With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2023-24 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 351 programs and their title selections, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2023-24. 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.
| Adler University | Common Book | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Aims Community College | Campus Read | Child of the Flower-Song: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua, by Gloria Amescua |
| Albion College | Common Reading Experience | Curated collection of works centered on the theme of belonging, identity and self discovery. |
| • “Albion through Malleable Eyes: The Great Migration, Urban Renewal, and Missed Opportunities,” by Demetrius R. Goodale (M.A. thesis) | ||
| • “The Beginning of Belonging: Exploring the Black History of Albion,” by Akaiia Ridley (virtual exhibit) | ||
| • “These 12 College Students Don’t Like the System They’re In,” from The New York Times | ||
| • “Picture a Scientist: The Fight for Gender Equity in Science,” PBS documentary | ||
| • “What Keeps You Up at Night?” art exhibit organized by Tomiko Jones | ||
| • “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” (film) | ||
| • “The Play that Goes Wrong” by Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, and Jonathan Sayers and “2AZ,” by Michael Brian Ogden (theater productions) | ||
| • Music Department Homecoming Concert | ||
| • “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude,” by Ross Gay | ||
| • “Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir,” by Maia Kobabe | ||
| • “I Don’t Want To Be ‘Inspiring,’” by John Altmann (New York Times) | ||
| • “Gender Epiphany,” by Eryn Star (Medium) | ||
| • Carlos Paniagua Emiliano’s “Senior Class Address at Albion College’s 2023 Commencement Ceremony” | ||
| • “Names/Nombres,” by Julia Alvarez (short story) | ||
| • “Umpaowastewin,” by Margaret Noodin (song) | ||
| American University | Writer as Witness / College Writing Book | Why Didn’t We Riot: A Black Man in Trumpland, by Issac J. Bailey |
| American University – Humanities Program | AU Common Read | On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong |
| Appalachian State University | Common Reading Program | Be Different: My Adventures with Asperger’s and My Advice for Fellow Aspergians, Misfits, Families, and Teachers, by John Elder Robison |
| Arcadia University | Summer Reading / Freshman Reads | Sigh, Gone, by Phuc Tran |
| Arizona State University | Common Read | Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better, by Woo-Kyoung Ahn |
| Arkansas State University | Common Reader | • Acceptance, by Emi Nietfeld |
| • The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change, by Adam Braun | ||
| • The End of Forgetting: Growing Up With Social Media, by Kate Eichhorn | ||
| Assumption University | COMPASS Reading / First-Year Common Book | First Year Anthology of Common Reading |
| Augustana College (IL) | Augie Reads / Summer Reading | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Bard College | Language and Thinking Program |
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, by Mary Shelley |
| Bard College at Simon’s Rock | Book One | Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, by Mira Jacob |
| Barstow Community College | Barstow Reads | There There, by Tommy Orange |
| Baylor University – School of Law | Common Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Baylor University, Honors Program | Freshman Reading Project | Real Characters: A Tip of the Hat to Nonconformity, by David Lyle Jeffrey |
| Benedictine University | Summer Reading | • “How To Help Your Hybrid Team Feel Less Lonely,” by Dede Henley (from Forbes Magazine) |
| • An important perspective on Hospitality within the Catholic Worker Movement, introduced by Professor Rita George-Tvrtković, College of Liberal Arts. | ||
| • A selection of articles and audio recordings featuring the Oakdale Community Choir introduced by Professor Allen Legutki, College of Liberal Arts. | ||
| • A journal article examining the professional and personal relationship between two cosmologists, introduced by Professor Matthew Wiesner, College of Science & Health. | ||
| • An article from The American Mathematical Society that calls for a “liberated mathematics classroom,” introduced by Professor Ellen Ziliak, College of Science & Health. | ||
| Bergen Community College | Common Read | A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home, edited by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary |
| Berry College | Summer Reading Program / First-Year Summer Book Program |
The Moth Presents All These Wonders, edited by Catherine Burns |
| Bethel College | First Year Seminar / Common Ground | The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir, by Michele Harper |
| Bluegrass Community and Technical College | Common Read | The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune |
| Bluffton University | Summer Reading | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Boston College | Conversations in the First Year | Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People, by Tracy Kidder |
| Brandeis University | First-Year Book | On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong |
| Brenau University | Common Reader | The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir, by Michele Harper |
| Brescia University | Common Read | The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michele Richardson |
| Briar Cliff University | First Year Experience | On Common Ground: Learning and Living in the Loess Hills, edited by Ryan Allen and Brian T. Hazlett |
| Bridgewater State University | One Book One Community | Strange Arithmetic, by Kerrin Willis |
| Bristol Community College | BCC OneBook Project | The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World, by Max Fisher |
| Broward College | College Read | Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, by Julie Lythcott-Haims |
| Brown University | First Readings | “Slavery and Justice Report,” Brown University |
| Bucknell University | First-Year Common Reading | Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, by Rebekah Taussig |
| Bunker Hill Community College | One Book Program | Some Kind of Girl: An African Girl Looking for America, by Caroline Kautsire |
| Butte College | Book in Common [w/ CSU Chico] | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith |
| Cal State Polytechnic University Pomona | Common Read | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| Calhoun Community College | Common Read | The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| California State University – Bakersfield | One Book Project / One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern / Runner Read |
