0L - Books to Read Before Law School
1. 
The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law
by:
Ward Farnsworth
4.27 avg rating — 621 ratings 
3. 
Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students
by:
Robert H. Miller
3.75 avg rating — 1,243 ratings 
5. 
The Complete Law School Companion: How to Excel at America's Most Demanding Post-Graduate Curriculum
by:
Jeffery Deaver
3.04 avg rating — 26 ratings 
7. 
1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School 4.09 avg rating — 773 ratings
7. 
Learning Legal Reasoning: Briefing, Analysis and Theory (Delaney Series Book 1)
by:
John Delaney
3.67 avg rating — 45 ratings 9. 
Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System
by:
Jay M. Feinman
3.96 avg rating — 1,322 ratings 10. 
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Law School Basics: A Preview of Law School and Legal Reasoning
by:
David Hricik
3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings 14. 
Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving As a New Lawyer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 98 ratings
15. 
24 Hours with 24 Lawyers: Profiles of Traditional and Non-Traditional Careers
by:
Jasper Kim
3.79 avg rating — 219 ratings 16. 
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
by:
Irin Carmon
4.18 avg rating — 63,003 ratings 16. 
Acing Your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success You Won't Learn in Class 3.25 avg rating — 48 ratings
18. 
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
by:
Scott Turow
3.72 avg rating — 9,168 ratings 
20. 
A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution
by:
Peter Irons
4.06 avg rating — 1,484 ratings 
22. 
The Law of Law School: The Essential Guide for First-Year Law Students 3.86 avg rating — 69 ratings
29. 
Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right
by:
Barry Scheck
4.15 avg rating — 899 ratings 30. 
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
by:
Jeffrey Toobin
4.09 avg rating — 18,284 ratings 31. 
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World 3.84 avg rating — 5,309 ratings
33. 
Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom
by:
Stanley Fish
3.08 avg rating — 473 ratings 34. 
37. 
Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change
by:
Lani Guinier
3.59 avg rating — 61 ratings 38. 
39. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,049 ratings
40. 
Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition
by:
Harold J. Berman
4.33 avg rating — 160 ratings 
42. 
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
by:
Richard Kluger
4.44 avg rating — 712 ratings 
44. 
Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
by:
Anthony Lewis
4.02 avg rating — 520 ratings 
47. 
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by:
J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating — 488,844 ratings 
49. 
Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law
by:
Clara Bingham
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 633 ratings 
51. 
Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law
by:
Daniel A. Farber
3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings 52. 
Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary & Legal Studies
by:
Stanley Fish
3.69 avg rating — 36 ratings 53. 
There's No Such Thing As Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too
by:
Stanley Fish
3.76 avg rating — 98 ratings 54. 
Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
