15 Books for College Students to Read This Summer (Holiday)

Muhiuddin Alam
ReadingAndThinking.com
7 min readSep 9, 2022
15 Books for College Students to Read This Summer (Holiday)

Summer vacation is not rotten! A must-reading list for college students, it is recommended to collect!

Summer is coming, have you read it? The following are the 15 classic books that college students must read in summer, for your reference, welcome to browse!

College students need to read excellent books to improve their abilities and enhance logical thinking, efficient learning, and interpersonal communication.

The following editors have collected and sorted out the top 15 books recommended for college students to read. Let’s take a look together.

How long has it been since you read?

In the fragmented Internet era, we get more information from Google and videos, etc. We are accustomed to understanding a thing, a person, or a book through the refined comments of major bloggers.

Do you want to stop and read a few books this summer? In the book to comprehend, find their own understanding and ideas.

Belinsky once said:

“It is worse to read a book that is not suitable for you to read than not to read it. We must have the ability to choose the most valuable and most suitable reading materials for our needs.”

As a college student, whether you are a freshman or a senior, reading is necessary.

Then, for the upcoming university summer, we have a lot of time to read some books to increase our knowledge and vision. However, reading a book also needs a plan and direction, and it is definitely not simply reading a meaningless book.

Booklist recommendation for College Students

1. Inner Growth

2. Emotional Intelligence & Communication

3. About Emotions

4. Psychological cognition

5. Improve the pattern

We need to draw more wisdom and energy from books, plan our future with a long-term perspective, avoid wrong choices and useless efforts, and avoid unnecessary anxiety and confusion!

The 15 Best Summer Books for College Students

1. Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ray Monk
2. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon Richter
3. The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
4. Intimate Relationships by Roland Miller
5. Designing Your Life by Bill Bonnet, Dave Evans
6. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
7. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
8. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
9. The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
10. The Power of One More by Ed Mylet
11. The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
12. How to Become a Straight A Student by Cal Newport
13. Fearless by Eric Blehm
14. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
15. Think Again by Adam Grant

The 15 Best Summer Books for College Students

Reading can broaden your horizons. The knowledge in the book can be said to be all-encompassing. Through reading, you can enrich your knowledge and broaden your horizons.

Do you know what are the best summer book recommendations for college students? Let’s take a look at the best summer book recommendations for college students, welcome to check!

Reading Note:

  • Life planning (I think the most important thing in college is to have a life plan. This life plan is the key to finding a job during the university or postgraduate entrance examination, which will form a beacon of your life and guide the direction)
  • Interpersonal relationships (in our career after graduating from college, interpersonal relationships will always accompany us, and having a good interpersonal relationship will make our career more unimpeded)
  • Improve emotional intelligence (whether you are a college student or an incumbent, high emotional intelligence is a weapon and magic weapon for life and work)

“Reading is always the most direct way to learn. Today, I recommend 15 books to everyone, especially suitable for college students to read during the summer vacation. If you don’t believe me, read them!

1. Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ray Monk

My two favorite real characters, one is my idol Buddha, and the other is the great philosopher Wittgenstein.

Regarding Wittgenstein, the book list dog can only be described as a legend — —

On the one hand, his extremely legendary life.

Wittgenstein’s father is the steel king of Austria, and he is very rich. At the same time, their family is all geniuses, and Wittgenstein is said to be the most mediocre child.

But this legendary family has been shrouded in the curse of suicide. All three of Wittgenstein’s older brothers committed suicide, and he himself committed suicide several times.

He fought in World War I, was a prisoner, gave up a huge inheritance to become a village teacher, and finally chose to live a hermit-like life by the Norwegian seaside, thinking, thinking, and never married.

It is a pity that the only two works by this genius in his life are a 75-page Treatise on Logic and Philosophy and a children’s dictionary.

This biography, the legend of Wittgenstein in these two aspects, tells all clearly.

2. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon Richter

When entering university, everyone leaves their parents and starts a truly independent life, and the most important thing for an independent life is money.

So how can you make your life more meaningful when you have limited funds? I recommend you read this book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”.

This is a primer on money management, and it comes from a true story.

Author Robert Kiyosaki has two fathers. “Poor Dad” is his biological father, a highly educated education official; “Rich Dad” is the father of his good friend, an entrepreneur who has not graduated from high school but is good at investing and financial management.

But the “poor dad” who worked hard all his life lost his job, and the “rich dad” became one of the richest people in Hawaii.

This changed the author’s life. He resolutely followed the footsteps of “Rich dad” and eventually became a legendary and successful investor.

From my point of view, the most beneficial thing about this book is that it popularizes many ideas about wealth investment, debt, and financial freedom.

This is a revolution of thought for a person who has never understood money.

3. The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal

If you always procrastinate until the last minute to start studying;

Always trying to lose weight, but always failing;

I wanted to go to bed earlier, but unknowingly I went online and played with my mobile phone until late at night…

Then Self-Control is written just for you.

This book, from Stanford’s most popular psychology course, is an ‘essential record’ of the 10-week course.

But I feel that this book is more like a specific operation manual, which allows you to get training in the interval of daily life. After all, practical operations such as meditation, healthy eating, deep breathing, and exercise are all free of cost. Too much energy and time to prepare can be done.

At the same time, the book points out a misunderstanding that most people have been having — that everyone is too hard on themselves and neglects proper relaxation.

I believe that the real purpose of self-control is not to let you control yourself, but to let you know yourself, accept your contradictory self, and integrate these selves into one, so as to achieve true reconciliation with your inner self.

4. Intimate Relationships by Roland Miller

If the book list dog remembers correctly, this book is the one that the dog takes the most notes and underlines.

There are many sentences in it, and there is a sense of enlightenment.

This book is to be chewed and read carefully. It took 2 weeks for me to read it off and on. Now I can finally talk about it calmly, the shock and shock, comfort and baptism this book has brought me.

This is a book about “intimacy” and an extremely reliable psychological work.

Discusses some of the most important intimate relationships in our lives: love, marriage, friendship, family, and the relationship with the self — loneliness.

On the surface, intimacy is very simple, the process from the beginning to the end of the relationship.

But in fact, what dominates this intimate relationship is a person’s “psychology” that has been shaped since childhood, and this psychology is influenced by many factors such as genes and acquired environment.

This book helps us understand our own psychology through a large number of cases and actual research data, and gives specific and actionable guidance one by one.

But the whole process, without any sense of “academic”, is very interesting and easy to read.

There are so many books about love, family, and friendship on the market, but “Intimacy” is a different book. I sincerely hope that everyone can meet it sooner.

5. Designing Your Life by Bill Bonnet, Dave Evans

This book is not to let us have unrealistic fantasies about the future, but to let us jump out of the inertia of thinking, quickly make trial and error in life, and find the correct life goal.

Let us find a career that is more suitable for us and start our new life.

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