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, by Rebekah Taussig |
| California State University – Channel Islands | Campus Reading Celebration [with Ventura County Library’s One County, One Book program] | Solito: A Memoir, by Javier Zamora |
| California State University – Chico | Book in Common [w/ Butte College] | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith |
| California State University – Monterey Bay | Common Reading Experience | Gordo, by Jaime Cortez |
| California State University – Sacramento | One Book Program | Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston |
| California State University – San Marcos | Common Read / One Book, One University / Campus Read | • All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir Manifesto, by George M. Johnson |
| • The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood | ||
| • Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi | ||
| • Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation, by Duncan Tonatiuh | ||
| • We Are the Land: A History of Native California, by Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer | ||
| Calvin University | CORE 100 – Community and Commitments /One Book, One Department |
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, by N. T. Wright |
| Carnegie Mellon University – Tepper School of Business | Tepper Reads | Take What You Need, by Idra Novey |
| Case Western Reserve University | Common Reading Program | Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, by Ruha Benjamin |
| Catawba College | Common Summer Reading / Common Community Reading / Summer Reading Assignment | • “The Perils of Indifference,” by Elie Wiesel |
| • “This is Water,” by David Foster Wallace | ||
| Chaffey College | One Book, One College | Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir, by Michelle Dowd |
| Christian Brothers University | Memphis Reads / Fresh Reads |
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa |
| Cleveland Institute of Art | Summer Reading | Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline |
| Colgate University | Summer Reading / Colgate Community Reads | How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future, by Maria Ressa |
| College of Idaho | First Year Book | All We Can Save, Edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson |
| College of New Jersey | Summer Reading | The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez |
| College of Southern Maryland | One Maryland One Book |
There There, by Tommy Orange |
| College of Southern Nevada | One Book, One College | The Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, by Merlin Sheldrake |
| College of St. Scholastica | Dignitas Summer Reading | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| College of the Holy Cross | Summer Reading / First-Year Common Reading | Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| College of Wooster | Summer Reading | The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age, by Bina Venkataraman |
| Colorado College | Common Book Read / Common Reading | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| Colorado Mountain College | CMC Common Reader | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
| Columbia College (MO) | One Read / Community Reading Program Sponsored by the Daniel Boone Regional Library |
When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky, by Margaret Verble |
| Community College of Baltimore County | Community Book Connection | On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong |
| Community College of Philadelphia | One Book, One College | The Office of Historical Corrections, by Danielle Evans |
| Connecticut College | Summer Reading / One Book, One Region |
What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Connecticut State Community College [formerly Norwalk Community College] | NCC Common Read | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| Cornell University – Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Common Reading Program | Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment, by Maxine Bédat |
| Cosumnes Community College | One Book | Laziness Does Not Exist, by Dr. Devon Price |
| Cottey College | First-Year Seminar Common Reader | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Crafton Hills College | One Book, One College | They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei |
| CUNY Baruch College | First Year Text / Freshman Text | Brown Girls, by Daphne Palasi Andreades |
| Cuyahoga Community College | Common Reading / Tri-C Reads |
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad, by Matthew F. Delmont |
| Dallas College | Common Book | Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, and Identity, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| Davidson College | Reynolds Lecture / Common Reading Book |
The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride, by David Dennis Jr. |
| Defiance College | First Year Common Read |
Searching for Every Step: Finding Purpose in Living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, by Kurt E. Beach |
| Delaware County Community College | College-Wide Reading Program / One-Book One-College Program | Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas, by Alexi Pappas |
| Des Moines Area Community College | One Book One College | • Take My Hand, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez |
| • Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, by Steve Silberman | ||
| Duke University | Common Experience Summer Reading Program | The Measure, by Nikki Erlick |
| East Central College | All-Campus Read | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| East Los Angeles College | One Book, One College (OBOC) | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Eastern Connecticut State University | Big Read | Circe, by Madeline Miller |
| Eastern Mennonite University | EMU Common Read | The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams with Gail Hudson |
| Eastern Michigan University | Common Read | Solito, by Javier Zamora |
| Eckerd College | Summer Reading | • Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, by Elizabeth Rush |
| • Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, by Danielle Allen | ||
| Edison State Community College | Common Read / [Eng. 122] | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil |
| Elmhurst University | One Book, One Elmhurst / Common Reading |
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood, by Dawn Turner |
| Elms College | Common Read / Common Reading Program | They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei |
| Elon University | Common Reading | I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, by Mónica Guzmán |
