RENAISSANCE READER – FACULTY-SPONSORED BOOKS 2019 - 2020
FACULTY AUTHOR TITLE
Mr. Bartholomew RJ Palacio Wonder Nick Hornby Fever Pitch
Mr. Beardsley J.R.R.Tolkien The Silmarillion Victor Frankl Man’s Search for Meaning Susan Kay Phantom Robert McCammon Swan Song Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken
Mrs. Beardsley Patrick Rothfuss The Name of the Wind The Wise Man’s Fear Brandon Sanderson Mistborn The Well of Ascension The Hero of Ages The Way of King Words of Radiance Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Neil Shubin Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5- Billion - Year History of the Human Body
Mr. Bulinski Jorge Luis Borges Anything Jeff Hobbs The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace Khaled Housseini A Thousand Splendid Suns The Kite Runner St. John Mandel Station 11 Sudhir Venkatesh Gang Leader for a Day
Mr. Clark Aldous Huxley Brave New World Robert Pirsig Zen and the Art Motorcycle Maintenance Paul Tillich The Courage to Be Huston Smith Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography Dalai Lama The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
Mr. Desroches E. F. Schumacher Small is Beautiful
Mrs. Fisher William Shakespeare Any Shakespeare play not currently being taught in the Upper School Mo Yan Red Sorghum Toni Morrison Beloved Kathryn Stockett The Help Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones Angie Thomas The Hate U Give
Ms. Falk Jennifer Pharr Davis Becoming Odyssa Called Again The Pursuit of Endurance Tommy Caldwell The Push: A Climber’s Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits Haruki Murakami The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Kafka on the Shore Ann Patchett Bel Canto State of Wonder
Ms. Gibson Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible Sally Mann Hold Still Philip Roth American Pastoral Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Mrs. Dalloway
Ms. Harris Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympahtizer
Ms. Herlevsen Richard Sennett The Craftsman David Bayles Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking Ray Bradbury Anything
Profe Iturbe Arturo Pérez Reverte El Francotirador Paciente Julia Scheeres Jesus Land: A Memoir Nic Stone Dear Martin
Dr. Jarry Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air
Mr. Johnson John Colapinto As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl Jonathan Weiner The Beak of the Finch R.M. Patterson The Dangerous River
Dr. Jones Thornton Wilder The Ides of March Neil Gaiman American Gods; Anansi Boys George R. R. Martin Any of the Song of Ice and Fire series Ursula Le Guin Lavinia Madeline Miller Song of Achilles (GSA reading?!)
Mr. Lourie Toni Morrison Song of Solomon Doris Kearns Goodwin Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Ms. Lyle Tracy Kidder Mountains Beyond Mountains House Willa Cather The Song of the Lark Barbara Kingsolver Anything
Mrs. Miller Mark Helprin In Sunlight and in Shadow Isabel Allende Portrait in Sepia Will Harlan Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Mr. Minster William Gibson Neuromancer（神经漫游者） Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Liza Mundy Code Breakers: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of WWII
Mrs. Moses Gioconda Belli La Mujer Habitada Dean Koontz Odd Thomas Forever Odd Brother Odd
Mr. Nichols Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Mr. Quagliaroli Ian McEwan Atonement Yann Martel Life of Pi Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake TC Boyle The Tortilla Curtain Julia Alvarez The Agüero Sisters Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Dr. Reeves Philippe Claudel Les âmes grises (By a slow river) (In French or translation) Le rapport de Brodeck (Brodeck’s Report) (In French or translation)
Fred Vargas Anything Louise Penny Anything
Mrs. Robertson Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried Junot Diaz This is how you lose her Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Yaa Gyasi Homegoimg
Mrs. Scheel Warren St. John Outcasts United Stephanie Dray & Laura America’s First Daughter Kamoie
Mr. Shoup Jorge Luis Borges Anything (in Spanish or English) Colson Whitehead The Intuitionist Tommy Orange There There Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones Steve Brusatte The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Jennifer Ackerman The Genius of Birds
Dr. Simeone Marissa Pessl Night Film or Special Topics in Calamity Physics Sophie Hannah Anything Bram Stoker Dracula (co-sponsored with Mrs. Wendling) Tana French Dublin Murder Squad Series (co-sponsored with Mrs. Wendling)
Mr. Smith John Dos Passos USA Trilogy; Manhattan Transfer G.K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday Greg Jackson Prodigals Reinhold Niebuhr Children of Light and Children of Darkness; The Irony of American History Walker Percy The Moviegoer Frank Deford, David Any classic American sports writing Halberstam, Mark Kram, etc.
Ms. Sohne-Johnston Jodi Picoult Small Great Things Paulo Coelho The Alchemist
Ms. Speidel Jennifer Pharr Davis Becoming Odyssa
Mr. Taylor Frank O’Hara Lunch Poems Joan Didion Slouching to Bethlehem Richard Powers The Overstory William Gibson Pattern Recognition
Cixin Liu Three Body Problem Renata Adler Speedboat Sara Marcus Girls to the Front
Dr. Troy Ernest Gaines A Lesson Before Dying Qui Xiaolong A Loyal Character Dancer JD Vance Hillbilly Elegy Susan Blackmore Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction Robert Troy Denial of Sunlight/Emergence/Full Exposure Carl Sagan Contact
Ms. Van Liew Robert Parker Any of the Spenser Novels Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad Wilkie Collins The Woman in White
Dr. Visscher-Gingerich Esmeralda Santiago When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir
Mrs. Wendling Stephen King Anything Neil Gaiman Anything Joe Hill Anything Madeline Miller Circe, The Song of Achilles Shirley Jackson Anything Caitlin Moran Anything Tommy Orange There, There Emil Ferris My Favorite Thing is Monsters Charlotte or Anne Brontë Anything Pierre Boulle Planet of the Apes (in French or in English translation) Ottessa Moshfegh My Year of Rest & Relaxation Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Ling Ma Severance: A Novel Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing
Mrs. Wicks Sherman Alexie Anything Annie Dillard Teaching a Stone to Talk Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones
Mr. Ware Norman Maclean A River Runs Through It Wendell Berry The Memory of Old Jack Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
Mr. Wiseman John Steinbeck East of Eden Khaled A. Beydoun American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear Fawaz A. Gerges ISIS: A History
Mr. Zunka Susan Cain Quiet Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club Colson Whitehead The Intuitionist George Saunders Tenth of December Lincoln in the Bardo Pastoralia Any poetry collection...let’s chat!
Other Great Reads • Plainsong, Kent Haruf • The New Valley, Josh Weil • Season of Life, Jeffrey Marx • Catch 22, Joseph Heller • Sometimes A Great Notion, Ken Kesey • Falling Upwards, Lee Siegel • Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney • The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, Steven Sherrill • Lancelot, Walker Percy • The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper • Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card • In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick • The Devil in the White City, Eric Larson