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.
These are our past selections:
2023-2024
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
Hyeonseo Lee visited Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, WV in October 2018 to discuss her life as a North Korean refugee and defector. Watch her presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft-GqAz_0d4
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
2014-2015
2013-2014
2012-2013
2011-2012
2010-2011
2009-2010
2008-2009
2007-2008