2018-19 Moravian Academy Upper School Summer Reading List
INCOMING FRESHMEN INCOMING SOPHOMORES INCOMING JUNIORS AND SENIORS The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Kamkwamba The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Kamkwamba The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Kamkwamba and Mealer) and Mealer) and Mealer)
AND AND AND Handling the Truth: On the Writing of One book published between 2017 and 2018. Memoir (Beth Kephart) One book published between 2017 and 2018.
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A third book of your choosing. (Please note: If One book that combines literary, historical, and you are enrolled in "The Plays of Shakespeare" Required Reading scientific topics. (Selections meeting all three A memoir of your choice from the list of memoirs for the fall semester, one of your three selections criteria are marked with an asterisk in the in the Appendix of Kephart’s book, pages 196- must be E. M. Tillyard’s The Elizabethan World suggested reading list below.) 240 Picture.)
Shift (Jennifer Bradbury) The American(Henry James)
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea(Valerie Zenatti) Angela’s Ashes(Frank McCourt)
Riker’s High (Paul Volponi) Anil’s Ghost(Michael Ondaatje) One Hundred Young Americans (Michael Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Dai Franzini) Sijie) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows) A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul) Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different* (Karen Blumenthal) Billy Bathgate(E.L. Doctorow) Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 (Phillip Hoose) Black Boy(Richard Wright) Titanic: Voices from the Disaster* (Deborah Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Hopkinson) Thinking(Malcolm Gladwell) We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March (Cynthia Levinson) Crime and Punishment(Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rot and Ruin (Jonathan Mayberry) Cat’s Cradle(Kurt Vonnegut)
The House of the Scorpion(Nancy Farmer) Catch-22(Joseph Heller)
Blank Confession (Pete Hautman) Clear Light of Day (Anita Desai) How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents (Julia Alvarez) Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Z.Z. Packer)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) East of Eden(John Steinbeck)
Dreaming in Cuban(Christina Garcia) Emma (Jane Austen)
Bell for Adano (John Hersey) End of the Road(The John Barth)
Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata) Fever Pitch (Nick Hornby) The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story (Diane Ackerman) Finding Darwin’s God (Kenneth Miller)
Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer) Floating Opera(John Barth)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Walter Mosley) Good Man Is Hard to Find (A Flannery O’Connor)
Night Flight (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) House of Mirth(The Edith Wharton) Suggested Reading List Reading Suggested Franny and Zooey (J. D. Salinger) The Illiad- Homer(Translated by Robert Fagles)
Dakota Dream (James Bennett) The Inner Game of Tennis (W. Timothy Gallwey)
Left Hand of Darkness(Ursula K. LeGuin) Irons in the Fire(John McPhee) It’s the Little Things: Everyday InteractionsLena China Boy (Gus Lee) Williams
Annie John (Jamaica Kincaid) Jane EyreCharlotte Bronte Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Rite of Passage (Richard Wright) Mathematics(William Dunham
Driving Force (Dick Francis) Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
The Eagle of the Ninth(Rosemary Sutcliff) The Kite Runner(Khaled Hossein)
Cast Two Shadows (Ann Rinaldi) Like Water for Chocolate(Laura Esquivel) Suggested Reading List Reading Suggested
INCOMING FRESHMEN INCOMING SOPHOMORES INCOMING JUNIORS AND SENIORS
If I should Die Before I Wake(Han Nolan) Lonesome Dove(Larry McMurtry)
Bumblebee Flies Away(Robert Cormier) The Member of the Wedding(Carson McCullers)
Hannah In Between (Colby Rodowsky) Midaq Alley(Naguib Mahfouz)
To Say Nothing of the Dog(Connie Willis) Middlesex(Jeffrey Eugenides)
The Contender (Robert Lipsyte) Native Son(Richard Wright) The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency(Alexander Iron Man (Chris Crutcher) McCall Smith) What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Lerone Bennett) Oliver Twist(Charles Dickens) One Hundred Years of Solitude(Gabriel Garcia The Fantastic Freshman (Bill Brittain) Marquez) Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time (Mark Haddon) The Path Between the Seas (David McCullough) The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom) The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Things They Carried(Tim O’Brien) Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Tears of a Tiger (Sharon M. Draper) Sea(Yukio Mishima)
Ordinary People (Judith Guest) The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
The Home Place* (J. Drew Lanham) A Silence in the Garden (William Trevor) The Gene or The Emperor of All Maladies* (Siddhartha Mukherjee) Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison) The Undoing Project or Moneyball* (Michael The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John Lewis) LeCarre Astrophysics for People in a Hurry* (Neil A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do AgainDavid DeGrase Tyson) Foster Wallace
Suggested Reading List Reading Suggested The Making of the Atomic Bomb* (Richard Rhodes) Tess of the D’Urbervilles(Thomas Hardy)
The Things They Carried (Tim O’Brien)
Waiting (Ha Jin)
The World is Flat(Thomas Friedman)
Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman’s Journey (L.A. Zayd)
You Shall Know Our Velocity(Dave Eggers)