Students Read Real Good

The Chronicle reports on what college students are reading. Yes. It’s awful.

The list is easily broken down into categories:

Platitudinous:

The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman (Followed soon by “My Driveway is Level” and “The Roof is Sloped”)

Sappy:

For One More Day by Mitch Albom

The Five People You Meet in Heaven, regrettably also by Mitch Albom

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

Disgusting:

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

Shallow:

Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities

The Dorm-Room Diet: The 8-step Program For Creating A Healthy Lifestyle Program That Really Works America by Jon Stewart

Geeky

Freakonomics.

And, most surprisingly (the one encouraging item on the list)

Forsterian:

On Beauty by Zadie Smith