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SUMMER READING 2010Table 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
About the Contents..............................................15
* 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*UNACCUSTOMED EARTH.........Jhumpa Lahiri*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 Prodigal Summer.....................Barbara Kingsolver
Saturday...............................................Ian McEwan
The History of Love...........................Nicole Krauss
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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.
*BROTHER, I’M DYING..........Edwidge Danticat*A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY....................................John Irving**FRANKENSTEIN..........................Mary Shelley
Blue Pastures........................................Mary Oliver
What is the What.................................Dave Eggers
Kindred.........................................Octavia E. Butler
The Amazing Adventures ofKavalier 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
The Catcher in the Rye......................J. D. Salinger
Before You Know Kindness............Chris Bohjalian
Thunderstruck......................................Erik Larson
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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 CATCHER IN THE RYE.......J. D. Salinger *1984..................................................George Orwell
The Book Thief..................................Markus Zusak
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems.........................................Robert Frost
Girls of Tender Age...........Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
Crow Lake..........................................Mary Lawson
The Rapture of Canaan...................Shari Reynolds
The Weight of Water...........................Anita Shreve
The Highest Tide.....................................Jim Lynch
Black Boy........................................Richard Wright
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel.........................................Louise Murphy
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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.
*WARRIORS DON’T CRY.....Melba Patillo Beals*OUTLIERS...............................Malcolm Gladwell*HOTEL ON THE CORNEROF BITTER AND SWEET....................Jamie Ford
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
Great Expectations........................Charles Dickens
God Grew Tired of Us........................John Bul Dau
To Kill a Mockingbird...........................Harper Lee
Briar Rose................................................Jane Yolen
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Adventure
The Lost City of Z...............................David Grann
Fragile Edge........................................Maria Coffey
The Runner......................................David Samuels
The Boys of Everest...............................Clint Willis
Touching the Void................................Joe Simpson
Whatever You Do, Don’t Run............Peter Allison
Greasy Rider......................................Greg Melville Shadow Divers..................................Robert Kurson
College
The Gatekeepers..........................Jacques Steinberg
The Gap Year Advantage..............Karl Haigler and Rae Nelson
The Naked Roommate.......................Harlan Cohen
Been There, Should’ve Done That.....Suzette Tyler
Colleges That Change Lives .................Loren Pope Essays That Worked for College Applications.........................Boykin Curry, Bryan Kasbar and Emily Angel Baer
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Sports
Dead Lucky..........................................Lincoln Hall
Rome 1960.......................................David Maraniss
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer.............................Warren St. John
Fever Pitch.......................................... Nick Hornby
The Glory Game..........................Frank Gifford and Peter Richmond
Crazy ‘08..............................................Cait Murphy
The Edict...................................................Bob Cupp
Meat Market....................................Bruce Feldman
Clemente..........................................David Maraniss
The Arts
Guitar Man....................................Will Hodgkinson
The Lady and the Unicorn.............Tracy Chevalier
Girls Like Us.......................................Sheila Weller.Luncheon of the Boating Pary.......Susan Vreeland
The Lost Painting..............................Jonathan Harr
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America: Past and Present
The starred book is required of all students taking United States History, AP United States History, or American Civilization.
