Trinity Reads 2016 - Trinity College School

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Trinity Reads 2016
Trinity Reads is our spin on summer reading. Please choose a book from
this list of 53 titles and email your choice to [email protected].
Please borrow or purchase a copy to read over the summer. All students
will meet in book discussion groups in September. This is a great way to
meet new people and connect over a shared text.
Genres and book formats are noted at the bottom of each book
description.
Don’t hesitate to contact [email protected] with any questions or
concerns.
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for
a Fantastic Future (Ashlee Vance)
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War
Espionage and Betrayal (David E. Hoffman)
Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of the
renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX,
Tesla, and SolarCity. Ashlee Vance explores one of the
pressing questions of our age: can the nation of inventors
who led the modern world for a century still compete in an
age of fierce global competition? This book brings to life a
technology industry that is rapidly and dramatically
changing by examining the life of one of its most powerful
and influential titans.
From 1979 – 1985, Adolf Tolkachev used his high-level access to
hand over tens of thousands of pages of technical secrets to U.
S. intelligence. His revelations allowed America to reshape its
weapons systems to defeat Soviet radar on the ground and in
the air. Drawing on previously secret documents, David
Hoffman has created an unprecedented and poignant portrait
of Tolkachev, a man motivated by the depredations of the
Soviet state to master the craft of spying against his own
country.
Biography/Memoir/Nonfiction
Available in print, ebook or audiobook
Biography/Nonfiction
Available in print, ebook or audiobook
I am Malala (Malala Yousafzai)
The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan,
Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced. On October 9, 2012,
she almost paid the ultimate price: She was shot in the head
at point-blank range. Malala's miraculous recovery took her
on a journey from northern Pakistan to the United Nations I
Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by
terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who
encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of
brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a
society that prizes sons.
The Glass Castle is a revelatory look into a family at once
deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober,
Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his
children's imagination. But when he drank, he was dishonest
and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who didn't want
the responsibility of raising a family. The Walls children
learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and
protected one another, and eventually found their way to
New York. The Glass Castle is a memoir permeated by the
intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.
Nonfiction/Biography/Memoir
Available in print, e-book and audiobook
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern
Geek (Maya Van Wagenen)
Free Days with George (Colin Campbell)
Stuck at the bottom of the social ladder at pretty much the
lowest level of people at school who aren’t paid to be here,
Maya Van Wagenen decided to begin a unique social
experiment: spend the school year following a 1950s
popularity guide, written by former teen model Betty Cornell.
Can curlers, girdles, Vaseline, and a strand of pearls help
Maya on her quest to be popular? The real-life results are
painful, funny, and include a wonderful and unexpected
surprise—meeting and befriending Betty Cornell herself. Told
with humor and grace, Maya’s journey offers readers of all
ages a thoroughly contemporary example of kindness and
self-confidence.
After returning home from a business trip to discover his wife
of many years had moved out, Colin Campbell fell into a spiral
of depression and loneliness. Soon after, Colin adopted a
traumatized rescue dog named George. Then everything
changed. Colin was offered a great new job in L.A. He took
George with him and the pair began a new life together.
Eventually, Colin headed to the beach to rekindle his love for
surfing, but when George encountered the ocean and a
surfboard for the first time, he did a surprising thing—he
jumped right on the board. Through surfing, George and Colin
began a life-altering adventure and a deep healing process
that brought them back to life.
Nonfiction/Biography/Memoir/Young Adult
Available in print and e-book
Dan Carter: The Autobiography of an All
Blacks Legend (Dan Carter)
The great All Blacks pivot with the model good looks opens up
for the first time about his stellar 12-year career. Dan Carter
looks back on the highs, including that virtuoso performance
against the Lions in the second test of the 2005 series when
he scored a record 33 points. With an equal measure of
honesty, he reflects on the lows, speaking frankly of the
anguish he felt after twice being invalided out of Rugby World
Cups. He also talks about his unflinching loyalty to the All
Blacks and the reasons why he elected to make a long-term
commitment to New Zealand.
