SHU Reads!
2026 Book: Amplify: How to Use the Power of Connection to Engage, Take Action and Build a Better World by Adam Met, Ph.D., with Heather Landy
Adam Met, climate advocate, educator and member of the multiplatinum band AJR, gained firsthand experience growing an audience from the ground up as the band progressed from playing in living rooms to selling out arenas. With award-winning journalist Heather Landy, Met shows how to apply fan-building strategies to social movements in exciting, inventive ways. Amplify is a playbook for developing passionate supporters (i.e., fans) utilizing the art and science of engagement, collaboration and authentic connection, with tactics that will inspire people to carry your message to the world and spur others to act.
SHU Reads! Common Reading Experience
Students at Seton Hall University begin their common learning experience in the summer before their first year. Since 2003, all incoming first-year students have read a common book over the summer to introduce them to academic and student life at Seton Hall. The SHU Reads! nominated text presents a shared experience intended to foster thoughtful discussion and engagement in University Life, the first-year English classes and throughout the academic year.
Previous Selections:
- 2025: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- 2024: I Never Thought of it That Way by Monica Guzman
- 2023: American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures edited by America Ferrera
- 2021 & 2022: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- 2020: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
- 2019: Educated by Tara Westover
- 2018: Coming of Age at the End Of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet by Julie Dunlap and Susan Cohen
- 2017: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- 2016: The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
- 2015: The Ledge by Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan
- 2014: Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory
- 2013: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- 2012: This I Believe
- 2011: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Jennifer Skloot
2026 SHUReads! Essay Contest/Core English I Book Review Prompt
Details coming soon.