<p>SPEND THE SUMMER WITH YOUR FAVORITE TEACHER’S FAVORITE BOOK</p><p>Anne Alexander: ___Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout ___Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell ___The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows ___The House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende ___Stop Time by Frank Conroy ___Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder ___Half the Sky by Nicolas Kristoff& Sheryl WuDunn ___ The Boys from Dolores by Patrick Symmes ___Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle ___In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez Middle School: ___Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper and other poems ___The Book Thiefby MarcusZusak ___Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie ___Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez ___Dragonwings by Laurence Yep</p><p>Candy Anderson ___Body and Soul by Frank Conroy ___The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman ___Fire on the Horizon by John Konrad and Tom Shroder</p><p>Elizabeth Aranow ___The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollen ___Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser</p><p>Dulcie Arnold ___The Nero Wolfe Cookbook by Rex Stout (great reading; haven't tried a single recipe) ___How to Cook EverythingBy Mark Bittman, use it all the time. ___Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons ___Storm Front (first of The Dresden Files series) by Jim Butcher </p><p>Fred Bartels ___The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien</p><p>Libby Bauer ___Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver</p><p>Ginny Black ___The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards, (mature 8th graders and up) A story of family secrets, stained glass, and Women’s Suffrage in 1900’s NY. Mark Bortner ___The Beatles Anthology by the Beatles - middle school and up ($35.00) ___Who Were the Beatles by Geoff Edgers for upper elementary</p><p>Susan Burns ___From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg ___To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee</p><p>Ileana Carafas ___The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R. R.Tolkien</p><p>Ellen Cartwright ___Simple Food for Busy Families by Jeannette Bessinger and TraceeYablon- Brenner</p><p>Doug Cerrone ___Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ___Les Miserables by Victor Hugo</p><p>Judy Conant ___Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese</p><p>Sarah Danziger ___A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg</p><p>Carmela DeCarlo ___Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry ___Shogun by James Clavell ___The Prophet byKahlil Gibran (inspiring) ___Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart by Gordon Livingston, M.D.</p><p>Jennifer DeVito ___A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving ___Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen A classic! ___Sophie's Choice - William Styron ___Princess Brideby William Goldman ___Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie ___The Help by Kathryn Stockett ___A Rumor of War by Philip Caputto Vietnam War memoir </p><p>Carrie Donahue ___To Kill A Mockingbird byHarper Lee ___Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver ___The Space Between Us byThrityUnrigar Rosita Fernandez-Rojo Elementary Age ___Miss Rumphiusby Barbara Cooney ___Time of Wonderby Robert McCloskey Middle School ___Sideways Aritmeticfrom Wayside School ___Anne of Green Gablesby Lucy Maud Montgomery Adult ___Sailing Alone Around the Worldby Joshua Slocum ___Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen ___Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie ___Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro</p><p>Johnny Flynn ___The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley</p><p>Suzanne Gigante ___The Woman in White byWilkieCollins : a Victorian novel even for people who think they don't like Victorian novels. </p><p>Linda Greenhouse ___Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson</p><p>Ginny Hearon ___Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck ___Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovannni ___Words Under Words by Naomi Shibab Nye ___Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks ___Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner</p><p>Ted Heintz ___Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand</p><p>David Hinman ___What's Bred in the Bone, by Robertson Davies ___Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll</p><p>Ryan Horton ___The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon</p><p>Jessica Kaplan ___Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry</p><p>Lauris Khan ___Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Mary Krasovec ___Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ___Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson</p><p>David Lehner Easy Reading for a High Schooler ___The Third Man by Graham Greene ___Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene</p><p>More Challenging and Sophisticated Reading for a High Schooler ___The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene</p><p>Challenging books for Enquiring Minds: ___The Worldly Philosophersby Robert L. Heilbroner (An easy introduction to Economics) ___The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant (An easy introduction to Western Philosophy) ___Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig(An easy introduction to philosophical ideas)</p><p>Joan Kubisch ___One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel GarcíaMárquez ___In the House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende ___Refiner's Fire by Mark Helprin ___Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin ___ A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin ___Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy ___The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy ___A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher ___The plays of Eugene O'Neill</p><p>Carol Lichtenfeld ___The Way the Crow Flies by Anne-Marie MacDonald ___Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner ___Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See</p><p>Bill Lipnick ___The Stranger by Albert Camus ___The Castle by Franz Kafka ___Roads to Santiago by CeesNootebaum(one of the best travel books I have ever read.) ___The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn Alexandra London-Thompson ___Complete Works of William Shakespeare with The Reduced Shakespeare Company's Compleat Works of WllmShkspr as a compendium ___The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein</p><p>Mary Marcell ___Traveling Mercies...Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott ___The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway</p><p>Erin McDonald ___The Shack by William Young - an adult book, quite profound</p><p>Kyle Mitschele ___Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ___Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut ___Chronic City by Jonathan Letham (I have this slated to re-read this summer!) ___The GirlWith the Dragon Tattoo byStieg Larsson ___Fordlandia by Greg Grandin (reading & loving) ___Saturday by Ian McEwan ___Straight Man by Richard Russo</p><p>Angela Monte ___The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden </p><p>Alec Merber ___Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell</p><p>Anne Monteith ___The Red Tent by Anita Diamant</p><p>Sophie Norris ___Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides</p><p>Brian O’Callaghan ___The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien ___The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon ___The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille ___Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen</p><p>Kate Ordway ___The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee ___The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes ___A Fine Balance by RohintonMistry ___Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Artby Laney Salisbury and AlySujo ___The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (still magical!)</p><p>Debra Pager ___Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin ___Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese</p><p>Dick Pike ___The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein ___The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay by Beverly Jensen</p><p>Alice Sackey ___The Sparrow: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell ___The GirlWith The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson </p><p>Anne Sampson ___Daughter of Time.by Josephine Tey</p><p>Nancy Shantz ___Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro</p><p>Tim Silverman ___The Fool's Progress, an Honest Novel by Edward Abbey</p><p>Debra Simpson ___Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel</p><p>Bill Smith ___To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ___One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey ___1776 by David McCullough</p><p>Rick Starr ___An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin ___Just Kids by Patti Smith ___Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty by Phoebe Hoban</p><p>David Tafe ___Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee </p><p>Stephanie Teachout ___The Bear that Wasn't by Frank Tashlin (elementary) ___Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (adult) ___Zeitounby Dave Eggers (adult) Becky Timms ___To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ___Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ___Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens</p><p>Anita Walsh ___Casting Off by Nicole Dickson</p><p>Sarah Werner ___The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R. R.Tolkien</p><p>Ethan White ___Dissolutionby C.J. Sansom It's a great mystery that takes place in Henry VIII's England. </p><p>Paul Wieman ___Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White ___The Tempest by William Shakespeare</p><p>Tashana Williams ___Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card ___Eon by Greg Bear ___Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Childrenby Greg Bear ___The Help by Kathryn Stockett</p><p>Marie-Therese Witte ___The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells</p><p>Ruth Wolff ___I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb</p><p>Student’s name______</p><p>Parent signature______*Books will be charged to student’s account and delivered on May 6th.</p>