*CHANGES IN THE LAND.........William Cronon
Ghost Soldiers..................................Hampton Sides
Moloka’i.............................................Alan Brennert
A Mercy..............................................Toni Morrison
A Voyage Long and Strange..............Tony Horwitz
The Hemingses of Monticello...........Annette Gordon-Reed
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History......................Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Tulia...................................................Nate Blakeslee
The Wordy Shipmates........................Sarah Vowell
The Worst Hard Time.......................Timothy Egan
The Killer Angels.............................Michael Shaara
The Circus Fire.................................Stewart O’Nan
Simple Gifts...........................................June Sprigg
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Mystery and Imagination
The Curse of the Spellmans.....................Lisa Lutz
The Likeness.........................................Tana French
Finding Nouf ........................................Zoe Ferraris
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.....................................Stieg Larsson The King of Lies.......................................John Hart
The Sirens of Titan...........................Kurt Vonnegut
Stranger in a Strange Land......Robert A. Heinlein
Interview with the Vampire....................Anne Rice
The Sweetness at the Bottomof the Pie..............................................Alan Bradley
Watchers..............................................Dean Koontz
Blue Heaven................................................C.J. Box
Vanishing Act.....................................Thomas Perry
A Cold Day for Murder..................Dana Stabenow
Oryx and Crake...........................Margaret Atwood
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes......................Arthur Conan Doyle
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Reader’s Choice
The Art of Racing in the Rain...............Garth Stein
Sarah’s Key.................................Tatiana de Rosnay
People of the Book.......................Geraldine Brooks
Skeletons at the Feast.....................Chris Bohjalian The Book of Getting Even............Benjamin Taylor
Songs for the Missing.......................Stewart O’Nan
The Navigator of New York..........Wayne Johnston
Evidence of Things Unseen........Marianne Wiggins
America America..................................Ethan Canin Mudbound..........................................Hillary Jordan
When Will There Be Good News?................................Kate Atkinson
December......................Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop Mr. Midshipman Hornblower............C.S. Forester
Me Talk Pretty One Day...................David Sedaris
Down to the Bone......................Mayra Lazara Dole
The Guernsey Literary andPotato Peel Pie Society................Mary Ann Shaffer
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Science and Technology
The Drunkard’s Walk...............Leonard Mlodinow
Your Inner Fish.....................................Neil Shubin
Hot, Flat, and Crowded.........Thomas L. Friedman
The Fabric of the Cosmos..................Brian Greene
The Big Necessity.................................Rose George
The Ghost Map................................Steven Johnson
Euclid’s Window...................... Leonard Mlodinow
Spook.....................................................Mary Roach
The Wild Trees................................Richard Preston
Physics of the Impossible...................Michio Kaku
The Omnivore’s Dilemma...............Michael Pollan
Death’s Acre..................Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson
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Biography and Memoir
Climbing the Mango Trees.............Madhur Jaffrey
The Liar’s Club.......................................Mary Karr
Dog Days.....................................................Jon Katz
The Know-It-All.....................................A.J. Jacobs
Look Me in the Eye..................John Elder Robison
Angela’s Ashes.................................Frank McCourt
Couldn’t Keep It to Myself..................Wally Lamb
My Life in France...................................Julia Child
I Was Told There’d Be Cake...........Sloane Crosley
The Glass Castle................................Jeanette Walls
Mississippi Sissy...............................Kevin Sessums
Final Exam..........................................Pauline Chen
Name All the Animals.........................Alison Smith
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid....................................Bill Bryson
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Books to Film
The Lovely Bones...............................Alice Sebold
Shutter Island...................................Dennis Lehane
The Blind Side..................................Michael Lewis
Angels and Demons...............................Dan Brown
The Soloist.............................................Steve Lopez
Invictus...................................................John Carlin
Push.............................................................Sapphire
My Sister’s Keeper................................Jodi Picoult
The Time Traveler’s Wife........Audrey Niffenegger
Public Enemies...............................Bryan Burrough
Julie and Julia.......................................Julie Powell
Reservation Road..............John Burnham Schwartz
Snow Angels......................................Stewart O’Nan
I Love You Beth Cooper.......................Larry Doyle
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World View
A Free Life......................................................Ha Jin
City of Thieves...................................David Benioff
Freakonomics.................................Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace....Dang Thuy Tram
Say You’re One of Them....................Uwem Akpan
Sea of Poppies....................................Amitav Ghosh
Song for Night........................................Chris Abani
The Ugly American........................Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer The Zookeeper’s Wife...................Diane Ackerman
Kabul Beauty School................Deborah Rodriguez Dubliners...............................................James Joyce
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ABOUT THE CONTENTS
EDITORS Linda H. Duncan Librarian
Sally Z. Knight Teacher of English
With the assistance of Cheryl Kirk Library Technical Assistant
Contributors Faculty and Students
Director of the Library Elaine F. DeVoss
Cover design by Patricia Cousins
This booklet is a production of theKatharine Brush Library