Biography/Memoir/Sports
Shift Work (Tie Domi)
From hockey’s most prolific fighter comes a sports memoir
unlike any other. Passionate, funny, and candid, Shift Work
chronicles Domi’s sixteen tumultuous seasons in the NHL. He
recounts the ups and downs of his life on and off the ice,
showing what he has learned and how he has grown as both a
player and a person. He offers insight into the most memorable
points of his career, sharing his successes and mistakes with
unparalleled honesty. Shift Work shows Tie Domi as he is—a
devoted father and friend, a valued and loyal team player, a
magnetic personality, and an athlete of immense skill and
courage.
Nonfiction/Biography/Memoir/Sports
Number Two: More Short Tales from a Very
Tall Man (Jay Onrait)
Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life (Michael
Lewis)
From the mind that brought you the national bestseller
Anchorboy comes another rollicking collection of
embarrassing stories that’ll make you laugh, cry, and feel
just a little bit uncomfortable. Pull up a chair, open a bag of
ketchup chips, and join Jay as he reminisces about the
times he explored the squalid world of medical marijuana;
made a mess of himself on the road to Pittsburgh; got
upstaged on live TV by comedy legend Martin Short; rode a
Street Dragon through the laneways of Sochi; shared a drink
with Jay-Z and was then asked to leave; and much, much
more!
There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball
game when he was 14 years old. The irascible and often terrifying
Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and
managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's ability that
the boy had no choice but to live up to it. "I didn't have words for it
then, but I do now: I am about to show the world, and myself,
what I can do." The coach's message was not simply about
winning but about self-respect, sacrifice, courage, and
endurance. In some ways, and now thirty years later, Lewis still
finds himself trying to measure up to what Coach Fitz expected
of him.
Open Heart, Open Mind (Clara Hughes)
In 2006, Clara Hughes became the first and only athlete ever to
win multiple medals in both Summer and Winter Games. But
there’s another story behind her celebrated career: Clara spent her
teenage years using drugs to escape her stifling home life and
alcoholic father. She was headed nowhere fast when, at 16, she
watched speed skater Gaétan Boucher effortlessly race in the
1988 Calgary Olympics. Dreaming of one day competing herself,
Clara channeled her energy into the endurance sports of speed
skating and cycling. After more than a decade in the grueling
world of professional sports, Clara began to realize she had been
masking a severe depression. Open Heart, Open Mind is Clara’s
personal journey through physical and mental pain to a life where
love and understanding can thrive.
Fiction/Historical Fiction
Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl)
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of
readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its
lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945, Frankl
labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his
parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own
experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his
practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering, but we can
choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward
with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory--known as logotherapy,
from the Greek word logos ("meaning")--holds that our primary
drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the
discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.
Nonfiction/Psychology/Classic/Inspirational
The Untethered Soul (Michael A. Singer)
Greatest Hits of the Old Testament
What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar
beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover
inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul offers simple yet
profound answers to these questions. Whether this is your first
exploration of inner space, or you’ve devoted your life to the inward
journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and
the world around you. By tapping into traditions of meditation and
mindfulness, author and spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer shows
how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in
the present moment and let go of painful thoughts and memories
that keep us from achieving happiness and self-realization.
Miracles, expulsion, fratricide, ruin, plagues, persecutions,
abandonment, whales, rules, destructions, and boils; these
are but the beginning of a remarkable story. Have you ever
felt misunderstood? Is all that knowledge worth the
trouble? Has anyone ever tested you? Jonah, Job, Abraham,
Eve, Joseph, Cain, and Abel are among the people who will
join you on your reading of some of the key narratives of
our culture. Dare to read some of the greatest stories ever
told: Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy (1-28), Samuel I,
Samuel II, Jonah, and Job.
Nonfiction/Spirituality & Faith/Inspirational
Spirituality & Faith
Outliers: The True Story of Success (Malcolm
Gladwell)
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces
That Shape Our Decisions (Dan Ariely)
In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an
intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"—the best and
the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks
the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer
is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are
like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their
culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic
experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the
secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer
player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles
the greatest rock band.
In a series of illuminating experiments, MIT behavioral
economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we
behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday
experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how
expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible,
seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. From
drinking coffee to losing weight, from buying a car to choosing
a romantic partner, Ariely explains how to break through
systematic patterns of thought to make better decisions.
