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All-School requiredNOTE: 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.

SeniorS requiredPlainsong Kent Haruf

REQUIRED-CHOOSE TWO We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini The Martian Andy Weir

SuggeStionS for SeniorSThe Handmaid’s Tale Margaret AtwoodAll the Light We Cannot See Anthony DoerrI, Iago Nicole GallandThe Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Dinaw MengestuGertrude and Claudius John Updike

JuniorS requiredThe Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini

REQUIRED-CHOOSE ONEMe Talk Pretty One Day David SedarisThe Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

JuniorS tAking AdvAnced SeminArFrankenstein Mary Shelley

SuggeStionS for JuniorSIn Our Time Ernest HemingwayA Prayer for Owen Meany John IrvingHope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Laila LalamiWatchmen Moore & GibbonsThe Space Between Us Thrity Umrigar

JuniorS tAking u.S. hiStory And AmericAn civilizAtion courSeSThe Murder of Helen Jewett Patricia Cline Cohen

JuniorS tAking AP u.S. hiStoryGive Me Liberty! Eric Foner (Seagull 3rd Ed.)– chapters 1 & 2

SoPhomoreS requiredThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Elizabeth Kolbert1984 George OrwellBel Canto Ann Patchett

SuggeStionS for SoPhomoreSThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark HaddonMy Name Is Asher Lev Chaim PotokEleanor & Park Rainbow RowellInto the Beautiful North Luis Alberto UrreaThe Once and Future King T. H. White

freShmen requiredHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford Outliers Malcolm Gladwell The Book Thief Markus Zusak

SuggeStionS for freShmenWarriors Don’t Cry Melba Pattillo Beals God Grew Tired of Us John Bul Dau To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee A Hundred Flowers Gail Tsukiyama A Story Like the Wind Laurens van der Post

BOOKS FOR 2015required + SuggeSted

HeAd of School: toP PickSLongbourn Jo BakerThe Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard FlanaganThe War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 Margaret MacMillanThe Son Philipp MeyerHow to Be Both Ali Smith

ArtS: toP PickSThe Blazing World: A Novel Siri HustvedtSilver Screen Fiend Patton OswaltHamlet’s Dresser: A Memoir Bob SmithHumans of New York Brandon StantonThe Making of Markova Tina Sutton

AthleticS: toP PickSFriday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream H. G. BissingerThe Kid Who Climbed Everest Bear GryllsSeabiscuit: An American Legend Laura HillenbrandBorn to Run Christopher McDougallA Necessary Spectacle Selena Roberts

College: toP PickSFiske Guide to Colleges, 2015 Edward B. FiskeConquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps Alan GelbCollege Admission: From Application to Acceptance Mamlet & VanDeVeldeThe Gatekeepers Jacques SteinbergCreating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites Mitchell L. Stevens

Common Good: toP PickSThe New Jim Crow Michelle AlexanderThe Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen Kwame Anthony AppiahThe Logbooks: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory Anne FarrowThank You for Your Service David FinkelJustice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? Michael Sandel

DeAnS: toP PickSWe Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieNurtureShock: New Thinking about Children Po BronsonQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan CainPrivilege: A Reader Kimmel & FerberAge of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence Laurence Steinberg

GlobAl StudieS: toP PickSRunning the Rift: A Novel Naomi BenaronIn a Sunburned Country Bill BrysonLaughing without an Accent: Adventures of a Global Citizen Firoozeh DumasSeven Years in Tibet Heinrich HarrerLost on Planet China J. Maarten Troost

HiStory: toP PickSThe Half Has Never Been Told Edward E. BaptistThe Boys in the Boat Daniel James BrownThe Secret History of Wonder Woman Jill LeporeNapalm: An American Biography Robert M. NeerLittle Failure: A Memoir Gary Shteyngart

lAnguAgeS: toP PickSThe Iliad (translation) Robert Fagles The Crystal Frontier: A Novel in Nine Stories Carlos FuentesSuspended Sentences: Three Novellas Patrick ModianoAge of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China Evan OsnosAlif the Unseen G. Willow Wilson

MAthemAticS: toP PickSUncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture Aiden & MichelInfinitesimal Amir AlexanderHow Not to Be Wrong Jordan EllenbergLove and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality Edward FrenkelNaked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data Charles Wheelan

MuSic: toP PickSA Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer EganThe Story of Music: From Babylon to the Beatles Howard GoodallViolins of Hope James A. GrymesImperfect Harmony Stacy HornI’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers and the Music That Shaped the Civil Rights Era Greg Kot

PhiloSoPhy, PSychology & Religion: toP PickSJust Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil Paul Bloom Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Atul GawandeA First-Rate Madness Nassir GhaemiPlato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away Rebecca GoldsteinOn Aggression Konrad Lorenz

Science: toP PickSWhat a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses Daniel ChamovitzThe Violinist’s Thumb Sam KeanFood Rules: An Eater’s Manual Michael PollanYour Inner Fish Neil ShubinLetters to a Young Scientist Edward O. Wilson

Book to FilmRosewater Maziar BahariMockingjay Suzanne CollinsGone Girl Gillian FlynnUnbroken Laura HillenbrandAlan Turing: The Enigma (movie title: The Imitation Game) Andrew HodgesAmerican Sniper Chris KyleHector and the Search for Happiness François LelordThe Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. MoraisWild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl StrayedThis Is Where I Leave You: A Novel Jonathan Tropper

ReAder’S ChoiceMaiden Voyage Tania AebiAlmost Famous Women: Stories Megan Mayhew BergmanHow We Learn Benedict CareySmoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory Caitlin DoughtyA Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel Marlon JamesThe Girls of Atomic City Denise KiernanLucy: A Novel Jamaica KincaidThe Inner Sea: A Novel of the Year 100 Zane Kotker, ‘52Half the Sky Kristof & WuDunnFruit of the Lemon: A Novel Andrea LevyFlash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt Michael LewisStation Eleven: A Novel Emily St. John MandelThe Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books Azar NafisiWest of Sunset Stewart O’NanCitizen: An American Lyric Claudia RankineTibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life Tom RobbinsThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver SacksThings a Little Bird Told Me Biz StoneDeep Down Dark Héctor TobarThe Devil’s Highway: A True Story Luis Alberto Urrea

20th Century ClASSicSGiovanni’s Room James BaldwinThe Illustrated Man Ray BradburyPicnic at Hanging Rock Joan LindsaySlaughterhouse-Five Kurt VonnegutThe Color Purple Alice Walker

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