Reading Lists

Peterson's recommends the follow "Great Reads" for college-bound students

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Candide by Voltaire

Native Son by Richard Wright

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Dubliners by James Joyce

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

EATING DISORDERS

Good Enough...When Losing is Winning, and This Enough Can Never Be Achieved by C.N. Bitler

Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self by L. Gottlieb

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by M. Hornbacher

The Best Little Girl in the World by S. Levenkron

SELF-HARM

Skin Game: A Memoir by C. Kettlewell

Cutting:  Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation by S. Levenkron

Cut by P. McCormick

RELATION AGGRESSION/BULLYING (GIRLS)

Speak by L.H. Anderson

Please Stop Laughing At Me...One Woman's Inspirational Story by J. Blanco

Odd Girl Out by R. Simmons

Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write About Bullies, Cliques, Popularity and Jealousy by R. Simmons

Queen Bees and Wannabese:  Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence by R. Wiseman

GENERAL ISSUE FOR ADOLESCENT GIRLS

Reviving Orphelia by M. Pipher

Oprhelia Speaks by S. Shandler

HELP FOR PARENTS

Letting Go: A Parent's Guide to Understanding the College Years by K.L. Coburn

Girl Wars: 12 Strategies That Will End Female Bullying by C. Dellasega & C. Nixon

Augusta Gone by M.T. Dudman

ISSUE FOR ADOLESCENT BOYS

Our Boys Speak:  Adolescent Boys Write About Their Inner Lives by J. Nikkah

Real Boys:  Rescuing Our Sons for the Myths of Boyhood by W. Pollak

Real Boy's Voices by W. Pollak

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by M. Thompson & D. Kindlon

Speaking of Boys:  Answers to the Most Asked Questions About Raising Sons by M. Thomson & T. Barker