Common Reads: First-Year Experience

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Selected to captivate the minds of readers and inspire participation in engaging group conversations, Harvard University Press’s “Common Reads: First-Year Experience” collection aims to bolster a feeling of community within an assembly of scholars.

• Peruse our brochure, Common Reads: First Year Experience, to find recommended books along with suggested prompts for in-class discussion.
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For further recommendations for your classroom or organization, contact:

• In North and South America: Jenn Harrington ([Email Address])
• Beyond North and South America: Rebekah White ([Email Address])

Featured Titles

What the Best College Students Do

Ken Bain

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Lessons from Plants

Beronda L. Montgomery

The Origin of Others

Toni Morrison, with a Foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self

Julie Sedivy

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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

Anthony Abraham Jack

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Unflattening

Nick Sousanis

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Why We Act: Turning Bystanders into Moral Rebels

Catherine A. Sanderson

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Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

Susan Ware

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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel

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The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights

William F. Schulz and Sushma Raman

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The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

Yascha Mounk

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Voice, Choice, and Action: The Potential of Young Citizens to Heal Democracy

Felton Earls and Mary Carlson

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

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Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Kathleen Belew

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Racism in America: A Reader

With a Foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed

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On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives

Andrew H. Miller

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From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way

Michael Bond

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Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

Mark L. Winston

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Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures

Caleb Everett

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Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom

James Danckert and John D. Eastwood

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Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing

Françoise Baylis

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Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds

Richard J. Light

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The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media

Kate Eichhorn

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