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Nora School Summer Reading List 2018 Nora School Summer Reading List 2018 All returning and new students will spend part of the first day of school in a book discussion group. Returning students have already chosen their book group - new students should choose a book from the list below. Books chosen for the reading groups are intended to be fun, appropriate for beach or pool, and are not intended be the only book read this summer. A day or evening browsing at the library, Barnes & Noble, or Politics and Prose can be enjoyable for the whole family! Links to these books, along with the summer math, reading response, and writing assignments can be found at www.nora-school.org/students/summer-work Special prize to any student who reads ALL the books in our summer reading group series! Good for Everyone... Mindset, by Carol Dweck How intelligence is developed. For Parents... The Blessing of a B Minus, Wendy Mogel and How To Raise An Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims Students should choose ONE of the reading groups below for the first day of classes. This is your first English grade! Take a look on Amazon for descriptions of each book. Allison’s Group: The Fifth Season (Book 1 - The Broken Earth), N.K. Jemisin Avé’s Group: Men Without Women: Stories, Haruki Murakami Brennan’s Group: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll Chrissy’s Group: Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer Christina’s Group: The Power, Naomi Alderman Dave’s Group: Lullaby for the Rain Girl, Christopher Conlon. Chris’ Group: Daughters Unto Devils, Amy Lukavics Hedy’s Group: The Women in the Castle, Jessica Shattuck Marcia’s Group: When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka Norman’s Group: Leviathan Wakes - The Expanse, Book 1, James S. A. Corey Nisaa’s Group: The Alchemist, Paulo Coehlo Scott’s Group: North, Scott Jurek Will’s Group: Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Jeff Chang. Prose’s Group. Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill Other books you might enjoy from past reading groups: 100 Years, Sarah & A. Elizabeth Delaney Clockers, Richard Price 1984, George Orwell Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier 2001, A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke Confederates In The Attic, Tony Horowitz Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer, Seth Grahame-Smite Dark, Kenji Jasper A Death in Vienna, Daniel Silva Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, Letters compiled by Irving Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank Stone A Million Little Pieces, James Frey Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore Desirable Daughters, Bharati Mukherjee A Slave in the White House, Elizabeth Dowling Taylor Devil in the White City, Erik Larson A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini Dove, Robin Lee A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith Dracula, Bram Stoker A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan Dreams From My Father, Barak Obama A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years With Andy Warhol, Ultra Violet All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt Five Wishes, Gay Hendricks Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes Blackbird, Jennifer Lauck Forgotten Fire, Adam Bagdasarian Blood Done Sign My Name, Timothy Tyson Four Souls, Louise Erdrich Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607, Elisa Carbone Freakonomics, Steven Levitt Bright Shiny Morning, James Frey Freedomland, Richard Price Brown: Last Discovery of America, Richard Rodriguez Freedom Writers, by Zlata Filipovic Burning the Apostle, Bill Granger Gateway, Frederik Pohl Burr, Gore Vidal Going Public, Michael Gecan Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut Goldfinch, Donna Tart Child of God, Lolita Files Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett City, Clifford Simak Grendel, John Gardner Gray Mountain, John Grisham The Divine Within, Aldous Huxley Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth About Reality, Brad The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom Warner The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling The Golden Compass, Phillip Pullman Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, JK Rowling The Hip Hop Generation, Bakari Kitwana Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters’ First The Hand I Fan With, Tina McElroy Ansa Hell House, Richard Matheson The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas Henry Ossawa Tanner, Marcia M. Mathews The Hours: A Novel, Michael Cunningham Herding Ravens, Christopher Conlon The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa Home, by Toni Morrison The Iliad, Peter Green translation Homegoing: A Novel, Yaa Gyasi The Incredible Shrinking Man, Richard Matheson Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas Friedman The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead House on Garibaldi Street, Isser Harel The Kite Runners, Khaled Hosseini Howl's Moving Castle (#1), Diana Wynne Jones The Know-It-All, AJ Jacobs How Soccer Explains the World, Franklin Foer The Last Cherry Blossom, Kathleen Burkinshaw I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou The Last Town on Earth, Thomas Mullen In A Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson The Longest Ride, Nicholas Sparks In Cold Blood, Truman Capote The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright Inferno, Dan Brown The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Thomas Mullen In Pharaoh’s Army, Tobias Wolff The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould In Silent Graves, Gary Braunbeck The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein Into the Blue, by Rebecca Gault The Night Listener, Armistead Maupin Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer The Nordic Theory of Everything, Anu Partanen Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander Smith It's What I Do:Photographer's Life of Love&War, Lynsey Adario The Organ Grinders, Bill Fitzhugh I Want My Life Back, Steve Hamilton The Other Einstein, Marie Benedict Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton Jennifer Government, Max Barry The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski Jerusalem: The Biography, Simon Sebag Montefiore The Pipeline and the Paradigm, Samuel Aver Jump, Elisa Carbone The Places In Between, Rory Stewart Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen The Portable Promised Land, Toure Life Beyond Measure, Sidney Pottier The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid Lone Wolf - Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw, The Revisionists, Thomas Mullen Maryanne Vollers The Snowman, Jo Nesbo Man Crazy, Joyce Carol Oates The Strange Birth, Short Life, and Sudden Death of Justice Girl, Julian David Martha Quest, Doris Lessing Stone Middle Passage, Charles Johnson The Sweetest Dream, Doris Lessing Mindfullness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World, Mark Williams and Danny The Tree, Colin Tudge Pennman The Trial, Franz Kafka Moneyball, by Michael Lewis The Way Home, George Pelecanos Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson The World According to Garp, John Irving Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs Night, Eli Wiesel The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Night Watch, Terry Pratchett Think, Simon Blackburn One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey Think: Before It’s Too Late, Edward DeBono Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood Third Gate, Lincoln Child Out of the Depths, Rabbi Lau Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku Thud! Terry Pratchett Pictures at an Exhibition, Sarah Houghteling Thunder Showers at Dusk, Chris Conlon Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin Time and Again, Jack Finney Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee Safe Haven, Nicholas Sparks Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Search Party, Valerie Trueblood Red Sky at Morning, Richard Bradford Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi Runner, Dean Karnazes Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan Unwind, Neal Shusterman Siddhartha, Herman Hesse Upstate, Kalisha Buckhanon Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime, J. California Cooper Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. 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