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Dedicated to bringing you the latest for common reading programs in schools, universities, and communities. commonreads.com New York City, NY Joined August 2010-
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Watch Dr. Michael Stein discuss his book, A Living: Working-Class Americans Talk to Their Doctor, as a part of the UnCommon Authors series. commonreads.com/2025/09/29/unc…
We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2026! commonreads.com/2025/09/23/202…
Watch @dan_chandler discuss FREE AND EQUAL, which is a part of the UnCommon Authors Series. #UnCommonAuthors commonreads.com/2025/09/18/fre…
My book FREE AND EQUAL is out today in the US & Canada! It presents a unifying vision for progressive politics, drawing on the philosopher John Rawls Get the US edition here: buff.ly/425uWDA or the UK edition here: buff.ly/41oZZcb Thread about the book👇
Ten colleges are given the highest ranking for first-year experiences for students. Read more here: mycentraljersey.com/story/news/edu…
Read an excerpt from @RaymondAntrobus’s The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound. commonreads.com/2025/09/15/exc…
From Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Greg Grandin, America, América is the first comprehensive history of the Western Hemisphere. It offers a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both. commonreads.com/2025/09/09/exc…
Read an excerpt from Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull’s The Jailhouse Lawyer. commonreads.com/2025/08/27/exc…
Read an excerpt from @AdamAJRbrothers’s Amplify: How to Use the Power of Connection to Engage, Take Action, and Build a Better World. commonreads.com/2025/08/25/exc…
How to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to “turn right in 500 yards.” Read an excerpt from Gerd Gigerenzer’s How to Stay Smart in a Smart World. commonreads.com/2025/08/19/exc…
Read an excerpt from Ashley Cordes’s Indigenous Currencies: Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age. #fromthepage #excerpt commonreads.com/2025/08/06/exc…
We’re excited to announce our 2025-2026 award recipients! 17 colleges, and universities are represented among this year’s recipients! Many thanks to our award sponsors, @PRHHigherEd and DIA Higher Education Collaborators, for your support of this year’s awards campaign.
Watch Arthur C. Brooks discuss Build the Life You Want as a part of the #UnCommonAuthors series: commonreads.com/2025/08/06/unc…
This is an article contributed by Prachi Gupta, author of They Called Us Exceptional, in which she articulates the dissonance, shame, and isolation of being upheld as an American success story while privately navigating traumas. commonreads.com/2025/07/24/mes…
In this award-winning graphic novel, one teen boy’s coming-of-age story is told through fairy tales drawing upon the author’s own Vietnamese heritage. Now adapted to audio, featuring a full-cast narration. commonreads.com/2025/07/25/spo…
A community read or all school read can be a powerful way to bring people together. Browse some of the titles we have adapted for young people, so adults and students of all reading levels can share and discuss a great book together. commonreads.com/2025/07/31/com…
Read an excerpt from Alan Weisman’s Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future. commonreads.com/2025/07/21/hop…
Christian Cooper’s memoir, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World, has been announced as the first selection of the newly established community reading program for Ingham County. lansingcitypulse.com/stories/one-gr…
In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.’s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities—and explosive tensions. Read an excerpt from Kyra Davis Lurie’s The Great Mann. commonreads.com/2025/07/14/the…
Watch Neil Shubin, author of ENDS OF THE EARTH, discuss his book as a part of the UnCommon Authors Series: commonreads.com/2025/02/25/end…
Watch Neil Shubin, author of ENDS OF THE EARTH, discuss his book as a part of the UnCommon Authors Series: commonreads.com/2025/02/25/end…

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