Some universities and colleges have a “Common Read” requirement for incoming freshmen.  The chosen book becomes the catalyst for writing and discussion during orientation or throughout the year in the First-Year Seminar classes.  

Here are my Top Ten from books freshmen are reading for the Fall, 2018 semester.  

Have you read any of them?

1. Tufts University – Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
2. Mt Holyoke College – The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
3. University of Pennsylvania – The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder 
4. University of Maryland – The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5. Johns Hopkins University –  The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It  by Jo Ann Robinson
6. University of Massachusetts Amherst – Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
7. University of Cincinnati – Radioactive by Lauren Redniss
8. University of Arizona – On Trails by Robert Moor
9. University of Oregon – The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
10. Princeton University – Speak Freely by Keith Whittington

Click here to find your alma mater and the book freshman are reading for the Fall.