LOOMIS2019 CHAFFEE Summer Reading A GUIDE TO Juniors Summer Reading 2019 All new and returning students are REQUIRED English III required to read: The Namesake JHUMPA LAHIRI • All-school • Grade level REQUIRED CL English III Seminar • One starred book Frankenstein MARY SHELLEY
REQUIRED For more information, see: loomis.libguides.com/sr U.S. History Students will complete a summer experience assignment. For information on required reading, site visits, and reflection on experiences, see: bit.ly/2FYq5tc.
REQUIRED CL U.S. History All-School Students will complete a summer experience assignment. For information on required reading, site visits, and reflection on experiences, see: bit.ly/2FYq5tc. REQUIRED Additionally, students will read these articles: Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True BRENÉ BROWN loomis.libguides.com/sr/ush. Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone You May Also Like … Freshmen The River King ALICE HOFFMAN
The Kite Runner KHALED HOSSEINI
REQUIRED Station Eleven EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL
The Book Thief MARKUS ZUSAK Me Talk Pretty One Day DAVID SEDARIS (Prologue – end of Part 5) The Glass Castle: A Memoir JEANNETTE WALLS
You May Also Like … Ender’s Game ORSON SCOTT CARD Seniors
The House on Mango Street SANDRA CISNEROS REQUIRED Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet JAMIE FORD Speak No Evil UZODINMA IWEALA Into Thin Air JON KRAKAUER
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. SALINGER You May Also Like … Jane Eyre CHARLOTTE BRONTË Sophomores How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia MOHSIN HAMID
Love in the Time of Cholera GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ REQUIRED Unaccustomed Earth: Stories JHUMPA LAHIRI 1984 GEORGE ORWELL The God of Small Things ARUNDHATI ROY
You May Also Like … Bless Me, Ultima RUDOLFO ANAYA
Bel Canto ANN PATCHETT
The Chosen CHAIM POTOK
Sing, Unburied, Sing JESMYN WARD Open the brochure to see all the starred The Once and Future King T. H. WHITE selections! Book Chats on these titles will be held in the fall. Head of School Book to Film Diversity & Inclusion Reader’s Choice The Genius of Birds JENNIFER ACKERMAN Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda BECKY ALBERTALLI The Poet X: A Novel ELIZABETH ACEVEDO Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands CHRIS BOHJALIAN (Movie: Love, Simon) Transcription KATE ATKINSON The Miseducation of Cameron Post EMILY M. DANFORTH All the Light We Cannot See ANTHONY DOERR If Beale Street Could Talk JAMES BALDWIN Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom DAVID W. BLIGHT White Fragility ROBIN DIANGELO Sabrina NICK DRNASO Boy Erased GARRARD CONLEY Washington Black ESI EDUGYAN Waking Up White: And Finding Myself DEBBY IRVING The White Darkness DAVID GRANN The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind WILLIAM KAMKWAMBA in the Story of Race The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress JOANNE B. FREEMAN How to Stop Time MATT HAIG and the Road to Civil War Pet Sematary STEPHEN KING An African American and Latinx History PAUL ORTIZ When Breath Becomes Air PAUL KALANITHI of the United States Bird Box JOSH MALERMAN Song of Solomon TONI MORRISON Alvord Center for Global & Environmental Studies Dumplin’: Go Big or Go Home JULIE MURPHY Revolutionary ALEX MYERS (Movie: Dumplin’) History, Philosophy, Religious Studies Climate of Hope BLOOMBERG & POPE There, There TOMMY ORANGE Beautiful Boy DAVID SHEFF Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation DUFFY, JENNINGS & BUTLER Behind the Beautiful Forevers KATHERINE BOO & Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines NIC SHEFF Old Newgate Road KEITH SCRIBNER ’80 Becoming MICHELLE OBAMA The Wizard and the Prophet CHARLES C. MANN (Movie: Beautiful Boy) Counting Descent CLINT SMITH Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey