"How to read a book" sounds like a ridiculous premise for a book, but I can't recommend it highly enough. It's one of the best introductions to academic skills I've ever read. I assimilated much of Adler's advice at university through trial-and-error, but seeing the reading process analysed and systematised into an algorithm was genuinely enlightening.

Worth noting that Adler was also the editor of Encyclopdia Britannica's Great Books Series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...