CommonReads

Dedicated to bringing you the latest for common reading programs in schools, universities, and communities.

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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: https://t.co/AudRQ9HoRX

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Watch Daisy Hernández discuss CITIZENSHIP: Notes on an American Myth, which is a part of the #UnCommonAuthors Series:
https://t.co/BmK6rzwZdT

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Read an excerpt from Theo Baker’s HOW TO RULE THE WORLD: An Education in Power at Stanford University.
https://t.co/nhArRlzbOa

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Read an excerpt from @AzizAbuSarah and @maozinon’s THE FUTURE IS PEACE: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land.

https://t.co/GFX6mfVxwu

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VIGIL by Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders has been selected for @NorthwesternU’s newly revamped Campus Reading Program.

Read more here:
https://t.co/FKBdd2zpW0

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Watch Arthur C. Brooks, PhD discuss THE MEANING OF YOUR LIFE as a part of the UnCommon Authors series.

https://t.co/bVyc2y3Uuk

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Read an excerpt from Julia Minson’s HOW TO DISAGREE BETTER.

https://t.co/i7eZHGRABq

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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:
https://t.co/7AoSUJZ1Gh

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Read an excerpt from @arthurbrooks’s The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness.

https://t.co/J6E4qcToYx

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Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has passed away at age 80. Read more about Tracy Kidder’s work and legacy:
https://t.co/a5hECccicW

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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.

https://t.co/PhYeONzMKx

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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.
https://t.co/abk9vIl8xT

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“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.”
https://t.co/c9YKUum8SY

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Read an excerpt from @jazmineulloa’s El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory.

https://t.co/F4FC3NXrmG

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“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. . .”
https://t.co/2rp0BMBlG3

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“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.
https://t.co/wQPfHqkgwh

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@NifMuhammad @papergirlmacy @AdamAJRbrothers @BanningLyon @jnoisecat @AzizAbuSarah 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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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.

https://t.co/VdDrMdIsFm

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@NifMuhammad @papergirlmacy @AdamAJRbrothers .@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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Congratulations to Julian Brave Noisecat, whose debut book WE SURVIVED THE NIGHT has been named a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction!

More info: https://t.co/0OXa8bYVVC