"Predictably Irrational" will change the way we interact with the
world—one small decision at a time.
Nonfiction/Psychology/Inspirational
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
(Elizabeth Gilbert
With profound empathy and radiant generosity, Gilbert offers
potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks
us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She
shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down
what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and
habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Balancing
between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert
encourages us to uncover the “strange jewels” that are hidden
within each of us. Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.
The Pebble in the Shoe (Jim Fannin)
What's holding you back from business success, marital
bliss or parenting nirvana? More than likely it's under the
radar or below the surface of what you think. Maybe, it's like
a pebble in your shoe that's irritating, uncomfortable,
nagging and eventually crippling. In The Pebble in the Shoe,
author Jim Fannin tells a simple story where you'll learn how
a seemingly undetectable pebble can stop you from
achieving your fullest potential.
What If? Serious Answers to Absurd
Hypothetical Questions (Randall Munroe)
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular
web comic XKCD, which offers a witty take on the world of
science and geeks. Every now and then, Munroe would get
emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate. He liked these
questions so much that he started up What If. In pursuit of
answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks
of declassified military research memos, solves differential
equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His
responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, studded with
memorable cartoons and infographics. Far more than a book for
geeks, What If? explains the laws of science in operation in a way
that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much the
smarter for having read.
Nonfiction
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance,
Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice (Bill
Browder)
Bill Browder's journey started on the South Side of Chicago and
moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog
world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in
Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest
investment fund in Russia after the Soviet Union's collapse. But
when he exposed the corrupt oligarchs who were robbing the
companies in which he was investing, Vladimir Putin turned on
him and, in 2005, had him expelled from Russia. Red Notice is a
real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild
East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney,
and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption.
Nonfiction/Biography & Memoir
King Leary (Paul Quarrington)
Percival Leary was once a hockey legend. Now in a nursing home,
Leary looks back on his tumultuous life and times: his days at the
reformatory when he burned down a house; the mad monks who
taught him to play hockey; and the time he scored the winning
goal in the 1919 Stanley Cup final. Now all but forgotten, Leary is
only a legend in his own mind -- until a high-powered advertising
agency decides to feature him in a series of ginger ale
commercials. Leary sets off for Toronto on one last adventure as
he revisits the scenes of his glorious life as King of the Ice.
Fiction/Canadian Literature/Sports
Playing for Pizza (John Grisham)
Rick Dockery is the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland
Browns. In the AFC Championship game, Rick provides what
is arguably the worst performance in NFL history. He becomes
a national laughingstock and is immediately cut by the
Browns. But all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his
agent find him a team. Against all odds, Rick finally gets a
job—as the starting quarterback for the Mighty Panthers… of
Parma, Italy. The Parma Panthers desperately want a former
NFL player, and now they’ve got Rick, who knows nothing
about Parma and doesn’t speak a word of Italian. To say that
Italy holds a few surprises for Rick would be something of an
understatement.
Fiction/Sports
Half-Blood Blues (Esi Edugyan)
The Piano Maker (Kurt Palka)
Half-Blood Blues interweaves two storylines, both revolving
around jazz bassist Sidney “Sid” Griffiths. The first is set in
Berlin and Paris in 1940. Drawn by a vague offer to record with
Louis Armstrong, Griffiths and his bandmates – Chip Jones and
Hiero Falk – escape to Paris, where they discover a world
succumbing to racial hatred and Nazi power. Hiero is arrested by
the Nazis and lost to history, save for a few scattered recordings.
The second narrative is set in 1992. It follows Sid and Chip as
they journey back to Europe in search of their lost bandmate,
hoping to come to peace with the past.
Helene Giroux arrives alone in St. Homais on a winter day. She
wears good city clothes and drives an elegant car, and
everything she owns is in a small trunk in the back seat. In the
local church she finds a fine old piano, a Molnar, and she
knows just how fine it is, for her family had manufactured
these pianos before the Great War. Then her mother's death
and war forces her to abandon her former life. The story moves
back and forth in time as Helene, settling into a simple life,
playing the piano for church choir, recalls the extraordinary
events that brought her to this place.
