The 2026 edition of the UC Berkeley Summer Reading List welcomes new students, with the theme “mutuality.” The list features a wide range of fiction and nonfiction books recommended to you by enthusiastic Cal faculty, staff and students. Each work explores moments of interdependence and shared experience, helping us all to discover mutuality, moving beyond questions and unease and into deeper conversations about how we connect with one another and the world.

Check out the full list on UCnet

Do you have a book on this theme to recommend? Feel free to share it in the comments!

This article originally appeared in the May issue of UCnetwork. Read the whole issue online here.

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