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ReQuired + suggested
BOOKS FOR 2015
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All-School re
NOTE: In addition to their summer reading, all students
will listen to the Fall 2014 season of the podcast Serial. The
12 episodes chronicle the 1999 disappearance of Baltimore
high school senior Hae Min Lee. The episodes are available
at serialpodcast.org.
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REQUIRED-CHOOSE TWO
We Are All Completely
Beside Ourselves
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Martian
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REQUIRED-CHOOSE ONE
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Glass Castle
Karen Joy Fowler
Khaled Hosseini
Andy Weir
Margaret Atwood
Anthony Doerr
Nicole Galland
Dinaw Mengestu
John Updike
The Sixth Extinction:
An Unnatural History
1984
Bel Canto
The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-Time
My Name Is Asher Lev
Eleanor & Park
Into the Beautiful North
The Once and Future King
David Sedaris
Jeannette Walls
Ernest Hemingway
John Irving
Laila Lalami
Moore & Gibbons
Thrity Umrigar
Mark Haddon
Chaim Potok
Rainbow Rowell
Luis Alberto Urrea
T. H. White
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Outliers
The Book Thief
Mary Shelley
Elizabeth Kolbert
George Orwell
Ann Patchett
suggestions for Sophomores
FReshmen re
suggestions for Juniors
In Our Time
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Hope and Other
Dangerous Pursuits
Watchmen
The Space Between Us
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Khaled Hosseini
Juniors Taking Advanced Seminar
Frankenstein
juniors Taking AP U.S. History
Sophomores re
Juniors re
The Kite Runner
Patricia Cline Cohen
Kent Haruf
suggestions for Seniors
The Handmaid’s Tale
All the Light We Cannot See
I, Iago
The Beautiful Things That
Heaven Bears
Gertrude and Claudius
The Murder of Helen Jewett
Give Me Liberty! Eric Foner
(Seagull 3rd Ed.)– chapters 1 & 2
Seniors re
Plainsong juniors Taking U.S. History and
American Civilization courses
Jamie Ford
Malcolm Gladwell
Markus Zusak
suggestions for freshmen
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
S ummer
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Head of School: Top Picks
Longbourn
Jo Baker
The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan
The War That Ended Peace:
The Road to 1914
Margaret MacMillan
The Son
Philipp Meyer
How to Be Both
Ali Smith
Arts: Top Picks
The Blazing World: A Novel
Silver Screen Fiend
Hamlet’s Dresser: A Memoir
Humans of New York
The Making of Markova
Siri Hustvedt
Patton Oswalt
Bob Smith
Brandon Stanton
Tina Sutton
Athletics: Top Picks
Friday Night Lights: A Town,
a Team, and a Dream
The Kid Who Climbed Everest
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Born to Run
A Necessary Spectacle
H. G. Bissinger
Bear Grylls
Laura Hillenbrand
Christopher McDougall
Selena Roberts
COllege: Top Picks
Fiske Guide to Colleges, 2015
Edward B. Fiske
Conquering the College Admissions
Essay in 10 Steps
Alan Gelb
College Admission:
From Application to Acceptance Mamlet & VanDeVelde
The Gatekeepers Jacques Steinberg
Creating a Class: College Admissions
and the Education of Elites
Mitchell L. Stevens
Common Good: Top Picks
The New Jim Crow
The Honor Code: How Moral
Revolutions Happen
The Logbooks: Connecticut’s
Slave Ships and Human Memory
Thank You for Your Service
Justice: What’s the Right
Thing to Do?