Fiction/Canadian Literature/Historical Fiction
A Secret Music (Susan Doherty Hannaford)
A Secret Music is the story of Lawrence Nolan, a sensitive 15-year-old
piano prodigy who grows up in the shadow of his mother's mental
illness. Forced to keep this shameful secret, he attempts to raise
himself and his 10-year-old brother. He counteracts the deep ache
and creeping mistrust caused by his mother's emotional absence
by escaping into the intense realm of Chopin and Schubert, the
only language he understands. When his brother becomes ill, he is
left with enormous responsibilities. At a piano competition,
Lawrence makes a climactic decision that puts his future on hold
in order to salvage his family life.
The Illegal (Lawrence Hill)
The Illegal tells the story of Keita Ali, a refugee compelled to
leave his homeland. After his journalist father is killed for his
outspoken political views, Keita must flee to the wealthy
nation of Freedom State—a country engaged in a crackdown
on all undocumented people. There, Keita learns what it
means to live as an illegal. Set in an imagined country bearing
a striking resemblance to our own, this tension-filled novel
casts its eye on race, human potential, and what it means to
belong.
Fiction/Canadian Literature
The Sisters Brothers (Patrick
DeWitt)
Summer of My Amazing Luck (Miriam Toews)
The Sisters Brothers is a darkly comic, outrageously inventive
novel that offers readers a decidedly off-center view of the Wild,
Wild West. Set against the back-drop of the great California Gold
Rush, this odd and wonderful tour de force at once honors and
reshapes the traditional western while chronicling the
picaresque misadventures of two hired guns, the fabled Sisters
brothers. The most original western since the Coen Brothers reinterpreted True Grit—you’ve never met anyone quite like The
Sisters Brothers.
Lucy always thought she’d grow up to become a forest
ranger. Instead, at 18, she’s a single mother. At the Have-aLife housing project, Lucy meets Lish, and the two decide to
escape the craziness by taking to the road. In a van held
together with coat-hangers and electrical tape, they set off
to Colorado in search of Lish’s lost love and the father of her
twins. Whether they’ll find him is questionable, but the
down-and-out adventure helps Lucy realize that this just
may be the summer of her amazing luck.
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
Orphan Train (Christina Baker Kline)
Born a generation apart, Mariam and Laila are two women
brought jarringly together by war, loss and fate. As they endure
the escalating dangers around them, they come to form a bond
that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but
of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and
suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman’s love for her family can
move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that
in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the
key to survival.
Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to aging out of foster care. A
community service position helping an elderly woman clean out
her home is the only thing keeping her out of juvie. As she gets
to know Vivian, Molly learns that they aren’t as different as they
seem. An Irish immigrant orphaned in NYC, Vivian was put on a
train with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be
determined by luck. Molly soon discovers that she has the power
to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her
for her entire life—answers that will ultimately free them both.
The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah)
When Vianne Mauriac’s husband heads for the Front, she
doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France. But invade
they do. When France is overrun, Vianne is forced to take an
enemy into her house, and suddenly her every move is watched.
Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates around
her, she must make one terrible choice after another. With
courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin
Hannah takes her talented pen to the epic panorama of WWII
and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the
women’s war.
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Irving Stone)
A powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo.
His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning
princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the
fanatic monk Savonarola. His loves: the frail and lovely daughter
of Lorenzo de Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi;
and his last love – his greatest love – the beautiful, unhappy
Vittoria Colonna. His genius: a God-driven fury from which he
wrested the greatest art the world has ever known.
Fiction/Historical Fiction/Classic
A Clash of Kings (George R.R. Martin)
A Clash of Kings transports us into a magnificent, forgotten land of
revelry and revenge, wizardry and wartime. It is a tale in which
maidens cavort with madmen, brother plots against brother, and
the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as
an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a
treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains
of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Audacious, inventive,
brilliantly imagined, A Clash of Kings is a novel of dazzling beauty
and boundless enchantment; a tale of pure excitement you will
never forget.
Fiction/Fantasy
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (JK Rowling,
Jack Thorne and John Tiffany)
It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much
easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry
of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children.
While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it
belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight
of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse
ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth:
sometimes darkness comes from unexpected places.