| 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) |
| • Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom, by bell hooks | ||
| • excerpt from Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest, edited by Nathaniel Brodie, Charles Goodrich and Frederick J. Swanson | ||
| Fashion Institute of Technology | Common Read Program | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Feather River College | Book in Common | Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires by Jaime Lowe |
| Fitchburg State University | Fitchburg Community Read | White Mountains State: A Four-Year Journey Hiking and Summiting New Hampshire’s 48 Highest Peaks, by Keith Gentili |
| Flagler College | Common Read / First Year Book / FYE Book | Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, by Rebekah Taussig |
| Florida College | Common Reading | The Abolition of Man, by C. S. Lewis |
| Florida International University | FIU Common Reading | Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor, by Anna Qu |
| Fordham University | First-Year Summer Read |
Solito: A Memoir, by Javier Zamora |
| Fort Lewis College | Common Reading Experience | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Francis Marion University | Common Text – University Life 101 (Fall and Spring) | • The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw |
| • assorted texts by Vershawn Ashanti Young | ||
| Frederick Community College | Frederick Reads | Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner |
| Georgetown University | Marino Family International Writers’ Academic Workshop | Scattered All Over the Earth, by Yoko Tawada |
| Georgia College & State University | GC Reads / Summer Reading Program / Common Reading | • Essay 1: “Fear Not,” by Mathias Clasen |
| • Essay 2: “How to Be Resilient,” by Selda Koydemir | ||
| • Essay 3: “How to Know What You Really Want,” by Luke Burgis | ||
| • Essay 4: “How to Make the Most of University,” by Nic Hooper | ||
| • Essay 5: “Secrets Hurt Their Holders,” by Michael Slepian | ||
| • Essay 6: “The Happiness Ruse, by Cody Delistraty | ||
| • Essay 7: “We Heal One Another,” by Brandon Kohrt | ||
| • Essay 8: “Why We Crave,” by Zoey Lavallee | ||
| Goldey-Beacom College | First-Year Reading Program | Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, by Kristen Radtke |
| Goucher College | Summer Reading | My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, by Jennine Capó Crucet |
| Green River College | One Book | No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay, by Julian Aguon |
| Greenville Technical College | Common Reading | The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig |
| Hampshire College | Common Read / Common Reading | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Harvard College | Common Reading / Community Conversations | • “Ethics and Social Responsibility: Navigating Moral Dilemmas in Modern Society.” |
| • “Harvard & The Legacy of Slavery Report,” by Harvard University | ||
| • “Questionnaire,” by Wendell Berry (poem) | ||
| • “Factory,” by Monica Sok (poem) | ||
| • “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America,” by Clint Smith (radio excerpt) | ||
| • “I Screwed Up. Do I Have to Say I’m Sorry?” by Michael Schur (chapter 13 from How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question) | ||
| • “Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity,” by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi (excerpt from Tell Me Who You Are: A Road Map for Cultivating Racial Literacy) | ||
| Harvard Divinity School | Reorientation and Common Conversation | All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks |
| Hawkeye Community College | Hawkeye Reads | The People We Keep, by Allison Larkin |
| Highland Community College | One Book, One Highland |
What the Fact?: Finding the Truth in All the Noise, by Dr. Seema Yasmin |
| Hilbert College | Hilbert College Reads | Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, by Eli Saslow |
| Hiram College | American Salvage, by Bonnie Jo Campbell | |
| Hope College | “Big Read” Holland Area Community |
Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi |
| Illinois Central College | One Book One College / Peoria Reads |
Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler |
| Illinois College | Summer Common Reading / IC Connections summer reading text | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| Illinois Valley Community College | One Book, One College | Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | Summer Reading Program | “Power of Place,” websites, images, podcasts, music, short stories, and academic articles. |
| Indiana University Northwest | One Book…One Campus…One Community | The Devil’s Highway: A True Story, by Luis Alberto Urrea |
| Indiana University Southeast | Common Experience | • Sensory: Life on the Spectrum, by Bex Ollerton |
| • Bird Brain: Comics About Mental Health, Starring Pigeons by Chuck Mullin | ||
| • My Brain is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorder, by Monzusu | ||
| Indiana University, Kelley School of Business | Common Read Program |
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by Judith Heumann |
| Jacksonville State University | JSU Reads /Common Reading Program / Summer Reading | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| James Madison University – Honors College | Common Read / PREFACE | The Book of Delights: Essays, by Ross Gay |
| Johns Hopkins University | Common Question / Common Read | “What Is Repair?” |
| Johnson County Community College | Common Read | • The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi |
| • How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi | ||
| • The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang | ||
| Kalamazoo College | Summer Common Reading | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Kansas State University | K-State Book Network’s Common Reading | They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei |
| Kean University | Common Read | The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |
| Kent State University | NEA Big Read Northeast Ohio |
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui |
| Knox College | Summer Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson |
| Lansing Community College | Beyond the Book / One Book One LCC | Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu |
| Le Moyne College | Summer Common Reading Assignment | • Hiroshima, by John Hersey |
| • “Eyes,” “Old Woman,” “A friend,” “Appeal,” and “Entreaty,” by Sankichi Tōge from Hiroshima: Three Witnesses | ||
| Lakeshore Technical College | Common Read | The Gift of Our Wounds: A Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness After Hate by Arno Michaelis with Pardeep Singh Kaleka |
