Reading Recommendations from Middlebury Classmates 1971 Last Name Recommended by Title Author Last Author First Genre/Category Comments We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a E.C. "Teddy Blue" and Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Cowpuncher Abbott and Smith Helena Huntington Biography/Autobiography Nonnie T. and Helena Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus A Bride Goes West Alderson and Smith Huntington Biography/Autobiography Yerpe Anne Kavcic Chaboyer Karen Biography/Autobiography Hall Myrka Hall-Beyer Grant Chernow Ron Biography/Autobiography Mister Doctor: Janusz Korcak & the Orphans Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus of the Warsaw Ghetto Cohen-Janca Irène Biography/Autobiography illustrated by Maurizio Quarello any of the works of psychologist Robert Coles, from his conversations with children (especially Children of Crisis, Vol. 1: A Study of Courage and Fear; The Moral Life of Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Children; The Spiritual Life of Children) Coles Robert Biography/Autobiography Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus This House of Sky Doig Ivan Biography/Autobiography Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus African Childhood Fuller Alexandra Biography/Autobiography Tine Donald Tine Caesar: Life of a Colossus Goldsworthy Adrian Biography/Autobiography Hailed "a masterwork" by the WSJ, this book covers the years between Elvis's army service in Germany in 1958 to his tragic Lindsay Karen Lindsay Palmer Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley Guralnick Peter Biography/Autobiography death at age 42 in 1977. Listen to Elvis's "Milkcow Blues Boogie" (1955), and you might see why Elvis began to Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis fascinate me. He was so much more than the Lindsay Karen Lindsay Palmer Presley Guralnick Peter Biography/Autobiography has-been we knew in the 1970s. Fritsch Susan Fritsch Hunter The Power of Adrienne Rich Holladay Hillary Biography/Autobiography Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Reading Lolita in Tehran Nafisi Azar Biography/Autobiography With Malice Toward None: A Life of McDowell Sandy McDowell Abraham Lincoln Oates Stephen B. Biography/Autobiography one of the best Lincoln biographies love seeing how he has mined that research Hall Myrka Hall-Beyer Joseph Banks: A Life O'Brian Patrick Biography/Autobiography for his fictional characters! Hall Myrka Hall-Beyer Picasso: A Biography O'Brian Patrick Biography/Autobiography Hall Myrka Hall-Beyer Brand Luther Pettegree Andrew Biography/Autobiography Glenn Marian Glenn The Education of an Idealist Power Samantha Biography/Autobiography Hall Myrka Hall-Beyer Confessions Saint Augustine of Hippo Biography/Autobiography Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus The Whisper of the River Sams Ferol Biography/Autobiography fiction - but it's his college years Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Reading My Father Styron Alexandra Biography/Autobiography Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Working Terkel Studs Biography/Autobiography Tine Donald Tine American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses F. Grant White Ronald Biography/Autobiography Groom Emily Groom Goyette The Chronicles of Prydain Alexander Lloyd Children/Adult Fantasy Groom Emily Groom Goyette Harry Potter series Rowling J.K. Children/Adult Fantasy totally captivating, impossible to put down Genre-Author-Title Page 1 of 32 Reading Recommendations from Middlebury Classmates 1971 Last Name Recommended by Title Author Last Author First Genre/Category Comments I binge re-read the series to better appreciate some of the sites where the films were made -- for younger granddaughter Hall Myrka Hall-Beyer Harry Potter series Rowling J.K. Children/Adult Fantasy after a trip to France and England Groom Emily Groom Goyette Rumpelstiltskin Grimm/Zelinsky The Brothers/Paul O. Children's beautiful detailed illustrations Groom Emily Groom Goyette The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Scieszka Jon Children's Groom Emily Groom Goyette The Polar Express Van Allsburg Chris Children's I get emotional every time I read it Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus anything by Avi (Edwin Irving Wortis) Avi (Wortis) (Edwin Irving) Children's/Young Adult Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi (Wortis) (Edwin Irving) Children's/Young Adult Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Pinky Pye Estes Eleanor Children's/Young Adult Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Hitty: Her First Hundred Years Field Rachel Children's/Young Adult Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Rumble Fish Hinton S.E. Children's/Young Adult sort of children's, more so than A Lord of the Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus A HIgh Wind in Jamaica Hughes Richard Children's/Young Adult Flies, but still, rather unusual Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Shane Schaefer Jack Children's/Young Adult Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus A Death in the Family Agee James Classics Hall Myrka Hall-Beyer The Divine Comedy Alighieri Dante Classics can't beat Dickens for fabulous word- Rogers Lynne Rogers Farrington A Tale of Two Cities Dickens Charles Classics smithery! Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Invisible Man Ellison Ralph Classics Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus A Passage to India Forster E.M. Classics Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus The Big Sky Guthrie, Jr. A.B. Classics Davis Stephanie Davis Lett The Odyssey – edition by Emily Wilson Homer Classics Groom Emily Groom Goyette Les Misérables Hugo Victor Classics Tine Donald Tine Kim Kipling Rudyard Classics Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus A River Runs Through It Maclean Norman Classics Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus The Member of the Wedding McCullers Carson Classics Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Moby-Dick Melville Herman Classics Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Catcher in the Rye Salinger J.D. Classics Tine Donald Tine Ivanhoe Scott Walter Classics Groom Emily Groom Goyette Just a French Guy Cooking Aïnouz Alexis Gabriel Cooking Ses vidéos sont très amusants Groom Emily Groom Goyette One Plate at a Time Bayless Rick Cooking my Mexican go-to Groom Emily Groom Goyette Marcella Cucina Hazen Marcella Cooking my Italian go-to Groom Emily Groom Goyette Maida Heatter's Book of Great Desserts Heatter Maida Cooking best lemon pound cake in the world Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus anything by Yotam Ottolenghi Ottolenghi Yotam Cooking No Man Knows My Pastries: The Secret (Not Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Sacred) Recipes of Sister Enid Christensen Salazar and Wrightman Roger S. and Michael G. Cooking Groom Emily Groom Goyette Fields of Greens Somerville Annie Cooking my vegetarian go-to Groom Emily Groom Goyette This Is a Cookbook Sussman Max & Eli Cooking Brooklyn's best Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus The Vegetarian Epicure, Vol 1 and 2 Thomas Anna Cooking Groom Emily Groom Goyette Salt Fat Acid Heat Nosrat Samin Cooking Science McDowell Sandy McDowell Joe Pickett series Box C.J. Crime McDowell Sandy McDowell The Highway series Box C.J. Crime Genre-Author-Title Page 2 of 32 Reading Recommendations from Middlebury Classmates 1971 Last Name Recommended by Title Author Last Author First Genre/Category Comments Rogers Lynne Rogers Farrington Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky Fydor Crime best detective novel of ALL TIME Rogers Lynne Rogers Farrington The Godfather Puzo Mario Crime all time crime novel McDowell Sandy McDowell Will Trent series Slaughter Karin Crime Groom Emily Groom Goyette Arkady Renko series Smith Martin Cruz Crime Cold War McDowell Sandy McDowell Amos Decker series Baldacci David Crime/Thriller McDowell Sandy McDowell Camel Club series Baldacci David Crime/Thriller McDowell Sandy McDowell John Puller series Baldacci David Crime/Thriller McDowell Sandy McDowell Sean King & Michelle series Baldacci David Crime/Thriller McDowell Sandy McDowell Will Robie series Baldacci David Crime/Thriller McDowell Sandy McDowell Jack Reacher Child Lee Crime/Thriller Groom Emily Groom Goyette Los Alamos Kanon Joseph Crime/Thriller set in 1945 La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Davis Stephanie Davis Lett Spirits) Allende Isabel Fiction Davis Stephanie Davis Lett Afterlife Alvarez Julia Fiction Middlebury author! Fritsch Susan Fritsch Hunter Afterlife Alvarez Julia Fiction Middlebury author! Whiting Carolyn Whiting Afterlife Alvarez Julia Fiction Middlebury author! Middlebury author! I’ve read each book as it Hall Myrka Hall-Beyer anything by Julia Alvarez Alvarez Julia Fiction comes out Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Alvarez Julia Fiction Middlebury author! Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus In the Time of Butterflies Alvarez Julia Fiction Middlebury author! Davis Stephanie Davis Lett The Bosnian Chronicle Androvic Ivo Fiction Seabrook Brent Seabrook A God in Ruins Atkinson Kate Fiction A doorstopper of a book (over 800 pages), it offers the reader four different versions of the life of one young man. Not for everyone, Lindsay Karen Lindsay Palmer 4 3 2 1 Auster Paul Fiction but I loved it. On the surface, this is the story of a failed Arctic expedition, but under the surface a fascinating story of two women in Victorian Lindsay Karen Lindsay Palmer The Voyage of the Narwhal Barrett Andrea Fiction times comes vividly to life. Glenn Marian Glenn God 99 Blasim Hassan Fiction anything by Geraldine Brooks, especially Johnson Clara Johnson Pincus Year of Wonders, and March Brooks Geraldine Fiction Davis Stephanie Davis Lett Invisible Cities Calvino Italo Fiction El reino de este mundo The (Kingdom of this Davis Stephanie Davis Lett World) Carpentier Alejo Fiction gripping tale of an Englishman gone native in Aubrey Will Aubrey Shogun Clavell James Fiction medieval Japan Hall Myrka Hall-Beyer Clavell James Fiction prefer those treating the older periods Davis Stephanie