December 6, 2024
Help K-State First Book select the common reading book for 2025
We started with "The Hunger Games" in 2010, we met "The Other Wes Moore" in 2015, and we learned from Nyle DiMarco with "Deaf Utopia" in 2024: What will be the common read in 2025?
K-State First Book, the all-university reading program, selects a common book for the academic year and coordinates classroom and campus activities to correspond with the reading. As part of K-State First, KSFB provides incoming students with a shared academic experience that they can discuss with professors, staff, administrators, and other students when they arrive on campus.
The 2025 First Book Selection Committee — composed of 25 students, staff, administrators and faculty from two campuses — spent the last six months reading 47 books on the theme of opportunities and freedom.
The committee has narrowed the list down to four finalists:
- "Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist" by Judith Heumann
- "Educated: A Memoir" by Tara Westover
- "First Gen: A Memoir" by Alejandra Campoverdi
- "The Martian" by Andy Weir
We would like your help selecting the 2025 university common book.
Visit the First Book webpage to read about these four finalists that have been chosen for consideration and offer your feedback by the end of the day, 11:59 p.m. CST, on Friday, Dec. 20.
The Book Selection Committee looks forward to your response.
As the campus community wraps up conversations about the 2024 selection, "Deaf Utopia," keep in mind the award opportunities for students, faculty and staff announced earlier this semester and due Friday, Dec. 13.
For more information about K-State First Book, including a list of past book selections, visit K-State First Book. More information about K-State First, the university's first-year experience program, is available at k-state.edu/first/.