Videos from the 2026 First-Year Experience® Conference are now available

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism; Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • His lifelong love of basketball leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of success, excellence, and role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling.

From Slate staff writer Aymann Ismail comes an exquisite memoir about fatherhood, religion, and the search for identity in an ever-shifting world.

From one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the forces eroding America’s social fabric, Beth Macy’s most personal and powerful work: a reckoning with the changes that have rocked her own beloved small Ohio hometown.

Adam Met, Columbia University professor and member of the multiplatinum band AJR, shows how your students can apply fan-building strategies from the music industry to message effectively about causes they care about and rally others to help them achieve shared goals.

Alison Wood Brooks—a celebrated Harvard Business School professor and leading expert on the psychology of conversation—shows why conversing a little more effectively can make a big difference in the quality of our close personal relationships as well as our professional success.

The Chair and The Valley is a raw, gut-wrenching, and amazing story about healing from trauma and starting over. It is a exploration of the importance of chosen family, the restorative power of nature, and the strength it takes to build a new life in the face of fear and doubt.

Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and discover the mythic, political, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples.