The common reading experience is an academic ritual for first-year students at many U.S. colleges. Here's a sample of the books being chosen this year. The fall semester is less than two months away ...

The Underground Railroad, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Colson Whitehead, has been selected as the University of Delaware’s 2017 First Year Common Reader. Through the First Year Common Reader ...

Mar. 28—For the last 15 years, Sam Houston State University (SHSU) has challenged administrators, professors and students to have a shared academic experience through the Common Reader Program. The ...

Colorado Mountain College selected “The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild” by Colorado writer and naturalist Craig Childs for the Common Reader program. The college’s Common Reader ...

What: Colorado Mountain College Common Reader Tour, with Reyna Grande, author of “The Distance Between Us,” and guest performance artist and poet Molina Speaks. When: 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17. Where: ...

Colorado Mountain College is presenting a free, live virtual event with two bestselling authors and esteemed historians — Richard Haass and Walter Isaacson — to discuss this year’s Common Reader book, ...

What: Author talks by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, author of “Fig,” and CMC faculty Kimberly Harding, author of a workbook, “Ascend and Transcend.” Where: Seven Colorado Mountain College campuses.