SUMMER READING 2009
Table of Contents
*Seniors...... 2
*Juniors...... 3
*Sophomores...... 4
*Freshmen...... 5
Adventure...... 6
The Arts...... 7
Sports...... 8
College...... 9
*America: Past and Present...... 10
Mystery and Imagination...... 11
Reader’s Choice...... 12
Science and Technology...... 13
Biography and Memoir...... 14
Books to Film...... 15
World View...... 16
*These lists include required as well as suggested reading Seniors Juniors
Each senior must read the three starred books and should choose at least Each junior must read the two starred books and should choose at least two others from this list or from any other list in the Summer Reading two others from this list or any other list in the Summer Reading booklet. Postgraduate students should select their books from this list. booklet.
*THE LIFE OF PI...... Yann Martel *A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY...... John Irving *PURPLE HIBISCUS...... Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche *THE BEAN TREES...... Barbara Kingsolver *EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE...... Jonathan Safran Foer
What is the What...... Dave Eggars The Trouble with Poetry...... Billy Collins Kindred...... Octavia E. Butler The Sea...... John Banville The Amazing Adventures of The Devil in the White City...... Erik Larson Kavalier and Clay...... Michael Chabon
The Professor and the Madman...... Simon Winchester A Lost Lady...... Willa Cather
Gertrude and Claudius...... John Updike The Endurance...... Alfred Lansing
The Piano Tuner...... Daniel Mason The Opposite of Fate...... Amy Tan
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens...... Alice Walker The God of Small Things...... Arundhati Roy
Prodigal Summer...... Barbara Kingsolver Montana 1948...... Larry Watson
Saturday...... Ian McEwan Before You Know Kindness...... Chris Bohjalian . The History of Love...... Nicole Krauss
2 3 Sophomores Freshmen
Each sophomore must read the three starred books and should choose at Entering freshmen must read the starred books and should choose at least two others from this list or any other in the Summer Reading least two others from this list or from any other list in the Summer booklet. Reading booklet.
*BEL CANTO...... Ann Patchett *WARRIORS DON’T CRY...... Melba Patillo Beals *THE BUFFALO SOLDIER...... Chris Bohjalian *MY NAME IS ASHER LEV...... Chaim Potok *1984...... George Orwell *SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS...... David Guterson
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel...... Louise Murphy God Grew Tired of Us...... John Bul Dau
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems...... Robert Frost Delights & Shadows...... Ted Kooser
Girls of Tender Age...... Mary-Ann Tirone Smith A Separate Peace...... John Knowles
Crow Lake...... Mary Lawson Ender’s Game...... Orson Scott Card
The Rapture of Canaan...... Shari Reynolds Women of the Silk...... Gail Tsukiyama
The Weight of Water...... Anita Shreve Clan of the Cave Bear...... Jean Auel
The Highest Tide...... Jim Lynch Great Expectations...... Charles Dickens
Black Boy...... Richard Wright Iron and Silk...... Mark Salzman
To Kill a Mockingbird...... Harper Lee
Briar Rose...... Jane Yolen
4 5 Adventure The Arts
The Kid Who Climbed Everest...... Bear Grylls The Life and Death of Classical Music...... Norman Lebrecht
Greasy Rider...... Greg Melville Musicophilia...... Oliver Sacks
Three Day Road...... Joseph Boyden Song Man...... Will Hodgkinson
The Snow Leopard...... Peter Matthiessen Clapton...... Eric Clapton
The Last Season...... Eric Blehm Girl in Hyacinth Blue...... Susan Vreeland
The Devil’s Teeth...... Susan Casey The Lost Painting...... Jonathan Harr
Skeletons on the Zahara...... Dean King
Shadow Divers...... Robert Kurson
6 7 Sports College
Four Days to Glory...... Mark Kreidler The Gap Year Advantage...... Karl Haigler and Rae Nelson
The Entitled...... Frank Deford Fat Envelope Frenzy...... Joie Jager-Hyman
The Edict...... Bob Cupp Taming the Tuition Tiger...... Kathy Kristoff
Meat Market...... Bruce Feldman When Your Kid Goes to College...... Carol Barkin
American Shaolin...... Matthew Polly Colleges That Change Lives...... Lauren Pope
Opening Day...... Jonathan Eig The Fiske Guide to Colleges...... Edward B. Fiske
