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2007 Summer Reading List

All rising 10th-, 11th-, and 12th-graders must sign up to read one of the following books. Students will then meet in discussion groups in the fall to discuss the book they read.

 

 
Title/Author Recommended by

Alvin Journeyman / Orson Scott Card

Lewis G. '08

Seth J. '08

Bel Canto / Ann Patchett

Robyn W. '08

Chaos / James Gleick Colin C. '08
John Holloran

Children of Men / P.D. James

Debby Schauffler

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt / Anne Rice

Matthew Hanly

Creativity and Disease: How Illness Affects Literature, Art, and Music / Philip Sandblom

Sue Jensen

The Daughter of Time / Josephine Tey

Corbet Clark
Dune / Frank Herbert

Lief E. '08

Gabriel Edge

The Dharma Bums / Jack Kerouac

Julia C. '08

Rick Rees

Do You Speak American? / Robert MacNeil and William Cran

Tali S. '08
Lynne Sadler

Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and a High-School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska / Michael D'Orso

Chris Myers

Everything Bad is Good For You / Steven Johnson

Adam Steele

Flyboys / James Bradley

Rob Orr

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / J.K. Rowling

Francesca B. '08

Carter I. '08

Dana Mosher-Lewis

Jane Austen in Scarsdale: or, Love, Death, and the SATs / Paula Marantz Cohen

Beth Reinders
The Last Temptation of Christ / Nikos Kazantzakis Art Ward

Little Women / Louisa May Alcott &

March / Geraldine Brooks

Julie Sikkink

Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov

Katy G. '08

Looking for Alaska / John Green

Alix E. '08

Motherless Brooklyn / Jonathan Lethem

Diane Herschleb

The Pact / Jodi Picoult

Wendy Steele

Parasites Like Us / Adam Johnson

Robin Schauffler

Plug-In Hybrids: The Cars That Will Re-Charge America / Sherry Boschert

James K. '08

Rogue Male / Geoffrey Household

Peter Langley

Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas / Sylviane A. Diouf

Jordan Elliott '97

Sometimes a Great Notion / Ken Kesey

Terry Hansen

The Sparrow / Mary Doria Russell

Stephen Decker

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time / Greg Mortonson and David Relin

Deri Bash

Walkin' the Dog / Walter Mosley

Myra Clark

Watchmen / Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Harlan B. '08

Where Dogs Run / Hunter Gregg ' 92

Bettina Gregg '92

Wooden Boats: In Pursuit of the Perfect Craft at an American Boatyard / Michael Ruhlman

Jack O'Brien

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century / Thomas Friedman

Hayden E. '08
 


 
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