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One of the best things about being immersed in campus life at UCSB is that students, faculty, researchers, and the greater Santa Barbara community can take advantage of the variety of intellectually stimulating, civic-spirited, and socially engaging opportunities that it provides. The award-winning UCSB Reads program is a common reading experience that involves the campus and the broader Santa Barbara community in conversations about compelling issues of our time while reading the same book.
Community partners, local businesses, and individual donors all have the opportunity to support UCSB Reads 2026. Your gift will make this year's book giveaway, author visit, and accompanying programs possible. Every donation in any amount is essential to building and sustaining all of our outreach programs, including UCSB Reads. You can support this vital, dynamic initiative by making an online gift - click here. Please designate "UCSB Reads" in the memo field when making your gift.
A variety of engagement and recognition opportunities are available to UCSB Reads supporters. To learn more, please email UCSBReads@library.ucsb.edu.
We gratefully acknowledge our sponsors of UCSB Reads 2026. Thank you!