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High School Reading List

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Tracy Kidder PA 1963, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remebrance and Forgetting

 

Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

 

Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

 

Mary Karr, Lit

 

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

 

Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

 

Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice

 

Uwem Akpan, Say You’re One of Them

Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

ChimamandaAdichie, The Thing Around Your Neck

Dorren Baingana, Tropical Fish: tales from Entebbe

Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Jonathan Foer, Eating Animals

 

Dave Cullen, Columbine

Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

Marie Howe, What the Living Do

 

Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Any Other Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Marion James, The Book of Night Women

David Grann, The Lost City of Z

Erskine Clark, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic

 

Louis de Bernieres, Birds Without Wings

 

Robert Goolrick, A Reliable Wife

Kathryn Stockett, The Help

John Irving, Cider House Rules

Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

Paul Harding, Tinkers

David Baldacci, First Family

 

Bill McKibben, Earth: Making Life on a Tough New Planet

Paul Collier, War, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places

Douglas Rushkof, Life, Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back

Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog

Alison Gopnik, The Philosophical Baby

Peter Hessler, Country Driving: A Journey through China from Farm to Factory

James Belich, Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo World 1783 - 1939

Martha Nussbaum, Not for Profit

Albie Sachs, The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law

Alexandra Fuller, Scribbling the Cat

Mathew Glass, Ultimatum

Jen Hanf Korelitz, Admission

Frank Schaeffer, Baby Jack

Archer Mayer, Borderlines

 

Christian Parenti, Lockdown America

Hoffman, ed., Japanese Death Poems

George Carlin, Last Words

 

Jad Adams, Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle

John Codman PA 1823, A Solution to the Mormon Problem

Jasper McKee PA 1946, The Booze Theory of Civilization

 

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Alexander Mccall Smith, No. 1 Ladie’s Detective Agency

Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Patrick Neate and Damian Platt, Culture is our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in

Rio de Janeiro

 

George Lakoff, The Political Mind

 

Craig S. Barnes, Democracy at the Crossroads

Wendell Berry, Imagination in Place

Wendell Berry, Leavings: Poems

Wendell Berry, What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

Alan Clements and Aung San Suu Kyi, The Voice of Hope

Eduardo Galeano, Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone

Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Daniel J. Levitin, The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

Kathleen Dean Moore, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature

Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster

Herman Wouk, The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion

 

James Joyce, Ulysses

Patrick Nee, A Criminal and an Irishman

Henry Cejudo, American Story

Bill Lychak, The Wasp Eater

 

Chris Cleave, Little Bee

 

Lisa See, Shanghai Girls

Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Lisa See, On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

**Lisa See will be on campus during the 2010-2011 school year

Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth

Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us

Lisa Genova, Still Alice

Lauralee Summer, Learning Joy from Dogs Without Collars: A Memoir

Chang-rae Lee, The Surrendered

 

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

 

John Maxim, The Bannerman Solution

Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

Michael Lewis, Liar’s Poker

Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code

Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

 

Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land

Jacques Rancière, Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics

Per Lagerkvist, The Sibyl

 

Dave Eggers, Zeitoun

Louise Glück, A Village Life

Martha Nussbaum, Not for Profit

Lewis Robinson, Officer Friendly and Other Stories

Lewis Robinson, Water Dogs

**Lewis Robinson is the new Writer-in-Residence

 

Anita Amirrezvani, The Blood of Flowers

Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed

Richard Russo, That Old Cape Magic

Richard Russo, Bridge of Sighs

Chris Bohjalian, The Double Bind

Marjorie Williams, The Woman at the Washington Zoo

Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

 

Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine

Annette-Gordon Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello

 

Anne Carson, An Oresteia

Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, Logicomix: an Epic Search for Truth

Thomas Jefferson, The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

Emily Wise Miller, The Food Lover’s Guide to Florence

Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education

Jeff Shesol, Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court

Robert Skidelsky, Keynes: The Return of the Master

Nicholas Fox Weber, Le Corbusier: a Life

 

Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

 

Andre Aggasi, Open

Sandra Day O'Connor, Lazy B

Madeleine Albright, Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box

Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

J.R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar

Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Timothy Eagan, The Worst Hard Time

Daniel Boyne, The Red Rose Crew: A Story of Women, Winning and the Water

 

Frank Kermode, Shakespeare’s World

Frank Kermode, Shakespeare’s Language

Frank Kermode, The Sense of Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

Frank Kermode, The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction

 

Philip Caputo, Crossers

 

David Remnick, The Bridge

Barack Obama, Dreams of My Father

Paul Auster, Invisible

Gary Snyder, No Nature: New and Selected Poems

Henning Menkel, The Pyramid

Cathleen Schine, The Three Weissmans of Westport

 

Abraham Verghese, Cutting For Stone

Sarah Dunant, Birth of Venus

 

Idan Ben-Barak, The Invisible Kingdom: From the Tips of Our Fingers to the Tops of Our Trash, Inside the Curious World of Microbes

Carl Zimmer, Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

Faye Flam, The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man

Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

Greg Gibson, It Takes A Genome: How A Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick

Judith Horstman, The Scientific American A Day In the Life of Your Brain

Amy Stewart, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Simon Igs, A Natural History of Seeing: The Art and Science of Vision

Bart D.Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions of the Bible

Ray Bradbury, The short stories of Ray Bradbury

 

Juliet B. Schor, Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth

Roger G. Kennedy and David Larkin, When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and Democracy

Bruce Fleming, “The Academies’ March Toward Mediocrity”

 

Ira Berlin, The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

Evan S. Connell, Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn

Alan Furst, Spies of the Balkans

Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Michael O'Brian, Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon

Anne L. Poulet, Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment

Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

 

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