Hachette Academic – First-Year and Common Reading

Detailed Title List

Spotlight FYE and Common Reading Selection

Activism & Social Change

  • Micro Activism
  • Weathering
  • HBCU Made
  • So You Want to Talk About Race
  • How the Other Half Eats
  • The Disordered Cosmos
  • Rest Is Resistance
  • Stakes Is High
  • Bird Uncaged
  • The Great Escape
  • Youth to Power
  • You’re More Powerful than You Think
  • Carry On
  • Metaracism
  • How We Show Up

Environment & Climate Justice

  • How to Be a Conscious Eater
  • Wasteland
  • Not the End of the World
  • Our Fragile Moment
  • The Intersectional Environmentalist
  • In Search of the Canary Tree
  • The Heat Will Kill You First

Memoir & Biography

  • This Changes Everything
  • I Take My Coffee Black
  • A Place Called Home
  • Vision
  • First Gen
  • I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying
  • Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
  • The Trouble of Color
  • The Mango Tree
  • Undiplomatic
  • When I Was Puerto Rican
  • Admissions
  • Lightning Flowers
  • The Dead Don’t Need Reminding
  • Black Boy Smile
  • I Am Still With You
  • One Goal
  • A Stone Is Most Precious Where it Belongs
  • Inheritance
  • Maid
  • Haben

Fiction

  • The Book of (More) Delights
  • Parable of the Sower
  • Parable of the Talents
  • The Book of Delights
  • Inciting Joy
  • Freshman Year (A Graphic Novel)
  • The World We Make
  • Lark Ascending
  • What’s Mine and Yours
  • The Light Pirate
  • Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
  • Dawn
  • A Grandmother Begins the Story
  • Circe
  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
  • The House of Broken Angels
  • Moonrise Over New Jessup
  • Dust Child
  • All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

History & Society

  • The Devil’s Half Acre
  • Code Girls
  • The Half Has Never Been Told
  • Last Stop Auschwitz
  • The Third Reconstruction
  • Myth America
  • Humankind
  • Latino USA
  • Stamped from the Beginning
  • This Land
  • Origin Story
  • A Moonless, Starless Sky
  • Paper Bullets
  • Forager

Women, Gender, & Identity

  • Gender Magic
  • Women with Money
  • The Feminist Killjoy Handbook
  • He/She/They
  • Whipping Girl

STEM & AI

  • The Algorithm
  • Third Millennium Thinking
  • More Than Words
  • The Atomic Human
  • Superconvergence

Business & Leadership

  • Becoming a Changemaker
  • The Wake Up
  • The Other
  • Ask

Mental Health & Psychology

  • Revenge of the Tipping Point
  • Hope for Cynics
  • The Dead Don’t Need Reminding
  • A Field Guide to the Apocalypse
  • Permission to Come Home
  • The Defining Decade
  • Imposter No More
  • Emotional Inheritance
  • The Invisible Ache
  • The Suggestible Brain