University of Kansas common read: every book
University of Kansas's KU Reads: A Common Book Experience (KU Common Book) gives incoming students one shared book. The university lists 12 picks from 2012-2013 to 2025-2026; the most recent is Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (2025-2026). 3 of these books were also picked by other programs we collected.
Retrieved 3 October 2026. Years are shown as the university prints them.
Every pick, newest first
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- 2025-2026Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered PlanetAuthor not printed by the source
- 2022-2023Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Centuryedited by Alice WongAlso on: University of Houston-Clear Lake
- 2021-2022Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of PlantsRobin Wall KimmererAlso on: Washington State University
- 2019-2020Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nationedited by John FreemanAlso on: Washington State University
- 2017-2018CitizenClaudia RankineSpelling corrected; the source prints “Claudia Rankin”.
- 2013-2014The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust BowlTimothy Egan
Other common-read programs
- Cornell University · 10 picks
- 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
- 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.