| Lebanon Valley College | First-Year Common Reading Program | • Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong or |
| • “Kedi” (film) | ||
| Lewis and Clark College | Common Reading | Theme: “The Stories We Weave” |
| • “The Death of a Chief: An Interview with Yvette Nolan” | ||
| • “Language Is the Building Block of Thought,” by Madeline Sayet (TED talk) | ||
| Lone Star College – University Park | ReadUP! | The Last Karankawas, by Kimberly Garza |
| Loras College | Common Reading / Summer Reading Book | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Los Angeles Valley College | One Book, One College | The Distance Between Us: A Memoir, by Reyna Grande |
| Louisiana State University | Honors College Summer Shared Read |
The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience, by Rob Verchick |
| Lourdes University | Connections Book | Darius the Great Is Not Okay, by Adib Khorram |
| Loyola University Chicago | Rambler Read | Wake Up With Purpose, by Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt and Seth Davis |
| Loyola University Chicago – Stritch School of Medicine | Common Read | What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine, by Danielle Ofri, MD. |
| Loyola University Maryland | Common Text Program | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| Luther College | Summer Reading | Solito: A Memoir, by Javier Zamora |
| Madisonville Community College | MCC Reader | Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by Judith Heumann |
| Manchester Community College | Common Read | Notes from a Young Black Chef, by Kwame Onwuachi |
| Manhattanville College | First-Year Common Read | A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir, by Daisy Hernández |
| Mansfield University | Summer Reading | Himawari House, by Harmony Becker |
| Marist College | Common Reading | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT Reads | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| Medical College of Wisconsin | Common Read | That Good Night, by Sunita Puri |
| Menlo College | Common Book | Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond |
| Meredith College | Summer Reading Program | Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again, by Johann Hari |
| Metropolitan Community College – Longview (MO) | Common Read | Variations on the Body, by by María Ospina |
| Metropolitan State University Denver | 1 Book/1 Project/2 Transform | All Books Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto, by George M. Johnson |
| Middle Tennessee State University | Summer Reading Program | Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age, by Bruce Feiler |
| Midway University | Common Read | The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible, edited by Catherine Burns |
| Minnesota State University – Moorhead | One Book, One Community / Common Text Reading | Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic, by Natalie Warren |
| Mississippi University for Women | Common Reading Initiative | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith |
| Molloy College | Common Reading Program / FST 1000 | The Many Daughters of Afong Moy, by Jamie Ford |
| Montcalm Community College | MCC Reads and One Book One County | The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green |
| Moore College of Art & Design | Common Read | Feelings: A Story in Seasons, by Manjit Thapp |
| Moorpark College | One Campus, One Book | Illegally Yours, by Rafael Agustin |
| Moraine Valley Community College | One Book, One College | Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley |
| Mount Holyoke College | Common Read / MHC Common Reading | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| Mount St. Mary’s University (CA) | Campus Read | American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, edited by America Ferrera |
| Mt. San Antonio College | One Book, One Campus | A Place Called Home, by David Ambroz |
| Nassau Community College | Common Reading | Kindred by Octavia E. Butler |
| Naugatuck Valley Community College | One Book, One College | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore |
| Nevada State University [formerly Nevada State College] | Common Read Program | The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories about Facing the Unknown, edited by Catherine Burns |
| New York University | NYU Reads / Common Read | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith |
| Norfolk State University | Freshman Common Reader | The Beautiful Struggle, by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| North Carolina A&T State University | Text-in-Community | Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, by Ruha Benjamin |
| North Dakota State University | One Book, One Community | Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic , by Natalie Warren |
| North Hennepin Community College | Common Book | Minor Feelings, by Cathy Park Hong |
| North Idaho College | NIC Common Reading Program: Cardinal Reads | • The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, by Jamil Zaki |
| • The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich | ||
| North Iowa Area Community College | Common Read | This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, edited by Dan Gediman and Jay Allison |
| Northeastern State University | Common Read | How To Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain, by Ryan North |
| Northern Kentucky University | Common Experience Readings / Common Read / Book Connection | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Northern Michigan University | Two Books Two Communities / ONMU/Marquette County One Book One Community | • Chevy in the Hole, by Kelsey Ronan |
| • A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers | ||
| Northern Michigan University | Diversity Common Reader | Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson |
| Northern State University | Common Read | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
| Northern Virginia Community College | DEI Common Read | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| Northwestern University | One Book, One Northwestern | Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner |
| Northwood University | Omniquest Program | • Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence, by Vivek Ramaswamy |
| • Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box, by The Arbinger Institute | ||
| Notre Dame of Maryland University | Common Reading | Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life, by Alice Wong |
| Oakland University – Honors College | Common Read | •Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship, by Robert Kurson |
| •Legends and Lattes, by Travis Baldree | ||
