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 TraceeYablon- Brenner

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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