Graduation+Booklist

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Non-Fiction
**Living in Residence....** 371.8 LEW //Dorm Living//, Casey Lewis 747.88314 SCH The //First Apartment Book: Cool Design for Small Spaces,// Kyle Schuneman //378.1 COH The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College//, Harlan Cohen //613.043402 OZ The Dorm Room Diet: The 10-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works,// Daphne Oz //302 ROO The Roommates: True Tales of Friendship, Rivalry, Romance, and Disturbingly Close Quarters//, Stephanie Wu

Skills for university or college...
//248.834 TUK Everything You Need to Know Before College//, Matthew Paul Turner //378.198 LUC College Stress Solutions//, Kelci Lynn Lucier, EdM 809.3 FOS //How to Read Novels Like a Professor//, Thomas C. Foster

378.198 NIS College rules! : how to study, survive, and succeed in college, Nist, Sherrie L.

Skills for life...
// 650.142 FRE My Workbook: How to Find a Job - Even During Tough Times - // //And Survive Your First Year in the Workplace,// Zelda Freud 646.7 FIS //How To Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life//, Antwone Fisher 646.7008652 FOR //Single: The Art of Being Satisfied, Fulfilled, and Independent//, Judy Ford //332.024 SET I Will Teach You to Be Rich//, Ramit Sethi 158.1 COV //The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People//, Stephen Covey 158.1 CAR //How Win Friends and Influence People,// Dale Carnegie 158.2 BRI //Dealing With Difficult People: 24 Lessons for Bringing Out The Best in Everyone// 158.1 SEL //Authentic Happiness,// Martin E.P. Seligman Ph.D. 302 GLA //The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference//, Malcolm Gladwell 190 PRE //Who Am I? And if So, How Many? A Philosophical Journey//, Richard David Precht 153.4 KAH //Thinking Fast and Slow//, Daniel Kahneman 152.46 JEF //Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway,// Susan Jeffers 658.452 GAL //Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking secrets of the World's Top Minds//, Carmine Gallo 305.242 ANG //101 Secrets For Your Twenties//, Paul Angone 332.024 CAR //How Not to Move Back in With Your Parents: The Young Person's Guide To Financial Empowerment//, Rob Carrick //158.12 KAB// //Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life//, Jon Kabat-Zinn

Travel & Volunteerism...
910.202 OFF //Off Track Planet's Travel Guide for the Young, Sexy and Broke//, Freddie Pikovsky & Anna Starostinetskaya (Eds.) 361.7025 VOL //Volunteer: a Lonely Planet's Guide to Making a Difference Around the World,// Lonely Planet 910.202 BES //The Best Places to be Today//, Lonely Planet 305.569 BOO //Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity//, Katherine Boo 362.8309 KRI //Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide//, Nicholas D. Kristof

Finding Your Calling...
650.1 ROA //Roadmap: The Get-it Together Guide for Figuring Out What to do With Your Life//, Roadtrip Nation 331.7 SCH //I Just Graduated: Now What?//, Katherine Schwarzenegger //378 MOR Undecided: Navigating Life and Learning After High School//, Genevieve Morgan 646.7 HAS //20 Something/20 Everything: A Quarterlife Woman's Guide to Balance & Direction//, Christine Hassler 650.14 CHR //What Color is Your Parachute? For Teens//, Carol Christen //361.2 THO Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters//, Laurie Ann Thompson 658.408 MYC //Start Something That Matters//, Blake Mycoskie 331.702 POS //The Quarter-Life Breakthrough//, Smiley Poswolsky

Commencement Speeches & Words of Wisdom...
//815.008 WAY Way More Than Luck Commencement Speeches//, Chronicle Books 306.77 LET //The Letter Q: Queer Writers Notes to Their Younger Selves//, Sarah Moon, Ed. 177.7 SAU Congratulations, By The Way, George Saunders 170.44 BRO What Should I Do with My Life? Po Bronson 378.12 SCH ALB Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom 004.092 PAU The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch 815 VON If This Isn't Nice, What Is? Advice to the Young, Kurt Vonnegut 701.15 GAI Fantastic Mistakes, Neil Gaiman 570.92 Letters to a Young Scientist, Edward O. Wilson 658.4 SAN Lean In for Graduates, Sheryl Sandberg 070.444 STR Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life From Dear Sugar, Cheryl Strayed 305.42 WHA What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self, Ellyn Spragins (Eds.) 818 PAR The //Portable Dorothy Parker//, Dorothy Parker

