Update: Top Ten Books for College Students...Still No Comment

Glenn Ricketts

Last December, this space featured the Chronicle of Higher Education’s list of the top 10 best-selling books on American college campuses.  A new list of “What They’re Reading on College Campuses” is now available, for those who’d like to keep abreast of the current collegiate intellectual climate:

  1. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  2. Nightlight: A Parody, by the Staff of the Harvard Lampoon
  3. Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks
  4. Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual,  by Michael Pollan
  5. Dear John,  by Nicholas Sparks
  6. Are You There, Vodka?  It’s Me, Chelsea, by Chelsea Handler
  7. Pride and  Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith
  8. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
  9. The Lightening Thief, by Rick Riordan
  10. Game Change:  Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, by John Heilemann and Mark Helprin.
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