Common Read

LaTanya McQueen’s 'And It Begins Like This' will be the Common Read for the 2019-20 academic year.

Madra Furman, Israel Tucker, and Jordan Temchack are the winners of the 2019 Common Read Writing Contest.

Students enrolled in ENGL 297 Facing Displacement: Writing (in) Transit, will share their observations and creative work on issues of displacement, present and past, at the November 13 Common Read Event.

An interaction with Mohsin Hamid's "Exit West" led student Bethany McCarl to a found poem adapted from the novel's text.

Blogging for a first year honors course, students are exploring how Mohsin Hamid's "Exit West," the 2018-2019 Common Read book that uses loaded and sometimes divisive names in striking and sometimes unexpected ways.

Hamid has written four novels including "Moth Smoke," "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia," and "Exit West," Penn State Altoona’s Common Read book for 2018-19 academic year.

Penn State Altoona is pleased to announce a full line-up of events for the 2018-2019 Common Read book, "Exit West" by Mohsin Hamid.

Sebastian Junger’s "Tribe: on Homecoming and Belonging" is Penn State Altoona’s Common Read selection for 2017-18.