Common Reads
Welcome to the MIT Press Common Reads selection page.
The selection of books below are carefully curated for the conversations they create. These are books that simultaneously expand horizons and scratch an intellectual sweet spot, while also inviting introspection and new understandings of the issues and debates that underpin our world.
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