Mrs. Longo’s Compiled
Reading Picks!
(Organized into Groups By The Wizard of Oz)
- Action / Adventure
- Non-Fiction
- Classics
- Religion
- Fantasy
- Fiction
- Science
- Fiction (Continued)
- Thriller
- Historical Fiction
- War
- Inspirational
- Science Fiction
Action / Adventure
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Angels and Demons---Larry Fletcher
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The Bleachers (John Grisham) Joel Lang
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Book of the Dead. Dolores Ballintyn
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The Firm Joel Lang
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Michael Chabon (contains adult themes). Tom Fleetman
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The Perfect Storm----Dan Kegelman
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The Relic (Lincoln Childs) Ballintyn
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A Time to Kill Joel Lang
Classics
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Heart of Darkness Longo
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Jekyl and Hyde Longo
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The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)Tom
Fleetman
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Sea Wolf
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Longo
Longo
Fantasy
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Bearing an Hourglass Rob Longo
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Blue Moon Rising Rob Longo
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The Children of Men (P .D. James) Neil Kane
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Dark Tower series (Stephen King) Tom Fleetman
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Dragon Bone Chair series (Tad Williams) Rob Longo
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Earthsea series (Ursula K. LeGuin’s) Rob Longo
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I am Legend, Vampires Rob Longo
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Incarnations Rob Longo
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Lord of the Rings (Tolkein) Rob Longo
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On a Pale Horse Rob Longo
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Wielding a Red Sword (Piers Anthony) Rob Longo
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Wheel of Time series (Robert Jordan) ----Mark Quinn and Rob Longo
Fiction
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and
Clay (James Rollins) Ballintyn
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Atlas Shrugged is always good for a
challenge. Fleetman
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Caddy for Life (John Feinstein) Brendan
Haley
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Carpenters and Seymour an
Introduction Fleetman
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The Complete Stories (one book
anthology) (Flannery O'Connor) Brian
Cox
The Five People you meet in Heaven (Mitch Album)
Shirley Hornyak
Fourth of July (James Patterson) Cindy Pilipczuk
Franny and Zooey. Tom Fleetman
The Human Stain (Phillip Roth) Sean Tishler
Hunt for Red October Joe Talley
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) Amanda McMillan
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Curious Incident Sianni
(John Irving) The World According to Garp, Hotel
New Hampshire, Widow for One Year, a Prayer for
Owen Meany Sianni
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Devil in the White City Bill McGowan
Detective story (PD James) Patti White
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Inspector Morse novel (Colin Dexter)
White
The Kite Runner Dan Kegelman and Matt Kegelman
Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Katie Orga
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The Godfather (Mario Puzo) Katie Orga
Maniac Magee George Horn
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The Five People you meet in Heaven
(Mitch Album) Shirley Hornyak
John D. MacDonald’s Travis Magee novels Mark
Quinn
Mountains Beyond Mountains White
Fiction (Continued)
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Native Son (Richard Wright) Amanda McMillan
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Nightfall. Mike Johnson
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Outsiders (SE Hinton) Jude Szczerba
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Peace Like a River Sianni
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Raise High the Roof Beam Fleetman
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The Reader (Bernhard Schlink) Shirley Hornyak
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Rule of the Bone (Russell Banks) Wes Fox
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A Simple Plan Matt Kegelman
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Snow in August Mike Gallagher
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The Story of B Tischler
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Three Cups of Tea White
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Under the Tuscan Sun (Frances Mayes) Stacy Bartkowski
Historical Fiction
• Caravans (James Michener) Phil
Vavala
• Pillars of the Earth Rob Longo
• The Quiet Light (Louis de Wohl) Neil
Kane
Inspirational
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The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho) Father Bill McCandless and Jude Szczerba
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It's not about the Bike: My journey back to life (Lance Armstrong) LoSapio
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Once a Runner (John L. Parker) LoSapio
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Richest Man in Babylon (George Clason) Joe Talley
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Touch the top of the World: A Blind man's journey to climb farther than the eye
can see (Erik Weihenmayer) (guy is blind and is on course to climb the top
highest peaks of all 7 continents!) LoSapio
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Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner ( Dean Karnazes)
(this guy has run for 2 3/4 days straight!!!....awesome motivation to do some
type of exercise a day) LoSapio
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A walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trial
(Bill Bryson)
(is you like the outdoors this is a MUST read!) LoSapio
Non-Fiction
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Code of the Streets: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City- (Elijah
Anderson) (about Philly) Tischler
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Democracy Matters (Cornell West)-Every student who I have rec'd this to loved it.
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven
D.) Katie Orga
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Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the
World (Paperback)
(Chris Lowney) Neil Kane
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Jackie Chan: My Life in Action Tom Vresics
– The Motorcycle Diaries (Che Guerva)
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A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)-This is a history book that will blow your
mind.
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The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the of Founding of the Federal
Republic (Lance Banning) Stacy Bartkowski
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The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid in Schooling in America:
(Johnathan Kozol)
» Sean Tichler
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Unto the Sons, Phil Vavala
Religion
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (Mass Market Paperback)
[Christian/Sci-Fi]
(Walter M Miller) Neil Kane
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Children of Men (P.D. James) Dolores Ballintyn and
Neil Kane
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Confessions Father Spellman
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Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of
Life) [Religion & Science]
(Alister McGrath ) Neil Kane
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That Hideous Strength (C.S. Lewis) [Religious
Fantasy] Neil Kane
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Joshua (Father Joseph Girzone) Tom Vresics
Science
• Clan of the Cave Bear
Brown
• Jurassic Park Brown
• Tears of a Cheetah
Monica Brown
• Uncle Tungsten Patti White
Science Fiction
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Isaac Asimov and Foundation series White,
Fleetman, and Johnson
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Robot Series (Asimov) Johnson
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Ender books (Orson Scott Card’s)
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein)
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Uplift books (David Brin) Tom Fleetman
Thriller
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Eyes of the Dragon Joe Talley
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Graveyard Shift (Stephen King) Joe Talley
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House of Leaves (Mark Danielewski) Tom Fleetman
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mystery/suspense/horror (Douglas Preston)
Ballintyn
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Stacy
Bartkowski
War
• 13th Valley, Vietnam, Seniors
mature topics, violence
• Catch 22, WWII
• Ghost Soldiers, WWII
• War
• Rob Longo