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Past Selections

2024-2025 marks the 18th Anniversary of the Common Reading Program.

Special thanks to the Shepherd University Foundation for their long-standing support of this program.

Past Selections

2023-2024

book cover for No visible bruises
  • Rachel Louise Snyder spoke at Shepherd University on November 8, 2023. You can view a recording of her talk here

2022-2023

  • Emma Copley Eisenberg spoke at Shepherd on Nov. 5, 2022; you can view a recording of that talk here. She also participated in a virtual conversation with us on Sept. 25, 2022, which you can view here.

2021-2022

2020-2021

2019-2020

  • Jeanne Marie Laskas visited Shepherd University in November 2019 to talk about her work as a journalist, the work of Dr. Bennett Omalu, and the brain disease, CTE. Watch her interview (with Shepherd staff writer, Cecelia Mason) here: https://youtu.be/__525tVnf8Y

2018-2019

2017-2018

2016-2017

2015-2016

alonetogether

2014-2015

malala

2013-2014

pancake

2012-2013

The_Immortal_Life_Henrietta_Lacks_(cover)

2011-2012

believe

2010-2011

etcoff

2009-2010

kingsolver

2008-2009

persepolis

2007-2008

gates