiana State University | Honors College Summer Shared Read | Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert |
| Lourdes University | Common Read | Dear Martin, by Nic Stone |
| Loyola University Chicago | Rambler Read | Thick: And Other Essays, by Tressie McMillan Cottom |
| Loyola University Chicago – Stritch School of Medicine | Common Read | Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Father Gregory Boyle |
| Loyola University Maryland | Common Text Program | The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett |
| Luther College | Summer Reading | The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border, by Francisco Cantú |
| Madisonville Community College | MCC Common Reader | Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World, by Scott Harrison |
| Maine College of Art & Design | Common Reading | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| Manchester Community College | Common Read | The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett |
| 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 | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith |
| Maryland Institute College of Art | First-Year Read | Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler |
| Maryville University | Maryville Reads | Bone Broth, by Lyndsey Ellis |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT Reads | Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, by Vivek H. Murthy |
| Medical College of Wisconsin | Common Read | Catastrophic Rupture: A Memoir of Healing, by K. Jane Lee |
| Menlo College | Common Book | Sharks in the Time of Saviors, by Kawai Strong Washburn |
| Mercer County Community College | Common Book | Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas |
| Mercy College – School of Natural and Health Sciences | Common Read | She Danced with Lightning: My Daughter’s Struggle with Epilepsy and Her Boundless Will to Live, by Marc Palmieri |
| Meredith College | Summer Reading Program | Multimedia website on Climate Change and Climate Activism |
| Messiah University | Common Reading Assignment | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Metropolitan Community College – Longview (MO) | Common Read | The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, by Jamil Zaki |
| Metropolitan Community College – Penn Valley (MO) | Common Read | The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine |
| Metropolitan State University Denver | 1 Book/1 Project/2 Transform | Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, by Mira Jacob |
| Miami Dade College – Hialeah Campus | Common Reading | Recitatif, by Toni Morrison |
| Miami Dade College – Honors Program | Summer Reading Program | The Firekeeper’s Daughter, by Angeline Boulley and |
| Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear | ||
| Michigan Tech | Summer Reading | Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Middle Tennessee State University | Summer Reading Program | Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time, by Andrew Forsthoefel |
| Midway University | Common Read | The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible, edited by Catherine Burns |
| Midwestern University | Social Equity Common Read | The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER, by Thomas Fisher |
| Minnesota State University – Moorhead | One Book, One Community | The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich |
| Mississippi State University | Maroon Edition—MSU Common Reading Project | Suspended |
| Mississippi University for Women | Common Reading Initiative | Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas, by Alexi Pappas |
| Monroe County Community College | One Book, One Community of Monroe County | The River, by Peter Heller |
| Montcalm Community College | MCC Reads and One Book One County | The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michele Richardson |
| Moore College of Art & Design | Common Read | The Magic Fish, by Trung Le Nguyen |
| Moorpark College | One Campus, One Book | Mecca, by Susan Straight |
| Moraine Valley Community College | One Book, One College | Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, by Kristen Radtke |
| Moravian University | InFocus Summer Reading | The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak |
| Moreno Valley 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 |
| Mount Holyoke College | Common Read | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Muhlenberg College | Campus Reads | Binti: The Complete Trilogy, by Nnedi Okorafor |
| Nassau Community College | Common Reading | Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation, by Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell |
| Nevada State College | Common Read Program | Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World, edited by John Freeman |
| New York University | NYU Reads | Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Norfolk State University | Freshman Common Reader | The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, by Ayana Mathis |
| North Dakota State University | One Book, One Community | The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich |
| North Idaho College | NIC Common Reading Program: Cardinal Reads | The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, by Jamil Zaki and |
| The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich | ||
| North Iowa Area Community College | Common Read | Craig & Fred: A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other, by Criag Grossi |
| Northeastern State University | Common Read | Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, by Rebekah Taussig |
| Northeastern University | First Pages | Suspended |
| 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 | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil |
| Northern Michigan University | Two Books Two Communities | The Lightkeeper’s Daughter, by Jean E. Pendziwol |
| Northern Michigan University | Diversity Common Reading Program | Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism, by Elsa Sjunneson |
| Northern State University | Common Read | Send, by Patty Blount |
