Loomis Chaffee

2018

SUMMER reading

ALL-SCHOOL REQUIRED (READ OR WATCH)

Life of Pi YANN MARTEL

SENIORS

REQUIREDAll the Light We Cannot See ANTHONY DOERR

ALSO REQUIRED: ONE STARRED BOOK FROM ANY LIST

SUGGESTIONSJane Eyre CHARLOTTE BRONTË

Love in the Time of Cholera GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia MOHSIN HAMID

Unaccustomed Earth: Stories JHUMPA LAHIRI

The God of Small Things ARUNDHATI ROY

JUNIORS

REQUIRED: ENGLISH 111Never Let Me Go KAZUO ISHIGURO

REQUIRED: CL ENGLISH III SEMINARFrankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus MARY SHELLEY

Modern Library edition, ISBN 9780375753411

ALSO REQUIRED FOR ALL JUNIORS: ONE STARRED BOOK

FROM ANY LIST

REQUIRED: U.S. HISTORY & CL U.S. HISTORYIn lieu of a reading, students will visit and reflect on an historical site. For information on required site visits and reflecting on experiences, see http://bit.ly/2FYq5tc

REQUIRED: CL U.S. HISTORYGive Me Liberty! (Brief 4th Ed.) ERIC FONER

Chapters 1 & 28Four articles: see http://loomis.libguides.com/summer-reading/ush

SUGGESTIONSThe River King ALICE HOFFMAN

The Kite Runner KHALED HOSSEINI

Station Eleven EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

Me Talk Pretty One Day DAVID SEDARIS

The Glass Castle: A Memoir JEANNETTE WALLS

SOPHOMORES

REQUIRED1984 GEORGE ORWELL

ALSO REQUIRED: ONE STARRED BOOK FROM ANY LIST

SUGGESTIONSBless Me, Ultima RUDOLFO ANAYA

Bel Canto ANN PATCHETT

�The Chosen CHAIM POTOK

Salvage the Bones JESMYN WARD

The Once and Future King T. H. WHITE

FRESHMEN

REQUIREDThe Book Thief MARKUS ZUSAK

ALSO REQUIRED: ONE STARRED BOOK FROM ANY LIST

SUGGESTIONSEnder’s Game ORSON SCOTT CARD

The House on Mango Street SANDRA CISNEROS

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet JAMIE FORD

Into Thin Air JON KRAKAUER

The Catcher in the Rye J. D. SALINGER

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HEAD OF SCHOOL: TOP PICKS

Grant RON CHERNOW

�History of Wolves EMILY FRIDLUND

The Distance Between Us: A Memoir REYNA GRANDE

The Vegetarian HAN KANG

The Dry: A Novel JANE HARPER

A Gentleman in Moscow AMOR TOWLES

ARTS: TOP PICKS

You Must Change Your Life RACHEL CORBETT

Rosshalde HERMANN HESSE

�The Floating World JAMES MICHENER

The Art of Rivalry SEBASTIAN SMEE

The Man Who Designed B. ALEXANDRA SZERLIP

the Future

ATHLETICS: TOP PICKS

What We Think About When SIMON CRITCHLEY We Think About Soccer Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons PHIL JACKSON

of a Hardwood Warrior Fire on the Track ROSEANNE MONTILLO

The Captain Class SAM WALKER

�No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey ERIK WEIHENMAYER

to Kayak the Grand Canyon

BOOK TO FILM

Call Me by Your Name ANDRÉ ACIMAN

Murder on the Orient Express AGATHA CHRISTIE

Ready Player One ERNEST CLINE

The Shape of Water DEL TORO & KRAUS

Thank You for Your Service DAVID FINKEL

Mudbound HILLARY JORDAN

It STEPHEN KING

A Wrinkle in Time MADELEINE L’ENGLE

The Mountain Between Us CHARLES MARTIN

Red Sparrow JASON MATTHEWS

The Death of Stalin NURY, ROBIN & AUREYRE

The Disaster Artist SESTERO & BISSELL

Annihilation JEFF VANDERMEER

COLLEGE OFFICE: TOP PICKS

�Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be FRANK BRUNI, ‘82

U Thrive: How to Succeed LERNER & SCHLECHTER in College (and Life)The Gatekeepers JACQUES STEINBERG

Creating a Class: College Admissions MITCHELL L. STEVENS

and the Education of ElitesA Hope in the Unseen RON SUSKIND

DEANS: TOP PICKS

Braving the Wilderness BRENÉ BROWN

The Power of Positive Leadership JON GORDON

What Doesn’t Kill Us STEPHEN JOSEPH

Everybody Lies SETH STEPHENS-DAVIDOWITZ

�American Street IBI ZOBOI

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION: TOP PICKS

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of BANAJI & GREENWALD

Good People �One Goal AMY BASS

At the Broken Places M. COLLINS & DONALD COLLINS, ‘11

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice BRYAN STEVENSON

and RedemptionWhy Are All the Black Kids Sitting BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM

Together in the Cafeteria?

HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGIOUS STUDIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE: TOP PICKS

Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. DANIELLE ALLEN

Predictably Irrational DAN ARIELY

Red Notice BILL BROWDER

Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count DAVID DALEY

�Evicted: Poverty and Profit MATTHEW DESMOND

in the American City The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives DEBORAH LUTZ

in Nine Objects What They Saved: Pieces of NANCY K. MILLER

a Jewish Past �Full-Court Quest PEAVY & SMITH

Heavens on Earth MICHAEL SHERMER

Nudge THALER & SUNSTEIN

MATHEMATICS: TOP PICKS

The Calculus Wars JASON SOCRATES BARDI

Logicomix: An Epic DOXIADIS & PAPADIMITRIOU

Search for Truth �How Not to Be Wrong JORDAN ELLENBERG

The Man Who Knew Infinity ROBERT KANIGEL

Code Girls LIZA MUNDY

MODERN & CLASSICAL LANGUAGES: TOP PICKS

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents JULIA ALVAREZ

Meetings with Remarkable CHRISTOPHER DE HAMEL

Manuscripts Rebels by Accident PATRICIA DUNN

� In Other Words JHUMPA LAHIRI

Black Moses: A Novel ALAIN MABANCKOU

Do Not Say We Have Nothing MADELEINE THIEN

MUSIC: TOP PICKS

Taduno’s Song: A Novel ODAFE ATOGUN

�Queen of Bebop: The Musical ELAINE M. HAYES

Lives of Sarah VaughanThe Chilbury Ladies’ Choir JENNIFER RYAN

Boys in the Trees: A Memoir CARLY SIMON

Grown-Up Anger DANIEL WOLFF

SCIENCE: TOP PICKS

A Crack in Creation DOUDNA & STERNBERG

Galileo’s Middle Finger ALICE DREGER

Rigor Mortis RICHARD HARRIS

�The Demon-Haunted World CARL SAGAN

Behave: The Biology of Humans ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY

at Our Best and Worst

THEATER & DANCE: TOP PICKS

�And Then, You Act: Making Art ANNE BOGART

in an Unpredictable World By the Sword RICHARD COHEN

Katherine Dunham: Dance and JOANNA DEE DAS the African Diaspora Hamlet Globe to Globe DOMINIC DROMGOOLE

The Mask-Making Handbook THURSTON JAMES

ALVORD CENTER FOR GLOBAL & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: TOP PICKS

�The Death and Life of the Great Lakes DAN EGAN

Discontent and Its Civilizations MOHSIN HAMID

Pachinko MIN JIN LEE

No Friends but the Mountains JUDITH MATLOFF

Born a Crime TREVOR NOAH

NORTON FAMILY CENTER FOR THE COMMON GOOD: TOP PICKS

Ways of Grace JAMES BLAKE

Excellent Sheep WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ

The Monk of Mokha DAVE EGGERS

�A Moonless, Starless Sky ALEXIS OKEOWO

The Common Good ROBERT B. REICH

PEARSE HUB FOR INNOVATION: TOP PICKS

CAD Monkeys, Dinosaur Babies WARREN BERGER and T-Shaped PeopleSteve Jobs WALTER ISAACSON

Whiplash: How to Survive ITO & HOWE

Our Faster Future Creative Confidence KELLEY & KELLEY

�Start Something That Matters BLAKE MYCOSKIE

READER’S CHOICE

�American Wolf NATE BLAKESLEE

The Girls EMMA CLINE

Jane Steele: A Novel LYNDSAY FAYE

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters EMIL FERRIS

Norse Mythology NEIL GAIMAN

The Chalk Artist ALLEGRA GOODMAN

Uncommon Type: Some Stories TOM HANKS

Endurance: A Year in Space, SCOTT KELLY

A Lifetime of DiscoveryThe Most Important Thing Illuminated HOWARD MARKS

Nutshell: A Novel IAN MCEWAN

Letters to a Young Poet RAINER MARIA RILKE

The Hate U Give ANGIE THOMAS

Artemis: A Novel ANDY WEIR

Silencer MARCUS WICKER