Daphne Palasi Andreades, author portrait
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Daphne Palasi Andreades

Daphne Palasi Andreades (she/they) is an artist and educator from Queens, New York. Daphne’s innovative debut novel, Brown Girls, was hailed as “fearless” by The New York Times, and was a finalist for several prestigious awards: the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction—the largest prize for women and nonbinary writers in the world—the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the New American Voices Award. Daphne was the 2024 Sidney Harman Fiction Writer-In-Residence at The City University of New York, Baruch College. Her work has been taught to students across numerous universities and writing workshops, and has been published in over seventy countries. She earned her MFA from Columbia University. Lucid Dreams is her second novel.

Books

Brown Girls

What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2025-26

With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2025-26 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 286 programs and their title selections from publicly available sources, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2025-26. We will continue to update this

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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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