Faculty & Friends Suggested Summer Reading 2013
(We have added new titles onto the list we sent out before Christmas
break. We took away the descriptions to make it shorter. * indicates a new
book since December)
NONFICTION:
The Information: a history, a theory, a flood by James Gleick (020 GLE) -*Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck (153.8 DWE)
*Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by
Susan Cain (155.2 CAI)
*I.D.: Stuff that Happens to Define Us by Kate Scower (155.4 SCO)
Cooking with the Bible: Recipes for Biblical Meals by Chiffolo and Hesse
(220.8 CHI)
The Amish Way: Patient Faith in a Perilous World by Kraybill, et al. (248.4
KRA) –
50 Ways to Help Save the Earth: How You and Your Church Can Make
a Difference by Barnes-Davies (261.8 BAR) -The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On the Media by Gladstone
(302.23 GLA) --
The Post-American World: Release 2.0 by Fareed Zakaria (303.49 ZAK) -*Enrique’s
Journey by Sonia Nozario (305.23 NOZ)
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (305.5 BOO) -- National Book
Award Winner, Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post and
O: The Oprah Magazine.
**excellent book, Marion and Kristin have both read it (and John Roop and Kim Porter!)
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter (305.8 PAI)
Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture by Stephan H. Segal
(306 GEE)
*Five Thousand Years of Slavery by Majorie Gann (306.3 GAN)
*Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail by Ruben Martinez
(306.85 MAR)
*Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by
Daron Acemoglu (330 ACE)
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and
What We Eat by Charles Clover (333.95 CLO)
100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species
by Jeff Corwin (333.95)
*Food, Inc.: How Industrial Food is Making us Sicker, Fatter, and
Poorer—And What You Can Do about It by Karl Weber (338.4 FOO)
*The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Wills and Estates by Stephen Maple (356.73
MAP)
*A Random Book About the Power of Anyone Talia Lemon (361.3 LEM)
*Everyday Heroes: 50 Americans Changing the World One Nonprofit
at a Time by Katrina Fried (361.7 FRI)
We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction by Nic Sheff (362.29 SHE)
*My Orange Duffel Bag: A Journey to Radical Change by Sam Bracken
(362.76 BRA)
33 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the
Chilean Miners by Jonathan Franklin (363.11 FRA)
*Full Body Burden: Growing
by Kristen Iverson (363.17 IVE)
Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
*Food, inc.: Mendel to Monsanto-- the promises and perils of the
biotech harvest by Peter Pringle (363.19 PRI)
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent (363.4 OKR)
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global
Warming by Chris Mooney (363.738 MOO)
*Game over : Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, and the culture of silence
by Bill Moushey (364.15 MOU)
The believers : how America fell for Bernard Madoff's $65 billion
investment scam by Adam LeBor (364.16 LEB)
When the Guillotine Fell: The Bloody Beginning and Horrifying End to
France’s River of Blood by Jeremy Mercer (364.66 MER
Something’s Fishy: An Angler Looks at Our Ditressed Gamefish and
Their Waters, and How We Can Preserve Both by Ted Williams (369.9 WIL).
This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion,
about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace (370.11 WAL) -*I'd like to apologize to every teacher I ever had : my year as a
rookie teacher at Northeast High by Tony Danza (371.1 DAN )
Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre—How We
Dignify the Dead by Sarah Murray (393 MUR)
The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food by
Adam Gopnik (394.1 GOP
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New
York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman (394.1 ZIE)
*The sacred language of trees by AT Mann (398.28 MAN)
*Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other
languages by Guy Deutscher (410 DEU)
*The
HIT)
Language Wars: A History of Proper English by Henry Hitchings (420
*Globish : how the English language became the world's language by
Robert McCrumb (420.9 MCC)
*The secret life of pronouns : what our words say about us by James
Pennebaker (425 PEN)
Where a Dobdob meets a Dikdik: A Word Lover’s Guide to the
Weirdest, Wackiest, and Wonkiest Lexical Gems by Bill Casselman (428.1
CAS)
* Paradox : the nine greatest enigmas in physics by Jim Al-Kalili (500 ALK)
Proofiness: How You’re Being Fooled by the Numbers by Charles Seife
(510 SEI
The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On by Julian
Havil (512.81 HAV)
Here’s Looking at Euclid: An Surprising Excursion Through the
Astonishing World of Math by Alex Bellos (513 BEL)
The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak (520 BAR)
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
(523.1 TYS)
The Book of Time: The Secrets of Time, How it Works and How We
Measure It by Adam Hart-Davis (529 HAR)
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of
Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku (530
KAK)
*The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking (530.1 HAW)
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny
LeCouteur (540 LEC)
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love,
and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by Sam Kean (546 KEA
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and
Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean (575.1 KEA) -- In The
Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic
table. In THE VIOLINIST'S THUMB, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of
life: DNA.
Fifty Animals that Changed the Course of History by Eric Chaline (590 CHA)
Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan ... And the World by
Courtney Humphries (598.65 HUM)
The World of the Polar Bear by Norbut Rosing (599.78 ROS)
*100 diagrams that changed the world : from the earliest cave
paintings to the innovation of the iPod by Scott Christianson (604.2 CHR)
How Doctors Think by Jerome E. Groopman (610 GRO)
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the
Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge (612.8 DOI)
Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan (613.2 POL)
*The imaginations of unreasonable men : inspiration, vision, and
purpose in the quest to end malaria by William Shore (614.5 SHO)
Fat No More: A Teenager’s Victory Over Obesity by Alberto Hidalgo-Robert
(616.85 HID)
* Bomb : the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous
weapon by Steve Sheinkin (623.4 SHE)
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes (628.4 HUM)
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages by Anne Mendelson
(641.37 MEN)
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (613.26 Foe)
*Inside of a dog : what dogs see, smell, and know by Alexandra Horowitz
(636.7 HOR)
*Oogy : the dog only a family could love by Larry Levin (636.7 LEV)
*The Icarus deception : how high will you fly? By Seth Godin (650.1 GOD)
*Linchpin : are you indispensible? By Seth Godin (650.1 GOD)
*Poke the box : when was the last time you did something for the
first time? By Seth Godin (650.1 GOD)
*Who killed change? : solving the mystery of leading people through
change by Ken Blanchard (658.4 BLA)
Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie (658.4 MYC
Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled
Water by Peter Gleick (663 GLE)
Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of
Food by Pamela Ronald (664 RON
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent by Jean-Claude Ellena (668 ELL)
The Louvre: All the Paintings by Anja Grebe (708.4 GRE)
Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age by Blair Kamin
(724.7 KAM)
*The duct tape book : 25 projects to make with duct tape by Jolie
Dobson (745.5 DOB)
Illuminations: A Ro-Mlen Alphabet by Janice Davis Civen (745.6 CIV) –
What to Wear, Where: The How-To Handbook for Any Style Situation
by Hillary Kerr (746.9 KER)
Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents & Graffiti Planet 2:
More of the Best Graffiti From Around the World by Nicholas Ganz (751.7
GAN)
Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine by William Parry
(751.7 PAR)
The Painter’s Chair: George Washington and the Making of American
Art by Hugh Howard (757 HOW)
*The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of
moving pictures by Edward Ball (778.5 BAL)
Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Photos (779 THR)
*The mysteries of Beethoven's hair by Martin Russell (780 RUS)
The Beatles: Paperback Writer: 40 Years of Classic Writing & The
Beatles Literary Anthology edited by Mike Evans (781 BEA) – Library Legacies
Donation in memory of Leah Jane Clark (Steve Clark’s mother)
Beatles Forever by Nicholas Schaffner (781 SCH) -- A Library Legacies Donation in
memory of Leah Jane Clark (Steve Clark’s mother)
*Moving to higher ground : how jazz can change your life by Wynton
Marsalis (781.65 MAR)
33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie
Holiday to Green Day by Dorian Lynskey (782.42 LYN
Dick Clark's The First 25 Years of Rock & Roll by Michael Uslan (784.5 USL) –
2000 Guitars by Tony Bacon (787.87 BAC)
Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth
Basketball Machine by George Dohrmann (796.32 DOH)
*Outcasts united : an American town, a refugee team, and one
woman's quest to make a difference by Warren St. John (796.33 ST)
More Than a Game: The Glorious Present and Uncertain Future of the
NFL by Brian Billick (796. 332 BIL)
*The games that changed the game : the evolution of the NFL in
seven Sundays by Ron Jaworski (796.332 JAW)
*One shot at forever : a small town, an unlikely coach, and a magical
baseball season by Chris Ballard (796.35 BAL)
*Runner's world complete book of running : everything you need to
run for weight loss, fitness, and competition by Amby Burfoot (796.42 COM)
Becoming Odyssa: Epic Adventure on the Appalachian Trail by Jennifer
Pharr Davis (796.51 DAV)
*The ledge : an adventure story of friendship and survival on Mount
Rainier by Jim Davidson (796.52 DAV)
*Bill France, Jr. : the man who made NASCAR by HA Branham (796.72 BRA)
*Fighter : the fighters of the UFC by Reed Krakoff (796.81 KRA)
Field & Stream: The Total Outdoorsman Manual by T. Edwards Nickens (799
NIC)
Fly Fishin’ Fool: The Adventures, Misadventures, and Outright
Idiocies of a Compulsive Angler by James Babb (799.12 BAB)
True Notebooks: A Writer’s Year at Juvenile Hall by Mark Salzman (808 SAL
The Norton Book of Nature Writing edited by Robert Finch (808.89 FIN) – A
Library Legacies Donation in honor of John Kerr –
*My name is Jason, mine too : our story, our way by Jason Reynolds (811
REY)
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again: A Zora Neale
Hurston Reader by Zora Neale Hurston (818.52 HUR) – A Library Legacies Donation in
honor of Betty Neal –
The Men Who Mapped the World: The Treasure of Cartography by Beau
Riffenburgh (912 RIF)
Are you planning a trip? Check out these new DK Eyewitness Travel
Guides:
London (914.21 LEA)
Rome (914.56 ERC)
Greece (914.95 GRE)
The Greek Islands (914.95 GRE)
Jerusalem, Israel, Petra, & Sinai (914.95 JER)
Istanbul (914.96 IST)
Beijing & Shanghai (915.1 NEV)
Japan (915.2 JAP)
Tokyo (915.21 TOK)
Egypt (916.2 EGY)
New York City (917.47 BER)
Sydney (919.44 SYD)
* Discovering Wes Moore by Wes Moore (920 MOO)
Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional
Archaeologist by Donald Ryan (932 RYA)
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (940.2
GRE) -- Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction and winner of the 2011 National
Book Award for Non-Fiction.
