Cornell University common read: every book
Cornell University's New Student Reading Project gives incoming students one shared book. The university lists 10 picks from 2001 to 2010; the most recent is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (2010). None of these books appear in the other programs we collected.
Retrieved 3 October 2026. Years are shown as the university prints them.
Every pick, newest first
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- 2006The Great GatsbyF. Scott FitzgeraldSpelling corrected; the source prints “The Great Gatbsy”.
Other common-read programs
- Washington State University · 17 picks
- Appalachian State University · 18 picks
- University of Mississippi · 14 picks
- University of Houston-Clear Lake · 11 picks
- Binghamton University · 6 picks
- Duke University · 25 picks
- South Dakota State University · 16 picks
- University of Kansas · 12 picks
- Arizona State University (West Valley campus) · 15 picks
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.