| Occidental College | First-Year Summer Reading | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Olin College of Engineering | Summer Book Program | Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Oregon State University | First Year Reading Experience | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| Otterbein University | Common Book | Call Me American, by Abdi Nor Iftin |
| Owens Community College | The BIG Read / Common Reading Program | Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land, by Toni Jensen |
| Owensboro Community & Tech. College | Common Reading | Bright Dead Things: Poems, by Ada Limón |
| Pennsylvania State University – Altoona | Common Read | Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi |
| Pennsylvania State University – Berks | Common Reading Program | The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, by Annie Murphy Paul |
| Pennsylvania State University – New Kensington | First-Year Summer Reading | “What’s the Future for A.I.?” by Cade Metz (New York Times, March 31, 2023) |
| Piedmont Virginia Community College | One Book Project | The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human, by Siddhartha Mukherjee |
| Polk State College | Freshmen Read / Common Read Program |
American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, edited by America Ferrera |
| Pomona College | Orientation Book / First-Year Book / Freshman Book |
Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng |
| Princeton University | Princeton Pre-Read | How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future, by Maria Ressa |
| Purdue University | English Dept. Big Read / Common Reading Program |
Monkey King: Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng’en |
| Purdue University Northwest – Calumet Campus | One Book, One University | What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey |
| Ramapo College of New Jersey | FYS Summer Reading | Tastes Like War: A Memoir, by Grace M. Cho |
| Reed College | Welcome to Reed | Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison |
| Reedley College | One Book, One College | Solito, by Javier Zamora |
| Regis College | Common Reading Program | How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question, by Michael Schur |
| Regis University | One Book, One Regis | Solito, by Javier Zamora |
| Rhode Island College | Open Books-Open Minds | Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, by Kristen Radtke |
| Rhodes College | Rhodes Reads | His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa |
| 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 / Summer Reading |
This is Water, by David Foster Wallace |
| Rock Valley College | Common Reading Initiative | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| Roosevelt University – Institute for Continued Learning | ICL Read | The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World, by A. J. Baime |
| Rowan College of South Jersey (formerly Cumberland County College) | One Book, One College | Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt |
| Roxbury Community College | One Book, One Campus |
If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin |
| Russell Sage College | Summer Reading / Freshman Reads | They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei |
| Rutgers University, Honors College, New Brunswick | Summer One Read / Summer Reading | Solito: A Memoir, by Javier Zamora |
| Rutgers University, SAS Honors Program | Summer Reading | American Fever, by Dur e Aziz Amna |
| Saddleback College | One Book, One College | Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions, by Temple Grandin |
| Saint Louis University | Campus Read / First-Year Summer Reading | • Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid |
| • A Small Place, by Jamaica Kincaid | ||
| Saint Michael’s College | Common Text | Tell Me Who You Are: A Road Map for Cultivating Racial Literacy, by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi |
| Salem State University | First Year Reading Experience (FYRE) | Ties that Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Year of StoryCorps, edited by Dave Isay |
| Salisbury University | One Maryland One Book / New Student Reader |
There There, by Tommy Orange |
| Sam Houston State University | Common Reader Program | The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green |
| San Antonio College | Common Read / One Book-One Read-One SAC | The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown, edited by Catherine Burns |
| San Diego State University | One Book, One San Diego | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| San Jose State University | SJSU Reading Program | Darius the Great Is Not Okay, by Adib Khorram |
| San Juan College | One Book/One Community | Calling for a Blanket Dance, by Oscar Hokeah |
| Santa Clara University | Community Read / Common Reading | Solito: A Memoir, by Javier Zamora |
| Santa Rosa Junior College | Work of Literary Merit | The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline |
| Seattle University | Common Text / Common Reading | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Seton Hall University | Summer Reading | American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, edited by America Ferrera |
| Shepherd University | Common Reading | No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, by Rachel Louise Snyder |
| Siena College | Summer Reading For First Year Seminar | When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi |
| Simmons University | First Year Read | How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life, by Catherine Price |
| Skidmore College | Summer Reading Program | Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Slippery Rock University | Common Read / Freshman Summer Reading Book | Concussion, by Jeanne Marie Laskas |
| Smith College | Smith Reads / Summer Reading Program | The Book of Delights, by Ross Gay |
| Somerset Community College | SCC Common Read / Summer Bridge Common Read | War & Homecoming: Veteran Identity and the Post-9/11 Generation, by Travis L. Martin |
| South Dakota State University | Common Read | An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong |
| Southeastern Louisiana University | Common Read | The Big Smoke, by Adrian Matejka |
| Southern Methodist University – Honors Program | Summer Common Reading | In Defense of a Liberal Education, by Fareed Zakaria |
| St. Edward’s University | Common Read / Freshman Common Text / Freshman Studies Common Text |
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| St. Petersburg College | SPC Reads / One Book, One College | Kaibyo: The Supernatural Cats of Japan, by Zack Davisson |
| Stanford University | Three Books Program | • How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell |
| • System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot, by Stanford professors Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy Weinstein | ||
| • Navalny, directed by Daniel Roher | ||
| Stevens Institute of Technology | First Year Reading Program | How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question, by Michael Schur |
| Stockton University | Freshman Common Reading | Team Human, by Douglas Rushkoff |
| SUNY Binghamton | Common Read | All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson |
| SUNY Cortland | Common Reading | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| SUNY Geneseo | Common Summer Book Read | Sun, Moon, Earth: the History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets, by Tyler Nordgren |
| SUNY New Paltz | One Book, One New Paltz | Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| SUNY Old Westbury | First-Year Common Reading Program | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson |
| SUNY Oneonta | Common Read / New Student Read | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith |
| SUNY Onondaga Community College | Common Read | M Is for Monster, by Talia Dutton |
| SUNY Oswego | Oswego Reading Initiative | Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us, by Brian Klaas |
| Susquehanna University | Common Reading Program | Learning from Failure: Susquehanna University Common Reading Anthology 2023-2024 |
| • “Failure Is Not an Option,” by Allison D. Carr | ||
| • “Sometimes Winning Means Knowing When to Quit,” by John A. List | ||
| • “Letter to the Person Who, During the Q&A Session After the Reading, Asked for Career Advice,” by Matthew Olzmann | ||
| • Excerpt from Failure: Why Science is So Successful, “The Scientific Basis of Failure,” by Stuart Firestein | ||
| • Excerpt from Make Good the Promises, “Legacies of Violence,” by Kidada E. Williams | ||
| • “The State of Being Stuck,” by Ben Orlin | ||
| • “Gen Z Is Remixing Religion,” by Zaina Qureshi | ||
| • “Saint Marie,” by Louise Erdrich | ||
| • “Plastic Recycling Does+G923n’t Work and Will Never Work,” by Judith Enck and Jan Dell | ||
| • Excerpt from Being Seen, “We Have Always Thrived in the Castle: Defying Ableism to Become Yourself,” by Elsa Sjunneson | ||
| • “Partido,” by Hiram Perez | ||
| • “Images of Failure,” by Xawery Stańczyk | ||
| • “We See You, White American Theater,” by Brittani Samuel | ||
| • Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos: A Play on More Than Just Ethical Failures,” by Medina Williams | ||
| • My Family’s Failures Took Center Stage in “Everything Everywhere All At Once” by Brian Lin | ||
| • “All of Old. Nothing Else Ever. Ever Tried. Ever Failed.,” by Silas Dent Zobal | ||
| Sussex County Community College | College Novel | Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman |
| Sweet Briar College | Common Reading | Easy Beauty, by Chloé Cooper Jones |
| Texas A&M International University | Common Read / “Reading the Globe” / Campus Read /Freshman Read | Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey, by Marie Mutsuki Mockett |
| Texas A&M University – San Antonio | Common Reading Experience | You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters, by Kate Murphy |
| Texas Christian University | TCU Common Reading | Selected essays from This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman |
| The Citadel | Summer Reading Program | A Few Good Men, by Aaron Sorkin |
| The University of Scranton | Royal Reads | Living Against the Grain: How To Make Decisions that Lead to an Authentic Life, by Tim Muldoon |
| Thomas College | Common Read | “The Hill We Climb,” by Amanda Gorman |
| Towson University – Honors College | Honors College Read | Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths |
| Tufts University – Medical School | Common Read | Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People, by Tracy Kidder |
| Tulane University | Tulane Reading Project | On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong |
| Tulsa Community College | TCC Common Book / Common Read | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Union Theological Seminary | EDS at Union Community Read | The Purpose of Power, by Alicia Garza |
| United States Air Force Academy | One Book, One USAFA / Common Read | All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr |
| University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, Honors College | Common Book Experience | When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky, by Margaret Verble |
| University of Alaska, Southeast | One Campus, One Book | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| University of Arizona, Honors Program | Common Reading Program | Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body, by Rebekah Taussig |
| University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | One Book One Community | Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body, by Rebekah Taussig |
| University of Arkansas, Fort Smith | Read This! / Big Read | The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead |
| University of California, Berkeley | On the Same Page | “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution” (movie) |
| University of California, Davis | Campus Community Book Project | Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, by Cynthia Miller-Idriss |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Common Experience / Common Book Program |
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet, by Leah Thomas (plus articles, podcasts, and video) |
| University of California, Santa Cruz – Cowell College | Summer Reading / Cowell College Core Course | The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen and Unflattening, by Nick Sousanis |
| University of Chicago – Harris School of Public Policy | Common Read | Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success, by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan |
| University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus | One Book, One Campus | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope, by Mona-Hanna Attisha |
| University of Colorado, Boulder | Buffs One Read | The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, by Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
| University of Delaware | First Year Common Reader | Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and A Mother’s Will to Survive, by Stephanie Land |
| University of Evansville, Honors Program | Common Read Experience | Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery, by Casey Parks |
| University of Houston – Clear Lake | Common Reader Program | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| University of Idaho | Common Read | The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier and More Creative, by Florence Williams |