Michelle Alexander
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Anne Farrow
David Finkel
Michael Sandel
Deans: Top Picks
We Should All Be Feminists
NurtureShock: New Thinking
about Children
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a
World That Can’t Stop Talking
Privilege: A Reader
Age of Opportunity:
Lessons from the New Science
of Adolescence
Music: Top Picks
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Po Bronson
Susan Cain
Kimmel & Ferber
History: Top Picks
The Half Has Never Been Told
The Boys in the Boat
The Secret History of
Wonder Woman
Napalm: An American Biography
Little Failure: A Memoir
languages: Top Picks
The Iliad (translation)
The Crystal Frontier: A Novel in
Nine Stories
Suspended Sentences:
Three Novellas
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune,
Truth, and Faith in the New China
Alif the Unseen
Naomi Benaron
Bill Bryson
Firoozeh Dumas
Heinrich Harrer
J. Maarten Troost
Edward E. Baptist
Daniel James Brown
Jill Lepore
Robert M. Neer
Gary Shteyngart
Robert Fagles
Carlos Fuentes
Patrick Modiano
Evan Osnos
G. Willow Wilson
Mathematics: Top Picks
Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens
on Human Culture
Infinitesimal
How Not to Be Wrong
Love and Math:
The Heart of Hidden Reality Naked Statistics: Stripping the
Dread from the Data
Jennifer Egan
Howard Goodall
James A. Grymes
Stacy Horn
Greg Kot
Laurence Steinberg
Global Studies: Top Picks
Running the Rift: A Novel
In a Sunburned Country
Laughing without an Accent:
Adventures of a Global Citizen
Seven Years in Tibet
Lost on Planet China
A Visit from the Goon Squad
The Story of Music: From Babylon
to the Beatles
Violins of Hope
Imperfect Harmony
I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples,
the Staple Singers and the Music
That Shaped the Civil Rights Era
Aiden & Michel
Amir Alexander
Jordan Ellenberg
Edward Frenkel
Charles Wheelan
Philosophy, Psychology &
Religion: Top Picks
Just Babies: The Origins of Good
and Evil
Being Mortal: Medicine and
What Matters in the End
A First-Rate Madness
Plato at the Googleplex: Why
Philosophy Won’t Go Away
On Aggression
Paul Bloom
Atul Gawande
Nassir Ghaemi
Rebecca Goldstein
Konrad Lorenz
Science: Top Picks
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide
to the Senses
The Violinist’s Thumb
Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual
Your Inner Fish
Letters to a Young Scientist
Book to Film
Rosewater
Mockingjay
Gone Girl
Unbroken
Alan Turing: The Enigma
(movie title: The Imitation Game)
American Sniper
Hector and the Search for Happiness
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Wild: From Lost to Found on
the Pacific Crest Trail
This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel
Daniel Chamovitz
Sam Kean
Michael Pollan
Neil Shubin
Edward O. Wilson
Maziar Bahari
Suzanne Collins
Gillian Flynn
Laura Hillenbrand
Andrew Hodges
Chris Kyle
François Lelord
Richard C. Morais
Cheryl Strayed
Jonathan Tropper
Reader’s Choice
Maiden Voyage
Almost Famous Women: Stories
How We Learn
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other
Lessons from the Crematory
A Brief History of Seven Killings:
A Novel
The Girls of Atomic City
Lucy: A Novel
The Inner Sea: A Novel
of the Year 100
Half the Sky
Fruit of the Lemon: A Novel
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Station Eleven: A Novel
The Republic of Imagination:
America in Three Books
West of Sunset
Citizen: An American Lyric
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account
of an Imaginative Life
The Man Who Mistook His Wife
for a Hat
Things a Little Bird Told Me
Deep Down Dark
The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
Tania Aebi
Megan Mayhew Bergman
Benedict Carey
Caitlin Doughty
Marlon James
Denise Kiernan
Jamaica Kincaid
Zane Kotker, ‘52
Kristof & WuDunn
Andrea Levy
Michael Lewis
Emily St. John Mandel
Azar Nafisi
Stewart O’Nan
Claudia Rankine
Tom Robbins
Oliver Sacks
Biz Stone
Héctor Tobar
Luis Alberto Urrea
20th Century Classics
Giovanni’s Room
The Illustrated Man Picnic at Hanging Rock
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Color Purple
James Baldwin
Ray Bradbury
Joan Lindsay
Kurt Vonnegut
Alice Walker
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