SPEND THE SUMMER WITH YOUR FAVORITE TEACHER’S FAVORITE BOOK
Anne Alexander:
___Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
___Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell
___The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and
Annie Barrows
___The House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende
___Stop Time by Frank Conroy
___Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
___Half the Sky by Nicolas Kristoff& Sheryl WuDunn
___ The Boys from Dolores by Patrick Symmes
___Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle
___In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
Middle School:
___Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper and other poems
___The Book Thiefby MarcusZusak
___Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
___Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
___Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
Candy Anderson
___Body and Soul by Frank Conroy
___The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
___Fire on the Horizon by John Konrad and Tom Shroder
Elizabeth Aranow
___The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollen
___Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Dulcie Arnold
___The Nero Wolfe Cookbook by Rex Stout (great reading; haven't tried a single
recipe)
___How to Cook EverythingBy Mark Bittman, use it all the time.
___Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
___Storm Front (first of The Dresden Files series) by Jim Butcher
Fred Bartels
___The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Libby Bauer
___Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Ginny Black
___The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards, (mature 8th graders and up)
A story of family secrets, stained glass, and Women’s Suffrage in 1900’s NY.
Mark Bortner
___The Beatles Anthology by the Beatles - middle school and up ($35.00)
___Who Were the Beatles by Geoff Edgers for upper elementary
Susan Burns
___From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
___To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Ileana Carafas
___The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R. R.Tolkien
Ellen Cartwright
___Simple Food for Busy Families by Jeannette Bessinger and TraceeYablonBrenner
Doug Cerrone
___Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
___Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Judy Conant
___Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
Sarah Danziger
___A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg
Carmela DeCarlo
___Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
___Shogun by James Clavell
___The Prophet byKahlil Gibran (inspiring)
___Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart by Gordon Livingston, M.D.
Jennifer DeVito
___A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
___Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen A classic!
___Sophie's Choice - William Styron
___Princess Brideby William Goldman
___Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
___The Help by Kathryn Stockett
___A Rumor of War by Philip Caputto Vietnam War memoir
Carrie Donahue
___To Kill A Mockingbird byHarper Lee
___Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
___The Space Between Us byThrityUnrigar
Rosita Fernandez-Rojo
Elementary Age
___Miss Rumphiusby Barbara Cooney
___Time of Wonderby Robert McCloskey
Middle School
___Sideways Aritmeticfrom Wayside School
___Anne of Green Gablesby Lucy Maud Montgomery
Adult
___Sailing Alone Around the Worldby Joshua Slocum
___Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen
___Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
___Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro
Johnny Flynn
___The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Suzanne Gigante
___The Woman in White byWilkieCollins : a Victorian novel even for people who
think they don't like Victorian novels.
Linda Greenhouse
___Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Ginny Hearon
___Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck
___Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovannni
___Words Under Words by Naomi Shibab Nye
___Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks
___Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Ted Heintz
___Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
David Hinman
___What's Bred in the Bone, by Robertson Davies
___Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll
Ryan Horton
___The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Jessica Kaplan
___Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Lauris Khan
___Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Mary Krasovec
___Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
___Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
David Lehner
Easy Reading for a High Schooler
___The Third Man by Graham Greene
___Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
More Challenging and Sophisticated Reading for a High Schooler
___The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Challenging books for Enquiring Minds:
___The Worldly Philosophersby Robert L. Heilbroner (An easy introduction to
Economics)
___The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant (An easy introduction to Western
Philosophy)
___Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig(An easy
introduction to philosophical ideas)
Joan Kubisch
___One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel GarcíaMárquez
___In the House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
___Refiner's Fire by Mark Helprin
___Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
___ A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
___Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
___The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy
___A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher
___The plays of Eugene O'Neill
Carol Lichtenfeld
___The Way the Crow Flies by Anne-Marie MacDonald
___Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
___Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Bill Lipnick
___The Stranger by Albert Camus
___The Castle by Franz Kafka
___Roads to Santiago by CeesNootebaum(one of the best travel books I have
ever read.)
___The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
Alexandra London-Thompson
___Complete Works of William Shakespeare with The Reduced Shakespeare
Company's Compleat Works of WllmShkspr as a compendium
___The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
Mary Marcell
___Traveling Mercies...Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
___The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
Erin McDonald
___The Shack by William Young - an adult book, quite profound
Kyle Mitschele
___Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
___Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
___Chronic City by Jonathan Letham (I have this slated to re-read this summer!)
___The GirlWith the Dragon Tattoo byStieg Larsson
___Fordlandia by Greg Grandin (reading & loving)
___Saturday by Ian McEwan
___Straight Man by Richard Russo
Angela Monte
___The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Alec Merber
___Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Anne Monteith
___The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Sophie Norris
___Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Brian O’Callaghan
___The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
___The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
___The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille
___Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Kate Ordway
___The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
___The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
___A Fine Balance by RohintonMistry
___Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern
Artby Laney Salisbury and AlySujo
___The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (still magical!)
Debra Pager
___Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
___Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Dick Pike
___The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
___The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay by Beverly Jensen
Alice Sackey
___The Sparrow: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell
___The GirlWith The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Anne Sampson
___Daughter of Time.by Josephine Tey
Nancy Shantz
___Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Tim Silverman
___The Fool's Progress, an Honest Novel by Edward Abbey
Debra Simpson
___Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
Bill Smith
___To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
___One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
___1776 by David McCullough
Rick Starr
___An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
___Just Kids by Patti Smith
___Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty by Phoebe Hoban
David Tafe
___Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
Stephanie Teachout
___The Bear that Wasn't by Frank Tashlin (elementary)
___Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (adult)
___Zeitounby Dave Eggers (adult)
Becky Timms
___To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
___Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
___Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Anita Walsh
___Casting Off by Nicole Dickson
Sarah Werner
___The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R. R.Tolkien
Ethan White
___Dissolutionby C.J. Sansom It's a great mystery that takes place in Henry
VIII's England.
Paul Wieman
___Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
___The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Tashana Williams
___Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card
___Eon by Greg Bear
___Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Childrenby Greg Bear
___The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Marie-Therese Witte
___The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Ruth Wolff
___I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
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*Books will be charged to student’s account and delivered on May 6 th.