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Book cover showing the title "Burnout" repeatedly down the page, starting in bright red and fading out towards the bottom.Spring 2025

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA.

Partners: Graduate Student Council Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion CommitteeMIT Institute Community & Equity Office (ICEO)Women and Gender Services (WXGS)MIT Health, and the MIT Press.

Watch: MIT Reads: Let’s talk “Burnout” with authors Emily and Amelia Nagoski


Book cover of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities, by Davarian L. BaldwinFall 2024

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities by Davarian L. Baldwin.

Partners: MIT Press

Watch: MIT Reads: A Conversation with Davarian L.Baldwin (YouTube)


Book cover of Minda and Matter: A life in Math and Football, by John Urschel and Louisa ThomasSpring 2024

Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football by John Urschel and Louisa Thomas

Partners: This book was selected in collaboration with students enrolled in 21W.022, Writing and Experience: Reading and Writing Autobiography, a subject offered by Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication (WRAP).

Archived study guide

Watch: From the NFL to MIT: A conversation with Prof. John Urschel & Louisa Thomas (MIT only)


Fall 2023

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong.

Partners: Women and Gender Services, the Disabilities Employee Resource Group, student members of disabled@mit, and Disability and Access Services.

Archived study guide

Watch: “Disability Visibility”: Can You See Us Now? (MIT only)


Work, Pray, Code: When wor becomes religion in Silicon Valley by Carolyn Chen book coverSpring 2023

Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley by Carolyn Chen

Co-sponsors: MIT Libraries and the MIT Press Bookstore.

Archived study guide

Watch: A Conversation with Carolyn Chen: “Work Pray Code” (MIT only)


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Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Dr. Vivek H. Murthy

Co-sponsors: Health Promotion Working GroupMIT Libraries; Division of Student Life’s DSL Reads program (a SEAbord initiative)

Archived study guide

Watch: Belonging and Connectedness at MIT: Community voices, October 2022


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Clap When You Land, by Elizabeth Acevedo

Co-sponsors: MIT Global Languages; MIT Libraries; MIT Program in Women’s and Gender Studies

Archived study guide

Watch: Conversation with the author, April 2022 (MIT only)


Sexual Citizens book coverFall 2021

Sexual Citizens, by Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan

Co-sponsors: Institute Discrimination and Harassment Response Office; Violence Prevention and Response; PLEASURE@MIT; MIT Libraries; Women’s and Gender Studies; Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation; Undergraduate Association; Graduate Student Council; Mind Hand Heart

Archived study guide

Watch: Conversation with the authors, October 2021 (MIT only)

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Privileged Poor book coverSpring 2021

The Privileged Poor by Anthony Abraham Jack
Partner: FLI@MIT

Archived study guide

Conversation with the author, April 2021 (MIT only)


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Fall 2020

There There by Tommy Orange
Partner: Indigenous Peoples Advocacy Committee and American Indian Science and Engineering Society

Archived study guide 


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A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernández
Partner: Hermanas Unidas

Archived study guide


Tatum book cover

Spring 2019

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
Partner: School of Architecture + Planning

Archived study guide


Dawn cover

Fall 2018

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
Partner: MIT Black Students’ Union

Archived study guide


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Spring 2018

Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Partner: Alpha Chi Omega

Archived study guide


Americanah coverFall 2017

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Partner: My Sister’s Keeper


Book cover - Paper Menagerie

Spring 2017

Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
Partner: MIT Literary Society 


Hidden Figures cover

Winter 2017

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Partner: Black Women’s Alliance


Redefining Realness book cover

Fall 2016

Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Partners: LBGTQ@MIT and the Gender Fluidity Group


MIT Reads began in the Fall of 2016