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- Review of The Brightness by Chad Harbach
672-page follow-up to The Art of Fielding focuses on two female protagonists at the fictional Westish College Pella and Irma as they figure out who they are and what they're about as they prepare to emerge from college Pella is 27 and a recent graduate of Midwestern Westish College. of more campus-set novels, please check out the titles at this link, and you'll find reviews of more college-set
- Review of Taipei Story by R. F. Kuang
Lily Chen is a college student who travels to Taiwan to study in an intensive language program along
- Review of Heart the Lover by Lily King
In the fall of our female narrator's senior year in college, she becomes friends with Sam and Yash, two tensions in this love triangle, and by Jordan's early relationship and her immersion in intellectual college
- Review of The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber
In The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Who pays how much to go to college, and why? What are you meant to be getting for your money? Are there ways to cut the ballooning cost of college that's breaking the bank for many American families and programs; college abroad; diversity and compatibility of peers and potential partners; women's colleges questions surrounding college. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?
- Review of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max Marshall
By tracing the college lives of Mikey and Rob, friends at the College of Charleston, as they pledge fraternities
- Review of Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be by Frank Bruni
"Does a prestigious college make you successful? Or do you do that for yourself?" Anyhoo, I have a senior in high school and I'm currently solidly on the sidelines of college application In Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania, insightful, thorough For another, the nature of a student's college experience--the work that he or she puts into it, the Stay tuned for my upcoming review of The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber!
- Review of Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
RA manual that she must be deeply familiar with--and likely also at least one aspect of one of her college
- Review of Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo
He was given College...is an emotional decision, one economists refer to as an "experience good." College admissions is a big business. Colleges and universities spend an estimated $10 billion annually on recruiting students. ," says Chris Gruber, Davidson College's admissions dean. Jeffrey Selingo is also the author of College Unbound and There Is Life After College.
- Review of Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
Only If You're Lucky centers around a group of South Carolina college students who don't truly know each Margot is from "the Outer Banks" of North Carolina and is finishing her freshman year in college at a
- Review of How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez
Cristina Fernandez began writing this book when she was in college.
- Review of Nine Liars (Truly Devious #5) by Maureen Johnson
She is overwhelmed about applying to college, and she doesn't have the funds to imagine that next step in denial about the implications of her senior year and looming future; her friends are planning for college But the novel doesn't wrap up Stevie's situation regarding college plans nor her long-distance relationship
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/2/26 Edition
Pella is 27 and a recent graduate of Midwestern Westish College. Irma is in college and is somewhat reluctantly taking part in a politically charged stunt at The Parties
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/9/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading another college admission book, The Price You Pay for College by the brutal experiences of Larch and Kristina during The Great Transition. 03 The Price You Pay for College Are there ways to cut the ballooning cost of college that's breaking the bank for many American families Lieber outlines which aspects of a college profile you should be paying attention to beyond the bottom line (for example, how many adjunct professors a college employs; the possibility for mentoring interactions
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey 01 Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo I have a rising high school senior, so maybe it's time to read the stack of college admissions-related books I've been using to In Who Gets In and Why, Jeffrey Selingo takes readers behind the scenes of three college admissions offices He lays bare some of the mysteries of college admissions--aiming to offer some sanity to those of us
- Review of Vera Stein Is Fine by Julie Murphy
Vera Stein has been working below her abilities as an assistant for her college friend, actor, longtime immediately comes up against is Elias Buckley, her long-lost ex-husband (they married in Vegas on a dare in college
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/2/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading another college admission book, Where You Go Is Not Who You'll 01 Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania by Frank Bruni I recently I have a senior in high school, so I'm currently solidly on the sidelines of college application hustle Frank Bruni and UNC alum considers the "terrifying and occasionally devastating" process of applying to college So far Bruni explores reassuring data showing that all kinds of colleges can serve as jumping-off points
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/6/25 Edition
01 Heart the Lover by Lily King In the fall of our as-yet-unnamed female narrator's senior year in college She is overwhelmed about applying to college, and she doesn't have the funds to imagine that next step
- Review of The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert #1) by Allen Eskens
Joe is far from a star college student, but between his job as a bouncer and his dedicated studying, Joe's brother can't live independently, but when Joe must bring him into his busy college life, he conveniently
- Review of Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies #2) by Lynn Painter
This young-adult rom-com picks up with the protagonists of Better Than the Movies , now in a difficult college They both head to UCLA for college, but when Wes's dad dies only weeks into their first semester, Wes For example, Liz hadn't returned home from college for two years and had presumably never spoken to any
