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