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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: commonreads.com/2025/10/20/w…
Sasha Bonét, author of THE WATERBEARERS is a powerful new voice, telling the American story through three generations of Black mothers.
commonreads.com/2026/08/11/w…
From Annie Jacobsen, the author of the bestselling NUCLEAR WAR: A Scenario, a book on a subject that has long orbited her reporting: biological warfare.
Read an excerpt from @AnnieJacobsen’s BIOLOGICAL WAR: A Scenario:
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Read an excerpt from Emilee Hackney’s ALL THAT’S UNSEEN: An Appalachian Memoir.
commonreads.com/2026/08/03/a…
Read an excerpt from @KalinaSilverman’s BIG TALK: How to Skip the Small Talk, Make Meaningful Connections, and Enrich Your Life.
commonreads.com/2026/07/16/b…
In A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, cartoonist @joshneufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.
Watch the author discuss the book as part of the unCommon Authors Series:
commonreads.com/2026/07/14/u…
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Congratulations to Hanif Abdurraqib @NifMuhammad, winner of the 2026 Weston International Award. Abdurraqib is an award-winning essayist, cultural critic, and poet from Columbus, Ohio. More on this year's #WIAward winner at westoninternationalaward.com #WestonPrizes #WT50
ALT WT50 2026 Weston International Award Winner Hanif Abdurraqib.
ALT Featured Nonfiction, WT50 2026 Weston International Award Winner Hanif Abdurraqib: They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest, A Little Devil in America, There's Always this Year: On Basketball and Ascension.
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
Read an excerpt from Sara Nović’s MOTHER TONGUE: A Memoir.
commonreads.com/2026/06/09/e…
Watch Daisy Hernández discuss CITIZENSHIP: Notes on an American Myth, which is a part of the #UnCommonAuthors Series:
commonreads.com/2026/06/03/u…
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…
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…
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…
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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We are proud to continue a partnership with @FirstBook in celebrating educators nationwide. Enter the giveaway: firstbook.wufoo.com/forms/zz…
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Read an excerpt from Julia Minson’s HOW TO DISAGREE BETTER.
commonreads.com/2026/05/07/e…
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…
Read an excerpt from @arthurbrooks’s The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness.
commonreads.com/2026/04/09/e…
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…
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…
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…
