Acing Your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success You Won’t Learn in Class by Shana Connell Noyes and Henry S. Noyes
An Introduction to the Law and Legal Reasoning by Steven J. Burton
Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School: Strategies for Success by Ruta K. Stropus and Charlotte D. Taylor
Expert Learning for Law Students (with workbook) by Michael Hunter Schwartz
Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams by Richard Michael Fischl and Jeremy Paul
Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience By Students, For Students by Robert H. Miller
Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success by Helene Shapo and Marshall Shapo
Looking at Law School: A Student Guide from the Society of American Law Teachers by Stephen Gillers (ed.)
1000 Days to the Bar--But the Practice of Law Begins Now by Dennis J. Tonsing
Reading Like a Lawyer by Ruth Ann McKinney
Starting Off Right in Law School by Carolyn J. Nygren
Succeeding in Law School by Herbert N. Ramy
The Bramble Bush: On Our Law and Its Study by Karl N. Llewellyn
The Law School Trip: The Insider’s Guide to Law School by Andrew J. McClurg
The Legal Profession: Responsibility and Regulation (3d ed.) by G. Hazard and D. Rhode
The Nature of the Judicial Process by Benjamin Cardozo
Your Introduction to the Law (3d Ed.) by George C. Coughlin
For fun and personal growth
The following books are both entertaining and informative. Any one of these books makes for good reading before law school, during the winter break or over the summer.
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
A History of American Law by Laurence M. Friedman
An American Primer by Daniel J. Boorstin, ed.
And We Are Not Saved by D. Bell
Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School and Institutional Change by Lani Guinier, et al.
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Crisis of the House Divided by Harry V. Jaffa
Death of a Contract by G. Gilmore
Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall by Carl T. Rowan
Gideon’s Trumpet by Anthony Lewis
Heracles’ Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of Law by J.B. White
Law’s Empire by Ronald Dworkin
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School by Scott Turow
Simple Justice by Richard Kluger
The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company—and Won by Gerald M. Stern
The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke by Catherine Drinker Bowen
The Paper Chase by John J. Osborn, Jr.
The Politics of Law by David Kairys
The Story of My Life by Clarence Darrow
Vindicating the Founders by Thomas G. West
Women in Law by Cynthia Epstein
Women Lawyers: Rewriting the Rules by Mona Harrington
Suggested Summer Reading List for Current and Future Law Students