CommonReads

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/wha…

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/exc…

“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…

“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/t…

@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.

@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.

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/2026/03/06/202…

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: pen.org/2026-pen-ameri…

On February 17th, at the 2026 First-Year Experience® Conference in Seattle, WA, we honored our ten award winners for the Outstanding First Year Student Advocate Awards alongside Kate Lehman, Director of the @NRCFYESIT. Read more here: commonreads.com/2026/02/26/202…

Musician and changemaker Lachi flips disability and neurodivergence into an empowering identity, a cultural movement, and an innovation engine. Watch Lachi discuss her book, I Identify as Blind, which is part of the unCommon Authors Video Series. commonreads.com/2026/02/20/unc…

.@UMFlint will host @maxinebedat, author of "Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment," 2 p.m., Feb. 25, in the Harding Mott University Center KIVA. Unraveled is part of the university's Common Read program. news.umflint.edu/2026/02/11/unr…

Are you attending the First-Year Experience® Conference in Seattle, Washington taking place February 15-18, 2026? Visit Penguin Random House Education at booth # 33 in the Exhibitor Hall tomorrow, Tues, 2/17, 7:30 a.m. – noon, to browse our books and resources. #FYE2026 #FYE26

Are you attending the First-Year Experience® Conference in Seattle, Washington taking place February 15-18, 2026? Visit Penguin Random House Education at booth # 33 in the Exhibitor Hall tomorrow, Monday, February 16, 2026, to browse our books and resources. #FYE2026 #FYE26

Are you attending the First-Year Experience® Conference in Seattle, Washington taking place February 15-18, 2026? Visit Penguin Random House Education at booth # 33 in the Exhibitor Hall tomorrow, Sunday, February 15th, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m., to browse our books & resources. #FYE2026

Attensity! is a rallying cry to fight the commodification of human attention, with the tools we need to reclaim our humanity. Read an excerpt from The Friends of Attention’s Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement. commonreads.com/2026/02/10/exc…

Are you attending the First-Year Experience® Conference in Seattle, Washington taking place February 15-18, 2026? Visit Penguin Random House Education at booth # 33 in the Exhibitor Hall to browse our books and resources. #FYE2026 #FYE26

Read an excerpt from Lachi’s I Identify as Blind: A Brazen Celebration of Disability Culture, Identity, and Power. commonreads.com/2026/02/05/fro…

Are you attending the First-Year Experience® Conference in Seattle, Washington taking place February 15-18, 2026? Register for the 2026 Penguin Random House First-Year Experience® Conference Author Events! commonreads.com/2025/10/08/fye… #FYE2026 #FYE26

We're almost 2 weeks away from the start of #FYE2026! You won't want to miss our featured sessions. Check them out on Monday, February 16 for timely insights, practical strategies, & great conversations.   Visit event.sc.edu/fyeannual to view the full conference schedule.

Did you miss the registration deadline for the 45th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience? No worries!   On-site registration is available now through February 18, 2026. For more information, visit sc.edu/fye.