DAN-EL PADILLA PERALTA The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Black Klansman: A Memoir RON STALLWORTH Educated: A Memoir TARA WESTOVER (Movie: BlacKkKlansman) from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return MARJANE SATRAPI Night ELIE WIESEL The Hate U Give ANGIE THOMAS House of Stone: A Novel NOVUYO ROSA TSHUMA Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine: Stories KEVIN WILSON Native Son RICHARD WRIGHT The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays WESLEY YANG Norton Family Center for the Common Good Explosions of Joy PAUL YIN
American Prison SHANE BAUER College Office Mathematics Science Parkland: Birth of a Movement DAVE CULLEN Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be FRANK BRUNI ’82 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions EDWIN A. ABBOTT Antisemitism: Here and Now DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT Einstein’s Monsters: The Life and CHRIS IMPEY College (Un)bound JEFFREY J. SELINGO Journey Through Genius WILLIAM DUNHAM Recipes Welcome PROJECT ELEA Times of Black Holes How Not to Be Wrong JORDAN ELLENBERG The Power of Meaning: Crafting a EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH Thinking, Fast and Slow DANIEL KAHNEMAN Wade in the Water TRACY K. SMITH Life That Matters Math with Bad Drawings BEN ORLIN 2312 KIM STANLEY ROBINSON The Gatekeepers JACQUES STEINBERG Hidden Figures MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY Pearse Hub for Innovation Reality Is Not What It Seems CARLO ROVELLI Creating a Class MITCHELL L. STEVENS The Martian: A Novel ANDY WEIR Let My People Go Surfing YVON CHOUINARD Modern & Classical Languages The Circle: A Novel DAVE EGGERS Community Work Program The Storm Before the Storm MIKE DUNCAN Social Science Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World ADAM GRANT Shop Class as Soulcraft MATTHEW B. CRAWFORD The Greatest Wisdom Ever Written JAMES J. FAIRLIE Brave, Not Perfect RESHMA SAUJANI Dollars and Sense DAN ARIELY Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach JAMES KERR Small Country: A Novel GAËL FAYE Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a SUSAN CAIN Quirky MELISSA A. SCHILLING Us about the Business of Life Secret Son LAILA LALAMI World That Can’t Stop Talking Circe: A Novel MADELINE MILLER Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a JOHN CARREYROU Art Deans My Brigadista Year KATHERINE PATERSON Silicon Valley Startup Flash: The Making of Weegee CHRISTOPHER BONANOS The Person You Mean to Be: How Good DOLLY CHUGH Being Mortal ATUL GAWANDE the Famous People Fight Bias Music The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog BRUCE D. PERRY Why Art? ELEANOR DAVIS Timeline MICHAEL CRICHTON The Songs CHARLES ELTON Drawn to Berlin ALI FITZGERALD Popular: The Power of Likability MITCH PRINSTEIN Theater & Dance in a Status-Obsessed World The Music Shop RACHEL JOYCE The Downtown Pop Underground KEMBREW MCLEOD Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold MARGARET ATWOOD Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, DANI SHAPIRO White Tears HARI KUNZRU Safe Area Goražde JOE SACCO Paternity, and Love Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina MISTY COPELAND Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music ADAM OCKELFORD Enough As She Is RACHEL SIMMONS Dear Evan Hansen (script) LEVENSON, PASEK & PAUL Athletics The Art of Possibility ZANDER & ZANDER Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago JOHN MAYER The Boys in the Boat DANIEL JAMES BROWN Hamlet’s Dresser: A Memoir BOB SMITH The Hard Hat JON GORDON North: Finding My Way While Running SCOTT JUREK the Appalachian Trail
The Last Pass GARY M. POMERANTZ A Still Quiet Place for Athletes AMY SALTZMAN “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” STEPHEN KING 4 Batchelder Road, Windsor, CT 06095 www.loomischaffee.org