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Loyola Summer Reading Book List Loyola Summer Reading Book List Title: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Author: William Kamkwamba The true story of a 14 year‐old boy in Malawi, who through his inventiveness and determination, provides electricity and water to his family, despite all odds. Genre: Action / Adventure Nonfiction ISBN_Number: 978‐0061730320 Title: Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga Author: Hunter S. Thompson In the mid‐1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Genre: Action / Adventure Nonfiction ISBN_Number: 9780345410085 Page 1 of 37 Title: The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa Author: Michael Kimmelman This book explores art as life's great passion, revealing what we can learn of life through pictures and sculptures and the people who make them. It assures us that art ‐ points of contact with the exceptional that are linked straight to the heart ‐ can be found almost anywhere and everywhere if only our eyes are opened enough to recognize it. Genre: Art / Theatre ISBN_Number: 9780143037330 Title: The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL Author: Eric Greitens The Heart and the Fist shares one man’s story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior. In a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience, Greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage come together in meaningful service. Genre: Biography / Autobiography ISBN_Number: 054742485X Page 2 of 37 Title: An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11‐Year‐Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executi Author: Laura Schroff,Alex Tresniowski When Laura Schroff brushed by a young panhandler on a New York City corner one rainy afternoon, something made her stop and turn back. She took the boy to lunch at the McDonald’s across the street that day. And she continued to go back, again and again for the next four years until both their lives had changed dramatically. Genre: Biography / Autobiography ISBN_Number: 9781451642513 Title: Steve Jobs Author: Walter Isaacson Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller‐coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries. Genre: Biography / Autobiography ISBN_Number: 1451648537 Page 3 of 37 Title: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Author: Edmund Morris Thirty years ago, this magisterial biography became a bestseller and won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The first of Edmund Morris' three Theodore Roosevelt bios covers the Rough Rider president's life from his 1858 birth to his November 1901 election as president. Genre: Biography / Autobiography ISBN_Number: 0‐375‐75678‐7 Title: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin An outstanding a very readable biography of American’s greatest president. Genre: Biography / Autobiography ISBN_Number: 9780743270755 Page 4 of 37 Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray Author: Oscar Wilde Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Genre: Classics ISBN_Number: 978‐0375751516 Title: A Christmas Carol Author: Charles Dickens If you've never read this classic, which contains the famous, "God bless us, every one!" now is your chance. Read the original story of the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future! Genre: Classics ISBN_Number: 2940011885945 Page 5 of 37 Title: The Odyssey Author: Homer This is the classic epic set in ancient Greece‐‐the story of man who faces monsters and gods to find his way home after war. A beautiful tale, and one of the foundations of Western Literature. Genre: Classics ISBN_Number: 9781593080099 Title: The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman Author: Lawrence Sterne Sterne's book is the most hilarious ride one can hope for in the world of English literature. It breaks every rule and convention of the English novel; it can be called the first postmodern novel, and was written before even modernism had taken shape. Genre: Classics ISBN_Number: 9780141439778 Page 6 of 37 Title: The Power and The Glory Author: Graham Greene In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption. Genre: Classics ISBN_Number: 9780142437308 Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Author: Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court may be the world’s first novel about time travel. But the inspiration to send a modern American through time as well as space sprang directly out of Twain’s long‐standing literary goals. Genre: Classics ISBN_Number: 9781411431997 Page 7 of 37 Title: A Future of an Illusion Author: Sigmund Freud In 1927 Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, declared that religion is a universal obsessional neurosis. The Future of an Illusion provoked immediate controversy and has continued to be an important work for anyone interested in the intersection of psychology, religion, and culture. Genre: Classics ISBN_Number: 9780393008319 Title: Travels with Charley Author: John Steinbeck With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled by racism in New Orleans. Genre: Classics ISBN_Number: 9780142000700 Page 8 of 37 Title: The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teensds Author: Brooke Hauser These are “the new kids”: new to America and all the routines and rituals of an American high school, from lonely first days to prom. They attend the International High School at Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, which is like most high schools in some ways—its halls are filled with students gossiping, joking, flirting, and pushing the limits of the school’s dress code—but all of the students are recent immigrants learning English. Genre: Current Events / Politics ISBN_Number: 9781439163283 Title: A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier Author: Michael Peel The largest U.S. trading partner in sub‐Saharan Africa, petroleum‐ rich Nigeria exports half its daily oil production to the United States. Like many African nations with natural resources coveted by the world's superpowers, the country has been shaped by foreign investment and intervention, conflicts among hundreds of ethnic and religious groups, and greed. Genre: Current Events / Politics ISBN_Number: 1569762864 Page 9 of 37 Title: American Rust Author: Philipp Meyer Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, "American Rust" is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises in its absence. Genre: Fiction ISBN_Number: 9780385527514 Title: The Life of Pi Author: Yann Martel When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450‐pound Bengal tiger. Genre: Fiction ISBN_Number: 9780156027328 Page 10 of 37 Title: The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar Author: Robert Alexander In the turbulent early days of revolutionary Russia, Bolshevik agents herded the deposed Tsar Nicholai II, his family and aides into the basement of a Siberian house and executed them all in a blaze of gunfire. Details of what happened that fateful night have taken decades to emerge, reaching a terrible climax with the 1991 excavation of a mass grave believed to be the one in which some of the members of the Romanov family were buried. Genre: Fiction ISBN_Number: 9780142003817 Title: All The King's Men Author: Robert Penn Warren Set in the 1930s, this Pulitzer Prize‐winning novel traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real‐life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success. Generally considered the finest novel ever written on American politics, All the King's Men is a literary classic. Genre: Fiction ISBN_Number: 9780156004800 Page 11 of 37 Title: The Power of One Author: Bryce Courtenay In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. Peekay's childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams–which are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the power of one. Genre: Fiction ISBN_Number: 9780345410054 Page 12 of 37 Title: The Memory of Running: A Novel Author: Ron McLarty Meet Smithson “Smithy” Ide, an overweight, friendless, chain‐ smoking, forty‐three‐year‐old drunk who works as a quality control inspector at a toy action‐figure factory in Rhode Island.
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