Common Reads/FYE
Common Read and First Year Experience programs shape students’ lives on campus. Our energetic speakers best suited for these programs write about diversity, gender issues, global and national crises. These books and speakers will keep your classes engaged in discussion all year long.
Annie E. Clark & Andrea Pino

Co-founders of End Rape On Campus

 Ishmael Beah

Writer and Human Rights Activist

 Paul Beatty

Man Booker Prize-Winning Author

 Warren Berger

Innovation expert, best-selling author

 Andrea Brenner

Co-Author of How to College: What to Know Before You Go (And When You're There)

 W. Bruce Cameron

Bestselling Author and Screenwriter

 Rabia Chaudry

Attorney and Producer/Host of the podcast Undisclosed

 Joshua Davis

Writer and Film Producer

 Jeffrey Eugenides

Award-Winning Novelist and Essayist

 Melissa Fleming

Head of Communications & Chief Spokesperson for the UNHCR

 Diane Guerrero

Actress & Immigrants' Rights Activist

 Kristin Hannah

#1 New York Times Bestselling Novelist

 Andrea Brenner & Lara Schwartz

Co-Authors of How to College: What to Know Before You Go (and When You're There)

 Ben Rawlence

Author, Human Rights Activist

 Rainbow Rowell

Bestselling Adult and YA Author

 Lara Schwartz

Co-Author of How to College: What to Know Before You Go (And When You're There)

 Dashka Slater

Bestselling Author, Journalist for The New York Times Magazine and Mother Jones

 Jonathan Starr

Founder of Abaarso School of Science and Technology

 Damon Tweedy

Professor at Duke University Medical Center, Author