New First-Year Reading Titles from Penguin Random House

By Allan Spencer | January 10 2024 | College & University Reads

Browse these new and notable titles for use in your First-Year and Common Reading program. To request complimentary exam copies for course-use consideration, click here. 

Life on Delay
Life on Delay
Making Peace with a Stutter
John Hendrickson
9780593312834
An intimate, candid memoir about learning to live with—rather than “overcome”—a stutter
Paperback
Infectious Generosity
Infectious Generosity
The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
Chris Anderson
9780593727553
From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of humankind’s defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future
Hardcover
Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick
Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick
A Novel
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
9780593469316
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION: Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black
Paperback
Rough Sleepers
Rough Sleepers
Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people
Tracy Kidder
9781984801456
The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains
Paperback
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