Optional Suggested Reading
Faculty and staff members have provided a list of some mostly light reading If you have a chance, you may enjoy reading one or two
of these books (strictly optional!).
Life in Law School
- ANARCHY AND ELEGANCE - Chris Goodrich
- BROKEN CONTRACT - Richard Kahlenberg
- LAW SCHOOL WITHOUT FEAR - Helene and Marshall Shapo
- ONE L - Scott Turow
Understanding the Legal Process and the Legal System
- THE BRAMBLE BUSH: ON OUR LAW AND ITS STUDY - Karl Llewellyn
- THE BRETHREN - Woodward & Armstrong
- THE BROTHEL BOY - Norval Morris
- GIDEON'S TRUMPET - Anthony Lewis
- THE GOLDMARK CASE: AN AMERICAN LIBEL TRIAL - William Dwyer
- HERACLES' BOW: ESSAYS ON THE RHETORIC AND POETICS OF THE LAW - James Boyd White
- A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LAW - Lawrence Friedman
- LAW 101: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM - Jay Feinman
- THE LEGAL IMAGINATION - James Boyd White
- PROTECT AND DEFEND - Richard Patterson
The Practice of Law
- A CIVIL ACTION - Jonathon Harr
- ACCESS TO JUSTICE - Deborah Rhode
- THE FUTURE OF LAW IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD - Ada Bozeman
- INDEFENSIBLE - David Feige
- IPSE DIXIT: HOW THE WORLD LOOKS TO A FEDERAL JUDGE - William L. Dwyer
- LAWYERS CROSSING THE LINE: NINE STORIES - James Kelley
- THE LOST LAWYER: FALLING IDEALS OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION - Anthony Kronman
- THE PARTNERS: INSIDE AMERICA'S MOST POWERFUL LAW FIRMS - James B. Stewart
- THE MORAL COMPASS OF THE AMERICAN LAWYER: TRUTH, JUSTICE, POWER & GREED - Richard Zitrin, Carol Langford
- REVERSAL OF FORTUNE - Alan Dershowitz
- SIMPLE JUSTICE - Richard Kluger
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Harper Lee
- UNEQUAL JUSTICE: LAWYERS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN MODERN AMERICA - Jerold Auerbach
Multicultural Issues and the Law
- ALCHEMY OF RACE AND RIGHTS- Patricia Williams
- AWAKENING FROM THE DREAM: CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER SIEGE AND THE NEW STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL JUSTICE - Denise Morgan et al (ed)
- BLACK JUDGES ON JUSTICE: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE BENCH - Linn Washington
- BELOVED - Toni Morrison
- BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES - Tom Wolfe
- DEAR SISTERS, DEAR DAUGHTERS: WORDS OF WISDOM FROM MULTICULTURAL WOMEN ATTORNEYS
WHO’VE BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT - Karen Clanton (Ed)
- DERRICK BELL READER - Richard Delgade, Jean Stefancic
- FLIGHT - Sherman Alexie
- I SPEAK FOR THIS CHILD - Gay Courter
- THE INDIAN LAWYER - James Welch
- A LESSON BEFORE DYING - Ernest Gaines
- MONTANA 1948 - Larry Watson
- NO NO BOY - John Okada
- NO PITY - Joseph Shapiro
- PARIS TROUT - Pete Dexter
- SIMPLE JUSTICE - Richard Kluger
- SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS - David Guterson
- A TIME TO KILL - John Grisham
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD- Harper Lee
Additional Reading
- ANATOMY OF A MURDER - Robert Traver
- BILLY BUDD and BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER - Herman Melville
- BLEAK HOUSE - Charles Dickens
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG - Norman Mailer
- FATAL VISION - Joe McGinnis
- THE GOLDEN SPRUCE - John Vaillant
- THE GOOD MOTHER - Sue Miller
- GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL: THE FATES OF HUMAN SOCIETIES - Jared Diamond
- THE HANDMAIDEN'S TALE - Margaret Atwood
- HIS ILLEGAL SELF - Peter Carey
- HOUSE OF SPLENDID ISOLATION - Edna O'Brien
- IN COLD BLOOD - Truman Capote
- INHERIT THE WIND - Jerome Lawrence
- THE OXBOW INCIDENT - Walter Clark
- PRESUMED INNOCENT - Scott Turow
- THE RADICALISM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - Gordon S. Wood
- THE STRANGER BESIDE ME - Ann Rule
- THE WORLD IS FLAT - Thomas Friedman