Reading
The LSAT is a demanding text. To get more comfortable with demanding texts, read more.
This is a list of some demanding books I've enjoyed.
What books do you love?
Is there an insightful or challenging book that helped make the LSAT feel easier for you?
Add it it the comments below!
Note on the links below
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Books about thinking, writing, and learning
Taleb, Antifragile
McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary
Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
Klinkenborg, Several short sentences about writing
Garner, Legal Writing in Plain English
Alder and Van Doren, How to Read a Book
Goleman, Focus
Legal writing and philosophy to give you a conceptual edge in law school
the Law and Political Economy Project Blog
the Law Journal of whatever school you most want to attend
Graeber and Wengrow, the Dawn of Everything (or check out my notes on Dawn)
Graeber, Debt
Foucault, Discipline and Punish and Birth of Biopolitics
Butler, Gender Trouble
de Beauvoir, the Second Sex
Moyn, The Last Utopia
Skocpol, Diminished Democracy
James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
Tuck, Hobbes: a very short introduction
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Walzer, Spheres of Justice
Sen, the Idea of Justice
Scott, Seeing Like A State
Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World
Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Science journals
Suggestions from students
Deringer, Calculated Values