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StoryCorps Participants

StoryCorps Participants are individuals of all backgrounds, usually in pairs, who are given the chance to record evocative conversations. The mission of StoryCorps is to preserve and share humanity’s stories as a way of building connections between people while creating a fairer and compassionate world. StoryCorps believes in the importance of listening and is dedicated to passing on the understanding that everyone’s story matters.

2026 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2026! From award-winning fiction, poetry, memoir, and biography to new books about the environment, current events, history, public health, science, social justice, student success, and technology, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through

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What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2024-25

With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2024-25 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 340 programs and their title selections from publicly available sources, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2024-25. We will continue to update this

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