Knopf, has designed some of the most iconic book covers. Peter Mendelsund, associate art director of publishing company Alfred A.
What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund Fortunately, Levitin is here to show you both how we are lied to-how data is manipulated and news stories mislead-and how we can avoid falling for it. In the era of #fakenews, you can assume nothing. Critical thinking should be taught to kindergarteners, but it’s often skimmed over, assumed. It’s an unfortunate fact of our current society that you must question almost everything you read.
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Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era by Daniel J. From Bruce Springsteen to Carly Rae Jepsen, Abdurraqib’s observations are sharp and illuminating. You want to be able to discuss music intelligently, right? Abdurraqib’s collection of culture and music criticism will teach you not only how to discuss music, but how to use it and pop culture as lens to examine and better understand our society. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Did you know gravity isn’t actually a force? And that time moves faster when you’re higher up? Read this and feel confident in your higher-than-freshman-level-physics-knowledge. Reading it, I was angry with my public education for all the fascinating facts it glossed over.
Rovelli takes some of the biggest ideas in physics and simplifies them in a way that is intriguing and understandable to even the most science-adverse. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli I felt at least ten times smarter after turning the final page. If you want a better understanding of finance and economics (not a bad idea for those entering “adulthood”) without feeling like an idiot, this is the book for you. This is an economics book that made me literally laugh out loud. Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan Instead, I’ve focused on books to read before college you may not have thought of, books you may not have been assigned. I figure you know the classics, the canon-and if you don’t, there are lists aplenty on the internet.
Although I’ve certainly included some classics here-and I’ll concede that there are important so-called classics to read before college-I generally avoided books I thought you may have been assigned and books I noticed on many other books-to-read-before-college lists. You may notice that Famous Classic of the Literary Cannon by That White Guy is missing from my list.
These are just thirty books, broken up into five sections, that I think could serve you well should you have them in your brain before leaving home for grand, academic pursuits.Ĭollege prep | book lists | college reading | reading lists | high school reading" srcset=" 735w, 200w, 683w, 100w, 33w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"> But I don’t kid myself in thinking these are must-reads or absolutes. I’m also a bookseller, and thus exposed to a wider variety of texts. What are my qualifications? Well, I went to college-so I was once a person considering what books to read before college. I have compiled a comprehensive and completely subjective list of books I think you should read before heading off to college.
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