Welcome to the Career Reading Room!
College Advice
- 24 Tips for Students to Succeed in College
by Sharon Hill - 1001 Things Every College Student Needs to Know
by Harry H. Harrison, Jr. - College 101: The Book Your College Does Not Want You to Read
by Guy Stevens - Excuse Me, College is Now: Excuse Me, College Is Now: How to Be a Success in School and in Life
by Doreen Banaszak and Sebastian Oddo - How to Survive Your Freshman Year
by Hundreds of College Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors Who Did - The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Choosing a College Major
by Dr. Randall S. Hansen
Career Exploration & Advice
- Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger - Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong
edited by jessica Bacal - Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time
by Bill McGowan - Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
by Austin Kleon - Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
by Austin Kleon - Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds
by Carmine Gallo - Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
by Arianna Huffington
Self Exploration
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by Charles Duhigg
Life Lessons
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Charles Duhiggby Steven D. Levitt - How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Charles Duhiggby Dale Carnegie - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
by Stephen R. Covey - The Art of War
by Charles Duhiggby Sun Tzu - The Power of Positive Thinking
by Charles Duhiggby and Norman Vincent Peale
Inspiring Biographies and Collections
- Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson - The Opposite of Loneliness
by Marina Keegan

For Women
- #GIRLBOSS
by Sophia Amoruso - A Girl’s Guide to College
by Traci Maynigo - Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg - The Bad Girl’s Guide to the Open Road
by Cameron Tuttle - U Chic: The College Girl’s Guide to Everything
by Christie Garton - Your Big Sister’s Guide to Surviving College
by Christie Glascoe Crowder
For Men
- Every Man for Himself: Ten Short Stories about Being a Guy
Edited by Nancy Mercado - Guys Write for Guys Read: Boys' Favorite Authors Write About Being Boys
by Jon Scieszka - The Alphabet of Manlieness
by Maddox - The Average American Male
by Chad Kultgen
The Classics
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Candide by Voltaire
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
For Fun
- A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin
- Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
- Turd Ferguson & the Sausage Party by Ben Applebaum