Beckham...... David Beckham You’re On Your Own (But I’m Here If You Need Me)...... Marjorie Savage
8 9 America: Past and Present Mystery and Imagination
The starred book is required of all students taking United States The Spellman Files...... Lisa Lutz History, AP United States History, or American Civilization. In the Woods...... Tana French *CHANGES IN THE LAND...... William Cronon Neverwhere...... Neil Gaiman Blood and Thunder...... Hampton Sides Fledgling...... Octavia Butler River of Doubt...... Candice Millard The Year of Fog...... Michelle Richmond Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History...... Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Bad Monkeys...... Matt Ruff
Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for An Ice Cold Grave...... Charlaine Harris Lincoln’s Killer...... James L. Swanson Nineteen Minutes...... Jodi Picoult The Worst Hard Time...... Timothy Egan Odd Thomas...... Dean Koontz Mayflower...... Nathaniel Philbrick Bare Bones...... Kathy Reichs Tulia...... Nate Blakeslee The Yiddish Policeman’s Union...... Michael Chabon The Killer Angels...... Michael Shaara An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes Team of Rivals...... Doris Kearns Goodwin in New England...... Brock Clarke
The Circus Fire...... Stewart O’Nan Mother Night...... Kurt Vonnegut
Simple Gifts...... June Sprigg Flowers for Algernon...... Daniel Keyes
Confederates in the Attic...... Tony Horwitz The Handmaid’s Tale...... Margaret Atwood
10 11 Reader’s Choice Science and Technology
Away...... Amy Bloom The Wild Trees...... Richard Preston
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao...... Junot Diaz The World Without Us...... Alan Weisman
Those Who Save Us...... Jenna Blum A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper...... John Allen Paulos
Song Yet Sung...... James McBride Animal, Vegetable, Miracle...... Barbara Kingsolver
The Uncommon Reader...... Alan Bennett The Canon...... Natalie Angier
The God of Animals...... Aryn Kyle Spook...... Mary Roach
Acceptance...... Susan Coll The Omnivore’s Dilemma...... Michael Pollan
The Night Birds...... Thomas Maltman Death’s Acre...... Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson
Peony in Love...... Lisa See The Secret Life of Lobsters...... Trevor Corson
Playing for Pizza...... John Grisham The Planets...... Dava Sobel
We Have Always Lived in the Castle...... Shirley Jackson Bone Lady...... Mary H. Manhein
Death by Black Hole...... Neil deGrasse Tyson
Count Down...... Steve Olson
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The Audacity of Hope...... Barack Obama The Duchess...... Amanda Foreman
I Was Told There’d Be Cake...... Sloane Crosley The Reader...... Bernhard Schlink
Mississippi Sissy...... Kevin Sessums The Secret Life of Bees...... Sue Monk Kidd
Merle’s Door...... Ted Kerasote Twilight...... Stephanie Meyer
Born On a Blue Day...... Daniel Tammet The Road...... Cormac McCarthy
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier...... Ishmael Beah Defiance...... Nechama Tec
Name All the Animals...... Alison Smith Yes Man...... Danny Wallace
The Glass Castle...... Jeanette Wells Marley and Me...... John Grogan
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid...... Bill Bryson The Other Boleyn Girl...... Philippa Gregory
Final Exam...... Pauline Chen Slumdog Millionaire...... Vikas Swarup
Paula...... Isabel Allende The Curious Case of Benjamin Button...... F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Tender Bar...... J.R. Moehringer
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Kabul Beauty School...... Deborah Rodriguez ABOUT THE CONTENTS In the Country of Men...... Hisham Matar
The White Tiger...... Aravind Adiga EDITORS Linda H. Duncan Librarian A Thousand Splendid Suns...... Khaled Hosseini Sally Z. Knight The Zookeeper’s Wife...... Diane Ackerman Teacher of English
A Woman in Jerusalem...... A.B. Yehoshua
Suite Francaise...... Irene Nemirovsky With the assistance of Cheryl Kirk Library Technical Assistant Dubliners...... James Joyce
Oracle Bones...... Peter Hessler Contributors Faculty and Students Last Evening on Earth...... Roberto Blanco
Three Cups of Tea...... Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Director of the Library Elaine F. DeVoss
Cover Design Patricia Cousins
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