Top 10 Books for College Students...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

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From the Chronicle of Higher Education is a list of the top selling books among college students, "What They're Reading on College Campuses":

  1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
  2. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
  3. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
  5. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  6. The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
  7. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
  8. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
  9. Push by Sapphire
  10. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

 

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