Biographies about life after high school...
817 NUG Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twenty-something's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood, Alida Nugent 306.874 REI One Bird's Choice: A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-something Who Moves Back Home, Iain Reid 302.34 PAN Graduates in Wonderland, Jessica Pan & Rachel Kapelke-Dal 792.702 FEY Bossypants, Tina Fey 781.66 SMI Just Kids by Patty Smith 152.42 RUB The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin F MCC Crapalachia, Scott McClanahan 302 HEA Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date, Katie Heaney 791.45028 DUN Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham 917.9804 MCC KRA Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer 781.66 PAL The Art of Asking, Amanda Palmer (music artist)

Graphic Novels about finding yourself...
741.5 BEY //Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year//, Ramsey Beyer 914.4361 KNI //French Milk//, Lucy Knisley 956.94 GLI //How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less,//Sarah Glidden ASA //Solanin,// Inio Asano OMA //Lost at Sea//, Brian Lee O'Malley OMA //Seconds//, Brian Lee O'Malley CAM //Alex: How To Be An Artist//, eddie campbell WER infinite Wait, Wertz

Essays
818 KEE The Opposite to Loneliness, Marina Keegan F JUL No One Belongs Here More Than You. Stories by Miranda July 814.54 FRA How to Be Alone: Essays, Jonathan Franzen 814 DID Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion F COM Overqualified, Joey Comeau (cover letters - if written honestly) 828 THO Walden, Or Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau

Novels about twenty-somethings at school, work & play....
//Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency//, Douglas Adams (MYS) //Personal Days//, Ed Park //Maurice//, E.M. Forster (CLA) (LGBT) //I am Charlotte Simmons//, Tom Wolfe (AF) //Jude the Obscure//, Thomas Hardy (CLA) //Brideshead Revisited//, Evelyn Waugh //Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man//, James Joyce (CLA) //On Beauty//, Sadie Smith //Wonder Boys//, Michael Chabon //Beautiful Disaster//, Jamie McGuire (YA) College 101 - Cameron: The Sorority, Wendy Corsi Staub (YA) //Just Girls//, Rachel Gold (LGBT) (YA) //The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.//, Adelle Waldman (AF) //We're All Mad Here//, Leigh Raines (YA) //Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore//, Robin Sloan (AF) //The Group//, Mary McCarthy //Commencement//, J. Courtney Sullivan (YA) //The Secret History//, Donna Tartt //The Woman's Room//, Marilyn French (CLA) //This Side of Paradise//, F.Scott Fitzgerald (CLA) //The Art of Fielding//, Chad Harbach //New Tab//, Guillame Morisette (CAN) //The Interestings//, Meg Wolitzer (AF) //I am Charlotte Simmons//, Tom Wolfe (AF) //Prep//, Curtis Sittenfeld (YA) //Lucky Jim//, Martin Amis (CLA) //Pnin//, Vladimir Nabakov (CLA) //One Day//, David Nicholls (AF) //Just One Day//, Gayle Forman (YA) //Moo//, Jane Smiley (AF) //The Marriage Plot//, Jeffrey Eugenides (AF) //One Tiny Lie//, K.A. Tucker (YA) //Disgrace//, J.M. Coetzee (about a professor) //The Alchemist//, Paulo Coelho (AF) //On The Road//, Jack Kerouac (AF) //The Broom of the System//, David Foster Wallace (AF) //Parade//, Shuichi Yoshida (AF) //Dept. of Speculation//, Jenny Offill (AF) //Of Human Bondage//, W. Somerset Maugham (CLA) //Then We Came to the End//, Joshua Ferris //The Russian Debutante's Handbook//, Gary Shteyngart //The Ginger Man//, J.P. Donleavy //Siddhartha,// Hermann Hesse //Demian,// Hermann Hesse //Norwegian Wood//, Haruki Murakami (AF) //The Line of Beauty,// Alan Hollingshurst (LGBT) //Picnic at Hanging Rock//, Joan Lindsay (AF) //The Mysteries of Pittsburgh//, Michael Chabon (AF)

Short Stories
//21 Proms//, David Levithan and Daniel Ahrenhaft (Eds.)

**Booklist Links** 17 Books About Money Everyone Should Read in Their 20s Must-Read College Novels Books Every Twenty-something Should Read (Buzzfeed)

=To Buy List=

//The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now//, Meg Jay PhD 814.54 FRA