Fiction/Fantasy/Young Adult
(Not yet released)
Glass Sword (Victoria Aveyard)
If there’s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it’s that she’s different. Mare’
s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the
power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the
royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, but
soon Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of
her kind. Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver
fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. But Mare
finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of
monster she is trying to defeat.
Fiction/Fastasy/Young Adult
The Fire Sermon (Francesca Haig)
Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned
primitive following a nuclear fire. For some unknown reason,
every person is now born with a twin. One is an Alpha –
physically perfect in every way – and the other an Omega
burdened with deformity. But Alphas cannot escape one
harsh fact: Whenever one twin dies, so does the other. Cass is
a rare Omega, one burdened with psychic foresight. While her
twin, Zach, gains power on the Alpha Council, she dares to
dream the most dangerous dream of all: equality.
Bone Gap (Laura Ruby)
Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps. So when young,
beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t
surprised. After all, it wasn’t the first time that someone had
slipped away and left Finn and Sean O’Sullivan on their own. Just
a few years before, their mother had high-tailed it to Oregon for a
brand new guy. That’s just how things go, the people said. As we
follow the stories of Finn, Roza, and the people of Bone Gap,
acclaimed author Laura Ruby weaves a heartbreaking tale of love
and loss, magic and mystery, regret and forgiveness—a story
about how the face the world sees is never the sum of who we
are.
Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo)
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything
can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than
criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly
heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But
he can't pull it off alone: A convict with a thirst for revenge; a
sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager; a runaway with
a privileged past; a spy known as the Wraith; a Heartrender using
her magic to survive the slums; a thief with a gift for unlikely
escapes. Kaz's crew are the only ones who might stand between
the world and destruction—if they don't kill each other first.
Before I Fall (Lauren Oliver)
For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February
12—"Cupid Day"—should be one big party, a day of valentines
and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of
the social pyramid. And it is… until she dies in a terrible
accident that night. However, she still wakes up the next
morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times,
until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes,
she may hold more power than she ever imagined.
Fiction/Young Adult
Belzhar (Meg Wolitzer)
If life were fair, Jam Gallahue would still be at home in New Jersey
with her sweet British boyfriend, Reeve Maxfield. She certainly
wouldn’t be at The Wooden Barn, a therapeutic boarding school
in rural Vermont, living with a weird roommate, and signed up for
an exclusive, mysterious class called Special Topics in English.
But life isn’t fair, and Reeve Maxfield is dead. Until a journalwriting assignment leads Jam to Belzhar, where the untainted
past is restored, and Jam can feel Reeve’s arms around her once
again. But there are hidden truths on Jam’s path to reclaim her
loss.
Fiction/Young Adult
Looking for Alaska (John Green)
Before: Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big
non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only
made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet)
even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly
unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding
School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down
the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, selfdestructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young,
who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world,
launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.
After: Nothing is ever the same.
Fiction/Young Adult/Romance
Winger (Andrew Smith)
Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding
school for rich kids in the Pacific Northwest. He’s living in
Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming
with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in
love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little
boy. With the help of his sense of humor, rugby buddies, and
his penchant for doodling comics, Ryan Dean manages to
survive life’s complications and even find some happiness
along the way. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to
figure out how to hold on to what’s important, even when it
feels like everything has fallen apart.
Fiction/Young Adult
Every Last Word (Tamara Ireland Stone)
I’ll Give You the Sun (Jandy Nelson)
Samantha McAllister looks like the rest of the popular girls in
school, but she has a secret: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD
and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries.
Second guessing every move makes daily life a struggle, and it
doesn't help that her friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a
wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she'd
be crazy to leave the protection of the popular girls. So when Sam
meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend a secret. Slowly,
she begins to feel more "normal" than she ever has before… until
she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds
dear.
Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At 13,
isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the
charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and
does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and
Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the
twins in different and dramatic ways… until Jude meets a boy, as
well as someone else — an even more unpredictable new force in
her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are
Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only
half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one
another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.
Fiction/Young Adult
Fiction/Young Adult
Legend (Marie Lu)
What was once the western United States is now home to the
Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an
elite family, 15-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success
in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, 15-yearold Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may
not be as malicious as they seem. June and Day have no reason to
cross paths—until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and
Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat
and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks
to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two
uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the
sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.
