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45 Articles Categorized Under Community Reads

College & University Reads Community Reads
September 7 2021

Now Available: Updated Educator Guides for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

Kabul-born novelist Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, is known for his evocative storytelling deeply rooted in Afghanistan’s history and culture. Like so many of us, he watched Afghanistan fall to the Taliban with profound sadness. In the wake of these events, Penguin Random House has updated the educator’s guides for Hosseini’s

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Now Available: Updated Educator Guides for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

College & University Reads Community Reads
September 7 2021
College & University Reads Community Reads
July 19 2021

U.S. News & World Report Recommends 9 Penguin Random House Titles in Their List of “10 Books to Read Before College”

U.S. News & World Report, which publishes the most widely quoted annual set of rankings for American colleges and universities, recently shared their list of “10 Books to Read Before College.” Describing these books as “assigned texts [that] are regularly used in freshman-level classes and offer students a chance to come together to discuss a

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U.S. News & World Report Recommends 9 Penguin Random House Titles in Their List of “10 Books to Read Before College”

College & University Reads Community Reads
July 19 2021
College & University Reads Community Reads
May 20 2021

Talking about the Hard Stuff:
How to Lead a Summer Reading Discussion about a Difficult Topic

Research shows the benefits incoming students glean from participating in a common academic experience as they join a new campus community (Hunter, 2006; Mintz, 2019). These findings have led many institutions to develop Common Reading programs for new members of their campus communities. These programs, centered around a group of faculty, staff, and students selecting

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Talking about the Hard Stuff:
How to Lead a Summer Reading Discussion about a Difficult Topic

College & University Reads Community Reads
May 20 2021
College & University Reads Community Reads
March 4 2021

Freedom after Thirty-Four Years in Prison

Benjamine Spencer was convicted of murder in 1987—a crime he did not commit. Due to the tireless advocacy of Centurion Ministries over the past twenty years, his conviction has finally been reevaluated, and he is expected to be released after 34 years. His case is one of several that is profiled at length in Jim

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Freedom after Thirty-Four Years in Prison

College & University Reads Community Reads
March 4 2021
Community Reads
September 24 2020

Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s powerful follow-up to Homegoing

Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her award-winning novel Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered story about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.   Transcendent Kingdom Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and

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Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s powerful follow-up to Homegoing

Community Reads
September 24 2020
Community Reads
July 23 2020

Megha Majumdar’s debut novel A BURNING is an urgent story of class, fate, corruption, and justice

 A Burning is a novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of

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Megha Majumdar’s debut novel A BURNING is an urgent story of class, fate, corruption, and justice

Community Reads
July 23 2020
College & University Reads Community Reads
June 24 2020

An Absolutely Remarkable First-Year Reading Guide

It may not be surprising to hear that Hank Green—brother to John Green and co-creator of Vlogbrothers, Crash Course, and SciShow—thinks about the Internet a lot. It makes plenty of sense, then, for his debut novel to ask some big questions about how we connect online. “Sparkling with mystery, humor and the uncanny, this is

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An Absolutely Remarkable First-Year Reading Guide

College & University Reads Community Reads
June 24 2020
College & University Reads Community Reads
January 16 2020

Under the Feet of Jesus at the University of Oregon

On the University of Oregon campus, incoming students are reading Under the Feet of Jesus as part of the Common Reading program. Written by Cornell Professor Helena María Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus tells the story of the men, women, and children who labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in California’s fields. At the center

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Under the Feet of Jesus at the University of Oregon

College & University Reads Community Reads
January 16 2020
College & University Reads Community Reads
January 16 2020

Inside the Book: Not Quite Not White by Sharmila Sen

Author Sharmila Sen discusses the process of assimilation and the significance of race in America. About Not Quite Not White: Winner of the ALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Nonfiction At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. The year was 1982, and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her

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Inside the Book: Not Quite Not White by Sharmila Sen

College & University Reads Community Reads
January 16 2020
College & University Reads Community Reads
August 8 2019

Read an Excerpt From Brandon Hobson’s Where the Dead Sit Talking

Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson explores the themes of loneliness and trauma as a young Native American boy named Sequoyah experiences life in the foster care system. This 2018 National Book Award Finalist is about a broken teenager’s search for his identity and the hardships of being displaced. Sequoyah lives his life always keeping his feelings buried, until he is placed with the Troutt family. There he meets Rosemary, a friend and confidant who, like him, is a Native American child living in the foster care system.

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Read an Excerpt From Brandon Hobson’s Where the Dead Sit Talking

College & University Reads Community Reads
August 8 2019
Community Reads
February 5 2019

The Iowa Center for the Book Chooses Land of Permanent Goodbyes as an All Iowa Reads!

The Iowa Center for the Book Chooses Land of Permanent Goodbyes as the 2019 All Iowa Reads for ages 12-18. The novel, set in Syria, tells the story of a refugee escaping his war-torn country in search of survival. Author Atia Abawi, a journalist and refugee herself, captures the hope that spurs people forward against

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The Iowa Center for the Book Chooses Land of Permanent Goodbyes as an All Iowa Reads!

Community Reads
February 5 2019
Community Reads
January 11 2019

One Book, One Chicago

  Chicago Public Library’s latest selection for its One Book, One Chicago program is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  by Philip K. Dick. First published in 1968, Dick’s novel introduces readers to Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter commissioned to find rogue androids during the 2021 World War. A prescient rendering of a dark future, Do

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One Book, One Chicago

Community Reads
January 11 2019
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