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Third Germany by
Ian Kershaw (940.53 KER)
*Behind enemy lines : a young pilot's story by HR DeMallie (940.54 DEM)
Ghosts in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska’s World War II
Invasion by Samantha Seiple (940.54 SEI)
*Tears in the darkness : the story of the Bataan Death March and its
aftermath by Michael Norman (940.54 NOR)
Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History by Robert Hughes (945 HUG)
*IraqiGirl : diary of a teenage girl in Iraq by IraqiGirl (956.7 IRA)
Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-year old GI by Ryan Smithson (956.7
SMI)
*No easy day : the autobiography of a Navy SEAL : the firsthand
account of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen (958.1
OWE)
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement by
Jon Meacham (973.049) –- A Library Legacies Donation in honor of Betty Neal
*Liberty or death : the surprising story of runaway slaves who sided
with the British during the American Revolution by Margaret Blair (973.3
BLA)
*Bloody times : the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt for
Jefferson Davis by James Swanson (973.7 SWA)
Women in the Civil War : warriors, patriots, nurses, and spies by Phyllis
Raybin (973.7 WOM)
*Images of America: Maryville by Linda Albert and David Duggan (976.8 ALB)
*Blount Memorial Hospital History / : An Outstanding Tennessee
Community Hospital by Dean Stone (976.888 BLO)
*Home front girl : a diary of love, literature, and growing up in
wartime America by Joan Morrison (977.3 MOR)
FICTION:
*Whose Names Are Unknown by Sanora Babb
The Inquisitor's Key: A Body Farm Novel by Jefferson Bass (F Bas)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (F BRO) –
*Ruins by Orson Scott Card
*The Twelve : a novel by Justin Cronin
The Round House by Louise Erdrich (F ERD) -- National Book Award Winner.
*Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the
Antarctic, 1910-13 by Richard Farr
*House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel by Anthony Horowitz
The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King (F KIN)
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (F KIN) –
**Marion and Kristin, along with Kim Porter and several other faculty members have read
this!
*Beatrice and Virgil : a novel by Yann Martel (B MAR)
*A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
*A Feast of Crows “
*A Storm of Swords “
The Talk-Funny Girl by Roland Merullo (F MER)
*Kristin has read this, and she recommends it.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (F MIT)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (F MOR) –
*October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman
ZOO by James Patterson (F PAT) –
*Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Dick K. Philip
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures by Caroline Preston (F
Pre) *Marion has read this, and she recommends it.
*Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel by Maria Semple (F SEM)
The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks (F SPA) –
*Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani
The Final Four by Paul Volponi (F Vol)
Read the book before you see the movie! –
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (F HUG)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (F MAR)
Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer (F MEY)
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien (F TOL)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (F TOL)
BIOGRAPHY:
* Imperfect : an improbable life by Jim Abbott (B ABB)
Pops: A life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout (B ARM) –
Jane Austen: A Life Revealed by Catherine Reed (B AUS) -The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West
by Sid Fleischman (B CLE) –
*My losing season by Pat Conroy (B CON)
Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan by Jon Bul. Dau (B DAU) -*A stolen life : a memoir by Jaycee Dugard (B DUG)
**Oleta and Sherry have read this book and recommend it!
Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures from the Archives of the
Anne Frank House (B FRA) --.
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism
and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery (B GRA) -Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back
on the Board (B HAM) -Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (B JOB) -American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in US
Military History by Chris Kyle (B KYL) -Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon (B LAN) -Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda (B LAW)
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*Mao's last dancer by Cunxin Li (B LI)
*Dear Marcus : a letter to the man who shot me by Jerry McGill (B MCG)
*While the world watched : a Birmingham bombing survivor comes
of age during the Civil Rights Movement by Carolyn McKinstry (B MCK)
We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a
Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives
Forever by Benjamin Mee (B MEE) –
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the
Birth of America by Steven Johnson (B PRI) -* Extraordinary, ordinary people : a memoir of familyby Condoleezza Rice
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson (B SHA) – A Library Legacies Donation in honor of John Kerr
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed (B
STR) --
Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow (B TEB) –
*The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the
creation of an American culture by Joshua Kendall (B WEB)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and
Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (B ZAM) –
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream by
Davis, Jenkins, and Hunt (920 DAV) --
Americans Who Tell the Truth by Robert Shetterly (920 SHE)
DVDs:
Earth: The Biography (DVD 551 EAR) -March of the Penguins (DVD 598.47 MAR) –