required + suggested books for 2016

REQUIRED + SUGGESTED BOOKS FOR 2016
QUIRED
ALL-SCHOOL RE
The Little Prince
QUIRED
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1984
Bel Canto
Fast Food Nation
Anthony Doerr
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOPHOMORES
Kent Haruf
Khaled Hosseini
Beryl Markham
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
My Name Is Asher Lev
Eleanor & Park
The Once and Future King
SENIORS RE
All the Light We Cannot See
REQUIRED-CHOOSE TWO
Plainsong
A Thousand Splendid Suns
West with the Night
SUGGESTIONS FOR SENIORS
Oryx and Crake
Krik? Krak!
Blue Highways: A Journey into America
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears
Gertrude and Claudius
QUIRED
QUIRED
SOPHOMORES RE
Margaret Atwood
Edwidge Danticat
William Least Heat-Moon
Dinaw Mengestu
John Updike
George Orwell
Ann Patchett
Eric Schlosser
Margaret Atwood
Mark Haddon
Chaim Potok
Rainbow Rowell
T. H. White
QUIRED
FRESHMEN RE
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter Jamie Ford and Sweet Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
SUGGESTIONS FOR FRESHMEN
JUNIORS RE
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving
REQUIRED-CHOOSE ONE
The Kite Runner
The Glass Castle
Khaled Hosseini
Jeannette Walls
Warriors Don’t Cry
God Grew Tired of Us
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Hundred Flowers
A Story Like the Wind
Melba Pattillo Beals
John Bul Dau
Harper Lee
Gail Tsukiyama
Laurens van der Post
REQUIRED-ALL U.S. HISTORY COURSES
The Story of America:
Jill Lepore
Essays on Origins
ADDITIONAL REQUIRED FOR CL SEMINAR
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
ADDITIONAL REQUIRED FOR CL AP U.S. HISTORY
Give Me Liberty! Eric Foner
(Brief 4th Ed.)– chapters 1 & 2
SUGGESTIONS FOR JUNIORS
Funny in Farsi
In Our Time
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Space Between Us
Firoozeh Dumas
Ernest Hemingway
Laila Lalami
David Sedaris
Thrity Umrigar
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S UMMER
READ
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2
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1
6
SUMMER READING
DEANS: TOP PICKS
ART: TOP PICKS
Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-Five Tom Devlin
Years of Contemporary Cartooning,
Comics, and Graphic Novels
Andy Goldsworthy: Andy Goldsworthy
Ephemeral Works: 2004-2014
Hold Still: A Memoir Sally Mann
with Photographs
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 3: Ed Piskor
1983-84
Tales from the Loop
Simon Stålenhag
Some Assembly Required: Arin Andrews
The Not-So-Secret Life of
a Transgender Teen
Quiet: The Power of Introverts Susan Cain
in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Make Your Home Among Jennine Capó Crucet
Strangers
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Amy Cuddy
Self to Your Biggest Challenges
The Gift of Failure
Jessica Lahey
ATHLETICS: TOP PICKS
HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGIOUS
STUDIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE:
Toughness: Developing True Jay Bilas
Strength On and Off the Court
The Hard Hat: 21 Ways to Be Jon Gordon
a Great Teammate
Das Reboot
Raphael Honigstein
Endurance: Shackleton’s Alfred Lansing
Incredible Voyage
Season of Life
Jeffrey Marx
BOOK TO FILM
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
A Walk in the Woods
Spare Parts
Room: A Novel
The Danish Girl
Carol (Prev. titled: The Price of Salt)
Concussion
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
In the Heart of the Sea
The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
Brooklyn
Austen &
Grahame-Smith
Bill Bryson
Joshua Davis
Emma Donoghue
David Ebershoff
Patricia Highsmith
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Michael Lewis
Nathaniel Philbrick
Michael Punke
Colm Toibin
COLLEGE OFFICE: TOP PICKS
Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be
Fiske Guide to Colleges, 2016
Conquering the College
Admissions Essay in 10 Steps
The Gatekeepers
Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education
of Elites
Frank Bruni, ‘82
Edward B. Fiske
Alan Gelb
Jacques Steinberg
Mitchell L. Stevens
TOP PICKS
The Absolutely True Diary of
Sherman Alexie
a Part-Time Indian
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Round House: A Novel
Louise Erdrich
Billion-Dollar Ball
Gilbert M. Gaul
The Short and Tragic Life Jeff Hobbs
of Robert Peace
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the David Kinsley
Divine Feminine in the
Hindu Religious Tradition
The Sympathizer: A Novel
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The History of White People
Nell Irvin Painter
Lone Survivors: How We Came Chris Stringer
to Be the Only Humans on Earth
MATHEMATICS: TOP PICKS
Finding Zero
How Not to Be Wrong
Decoded: A Novel
The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
The Martian
Amir D. Aczel
Jordan Ellenberg
Mai Jia
Stephen Strogatz, ‘76
Andy Weir
MODERN & CLASSICAL LANGUAGES:
TOP PICKS
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard
Street of Thieves
Mathias Énard
E-mails from Scheherazad
Mohja Kahf
Quixote: The Novel and the World Ilan Stavans
The Seventh Day: A Novel
Yu Hua
MUSIC: TOP PICKS
Conversations with Beethoven
Words Without Music: A Memoir
A City Called Heaven
Bellweather Rhapsody
Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land
Sanford Friedman
Philip Glass
Robert M. Marovich
Kate Racculia
Sandy Tolan
READER’S CHOICE
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Lucia Berlin
Selected Stories
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Carol Rifka Brunt
The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
Essays After Eighty
Donald Hall
Speak
Louisa Hall
Delicious Foods: A Novel
James Hannaham
When Books Went to War
Molly Guptill Manning
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
Helen Oyeyemi
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
A Deadly Wandering
Matt Richtel
The Arab of the Future
Riad Sattouf
Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Joan Steidinger
Athletes Collaborate
and Compete
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice Bryan Stevenson
and Redemption
The Gift of Rain: A Novel
Tan Twan Eng
SCIENCE: TOP PICKS
Physics of the Future
The Hunt for Vulcan
The Soul of an Octopus
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s
New World
Michio Kaku
Thomas Levenson
Sy Montgomery
Mary Roach
Andrea Wulf
THEATER & DANCE: TOP PICKS
The Empty Space
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
Zen in the Art of Archery
Women of Will: Following the
Feminine in Shakespeare’s Plays
Humans of New York: Stories
Peter Brook
Misty Copeland
Eugen Herrigel
Tina Packer
Brandon Stanton
HEAD OF SCHOOL: TOP PICKS
Life after Life: A Novel
My Brilliant Friend
The Wars of the Roses
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters
Kate Atkinson
Elena Ferrante
Dan Jones
Jon Krakauer
James M. McPherson
ALVORD CENTER FOR GLOBAL &
ENVIROMENTAL STUDIES: TOP PICKS
In a Sunburned Country
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
A Case for Climate Engineering
Without You, There Is No Us
In Defense of Food
Bill Bryson
Ernest Hemingway
David Keith
Suki Kim
Michael Pollan
NORTON FAMILY CENTER FOR
THE COMMON GOOD: TOP PICKS
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed
with Our Families
The Empathy Exams: Essays
Breaking Night
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
Philip Gourevitch
Leslie Jamison
Liz Murray
Michael J. Sandel
George Saunders