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