LoomisChaffee Summer Reading 2011
SUMMER READING 2011 Table of Contents
* Seniors...... 2
* Juniors...... 3
* Sophomores...... 4
* Freshmen...... 5
Adventure...... 6
The Arts...... 7
Sports...... 7
College...... 6
*America: Past and Present...... 8
Mystery and Imagination...... 9
Reader’s Choice...... 10
Science and Technology...... 11
Biography and Memoir...... 12
Books to Film...... 13
World View...... 14
Parents...... 15
About the Contents...... 16
* These lists include required as well as suggested reading.
Seniors
Each senior must read the three starred books and should choose at least two others from this list or from any other list in the Summer Reading booklet. Postgraduate students should select their books from this list.
*THE LIFE OF PI...... Yann Martel *HALF BROKE HORSES...... Jeannette Walls *EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE...... Jonathan Safran Foer
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.....David Wroblewski
Half of a Yellow Sun...... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Trouble with Poetry...... Billy Collins
The Sea...... John Banville
The Devil in the White City...... Erik Larson
The Piano Tuner...... Daniel Mason
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens...... Alice Walker
The Lacuna...... Barbara Kingsolver
Saturday...... Ian McEwan
The History of Love...... Nicole Krauss
2 Juniors
Each junior must read the first two starred books and should choose at least two others from this list or from any other list in the Summer Reading booklet.
**Advanced Junior Seminar students must, in addition, read the third starred book.
*THE GLASS CASTLE...... Jeannette Walls *A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY...... John Irving **FRANKENSTEIN...... Mary Shelley
Evidence...... Mary Oliver
What Is the What...... Dave Eggers
Kindred...... Octavia E. Butler
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay...... Michael Chabon
A Lost Lady...... Willa Cather
The Endurance...... Alfred Lansing
The Opposite of Fate ...... Amy Tan
The God of Small Things...... Arundhati Roy
Brother, I’m Dying...... Edwidge Danticat
Before You Know Kindness...... Chris Bohjalian
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water...... Michael Dorris
3 Sophomores
Each sophomore must read the three starred books and should choose at least two others from this list or from any other list in the Summer Reading booklet.
*BEL CANTO...... Ann Patchett *THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME...... Mark Haddon *1984...... George Orwell
The Book Thief...... Markus Zusak
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems...... Robert Frost
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency...... Alexander McCall Smith
Crow Lake...... Mary Lawson
City of Thieves...... David Benioff
The Weight of Water...... Anita Shreve
The Highest Tide...... Jim Lynch
Black Boy...... Richard Wright
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel...... Louise Murphy
The Help...... Kathryn Stockett
4 Freshmen
Entering freshmen must read the starred books and should choose at least two others from this list or from any other list in the Summer Reading booklet.
*OUTLIERS...... Malcolm Gladwell *HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET...... Jamie Ford *ENDER’S GAME...... Orson Scott Card
The Good Thief...... Hannah Tinti
Delights & Shadows...... Ted Kooser
A Separate Peace...... John Knowles
Ender’s Game...... Orson Scott Card
Women of the Silk...... Gail Tsukiyama
Clan of the Cave Bear...... Jean Auel
David Copperfield...... Charles Dickens
God Grew Tired of Us...... John Bul Dau
To Kill a Mockingbird...... Harper Lee
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society...... Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Warriors Don’t Cry...... Melba Patillo Beals
5 Adventure
Savage Summit...... Jennifer Jordan
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail...... David Miller
True Spirit...... Jessica Watson
The Lost City of Z...... David Grann
Fragile Edge...... Maria Coffey
Into the Wild...... Jon Krakauer
Never Cry Wolf...... Farley Mowat
College
I’m Going to College -- Not You!...... Jennifer Delahunty
The Gatekeepers...... Jacques Steinberg
The Gap Year Advantage...... Karl Haigler and Rae Nelson
The Naked Roommate...... Harlan Cohen
Colleges That Change Lives ...... Loren Pope
Essays That Worked for College Applications...... Boykin Curry, Bryan Kasbar and Emily Angel Baer
6
Sports
Open: An Autobiography...... Andre Agassi
Seabiscuit...... Laura Hillenbrand
Outcasts United...... Warren St. John
The Breaks of the Game...... David Halberstam
Born to Run...... Christopher McDougall
Fever Pitch...... Nick Hornby
The Glory Game...... Frank Gifford and Peter Richmond
Meat Market...... Bruce Feldman
Clemente...... David Maraniss
The Arts
Just Kids...... Patti Smith
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong...... Terry Teachout
Clapton...... Eric Clapton
Vanished Smile...... R.A. Scotti
Thelonious Monk...... Robin D. G. Kelley
Luncheon of the Boating Party...... Susan Vreeland
7
America: Past and Present
Students taking United States History, AP United States History, or American Civilization must read one of the starred books.
*CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC...... Tony Horwitz *WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR...... Doris Kearns Goodwin *FOUNDING BROTHERS...... Joseph Ellis
Honolulu...... Alan Brennert
This Republic of Suffering...... Drew Gilpin Faust
The Good Soldiers...... David Finkel
Go Down Together...... Jeff Guinn
Fools Crow...... James Welch
Little Pink House...... Jeff Benedict
The Big Burn...... Timothy Egan
Tulia...... Nate Blakeslee
The Warmth of Other Suns...... Isabel Wilkerson
The Circus Fire...... Stewart O’Nan
A Mercy...... Toni Morrison
8 Mystery and Imagination
The Last Child...... John Hart
The Magicians...... Lev Grossman
Dracula...... Bram Stoker
The Bottoms...... Joe R. Lansdale
Dandelion Wine...... Ray Bradbury
So Cold the River...... Michael Koryta
The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag...... Alan Bradley
The Odds...... Kathleen George
Fledgling...... Octavia Butler
Black Water Rising...... Attica Locke
The Passage...... Justin Cronin
The Year of the Flood...... Margaret Atwood
The Scent of Rain and Lightning...... Nancy Pickard
Breakfast of Champions...... Kurt Vonnegut
Lord Foul’s Bane...... Stephen R. Donaldson
9 Reader’s Choice
My Abandonment...... Peter Rock
Song Yet Sung...... James McBride
Remarkable Creatures...... Tracy Chevalier
Last Night in Twisted River...... John Irving
Wolf Hall...... Hilary Mantel
Let the Great World Spin...... Colum McCann
The Invisible Bridge...... Julie Orringer
Ballistics...... Billy Collins
Sag Harbor...... Colson Whitehead
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf...... Ntozake Shange
A Field of Darkness...... Cornelia Read
House Rules...... Jodi Picoult
I Capture the Castle...... Dodie Smith
Cutting for Stone...... Abraham Verghese
A Brief Chapter in My Impossibe Life...... Dana Reinhardt
10 Science and Technology
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks...... Rebecca Skloot
Parallel Worlds...... Michio Kaku
The Botany of Desire...... Michael Pollan
The Beak of the Finch...... Jonathan Weiner
Percival’s Planet...... Michael Byers
Earth in Mind...... David W. Orr
The Drunkard’s Walk...... Leonard Mlodinow
Your Inner Fish...... Neil Shubin
The Fabric of the Cosmos...... Brian Greene
The Big Necessity...... Rose George
The Ghost Map...... Steven Johnson
Euclid’s Window...... Leonard Mlodinow
Stiff...... Mary Roach
The Wild Trees...... Richard Preston
11 Biography and Memoir
Born Round...... Frank Bruni
Mennonite In a Little Black Dress...... Rhoda Janzen
The Other Wes Moore...... Wes Moore
Double Take...... Kevin Michael Connolly
The Kids Are All Right...... Diana, Liz, Amanda and Dan Welch
Honeymoon With My Brother...... Franz Wisner
The Liar’s Club...... Mary Karr
Dog Days...... Jon Katz
Look Me in the Eye...... John Elder Robison
Angela’s Ashes...... Frank McCourt
I Was Told There’d Be Cake...... Sloane Crosley
Name All the Animals...... Alison Smith
12 Books to Film
Never Let Me Go...... Kazuo Ishiguro
Water for Elephants...... Sara Gruen
True Grit...... Charles Portis
Eat, Pray, Love...... Elizabeth Gilbert
Secretariat...... William Nack
The Associate...... John Grisham
Fair Game...... Valerie Plame Wilson
The Town...... Chuck Hogan
The Accidental Billionaires...... Ben Mezrich
Eclipse...... Stephenie Meyer
127 Hours...... Aron Ralston
The Ghost Writer...... Robert Harris
Snow Angels...... Stewart O’Nan
13 World View
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind...... William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Dreaming in Cuban...... Christina Garcia
Strength in What Remains...... Tracy Kidder
Stones into Schools...... Greg Mortenson
The Wish Maker...... Ali Sethi
In the Time of the Butterflies...... Julia Alvarez
Where Men Win Glory...... Jon Krakauer
Mona in the Promised land...... Gish Jen
The Zookeeper’s Wife...... Diane Ackerman
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace....Dang Thuy Tram
Say You’re One of Them...... Uwem Akpan
Sea of Poppies...... Amitav Ghosh
14 Parents
Can’t Buy My Love...... Jean Kilbourne
Queen Bees and Wannabes...... Rosalind Wiseman
Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads...... Rosalind Wiseman
Letting Go...... Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawrence Treeger
Body Wars...... Margo Maine
Speaking of Boys...... Michael Thompson
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys...... Dan Kindlon, Michael Thompson and Theresa Barker
15 ABOUT THE CONTENTS
EDITORS Linda H. Duncan Librarian
Sally Z. Knight Teacher of English
With the assistance of Aimee MacGillivrary Library Technical Assistant
Contributors Faculty and Students
Director of the Library Elaine F. DeVoss
Cover design by Patricia Cousins
This booklet is a production of the Katharine Brush Library