Fiction/Young Adult/Science Fiction
Redshirts (John Scalzi)
The year is 2456, and Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to
the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid. It’s a prestige
posting, and Andrew is thrilled to be assigned to the ship’s
Xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn’t be better—until Andrew
begins to realize that every Away Mission involves some
kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces, and at least
one low-ranked crew member is always killed. Not
surprisingly, a great deal of energy below decks is expended
on avoiding being assigned to an Away Mission. Then
Andrew stumbles on information that completely
transforms his understanding of what the starship Intrepid
really is… and offers them a crazy, high-risk chance to save
their own lives.
Fiction/Science Fiction
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Becky
Chambers)
Somewhere within our crowded sky, a crew of wormhole builders
hops from planet to planet, on their way to the job of a lifetime. To
the galaxy at large, humanity is a minor species, and one patchedup construction vessel is a mere speck on the starchart. But all
voyages leave their mark, and even the most ordinary of people have
stories worth telling. A young Martian woman, hoping the vastness
of space will put some distance between herself and the life she‘s
left behind. An alien pilot, navigating life without her own kind. A
pacifist captain, awaiting the return of a loved one at war. Set
against a backdrop of curious cultures and distant worlds, this tale
weaves together the adventures of nine eclectic characters, each on
a journey of their own.
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is
the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose
experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an
extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells
how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As
the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence
expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered
his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific
breakthrough of paramount importance--until Algernon begins
his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to
Charlie?
Fiction/Science Fiction/Classic
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom,
is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels
from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a
treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy
woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom
point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the
treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles
along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods
turns into a discovery of the treasure found within. Lush, evocative,
and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to
the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of
listening to our hearts.
Fiction/Spirituality & Faith/Classic/Inspirational
Me Before You (Jojo Moyes)
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps
there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes
working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might
not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's
about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what
keeps her sane.
Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his
desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather
joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop
to that. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into
his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're
going to change the other for all time.
Fiction/Romance
The Rosie Effect (Graeme Simsion)
Descent (Tim Johnston)
The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily
married and living in New York. But they’re about to face a new
challenge: Rosie is pregnant. Don sets about learning the protocols
of becoming a father, but his unusual research style gets him into
trouble with the law. Fortunately his best friend Gene is on hand to
offer advice: he’s left Claudia and moved in with Don and Rosie. As
Don tries to schedule time for pregnancy research, getting Gene
and Claudia back together, servicing the industrial refrigeration
unit that occupies half his apartment, helping Dave the Baseball
Fan save his business and staying on the right side of Lydia the
social worker, he almost misses the biggest problem of all: he
might lose Rosie when she needs him most.
The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the
Courtlands, a young family taking a last summer vacation
before their daughter begins college. But when Caitlin and her
younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and
only Sean returns, the mountains become as terrifying as they
are majestic, as suddenly this family find themselves living
the kind of nightmare they’ve only read about in headlines or
seen on TV. Written with a precision that captures every
emotion, every moment of fear, as each member of the family
searches for answers, Descent is a perfectly crafted thriller that
races like an avalanche toward its heart-pounding conclusion,
and heralds the arrival of a master storyteller.
Fiction/Romance
Fiction/Mystery
Gods Behaving Badly (Marie Phillips)
The twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the 21st
Century, but they are crammed together in a London
townhouse. And they've had to get day jobs: Artemis as a dogwalker, Apollo as a TV psychic, Aphrodite as a phone sex
operator, Dionysus as a DJ. Even more disturbingly, their
powers are waning. Soon, what begins as a minor squabble
between Aphrodite and Apollo escalates into an epic battle of
wills. Nothing less than a true act of heroism is needed—but
can these two decidedly ordinary people replicate the feats of
the mythical heroes and save the world?
Fiction/Fantasy
Station Eleven (Emily St John Mandel)
Twenty years after a devastating flu ended civilization as we know it,
Kirsten Raymonde moves between the settlements of the altered
world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call
themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated
themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But
when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a
violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as
the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly
depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of
fate that connects them all will be revealed.
Now it’s time to pick a book!
Please email your book selection to
[email protected] at your earliest convenience.

Trinity Reads 2016 - Trinity College School

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