Books for College & Adult

Explore 48 curated books for College & Adult students. Each resource has been reviewed for quality and age-appropriateness.

Geometry For Dummies

Mark Ryan's plain-English geometry reference, aimed squarely at the student who has a textbook and still cannot follow the proofs in it.

Geometry Workbook For Dummies

The practice half of the For Dummies geometry pair: several hundred problems with fully worked solutions, not just an answer key.

Side by Side: Student Book 1 (Third Edition)

A conversation-first beginner course built around guided dialogues, which makes it one of the few ESL books that works with two people at a kitchen table.

Essential Grammar in Use with Answers

Raymond Murphy's elementary grammar reference, built on a two-page unit format that makes it genuinely usable for self-study.

Word Power Made Easy

A vocabulary builder that teaches Greek and Latin roots rather than word lists, so each session unlocks families of words at once.

Basic English Grammar Workbook (Azar-Hagen, 5th Edition)

The grammar series most ESL teacher training programs are built around, in workbook form with a full answer key for self-study.

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Oxford Picture Dictionary, Third Edition

The standard visual dictionary in ESL classrooms worldwide: roughly 4,000 words organized by real-life situation rather than alphabetically.

English for Everyone Practice Book Level 1: Beginner

The written practice half of DK's Level 1 course. Buy it with the course book, not instead of it.

English for Everyone Course Book Level 1: Beginner

DK's visual self-study English course, built so a complete beginner can work through it alone without a teacher explaining every page.

How to Take Smart Notes

The standard English-language explanation of the Zettelkasten slip-box method: notes written to be linked and reused, not filed and forgotten.

The Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens

A worksheet-based workbook the teenager completes themselves, building planning, time estimation and self-monitoring habits one short activity at a time.

Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything

A short, 160-page distillation of Barbara Oakley's learning research, co-written with Olav Schewe — the fastest way into the material for an older teen.

Why Didn't They Teach Me This in School?: 99 Personal Money Management Principles to Live By

A concise personal-finance primer built around 8 principles and 99 practical money lessons — budgeting, saving, credit, and investing — for teens and young adults. A popular graduation gift and homeschool money-skills supplement.

I Want More Pizza: Real World Money Skills For High School, College, And Beyond

A short, teen-friendly intro to money skills that uses a pizza metaphor to teach saving, budgeting, and compound growth. Written for high-school and college students; a quick, actionable first personal-finance read.

The Thinking Toolbox: Thirty-Five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills

A friendly, comic-illustrated follow-up to The Fallacy Detective, with 35 hands-on lessons and activities that teach practical reasoning, evidence, and problem-solving for ages 13 and up.

Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster

International Grandmaster of Memory Kevin Horsley shares powerful memory techniques and learning strategies to help students remember anything and learn faster.

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

Barbara Oakley's bestselling guide to mastering math and science, based on her popular "Learning How to Learn" course — the world's most enrolled online class.

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

A groundbreaking book that draws on cognitive science research to reveal the most effective learning strategies — and why many common study techniques don't work.

How to Become a Straight-A Student

Cal Newport's evidence-based guide to earning top grades while studying less, based on interviews with real straight-A students at elite universities.

Kaplan ACT Prep Plus 2025

Kaplan's flagship ACT guide with 5 full-length practice tests, online resources, and their proven score-raising strategies used by millions of students.

Barron's ACT Premium Study Guide with 6 Practice Tests

Expert ACT preparation from Barron's featuring 6 full-length practice tests, comprehensive subject review, and proven test-taking strategies.

Princeton Review ACT Premium Prep, 2026

Comprehensive ACT preparation with 8 full-length practice tests, proven score-raising strategies, and detailed content review for all test sections.

The Official ACT Prep Guide 2025-2026

The only ACT prep guide written by the test makers at ACT, Inc., featuring 8 full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations.

The Human Body Coloring Book: The Ultimate Anatomy Study Guide (DK)

A hands-on DK anatomy study guide using coloring to teach all major body systems — ideal for grades 6 through adult learners.

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition

A practical Python programming guide teaching automation of real-world tasks, for high school and adult beginners.

Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism

A paradigm-shifting book that reframes autism as a difference to be understood rather than a disorder to be fixed, with practical guidance for parents and educators.

Smart but Scattered Teens: The Executive Skills Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential

The teen-focused follow-up to the bestselling Smart but Scattered, providing executive skills strategies specifically designed for adolescents aged 12-18.

The Explosive Child (6th Edition)

A groundbreaking guide to understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children using Collaborative & Proactive Solutions.

Mathematical Mindsets

A groundbreaking book for parents and educators that explains how to foster a growth mindset in math, transforming how children think about numbers and their own potential.

Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition

Comprehensive Spanish grammar workbook with systematic coverage of all major structures, exercises, and McGraw Hill Language Lab app integration for high school and adult learners.

Living Language French, Essential Edition

Complete beginner French course with coursebook, 3 audio CDs, and free online learning, providing structured instruction in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish All-in-One, Premium Third Edition

Comprehensive Spanish learning workbook combining five bestselling Practice Makes Perfect titles, covering grammar through conversation for high school and adult learners.

The Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments

Comprehensive home chemistry lab manual with 170+ real experiments covering college-prep topics from basic techniques to advanced analytical chemistry.

Keys to Drawing

A classic art instruction book presenting 55 practical keys to drawing from observation, used in art schools and by self-taught artists worldwide.

Drawing for Older Children & Teens: A Creative Method for Adult Beginners, Too

Advanced drawing instruction for teens and adult beginners using the Monart Method, covering proportion, perspective, shading, and realistic drawing techniques.

You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less

A bestselling 30-day drawing course by Emmy Award-winning PBS host Mark Kistler, teaching anyone to draw with daily 20-minute lessons.

Bible Study Guide for All Ages

A multi-age Bible curriculum with hands-on activities, timelines, and maps designed so the whole family can study Scripture together.

Guitar Adventures: Fun, Informative, and Step-By-Step Lesson Guide, Beginner & Intermediate Levels (Book & Streaming Videos)

Teach yourself how to play guitar! This fun, step-by-step book and streaming video course gives the beginning guitarist a comprehensive introduction to essential guitar-playing fundamentals and songs. It is an easy, quick, effective, uncomplicated, a...

Life of Fred: Linear Algebra Expanded Edition

Fred goes on a picnic with his two best friends. Find out about… • Selling Fred's fountain pens door-to-door • Jackie's life as a police officer • Lee's shopping sprees at the fishing store and even some heavy duty linear a...

In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms

In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms [Jacqueline Brooks, Martin Brooks] This text builds a case for the development of classrooms where students construct deep understandings of important concepts. The book presents new...

The Human Brain Book

Combining the latest findings from neuroscience with new brain imaging techniques, as well as developments on infant brains, telepathy, and brain modification, this new edition of DK's The Human Brain Book covers brain anatomy, function, and di...

Advanced Guitar Chords: Easy-to-Use, Easy-to-Carry, One Chord on Every Page

The perfect companion to the ‘Guitar Chords' book, ‘Advanced Guitar Chords' is a handy resource for guitarists who feel they are able to take the next step. The simple and clean layout provides 360 chords shown as chord boxes,...

Drumset: Beginning, Intermediate, Mastering

Anyone interested in playing the drumset can pick up this well-paced, comprehensive method and get started right away. Beginning concepts include stick techniques, snare drum rudiments, accents, dynamics, and reading drumset music. Intermediate topic...

The Botany Coloring Book

The Botany Coloring Book The Botany Coloring Book consisting or colorable drawings and terms, is an especially effective learning device for the study of plant structures, functions and life histories...

The Electric Guitar Handbook: A Complete Course in Modern Technique and Styles

(Book). Backbeat's successful Handbook format applied to the world's most popular instrument. The Electric Guitar Handbook is the latest entry in Backbeat's best-selling handbook series, combining a two-part book and an audio CD in...

Suzuki Cello School, Vol. 1: Cello Part, Revised Edition

Titles: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Variations (Shinichi Suzuki) * French Folk Song (Folk Song) * Lightly Row (Folk Song) * Song of the Wind (Folk Song) * Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Folk Song) * O Come, Little Children (Folk Song) * May Song (Folk Song) *...

Ecological Architecture

Ecological rethinking and sustainable building concepts have become important topics in contemporary architecture. The use of renewable resources and the intention to build in harmony with nature are characteristic aspects for this development. Apart...

Instant Vocabulary

Instant Vocabulary by Ida Ehrlich. Build your word power with this simple proven method. Understand and retain new words in just seconds-without tedious memorization....