| Northwestern University | One Book, One Northwestern | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith |
| Northwood University | Omniquest Program | Free to Choose: A Personal Statement, by Milton and Rose Friedman and |
| Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, by Adam Grant | ||
| Norwalk Community College | NCC Common Read | Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology, by Rana El Kaliouby |
| Norwich University | First Read | Call Me American, by Abdi Nor Iftin |
| Notre Dame of Maryland University | Common Reading | I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan, by Khalida Brohi |
| Oakland City University | Common Book | The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros |
| Oakland Community College | Academic Literacy | The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil |
| Oakland University – Honors College | Common Read | The Cartographers, by Peng Shepherd and |
| Running with Sherman: The Donkey with a Heart of a Hero, by Christopher McDougall | ||
| Occidental College | First-Year Summer Reading | Your House Will Pay, by Steph Cha |
| Ohio State University – Newark | One Book, One Community | The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America, by Elizabeth Letts |
| Olin College of Engineering | Summer Book Program | What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World, by Sara Hendren |
| Otterbein University | Common Book | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Owens Community College | The BIG Read | What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, by Stephanie Foo |
| Owensboro Community & Tech. College | Common Reading | In the Wild Light, by Jeff Zentner |
| Pennsylvania State University – Altoona | Common Read | Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir, by Robin Ha |
| Pennsylvania State University – Berks | Common Reading Program | Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear |
| Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg | Penn State Harrisburg Reads | Suspended |
| Pennsylvania State University – New Kensington | First-Year Summer Reading | “College Students Are Not Okay,” by Jonathan Malesic (New York Times, May 13, 2022) |
| Pennsylvania State University – Smeal College of Business | First-Year Seminar | The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth about Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations, by Robert Livingston |
| Piedmont Virginia Community College | One Book Project | The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, by Hope Jahren |
| Polk State College | Common Read Program | American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, edited by America Ferrera |
| Pomona College | Orientation Book | We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson |
| Princeton University | Princeton Pre-Read | Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena, by Jordan Salama |
| Providence College | Common Reading Program | Suspended |
| Purdue University | Big Read | Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| Purdue University Northwest – Calumet Campus | One Book One Community | The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power, by Deirdre Mask |
| Ramapo College of New Jersey | FYS Summer Reading | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann |
| Reed College | Welcome to Reed | Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison |
| Regis College | Common Reading Program | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Community Read | Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, by Joshua Davis |
| Rhode Island College | Open Books-Open Minds | The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett |
| Rhodes College | Rhodes Reads | Noor, by Nnedi Okorafor |
| Rider University | Shared Read Program | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman |
| Rivier University | One Book, One Campus | The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman |
| Roosevelt University – Institute for Continued Learning | ICL Read | The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics, by Daniel James Brown |
| Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | Common Read | Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most, by Greg McKeown |
| Rowan College of South Jersey | One Book, One College | The Children’s Blizzard, by Melanie Benjamin |
| Roxbury Community College | One Book, One Campus | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| Russell Sage College | Summer Reading | The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible, edited by Catherine Burns |
| Rutgers University, Honors College, New Brunswick | Summer Reading | Excerpts from Scarlet and Black, Volume 1: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History and Volume 3: Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945–2020 |
| Rutgers University, SAS Honors Program | Summer Reading | Sourdough: or, Lois and Her Adventures in the Underground Market: A Novel, by Robin Sloan |
| Saddleback College | One Book, One College | The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, by Florence Williams |
| Saint Joseph’s University | SJU Reads | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Saint Louis University | Campus Read | The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy and |
| The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy | ||
| Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota | Freshman Read | Suspended |
| Saint Michael’s College | Common Text | The Office of Historical Corrections, by Danielle Evans |
| Salem State University | First Year Reading Experience (FYRE) | College Rules: How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College, by Sherrie Nist-Olejnik and Jodi Patrick Holschuh |
| Sam Houston State University | Common Reader Program | Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, by Rebekah Taussig |
| San Antonio College | Common Read | Tell Me Who You Are: A Road Map for Cultivating Racial Literacy, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| San Diego State University | One Book One San Diego | The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett |
| San Jose State University | SJSU Reading Program | All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson |
| San Juan College | One Book/One Community | Send a Runner: A Navajo Honors the Long Walk, by Edison Eskeets and Jim Kristofic |
| Santa Barbara City College | SBCC Reads | Happy City: Transorming Our Lives Through Urban Design, by Charles Montgomery |
| Santa Clara University | Common Reading | Know My Name, by Chanel Miller |
| Santa Rosa Junior College | Work of Literary Merit | Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl |
| Seattle University | Common Text | Know My Name, by Chanel Miller |
| Seton Hall University | Summer Reading | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Shepherd University | Common Reading | The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, by Emma Copley |
| Siena College | Summer Reading For First Year Seminar | The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead |
| Siena Heights University | Common Reading | We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter, by Celeste Headlee |
| Simmons University | First Year Read | Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo |
| Skidmore College | Summer Reading Program | Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler |
| Slippery Rock University | Common Read | The Book of Delights: Essays, by Ross Gay |
| Smith College | Smith Reads | The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki |
| Somerset Community College | SCC Common Read | The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig |
| Sonoma State University | Common Read | So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo |
| South Dakota State University | Common Read | Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever, by Kareem Rosser |
| Southeastern Louisiana University | Common Read | Electric Arches, by Eve L. Ewing |
| St. Edward’s University | Common Read | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith |
| St. Olaf College | Common Read | The Book of Delights: Essays, by Ross Gay |
| Stanford University | Three Books Program | An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong and |
| Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life, by Lulu Miller and | ||
| “Animal,” directed by Cyril Dion (documentary film) | ||
| Stevens Institute of Technology | First Year Reading Program | The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, by Alain de Botton |
| Stockton University | Freshman Common Reading | Sweat, by Lynn Nottage |
| Stony Brook University | First-Year Reading | Suspended |
| SUNY Binghamton | Common Read | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil |
| SUNY Brockport | Community Reading Project | Four Chapters from Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| SUNY Cortland | Common Read | In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities, by Davarian Baldwin |
| SUNY Geneseo | Common Summer Book Read | Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans |
| SUNY New Paltz | One Book, One New Paltz | Hag-Seed, by Margaret Atwood |
| SUNY Old Westburg | First-Year Common Reading Program | Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, by Ross Gay |
| SUNY Oneonta | Common Read | They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei |
| SUNY Onondaga Community College | Common Read | The Loneliest Polar Bear: A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming World, by Kale Williams |
| SUNY Oswego | Oswego Reading Initiative | Dig, by A.S. King |
| Susquehanna University | Common Reading Program | Renewal: Susquehanna University Common Reading Anthology 2022-2023
• Transcript of “A Right to the City,” Smithsonian podcast Sidedoor • “Instructions on Not Giving Up,” by Ada Limón (poem) • Excerpt from Blue-Skinned Gods, by S.J. Sindu’s • “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World,” by Rachel Monroe • Excerpt from Out in Central Pennsylvania: The History of an LGBTQ Community, by William Burton and Barry Loveland |
| Sussex County Community College | College Novel | The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah |
| Sweet Briar College | Common Reading | My Monticello, by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson |
| 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 | Common Ground Reading Initiative | The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, by Alex Epstein |
| Texas A&M University – Commerce | Book in Common | Suspended |
| Texas A&M University – Kingsville | Javelina Common Read | American Panda, by Gloria Chao |
| Texas A&M University – San Antonio | Common Reading Experience | Tell Me Who You Are: A Road Map for Cultivating Racial Literacy, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| Texas Christian University | TCU Common Reading | The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline |
| Texas State University | Common Reading | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil |
| The Citadel | Summer Reading Program | A Few Good Men, by Aaron Sorkin |
| The University of Akron – Williams Honors College | Summer Reading | Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It, by Ian Leslie |
| The University of Scranton | Royal Reads | On Juneteenth, by Annette Gordon-Reed |
| Thomas College | Common Read | “Still I Rise” and “On the Pulse of Morning,” by Maya Angelou |
| Tougaloo College | Common Read | Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism, by Jelani M. Favors |
| 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 |
| Tulane University | Tulane Reading Project | Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler |
| Tulsa Community College | TCC Common Book | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Union Theological Seminary | EDS at Union Community Read | The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of the Religious Nationalism, by Katherine Stewart |
| University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, Honors College | Common Book Experience | Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward |
| University of Alaska, Anchorage | Books of the Year | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer and |
| All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson and | ||
| Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle and | ||
| Talking Across the Divide: How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Even Change the World, by Justin Lee and | ||
| Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together by, Van Jones and | ||
| My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem | ||
| University of Alaska, Southeast | One Campus, One Book | Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures Farming the Ocean to Fight Climate Change, by Bren Smith |
| University of Arizona, Honors Program | Common Reading Program | Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas |
| University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | One Book One Community | Firekeeper’s Daughter, by Angeline Boulley |
| University of Arkansas, Fort Smith | Read This! | The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead |
| University of California, Berkeley | On the Same Page | Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu |
| University of California, Davis | Campus Community Book Project | Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment, by Zach Norris |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | UCSB Reads | Happy City: Transorming Our Lives Through Urban Design, by Charles Montgomery |
| University of California, Santa Cruz | Deep Read | Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert |
| University of California, Santa Cruz – Cowell College | Summer Reading | The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich |
| University of California, Santa Cruz – Porter College | Arts of Reading | Recitatif, by Toni Morrison |
| University of Chicago – Harris Public Policy | Common Read | Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez |
| University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus | One Book, One Campus | Tell Me Who You Are: A Road Map for Cultivating Racial Literacy, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| University of Colorado, Boulder | Buffs One Read | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| University of Delaware | First Year Common Reader | While the Earth Sleeps We Travel: We Travel: Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the World, by Ahmed M. Badr |
| University of Evansville, Honors Program | Common Read Experience | Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation, by Linda Villarosa |
| University of Hawaii at Manoa | Common Read Program | Suspended |
| University of Houston – Clear Lake | Common Reader Program | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| University of Idaho | Common Read | So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo |
| University of Indiana – School of Education | Common Read | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander |
| University of Iowa | One Community, One Book | An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, by Alex Kotlowitz |
| University of Iowa | Common Reader – Interpretation of Literature | Passing, by Nella Larsen |
| University of Kansas | KU Common Books | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| University of Kentucky – College of Medicine | Common Read | Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald |
| University of La Verne | One Book, One University | Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, by Deborah A. Miranda |
| 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 | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| University of Maryland | First Year Book | All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson |
| University of Miami | One Book, One U | The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, by Jeff Goodell |
| University of Michigan – Dearborn | Community Read | All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson |
| University of Michigan – Flint | Common Read | I Was Their American Dream, by Malaka Gharib |
| 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 – College of Education and Human Development | CEHD Reads | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| University of Mississippi | Common Reading Experience | The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green |
| University of Missouri – Kansas City | First Semester Experience | Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir |
| University of Missouri, Honors College | Honors College One Read | Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains, by Kerri Arsenault |
| University of Missouri, Law School | Mizzou Law One Read | When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom, by Asma T. Uddin |
| University of Montana | Griz Reads | Good Citizens Need Not Fear, by Maria Reva |
| University of Nebraska – Lincoln | One Book, One Lincoln | The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles |
| University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Common Reader for FYS and SYS | Tell Me Who You Are: A Road Map for Cultivating Racial Literacy, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| University of North Alabama | One Book Initiative | The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South, by Michael W. Twitty |
| University of North Carolina – Charlotte | Common Reading Experience | The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice, by Scott Ellsworth |
| University of North Dakota | Common Read | Rez Life, by David Treuer |
| University of North Texas – School of Public Health | Common Reading | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| University of Notre Dame – Glynn Family Honors Program | Summer Reading | Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro and |
| Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, by Matthew Walker 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 Pennysylvania – Graduate School of Education | One Book One GSE | Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong |
| Universitgy of Pennsylvania – School of Social Policy & Practice | One Book, One SP2 | The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine |
| University of Pittsburgh – Bradford | Common Read | The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil |
