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Essential Books To Read Before College👩🎓👨🎓
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Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, How to Be a (Young) Antiracist will be your guide to acknowledging, identifying, and dismantling racism and injustice. Antiracism is a journey, and this book serves as a roadmap to help you carve your own path. Kendi and Stone revised this work to include anecdotes and data that s...
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Glimmer of Hope is a blueprint for launching social change. Written by the March for Our Lives founders in the aftermath of one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history, this book shows how a group of teenagers channeled their rage and sorrow into action ... Glimmer of Hope will show you a roadmap to help you lead the way.
Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement a book by The March for Our Lives Founders
Instagram darling Mari Andrew — known for her colorful illustrations and motivational quotes — offers an on-point guide to growing up. From finding a home in a new city to understanding the link between a good hair dryer and good self-esteem to deal ...
Am I There Yet?: The Loop-De-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood a book by Mari Andrew
Beyond finding your career and finding yourself, another huge part of college is finding your people. In this book, you’ll uncover how to overcome the barriers to making new friends and learn to initiate with easy-to-follow steps. Find Your People will also show you how to identify the type of friend you are, the types of friends you need, and the practical ingredients to have the kind of friendships you always longed for. Allen draws on fascinating insights from science and history, timeless ...
Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World a book by Jennie Allen
You don’t need to be creative to read Big Magic, but it may inspire you to create the vibrant, fulfilling life you’ve always dreamed of. From the bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, this book illustrates the attitudes, approaches, and habits needed to live your most creative life. With a dash of soulful spirituality and a dose of cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages you to uncover the “strange jewels” within yo... PopSugar review says, “I dare you not to be inspired to be brave, to be free, and to be curious,” after reading this one.
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear a book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Don’t go to college without reading Brené Brown. Given that college is a vulnerable experience, what better way to prepare than by reading insights from the expert on vulnerability? In The Gifts of Imperfection, Brown provides readers with the ten guideposts to wholehearted living. Each guidepost will help you understand the practices that will allow you to change your life, both at university and beyond. According to Brown, nothin...
The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition: Features a New Foreword and Brand-New Tools a book by Brené Brown
College is going to test your finances. So before entering “the real world,” do yourself a favor and get better with money. In Get Good with Money, Tiffany “the Budgetnista” Aliche offers a ten-step plan for finding peace, safety, and harmony with your finances — no matter how big or small your goals. With helpful checklists, worksheets, a tool kit of resources, and advanced...
Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole a book by Tiffany the Budgetnista Aliche
For those high achievers keen to succeed in the business of college, How to Win at College has your name on it. Written by bestselling author and Georgetown professor Cal Newport, this book is an essential guide to getting ahead, once you’ve gotten in. Based on interviews with star students at universities nationwide, from Harvard to the U...
How to Win at College: Simple Rules for Success from Star Students a book by Cal Newport
The New York Times’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series and podcast changed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. Now, the book version, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story substantially expands on that work, weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction illuminating key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance. With over twen...
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story a book by The New York Times Magazine, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, et al.
Your mental health may be challenged in college, if so, it can be helpful to read stories that show that you are enough, you are seen, and, most importantly, you are not alone. From a teen activist who wrestles with protest-related anxiety to a socia... Ab(solutely) Normal includes short stories from sixteen exceptional authors who, together, subvert mental health stereotypes in this powerful and uplifting collection of fiction. Through powerful prose, verse, and graphics, the characters in this anthology remind us tha...
Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes a book by Nora Shalaway Carpenter and Rocky Callen
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a positively delightful novel that follows two college friends, Sam and Sadie — who are often in love, but never quite lovers — as they become creative partners in an offbeat and intricately imagined world of video game design. Gabrielle Zevin’s b...
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow a book by Gabrielle Zevin