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Program History

Reading the Globe has engaged more than 15,000 freshmen in memoirs about war, immigration, social justice, human trafficking, and resilience.

Click on the Common Read images below to learn about each year’s book and respective Reading the Globe Trip.

2024-2025 Common Read: Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
2023-2024 Common Read: Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey
2021-2023 Common Read: Failing Up: A Professor’s Odyssey of Flunking, Determination, and Hope
2020-2021 Common Read: That’s That: A Memoir
2019-2020 Common Read: Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World
2018-2019 Common Read: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
2017-2018 Common Read: A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka
2016-2017 Common Read: In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom
2015-2016 Common Read: A Long Way Home: A Memoir
2014-2015 Common Read: The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet: A Young Woman's Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
2013-2014 Common Read: Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
2012-2013 Common Read: Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman’s Story of Survival Inside an Iranian Prison
2011-2012 Common Read: Santiago's Children: What I Learned About Life at an Orphanage in Chile
2010-2011 Common Read: The Road of Lost Innocence: The Story of a Cambodian Heroine
2009-2010 Common Read: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
2008-2009 Common Read: All But My Life: A Memoir

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