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/21/25 Edition
the stars, and as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, she teaches her passion to college And in 2019 Boston, Alice is trying to break out of her shell at college, and a one-night stand feels
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/24 Edition
By tracing the college lives of Mikey and Rob, friends at the College of Charleston, as they pledged
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series about a training college by Rebecca Yarros Fourth Wing is the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy series, about a war college her past, which spurs her to think back to the events and relationships that shaped her during her college
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/3/25 Edition
family members around, feeding and speaking to her constantly, Sonia is still adjusting to the quiet of college
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/21/26 Edition
Kuang Lily Chen is a college student who travels to Taiwan to study in an intensive language program
- Review of This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History by Beverly Gage
longtime interest in history, her travels as a young person, and the trips she has taken with her own, now college-aged
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/13/24 Edition
story The Ministry of Time; I'm listening to Only If You're Lucky, Stacy Willingham's mystery about college Reader Press, Simon and Schuster. 02 Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham Margot is a freshman in college
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/1/26 Edition
Vernice headed to Spelman College, befriending powerful young women, fighting inequality, and finding
- Review of Lucky Loser: Adventures in Comedy and Tennis by Michael Kosta
Daily Show 's Michael Kosta recounts his youth as a pro tennis player (#864 in the world), an assistant college
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/17/26 Edition
Stein Is Fine by Julie Murphy Vera Stein has been working below her abilities as an assistant for her college
- Review of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
And in 2019 Boston, Alice is trying to break out of her shell at college, and a one-night stand feels
- Review of Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid
the stars, and as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, she teaches her passion to college
- Review of The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant
Much of the story takes place in an Idaho forest, and it made me reminisce about my college summer spent
- Review of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
family members around, feeding and speaking to her constantly, Sonia is still adjusting to the quiet of college
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/25 Edition
After pushing him to return home and head to college, he died in a freak accident.
- Review of Kin by Tayari Jones
In the 1960s, Vernice (Niecy) headed to Spelman College, befriending powerful young women, fighting inequality
- Review of Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today by Cynthia and Sanford Levinson
and how they impact us today, the Levinsons lay out the ins and outs of voters' rights, the Electoral College
- Review of See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
In See You Yesterday, Rachel Lynn Solomon explores the first day of college for Barrett Bloom, who desperately After being involved in multiple disasters in only her first day of classes, she fears college may become But she wakes up the next day...and finds that she's reliving her first day of college.
- Review of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
might suggest that the older, responsible lawyer brother might be more steady than the just-out-of-college
- Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into
In See You Yesterday, Rachel Lynn Solomon explores the first day of college for Barrett Bloom, who desperately After being involved in multiple disasters in only her first day of classes, she fears college may become She wakes up the next day...and finds that she's reliving her first day of college. Twentysomething Mae is spending the holidays yet again with her parents' college friends and their families
- Review of Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
beginning with a difficult, abusive childhood, continuing to her marriage to Jeffrey while she was still in college
- Review of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Margo is a 19-year-old community college student having an affair with her married professor.
- Review of The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion by Barbara Brown Taylor
Barbara Brown Taylor is an Episcopal priest who left a position as a church pastor and is now a college
- Review of Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu
Hsu's memoir remembers his friend Ken, who was tragically killed during college. Yet the two bonded and became close in the way that college friends do--through making mix tapes, taking
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/28/25 Edition
Charlie has asked his friend from college, Garrett, to look in on Cece--really intending for Cece to
- Review of Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven
After pushing him to return home before heading to college, he headed to campus and died in a freak accident
- Review of Boys I Know by Anna Gracia
third-place violin competition trophies, unlike her sister, who secured a full-ride violin scholarship to college
- Review of Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca Yarros
Violet Sorrengail has been training as a dragon rider for 18 months at Basgiath War College, but a real-life
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/18/24 Edition
with a difficult, abusive childhood and continuing to her marriage to Jeffrey while she was still in college
- Six More Mysteries I Loved Reading Last Year
She is overwhelmed about applying to college, and she doesn't have the funds to imagine that next step But the novel doesn't wrap up Stevie's situation regarding college plans nor her long-distance relationship
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/25 Edition
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