As finals and papers come to a close, you might actually have some time to get around to reading those interesting books you saw during the semester.  In case you’re not sure what to read, I’ve provided some suggestions below.  Some are law-related, but there are many titles that are not.  Reading non-legal books can actually improve your law school performance because when you read a book you’re really interested in, you are increasing your attention span and in-depth reading skills (two things we all need to work on to counteract the effects of our online reading habits).

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LAW RELATED

Career-Related

• The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the Law (Annex KF 300 .L48 2010)
• The Ultimate Guide to Your Legal Career: What Every Young Lawyer Must Know to Avoid the Mistakes and Maximize the Value of a Career in the Law by K. Charles Cannon
• The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t by Robert I. Sutton
• The Associate as Rainmaker: Building Your Business Brain by David King Keller
• The Art of Practicing Law: Talking to Clients and Colleagues and Others by James M. Kramon

Legal Fiction

• Bleak House by Charles Dickens (Mugar PR 4556 .A2 P3 1971)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Annex PS 3562 .E353 T6 1999)
• Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver (Mugar PS 3543 .O6 A6 F58)

Legal Nonfiction

• The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin (Annex KF8748 .T66 2007)
• Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, & Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust by Samuel P. King (Annex KF 228 .K36 K56 2006)
• Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas by Dale Carpenter  (Annex KF 224 .L39 C37 2012)
• A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr (Annex KF 228 .A7 H37 1995)
• Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives by Robert Draper
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (Law Reserve HV 9950 .A44 2010)

Political Nonfiction

• The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
• All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward (Annex E 859 .B47 1974)

NON-LEGAL TITLES

FICTION

Action-Adventure

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Education: Young Adult PZ 7 .C6837 Hun 2008)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Mugar PR 5486 .A2)
• The Lost World by A. Conan Doyle (Mugar PR 4622 .L6 F12)
• The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling (Mugar PR 4854 .M16 1987)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Mugar PR 6013 .O56 L6 F62)

Classics

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (available as an e-book through the library catalog)
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (Education: Young Adult PS 1408 .A25 1950)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (Mugar PS 3561 .E667 O5 2003)
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Education: Juvenile Collection PZ 7 .C262 Al 1988)
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck (Mugar PS 3537 .T3234 P4)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Mugar PR 4167 .J3 1993)
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Mugar PS 1868 F69)

Fantasy

• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Historical Fiction

• The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
• Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman
• Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff (Mugar DT 92.7 .S35 2010)

Horror

• The Shining by Stephen King
• The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
• Watchers by Dean Koontz

Mysteries

• Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov

Romances

• On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves

Science Fiction

• The God of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Thrillers

• Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith

Children’s

• I am a Pole and So Can You by Stephen Colbert

NONFICTION

Biography

• Prague Winter by Madeline Albright

Self-Help

•   The 14 Day Stress Cure: A New Approach for Dealing With Stress That Can Change Your Life by Morton C. Orman
•  Lawyers, Anger and Anxiety: Dealing With the Stresses of the Legal Profession by Rebecca Nerison (Annex KF 300 .N47 2010)
• The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter – And How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay