Huffington Post Article on NAS's Recommended Books

Ashley Thorne

Huffington Post published an article on NAS's list of recommended books for college common reading! The article explains our rationale for the books we picked: 

For their own list, the association selected books based on intellectual diversity, length, ambition, lack of cynicism, narrative and complexity in non-fiction and importance of ideas and clarity if writing in non-fiction. 

It includes a slideshow of the first 12 books on our list. You can check out our page with the full list here

Thanks HuffPo editors!

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