| University of Pittsburgh – Greensburg | Westmoreland Reads | Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, by Eli Saslow |
| University of Portland | Read Up – One Book Together | The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai |
| University of Puget Sound | Tacoma Reads | Afterlife, by Julia Alvarez |
| University of Richmond | One Book, One Richmond | No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education, by Leigh Patel |
| University of Saint Joseph | Common Read | Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body, by Rebekah Taussig |
| University of San Diego | One Book, One San Diego | The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett |
| University of South Alabama | Common Read/Common World Initiative | Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project, edited by Dave Isay |
| University of South Carolina | First-Year Reading Experience | Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, by Jennifer L. Eberhardt |
| University of South Carolina Upstate | PREFACE | They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei |
| University of South Dakota – Honors Program | Honors First-Year Reading Project | The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead |
| University of Tennessee – Chattanooga | Read2Achieve | How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America, edited by Sara Sinclair |
| University of Texas at Austin – Honors Program | Plan II Honors Program | Where We Come From, by Oscar Cásares |
| University of Texas at El Paso | Common Read | This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman |
| University of the District of Columbia | Freshman Book | Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines, by Jonathan Mooney |
| University of Toledo | Common Read | Suspended |
| University of Tulsa | Common Read | Exit West, by Moshin Hamid |
| 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 | Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, And In-Between, by Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi |
| University of Wisconsin – Madison | Go Big Read | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith |
| University of Wisconsin – Madison, Chadbourne Residential College | Common Read | American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, edited by America Ferrera |
| Utah Valley University | Freshman Reading Program | The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, by Anthony Ray Hinton |
| Valencia College – Honors College | Common Reading | Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Vanderbilt University | Commons Reading | Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying), by David A. Owens |
| Vassar College | Common Reading | Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein |
| Victor Valley College | One Book, One College | World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, by Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
| Villanova University | One Book | Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas |
| Villanova University – School of Business | Read to Lead | Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change, by Marc Benioff and Monica Langley |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Common Reading | Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South, by Chip Jones |
| Viterbo University | First Year Student Common Read | I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America, by Tyler Merritt |
| Wake Forest University | Project Wake | Project Wake theme is: ADAPT/CONNECT/GROW |
| Wallace State Community College | Common Read | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| Wartburg College | Knight Reading | Tell Me Who You Are: A Road Map for Cultivating Racial Literacy, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| Washburn University | iRead | HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship, by Nadine Strossen |
| Washington and Lee University | First Year Read | Grendel, by John Gardner |
| Washington State University | WSU Common Reading | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Waubonsee Community College | Common Read | Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, by Claude Steele |
| Wellesley College | Thrive! Common Read | Suspended |
| Wesleyan University | First Year Matters Common Experience | Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet: A Memoir, by Dr. Kinari Webb |
| West Kentucky Community & Technical College | One Book Read | The Book of Delights: Essays, by Ross Gay |
| West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine | Summer Reading Project | Seven Signs of Life: Unforgettable Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor, by Aoife Abbey |
| West Virginia University | Campus Read | Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu |
| Western Carolina University | One Book | Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines, by Jonathan Mooney |
| Western Michigan University | University Common Read | Win or Learn: The Naked Truth About Turning Every Rejection into Your Ultimate Success, by Harlan Cohen |
| Western Michigan University – School of Medicine | Common Read | The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir, by Michele Harper |
| Westminster College (MO) | One Read | The Big Door Prize, by M.O. Walsh |
| Westminster College (PA) | The Next Chapter: First Year Program | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Wichita State University | WSU Reads | Notes from a Young Black Chef, by Kwame Onwuachi |
| William Woods University | One Read | The Big Door Prize, by M.O. Walsh |
| Winona State University | WSU Common Book Project | Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me, by Ellen Forney |
| Winthrop University | Common Book Project | The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil |
| Wisconsin Lutheran College | Campus Read | Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | Common Experience | The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir, by Michele Harper |
| Yavapai College | Riders Read | The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune |
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