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

 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

Best-Selling Author and Screenwriter

 Joshua Davis

Writer, Film Producer

 Jeffrey Eugenides

Award-Winning Novelist & 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

 Ken Kwapis

Award-winning Director in Multiple Film and Television Series

 Andrea Brenner & Lara Schwartz

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

 Meg Lowman

Author, Explorer, Scientist, Arbornaut

 Kate Murphy

Journalist and Contributor to the New York Times and The Economist

 Emily Nemens

Writer, Illustrator, Editor of The Paris Review

 Ben Rawlence

Author, Human Rights Activist

 Rainbow Rowell

Best-Selling Adult and YA Author

 Lara Schwartz

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

 Aarti Shahani

Award-winning NPR Journalist, Best-selling Author

 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