| University of Iowa | Common Reader – Interpretation of Literature | Sula, by Toni Morrison |
| University of Iowa | One Community, One Book | The Farm, by Joanne Ramos |
| University of Iowa – College of Engineering | Engineering Read | What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha |
| University of Kansas | KU Common Books | Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler |
| University of Kansas Medical Center | One Book | The Other Dr. Gilmer by Benjaim Gilmer |
| University of La Verne | One Book, One University | The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power, by Dierdre Mask |
| University of Maine, Honors College | Honors Read | There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir, by Casey Gerald |
| University of Maryland | First Year Book | Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments, by Erin L. Thompson |
| University of Miami | One Book, One U | If I Survive You, by Jonathan Escoffery |
| University of Michigan – Dearborn | Community Read / Metro Read | Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging, edited by Ghassan Zeineddine, Nabeel Abraham, and Sally Howell |
| University of Michigan – Flint | Common Read | Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted, by Suleika Jaouad |
| University of Michigan, Engineering | Engineering Common Reading Experience | Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyrou |
| University of Michigan, School of Social Work | Summer Read | My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem |
| 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 | Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, by Dave Isay |
| University of Missouri, Honors College | Honors College One Read | How High We Go in the Dark, by Sequoia Nagamatsu |
| University of Missouri – Kansas City | Roos Read | I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, by Mónica Guzmán |
| University of Missouri, Law School | Mizzou Law One Read | After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It, by Julie C. Suk |
| University of Montana | Griz Reads / First-Year Reading Experience | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| University of Nebraska – Lincoln | One Book, One Lincoln [Community Reads] | Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt |
| 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 | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| University of North Dakota | Fall and Spring Book Reads [Faculty read] Common Read | • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, by David Treuer |
| • Elevate, by Robert Glazer | ||
| University of North Texas – School of Public Health | Common Reading | Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink |
| University of Notre Dame – Glynn Family Honors Program | Summer Reading | • Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| • The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson | ||
| • The Islands: Stories, by Dionne Irving | ||
| University of Oregon | Common Reading | “Feminist Futures: Research on Women and Gender in Society” |
| • The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion, by Diana Greene Foster | ||
| • The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion, by Diana Greene Foster | ||
| • Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence, by Anita Hill | ||
| • The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, by Tina Brown | ||
| • The Diana Chronicles, by Tina Brown | ||
| • Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi | ||
| • We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| University of Pennysylvania – Graduate School of Education | One Book One GSE | Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas |
| University of Pennsylvania – School of Social Policy & Practice | One Book, One SP2 | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, by Alice Wong |
| University of Pittsburgh – Greensburg | Westmoreland Reads | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith |
| University of Portland | 2023-2024 ReadUP Event | Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, by Ross Gay |
| University of Puget Sound | Tacoma Reads | A Place Called Home: A Memoir, by David Ambroz |
| University of Saint Joseph | Common Read / First-Year Common Reading | • “The I In Immigrant” (podcast): Listen to at least 2-3 episodes from this podcast. Some recommendations: S1, Ep. 1: Ahmed from PalestineS1, Ep. 5: Max from the Dominican Republic S2 Ep. 1: Joey from England S2, Ep. 5: Bedrija from Bosnia S2, Ep. 6: Ifedapo from Nigeria. |
| • Mercy in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the Thirsty, Visit the Imprisoned, and Keep Your Day Job, by Kerry Weber. | ||
| • “Who Am I?”: Identity Formation in Adolescence (website) Read handout, then browse the resources on their website. | ||
| • The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky (film or book). | ||
| • Stories from The Moth (audio/video): Listen to 4-5 stories about Identity from playlist. | ||
| • USJ Art Museum (art): Visit USJ’s Art Museum to view works of art that focus on the theme of identity. | ||
| University of San Diego | One Book, One San Diego / Just Read! | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee |
| University of San Diego – Kroc School of Peace Studies | Summer Reading | • The Memory Seeker, by Ronald Niezen |
| • Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice, edited by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Douglas Irvin-Erickson, and Ernesto Verdeja | ||
| • The World: A Brief Introduction, by Richard Haass | ||
| • Transformative Negotiation, by Sarah Federman | ||
| University of South Alabama | Common Read/Common World Initiative | Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” by Zora Neale Hurston |
| University of South Carolina | First-Year Reading Experience | How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question, by Michael Schur |
| University of South Carolina Upstate | PREFACE | One Foot in Eden, by Ron Rash |
| University of Southern Mississippi | Common Read | All My Rage, by Sabaa Tahir |
| University of Tennessee – Chattanooga | Read2Achieve | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From The Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| University of the Incarnate Word | Honors Common Read | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil |
| University of Texas at Austin | All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson | |
| University of Tulsa | Common Read | Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover |
