College Reading Resources
133 Ways to Avoid Going Cuckoo When Kids Fly the Nest written by Laren
Schaffer and Sandy Fleischl Wasserman
25 Ways To Make College Pay Off: Advice For Anxious Parents From a
Professor Who’s Seen It All written by Bill Coplin
A Family Guide to Academic Advising written by Donald C. Smith and Virginia
N. Gordon (National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students
in Transition, University of South Carolina)
A Guide for Families of Commuter Students: Supporting Your Student’s
Success written by Cathie Hatch (National Resource Center for the First-Year
Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina)
A New Beginning: A Survival Guide for Parents of College Freshmen written by
Kaye Bernard McGarry, M.Ed.
A Parent’s Guide to Sex, Drugs and Flunking Out: Answers to Questions Your
College Student Doesn’t Want You to Ask written by Joel Epstein
Admission Matters: What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting
Into College written by Sally P. Springer, Jon Reider and Marion R. Franck
Almost Grown: Launching Your Child From High School to College written by
Patricia Pasick
As You Leave Home: Parting Thoughts from a Loving Parent written by Jerry
B. Jenkins
Bad Teachers: How to Fight for Your Child’s Education written by Guy
Strickland
Beating the College Blues: A Student’s Guide to Coping with Fitting In,
Roommates, Studies, Anxiety written by Paul A. Grayson, Ph.D. and Philip W.
Meilman, Ph.D.
Becoming a Master Student: Tools, Techniques, Hints, Ideas, Illustration,
Examples, Methods, Procedures, Processes, Skills, Resources, and Suggestions
for Success written by Dave Ellis
Been There, Should’ve Done That: More Tips for Making the Most of College
written by S. Tyler
Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions written by
Matthew J. DeLuca
Best Scholarships for the Best Students written by Donald Asher
Bringing Home the Laundry: Effective Parenting for College and Beyond
written by Janis Brody
Campus Confidential: The Complete Guide to the College Experience by
Students for Students written by Robert H. Miller
Chicken Soup for the College Soul: Inspiring and Humorous Stories About
College written by Jack L. Canfield, Mark Victor Hanson and Kimberly Kirberger
Closing the Gap: A Strategy for Brining Parents and Teens Together written by
Jay McGraw
College Rules! How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College written by S. Nist
and J. Holschuh
College Solution written by Rick Darvis CPA, CCPS
College Survival Tips for Parents: Fostering Growth and Independence in Your
Kids written by Ceil Hall
Colleges That Change Lives written by Loren Pope
Confessions of a College Freshman written by Zach Arington
Cool Colleges for the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming and Just
Plain Different written by Donald Asher
Do What You Are written by Paul D. Tiegger and Barbara Barron-Tiegger
Don’t Tell Me What To Do, Just Send Money written by Helen E. Johnson and
Christine Schelhas-Miller
Doors Open from Both Sides: The Off To College From Two Points of View:
Parents and Students written by Margo Bane Woodacre and Steffany Bane
Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the
Twenties written by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Empowering Parents of First-Year College Students: A Guide for Success
written by Richard Mullendore and Leslie Banahan (National Resource Center for
the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South
Carolina)
Empty Nest . . . Full Heart: The Journey from Home to College written by
Andrea VanSteenhouse, Ph.D.
Fiske Guide to Colleges written by Edward B. Fiske
Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A
Parent’s Guide to the New Teenager written by Anthony Wolf
Getting Along (Almost) with your Adult Kids written by Lois and Joel Davitz
Getting Ready for College: Everything you Need to Know Before You Go written
by P. Berent
Give Them Wings: Preparing for the Time Your Teens Leave Home written by
Carol Kuyendall
Graduate Admission Essays written by Donald Asher
Helping Your First-Year College Student Succeed written by Richard H.
Mullendore and Cathie Hatch of the National Orientation Director’s Association
Higher Education? How Colleges are Wasting Our Money & Failing Our
Kids—and What We Can Do About It written by Andrew Hacker and Claudia
Dreifus
How to Study in College written by Walter Pauk
How to Survive and Thrive in an Empty Nest: Reclaiming Your Life When Your
Children Have Grown written by Jeanette C. Lauer and Robert H. Lauer
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen And Listen So Kids Will Talk written by Adele
Faber and Elaine Mazlish
How to Talk to Your Adult Children about Really Important Things written by
Theresa DiGeronimo
I’ll Miss You Too: An Off-To-College Guide for Parents and Students written by
Margo E. Bane Woodacre and Steffany Bane
I’m Going to College—Not You! Surviving the College Search with Your Child
written by Jennifer Delahunty
Improving Student Learning Skills written by Martha Maxwell, Ph.D.
