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21 Oct 2025
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 programs and their title selections which you can download here: commonreads.com/2025/10/20/w…
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Jun 11
Browse a collection of out of this world fiction and non-fiction for Common Reading programs here: commonreads.com/titlelist/ou…
ALT “Out of This World Books” against a space background. Featuring book covers: The Edge of Space-Time Project Hail Mary Handprints on Hubble Starstruck
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Jun 4
Watch Daisy Hernández discuss CITIZENSHIP: Notes on an American Myth, which is a part of the #UnCommonAuthors Series:
commonreads.com/2026/06/03/u…
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Jun 3
Read an excerpt from Theo Baker’s HOW TO RULE THE WORLD: An Education in Power at Stanford University.
commonreads.com/2026/06/03/e…
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May 21
Read an excerpt from @AzizAbuSarah and @maozinon’s THE FUTURE IS PEACE: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land.
commonreads.com/2026/05/21/e…
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May 15
VIGIL by Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders has been selected for @NorthwesternU’s newly revamped Campus Reading Program.
Read more here:
news.northwestern.edu/storie…
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May 11
Watch Arthur C. Brooks, PhD discuss THE MEANING OF YOUR LIFE as a part of the UnCommon Authors series.
commonreads.com/2026/05/08/u…
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Apr 22
We are pleased to share a new first-year and common reading guide for THE FUTURE IS PEACE by @AzizAbuSarah and @maozinon.
Download the Teacher’s Guide:
commonreads.com/2026/04/21/t…
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Apr 10
Read an excerpt from @arthurbrooks’s The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness.
commonreads.com/2026/04/09/e…
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Apr 1
Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has passed away at age 80. Read more about Tracy Kidder’s work and legacy:
commonreads.com/2026/04/01/t…
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Apr 1
This year’s selection for the Common Reading Experience at the University of Mississippi is THE BOYS OF RIVERSIDE by @thomasfullerNYT, the story of how an all-deaf football team united on and off the field to become state champions.
olemiss.edu/news/2026/03/uni…
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Mar 25
Wil Haygood, author of THE WAR WITHIN A WAR: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home, received strong praise at @miamiuniversity as students and faculty commemorated 60 years of the Vietnam War, along with the national launch of Haygood’s new book.
miamioh.edu/news/2026/02/pro…
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Mar 24
“By giving every incoming student a shared text to explore in their First-Year Seminar, the CRE creates common ground, encouraging students to engage deeply with ideas, consider multiple perspectives, and build connections with their classmates.”
commonreads.com/2026/03/24/c…
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Mar 16
Read an excerpt from @jazmineulloa’s El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory.
commonreads.com/2026/03/12/e…
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Mar 12
“Paula Patch, associate director of the Common Reading Program and First-Year Foundations in the Elon Core Curriculum and associate teaching professor of English, facilitated a half-day workshop on launching and sustaining a Common Reading program. . .”
elon.edu/u/news/2026/03/10/p…
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Mar 11
“I don’t think you can look at the Common Reading Experience without looking at the context of the whole first-year experience,”Rick Smith said, as the endowment of @albioncollege’s Richard M. Smith CRE celebrates its 25th anniversary.
albion.edu/news-article/the-…
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Mar 6
We’re pleased to share videos from the 2026 First-Year Experience® Conference. Whether you weren’t able to join us at the conference or would simply like to hear the talks again, please take a moment to view the clips.
commonreads.com/2026/03/06/2…
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Mar 6
.@BanningLyon, author of The Chair and the Valley, @jnoisecat, author of We Survived the Night, @AzizAbuSarah and Maoz Inon, authors of The Future Is Peace.
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Special thanks to @NRCFYESIT for hosting the 2026 First-Year Experience® Conference and providing a space for our authors to share their stories.
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