| University of Vermont | Learning Community Summer Reading | • Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American, by Laura Gao • Tetris: The Games People Play, by Brian “Box” Brown • Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell • March: Book Three, by John Lewis & Andrew Ayden • A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers • The Seed Keeper, by Diane Wilson • Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, by Vivek Murthy, MD |
| University of Vermont – Honors College | First-Year Summer Reading | The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, by Amitav Ghosh |
| University of Virginia – School of Education and Human Development | The Common Read / Curry Common Read | • The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, by Sonya Renee Taylor |
| • Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation, by Linda Villarosa | ||
| University of Wisconsin – Madison | Go Big Read | How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion, by David McRaney |
| Valencia College | Common Read | The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel van der Kolk. M.D. |
| Vanderbilt University | Commons Reading | Now Is Not the Time to Panic, by Kevin Wilson |
| Vassar College | Common Reading | Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life, by Alice Wong |
| Villanova University – School of Business | Read to Lead | My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future, by Indra Nooyi |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Common Reading / Summer Reading | Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, by Kristen Radtke |
| Viterbo University | First Year Student Common Read | The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |
| Wake Forest University | Project Wake / Summer Reading – Summer Academic Project |
The Project Wake theme: Becoming Yourself And Engaging With Others, 40 Titles to choose from: |
| • 10 Women Who Changed Science and the World, by Catherine Whitlock and Rhodri Evans | ||
| • A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers | ||
| • A Sense of Belonging: How to Find Your Place in a Fractured World, by Holan Liang | ||
| • All Systems Red, by Martha Wells | ||
| • Becoming (Adapted for Young Readers), by Michelle Obama | ||
| • Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir, by Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| • Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close, by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman | ||
| • Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor | ||
| • Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah | ||
| • Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine, by Edward Lee | ||
| • Cultivating Professional Identity in Design, by Monica W. Tracey and John Baaki | ||
| • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, by Cal Newport | ||
| • Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, by Claudia Rankine | ||
| • Educated, by Tara Westover | ||
| • Free, by Lea Ypi | ||
| • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson | ||
| • Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro | ||
| • Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren | ||
| • Laziness Does Not Exist, by Devon Price | ||
| • On Anger, by Lucius Annaeus Seneca | ||
| • On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck, by Nick Riggle | ||
| • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain | ||
| • Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| • Tenth of December, by George Saunders | ||
| • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | ||
| • The Body Keeps Score, by Bessel van der Kolk | ||
| • The Darkness Outside Us, by Eliot Schrefer | ||
| • The Girl in His Shadow, by Audrey Blake | ||
| • The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit, by John V. Petrocelli | ||
| • The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig | ||
| • The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life Skills to Handle Stress and Everything Else, by Dr. Holly Rogers | ||
| • The Mountain in the Sea, by Ray Nayler | ||
| • The Ogress and the Orphans, by Kelly Barnhill | ||
| • The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery, by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile | ||
| • The Starless Sea, by Erin Morgenstern | ||
| • Under Red Skies: The Life and times of a Chinese Millennial, Karoline Kan | ||
| • When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi | ||
| • Why Fish Don’t Exist, by Lulu Miller | ||
| • Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?, by Julie Smith | ||
| • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig | ||
| Wallace State Community College | Common Read Initiative |
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley |
| Wartburg College | Knight Reading / Readings in Common | Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way, by Mungi Ngomane |
| Washburn University | iRead | Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown v. Board of Education, by Lawrence Goldstone |
| Washington and Lee University | First-Year Read / Common Book | The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros |
| Washington State University | WSU Common Reading | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Wesleyan University | First Year Matters Common Experience/ First Year Matters Common Reading | Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet: A Memoir, by Dr. Kinari Webb |
| West Kentucky Community & Technical College | 1 Book Read | World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, by Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
| West Virginia University | Campus Read / Common Read | Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi |
| Western Carolina University | One Book / Summer Reading | Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines, by Jonathan Mooney |
| Western Michigan University – Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine | Common Read | The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER, by Thomas Fisher |
| Westminster College (MO) | One Read / Community Reading Program Sponsored by the Daniel Boone Regional Library |
When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky, by Margaret Verble |
| 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 | My Broken Language: A Memoir, by Quiara Alegría Hudes |
| William Woods University | One Read / Community Reading Program Sponsored by the Daniel Boone Regional Library |
When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky, by Margaret Verble |
| Winona State University | WSU Common Book Project | A Bear, a Backpack, and Eight Crates of Vodka, by Lev Golinkin |
| Yavapai College | Riders Read | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong |
| Last Updated | 10/23/2023 |
| Programs Reporting | 351 |
