best non-required reading
Graduate School
Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.by Robert Peters The Grad School Handbook: An Insider's Guide to Getting in and Succeeding
by Richard Jerrard, Margot Jerrard Playing the Game: The Streetsmart Guide to Graduate School
by Fredrick Frank, Karl Stein Paying for Graduate School Without Going Broke, 2004 Edition (Princeton Review Series)
by Princeton Review Getting Money for Graduate School
by Petersons Dan Cassidy's Worldwide Graduate Scholarship Directory: Thousands of Top Scholarships Throughout the United States and Around the World (Dan Cassidy's Worldwide Graduate Schlorship Directory, 5th ed)
by Dan Cassidy
Funding and Finances
The Graduate School Funding Handbookby April Vahle Hamel, Mary Morris Heiberger, Julia Miller Vick Get A Financial Life : Personal Finance In Your Twenties And Thirties
by Beth Kobliner The Complete Idiot's Guide To Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s (2nd Edition)
by Sarah Young Fisher, Susan Shelly, Sarah Young Fisher, Susan Shelly The Everything Personal Finance in Your 20s & 30s Book: Erase Your Debt, Personalize Your Budget and Plan Now to Secure Your Future (Everything Series)
by Debby Fowles Debt Free by 30: Practical Advice for Young, Broke, & Upwardly Mobile
by Jason Anthony, Karl Cluck Cash for Grad School (TM) : The Ultimate Guide to Grad School Scholarships (Harperresource Book)
by Phillip C. McKee, Cynthia Ruiz McKee Peterson's Financing Graduate School: How to Get the Money for Your Master's or Ph.D. (1996)
by Patricia McWade
Writing (General)
Unstuck: A Supportive and Practical Guide to Working Through Writer's Blockby Jane Anne Staw The Midnight Disease : The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
by Alice Weaver Flaherty The Sound of Paper: Starting from Scratch
by Julia Cameron Art & Fear
by David Bayles, Ted Orland Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within
by Dennis Palumbo Word Work: Surviving and Thriving as a Writer
by Bruce Holland Rogers The Craft of Research, 2nd edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by Wayne C. Booth, Joseph M. Williams, Gregory G. Colomb Writing Past Dark : Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life
by Bonnie Friedman Piled Higher and Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Collection
by Jorge Cham On Writer's Block
by Victoria Nelson Outwitting Writers' Block: And Other Problems of the Pen
by Jenna Glatzer Professors As Writers
by Robert Boice Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It
by Jane Burka, Lenora Yuen The Procrastinator's Handbook: Mastering the Art of Doing It Now
by Rita Emmett
Writing (Dissertation)
"Demystifying the Dissertation." Profession (2006)by Karen M. Cardozo The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations, and Books
by Eviatar Zerubavel A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by Kate L. Turabian Writing the Doctoral Dissertation: A Systematic Approach
by Gordon B. Davis, Clyde A. Parker Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process
by Kjell Erik Rudestam, Rae R. Newton Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation: Invisible Rules for Success
by Rita S. Brause Successful Dissertations and Theses : A Guide to Graduate Student Research from Proposal to Completion (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
by David Madsen Writing the Winning Dissertation : A Step-by-Step Guide
by Allan A. Glatthorn How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation
by David Sternberg Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis
by Joan Bolker From Dissertation to Book
by William Germano Women in Academia: Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia
by Emily Toth Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World
by Paula J. Caplan Career Strategies for Women in Academia : Arming Athena
by Lynn H. Collins (Editor), Joan C. Chrisler (Editor), Kathryn Quina (Editor)
Academic Job Search
The Academic Job Search Handbook (3rd Edition)by Mary Morris Heiberger, Julia Miller Vick Job Search in Academe: Strategic Rhetorics for Faculty Job Candidates
by Dawn M. Formo, Cheryl Reed The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School Through Tenure
by John A. Goldsmith, John Komlos, Penny Schine Gold
Teaching
The Chicago Handbook for Teachers : A Practical Guide to the College Classroomby Alan Brinkley, Betty Dessants, Michael Flamm, Cynthia Fleming McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers
by Wilbert J. McKeachie, Barbara K. Hofer Tools for Teaching (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
by Barbara Gross Davis What the Best College Teachers Do
by Ken Bain Successful Beginnings for College Teaching
by Angela Provitera-McGlynn, Angela Provitera McGlynn 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Professors
by Robert Magnan Creating Significant Learning Experiences : An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
by L. Dee Fink Developing a Professional Teaching Portfolio: A Guide for Success
by Patricia M. Costantino, Marie N. De Lorenzo Developing a Teaching Portfolio: A Guide for Preservice and Practicing Teachers
by Ann Bullock, Parmalee P. Hawk Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions
by Peter Seldin Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind
by Gerald Graff The Pooh Perplex
by Frederick Crews Teaching Literature
by Elaine Showalter The Rise and Fall of English : Reconstructing English as a Discipline
by Robert Scholes Death of a Discipline (The Wellek Library Lectures)
by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Literary Criticism,Theory, Reference
After Theoryby Terry Eagleton The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
by Michael Groden (Editor), Martin Kreiswirth (Editor) Glossary of Literary Terms
by M.H. Abrams MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth Edition
by Joseph Gibaldi A Handbook to Literature (9th Edition)
by William Harmon The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
by Vincent B. Leitch (Editor) The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
by Alex Preminger (Editor), Terry V.F. Brogan (Editor), Frank J. Warnke (Editor) Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse, Third Edition
by John Hollander Poetic Meter and Poetic Form
by Paul Fussell The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
by Mark Strand (Editor), Eavan Boland (Editor) A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature
by Earle G. Labor, Lee Morgan, Jeanne C. Reesman, John R. Willingham, Wilfred L. Guerin (Editor), John Willingham The Oxford Companion to English Literature (Oxford Companion to English Literature)
by Margaret Drabble (Editor) The Oxford Companion to American Literature (Oxford Companion to American Literature)
by James David Hart, James D. Hart, Phillip Leininger (Editor)