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2006 Summer Reading List
 
Title/Author Recommended by

And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students / Miles Corwin

Claire O. ‘07

Cat’s Cradle / Kurt Vonnegut

Murat O. ‘07
Jordan Y. ‘07

The Climb / Anatoli Boukreev et al
OR Into Thin Air / Jon Krakauer
Tom Handel
Robin Schauffler

A Clockwork Orange / Anthony Burgess

Kyle D. ‘07

Close Range : Stories / E. Annie Proulx

Katrina Perry

Courtship Rite / Donald Kingsbury

Bill Lamb

Devil in the White City / Erik Larson

Cynthia Doran
Empress Orchid / Anchee Min Wendy Steele

The End of Poverty / Jeffrey Sachs

John Holloran

Ender’s Game / Orson Scott Card

Travis L. ‘07
Erich S. ‘07

Eragon / Christopher Paolini

Lauren E. ‘07
Jessica T. ‘07

Fish! A Remarkable Way To Boost Morale and Improve Results / Stephen Lundin

Beth Reinders

Horseman, Pass By / Larry McMurtry

Peter Langley

How Soccer Explains The World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization / Franklin Foer

Scott Sagar

The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey / Linda Greenlaw

Rob Orr
In Cold Blood/Truman Capote Rob Brisk

Jarhead / Anthony Swofford

Jordan Elliott

Journey to the Center of the Earth / Jules Verne

Emma P. ‘07

July’s People / Nadine Gordimer

Debby Schauffler

Lamb: The Gospel According Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal / Christopher Moore

Monica S. ‘07

Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden

Dalia T.‘07

Monster: Living off the Big Screen / John Gregory Dunne

Chris Myers

The Motorcycle Diaries / Ernesto Che Guevara

Sean F. ‘07
Sarah Karr

My Sister’s Keeper / Jodi Picoult

Lenka I. ‘07

Native Speaker / Chang-Rae Lee

Rick Rees

Night Soldiers / Alan Furst

Corbet Clark

The Perks of Being A Wallflower / Stephen Chbosky

Myra Clark

Prep / Curtis Sittenfeld

Dana Mosher Lewis
Diane Herschleb

The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids / Barbara Strauch

Deri Bash

Ricochet River / Robin Cody

Remy O. ‘07

Salt: A World History / Mark Kurlansky

Hope Stevens

Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy / Jane Leavy

Jim Bunker

A Sea of Troubles / Janet L. Smith

Sandi Lillevik

Shadow of the Wind / Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Steven M. ‘07

Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers / Mary Roach

Julie Sikkink

Time and Again / Jack Finney

Jack O’Brien

The Tipping Point / Malcolm Gladwell

Gary Crossman
The United States of Europe/T.R. Reid Micheline Ghattas

War Trash / Ha Jin

Debbie Walsh

We / Yevgeny Zamyatin

Gabriel Edge

Where Rivers Change Directions / Mark Spragg

Art Ward

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance / Robert Pirsig

Terry Hansen

Notes: All incoming 9th-graders (the Class of 2010) will read The King Must Die, by Mary Renault.

International students who may need help with reading in English will read The Pearl, by John Steinbeck.

 
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2006 Summer Reading List

2007 Summer Reading List