Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges

5 best books like Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges (Loren Pope): Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, Walking to Martha's Vineyard, Oh My Gods!: A Look-It-Up Guide to the Gods of Mythology

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Author

Mira Jacob

A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.

“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste...

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

Author	William Deresiewicz
ISBN	1476702713

A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be—but aren’t—providing.

As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest...

How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success

Author	Julie Lythcott-Haims
ISBN	1627791779

A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate philosophy for raising preteens and teens to self-sufficient young adulthood

In How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers,...

Walking to Martha's Vineyard

Author	Franz Wright
ISBN	0375710019

In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the “Resurrection of the little apple tree outside / my window,” he shakes off his fear of mortality, concluding “what death . . . There is only...

Oh My Gods!: A Look-It-Up Guide to the Gods of Mythology

Author	Megan E. Bryant
ISBN	1606310267

You think you know Greek mythology? Mount Olympus was one rough zip code! Here is the gods'-honest truth about these lying lovers, beast-bearing dads, brawling bros, and evil shape-shifters, who ate their young with relish--and their siblings for dessert. WHAT'S INSIDE OH MY GODS? Olympians take...