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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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Read an excerpt from Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull’s The Jailhouse Lawyer. commonreads.com/2025/08/27/exc…
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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…
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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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The NAS Council has approved the nomination of Neil H. Shubin to be the next president of the National Academy of Sciences. An evolutionary biologist & science communicator, Shubin would succeed Marcia McNutt when her term ends on June 30, 2026. Read more: nasonline.org/news/neil-h-sh…
Listen to Calvin Duncan, author of The Jailhouse Lawyer, interviewed by Terry Gross on @nprfreshair. npr.org/programs/fresh…
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MIDNIGHT ON THE POTOMAC is a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil War—and a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Watch author Scott Ellsworth discuss MIDNIGHT ON THE POTOMAC as a part of the Uncommon Authors series. commonreads.com/2025/07/10/unc…
Read a report from Forbes with a sample of the Common Readers colleges are assigning this year. forbes.com/sites/michaelt…
Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Read an excerpt from Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness. commonreads.com/2025/06/16/fro…
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