Psychology Book Review
Marking Quarter Extra Credit Project - up to 25 points
Choose a non-fiction book that relates to psychology. Book suggestions are listed below, although you are not limited to those books.
Book choices must be approved by your teacher. Your task is to create an eight-page pamphlet advertising your book to future
readers. Decide in advance what should appear on each page of the booklet. Be sure everything is typed.
1.
Cover – Design a new cover for the book.
2.
Inside cover – Prepare a 3-4 paragraph justification of your cover based on the text (at least two references with direct
quotation and page numbers).
3.
Page opposite the inside cover – List title, author, publisher, year, genre (see me if you’re not sure what this is) and other
important publication information about the book that is clear enough that someone else who wants to read it could easily
obtain it.
4.
Center spread – Draw or make a picture of your favorite part of the book.
5.
Next page -- Prepare a 3-4 paragraph justification of your center spread based on the text (at least two references with direct
quotation and page numbers).
6.
Next page- Book Rating- Rate your book on a scale of one (This is the most awful thing I have put my eyes on.) to ten (This
was incredible! Everyone should be reading this!). Explain why you gave the book the rating you did in as much detail as
possible. Can you ever see this book being taught in Psychology classes in the future? Explain why you would or would not
recommend this book to someone studying psychology. (This should be a minimum of 3 paragrahs)
Inside back cover – Give me an original, brief synopsis, 4-5 major characters or items of interest and note what type of
reader/ this might interest (This should not be the synopsis that can be found on Amazon or any other online source).
7.
8.
Back cover – Write a 2-3 paragraph teaser to entice others to read the book.
You must work individually even if you have read the same book as someone else.
Possible Book Selections (you can choose a different book but run it by your teacher first):
Man’s Search for Meaning- Viktor Frankl
The Truth Will Set You Free- Alice Miller
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls- Mary Pipher
Faith of the Fatherless- Victor Vitz
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls- Rachel Simmons
Queen Bees and Wannabes- Rosalind Wiseman
Masterminds and Wingmen- Rosalind Wiseman
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction- David Sheff
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker
My Lobotomy- Howard Dully
Blink- Malcolm Gladwell
Tipping Point- Malcolm Gladwell
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein
Manic: A Memoir- Terri Cheney
Welcome to My Country- Lauren Slater
Opening Skinner’s Box- Lauren Slater
The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing by Beverly Engel
That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships by Deborah Tannen
Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System by Norah Vincent
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness- Jack El-Hai
Thinking, Fast and Slow- Daniel Kahneman
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New InsightsDaniel Goleman
The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity & Destructiveness- Alice Miller
The Birth of Pleasure- Carol Gilligan
Memories, Dreams, Reflections- Carl Jung
Why God Won’t Go Away- Andrew Newberg, Eugene D’Aquili, & Vince Rause
Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs & Mental Health- Elliot Valenstein
An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of Moods & Madness- Kay Jamison (bipolar)
Is There No Place On Earth For Me- Susan Sheehan (schizophrenia)
Songs of the Gorilla Nation- Dawn Prince-Hughes (autism)
Nobody Nowhere- Donna Williams (autism)
Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men & Women- Anne Moir & David Jessel
The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog- Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz
In Search of Memory- Eric Kandel
An Anthropologist on Mars- Oliver Sacks
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls- Joan Jacobs Brumberg
The Lucifer Effect- Philip Zimbardo
Stalking Irish madness: searching for the roots of my family….-Patrick Tracy
Hurry down sunshine-Michael Greenberg
Scattershot: My bipolar family: A memoir-David Lovelace
Three little words: A Memoir- Rhodes-Courter
Electroboy: A Memoir of mania- Andy Behrman
Catch me before I fall- Rose Childs
Blue genes: A memoir of loss and survival-Christopher Lukas
Beyond Magenta