In Addition to Tuition: The Parents’ Survival Guide to Freshman Year of
College written by Marian Edelman Borden, Mary Anne Burlinson and Elsie R.
Kerns
Let the Journey Begin: A Parent’s Monthly Guide to the College Experience
written by Jacqueline Kiernan MacKay and Wanda Ingram
Letting Go: A Parents’ Guide to Understanding the College Years written by
Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawrence Treeger
Loving Your Job, Finding Your Passion: Work and the Spiritual Life written by
Joe Allegretti
Making College Count: A Real World Look at How to Succeed In and After
College written by Patrick S. O’Brien
Making the Most of College written by Richard J. Light
Millennials Go To College written by N. Howe and W. Strauss
Millennials Rising: The Next Generation written by N. Howe and W. Strauss
Navigating your Freshman Year written by Allison Lombardo
Panicked Parents’ Guide to College Admissions written by Sally Rubenstone and
Sidonia Dalby
Parent’s Guide to College and Careers: How to Help, not Hover written by
Barbara Cooke
Parent’s Guide to College Life: 181 Straight Answers on Everything You Can
Expect over the Next Four Years written by Robin Raskin
Parenting College Freshmen: Consulting for Adulthood written by Linda L.
Bips, Jessica Wallitsch and Kristina Wallitsch
Parenting College Students: 27 Winning Strategies for Success written by Debi
Yohn
Parents’ Guide to College Life written by Robin Raskin
Preparing Your Child For College: A Resource Book for Parents 2000 written
by Richard W. Riley
Quantum Learning: Unleashing the Genius in You written by Bobbi DePorter
and Mike Hernacki
Ready for College: Everything You Need to Know written by Michael Pennock
Resumes that Knock’em Dead written by Martin Yate
Rugg’s Recommendations on the Colleges written by Frederick Rugg
Sending Your Child to College: The Prepared Parent’s Operational Manual
written by Marie Carr, Katherine Carr and Ann Carr
She’s Leaving Home: Letting Go As My Daughter Goes to College written by
Connie Jones
Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Life Decisions written by
John Hammond, Ralph Keeney and Howard Raifa
Study Smarter (not harder) and Succeed written by Cora M. Dzubak, Ph.D.
Studying Smart: Time Management for College Students written by Diana
Schart-Hunt and Pam Hait
Sweaty Palms: The Neglected Art of Being Interviewed written by H. Anthony
Medley
The College Majors Handbook written by Fogg, Harrington and Harrington
The Complete Job Search Handbook written by Howard Figler, Ph.D.
The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon written by Dr. David Elkind
The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges written by the Yale Daily News
The Internship Bible written by Mark Oldman and Samer Hamadeh
The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting from Senior Year to College
Life written by Laura Kastner and Jennifer Wyatt
The Parent’s Crash Course in Career Planning: Helping Your College Student
Succeed written by Sharon Jones and Marcia Harris
The Power of Mindful Learning written by Ellen J. Langer
The Price of Privilege written by Madeline Levine, Ph.D.
The Real Freshman Handbook: A Totally Honest Guide to Live on Campus
written by Jennifer Hanson
The Secret to Your College Success: 101 Ways to Make the Most of Your
College Experience written by Toni Buxton
What Color is Your Parachute written by Richard Nelson Bolles
What Smart Students Know written by Adam Robinson
What to Expect When Your Child Leaves for College: A Complete Guide for
Parents Only written by Mary Spohn
When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today’s College Student written by
Arthur Levine and Jeanette S. Cureton
When Kids Go to College: A Parents Guide to Changing Relationships written
by Barbara N. Newman and Philip Newman
When We’re in Public, Pretend You Don’t Know Me: Surviving Your
Daughter’s Adolescences So You Don’t Look Like an Idiot and She Still Talks to
You written by Susan Borowicz
When Your Kid Goes to College: A Parent’s Survival Guide written by Carol
Barkin
Yale Daily News Guide to Fellowships and Grants written by Kaplan
You’re on Your Own (But I’m Here if You Need Me): Mentoring Your Child
During the College Years written by Marjorie Savage