First Year Experience

First Year Experience & Common Read Programs

We've always believed in the power of books to inspire others to connect, learn, and grow. First Year Experience (FYE) and Common Read programs share our vision in helping create a shared experience through books. We’ve put together a collection of powerful books for college freshmen that foster deep discussions, learning opportunities, and connections between students. You can also shop these Common Read and First Year Experience books by genre below.

Biography & Memoir

Comics & Graphic Novels

Fiction

History

Personal Development

Psychology

Science

Social Issues

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Interior Chinatown

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From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as...

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Klara and the Sun [Hardcover]

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Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful...

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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir [Hardcover]

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#1 New York Times Bestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family...

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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption [Paperback]

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As a young lawyer, Bryan Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need. The practice focused on the poor, the wrongly condemned, and outcasts of society. One of his first cases...

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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy [Paperback]

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A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school,...

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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood [Paperback]

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The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily...

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Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion [Paperback]

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For twenty years, Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world. In Tattoos on the Heart, he distills his experience working in the ghetto...

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They Called Us Enemy

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**2019 OWL AWARD BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR CATEGORY WINNER**New York Times Bestseller! A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the...

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The Distance Between Us: A Memoir [Paperback]

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“A brutally honest book…akin to being the Angela’s Ashes of the modern Mexican immigrant experience” (Los Angeles Times). Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling . . . unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of...

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Kindred

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Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana...

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