The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has analyzed college common readings since 2010. The limitations of college common reading selections derive from their institutional frameworks. Non-academic mission statements steer selection committees away from intellectually challenging books toward those promoting progressive beliefs or activism; the selection committees are usually run or dominated by activist "co-curricular" administrators rather than professors; and common reading programs are frequently integrated with programs of service-learning and civic engagement, which are designed to promote student activism rather than to educate. NAS advocates for systematic reform of college common reading programs. They also advocate external supervision of common reading programs at public universities, to guarantee their intellectual diversity. This year's report has added two sections of practical advice for working within the system as it currently exists. One section provides advice for authors wishing to market their books to common reading selection committees; the second provides advice for selection committee members who want to persuade their colleagues to choose classic books. While the NAS can still call for thoroughgoing reform of common reading programs, the NAS believes these new sections will forward useful, if marginal, reforms within the current system. "Beach Books 2018-2019" is organized into the following sections: (1) an introductory essay summarizing the report; (2) an analysis of the 2018-2019 selections; (3) advice to would-be authors and to selection committee members; and (4) appendices with full data, including an expanded list of 150 books the NAS recommends for colleges and universities with common reading programs. [For the previous edition, "Beach Books: 2017-2018. What Do Colleges and Universities Want Students to Read outside Class?," see ED595199.]