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Arizona State University (West Valley campus) common read: every book

Arizona State University (West Valley campus)'s Common Read gives incoming students one shared book. The university lists 15 picks from 2009 to 2024; the most recent is Tastes and Treasures: A Storytelling Cookbook of Historic Arizona by Inc. Historical League (2024). 2 of these books were also picked by other programs we collected.

Source

Retrieved 3 October 2026. Years are shown as the university prints them.

Every pick, newest first

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  1. 2024
    Tastes and Treasures: A Storytelling Cookbook of Historic Arizona
    Inc. Historical League
  2. 2022
    The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook
    Natalie Eve Garrett
  3. 2021
    We Need to Talk
    Celeste Headlee
  4. 2020
    Designing Your Life
    Bill Burnett
  5. 2019
    This I Believe: Life lessons
    Dan Gediman
  6. 2018
    Everyday
    David Levithan
  7. 2017
    Hamilton Play (Script)
    Lin-Manuel Miranda
  8. 2016
    Ready Player One
    Ernest Cline
  9. 2015
    Promise of a Pencil
    Adam Braun
  10. 2014
    Crazy Brave
    Joy Harjo
  11. 2013
    Persepolis
    Marjane Satrapi
  12. 2012
    A Long Way Gone
    Ishmael Beah
  13. 2011
    The Other West Moore
    Wes Moore
  14. 2010
    In Defense of Food
    Author not printed by the source
  15. 2009
    Freakanomics
    Author not printed by the source

Other common-read programs

All programs, and the books more than one picked →

How this list was made

We fetched the list from the institution's own page or PDF on the date shown and recorded each title and author as printed. We did not add books, and we copied no descriptions. Obvious misprints are corrected and marked. The extraction was done with AI assistance and checked against the source. Lists change every year, so check the source page before you buy anything.