Reading List

Each summer the school asks all students and faculty to read a book in common. It is our hope, of course, that we will all read much more than that, but reading by its very nature is a solitary act and should also involve a level of personal choice. Toward that end, we have collected suggestions—from students as well as teachers—of other worthwhile reads. We hope this list will make the task of finding a good book easier, and also that it will help widen your reading horizons. Enjoy.

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100 Love Sonnets

Poetry
By Neruda, Pablo

Absalom, Absalom!

Fiction
By Faulkner, William

Alice in Wonderland

Fiction
By Carroll, Lewis

American [The]

Fiction
By James, Henry

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan

Nonfiction
By Elliot, Jason

At Swim-Two-Birds

Fiction
By O'Brien, Flann

Atonement

Fiction
By McEwan, Ian

Bonfire of the Vanities [The]

Fiction
By Wolfe, Tom

Book of Ebenezer Le Page [The]

Fiction
By Edwards, G.B

Brick Lane

Fiction
By Ali, Monica

Buccaneers [The]

Fiction
By Wharton, Edith

Cane

Poetry
By Toomer, Jean

Catcher in the Rye [The]

Fiction
By Salinger, J.D.

City of Joy

Fiction
By Lapierre, Dominique

College Unranked

Essays
By Thacker, Llyod

Confederacy of Dunces

Fiction
By O'Toole, John Kennedy

Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam

Nonfiction
By McPherson, James

Deep Economy

Nonfiction
By McKibben, Bill

Doll's House [A]

Drama
By Ibsen, Henrik

Family Matters

Fiction
By Mistry, Rohinton

Far From the Madding Crowd

Fiction
By Hardy, Thomas

Ficciones

Short Story
By Borges, Jorge Luis

Fifth Business

Fiction
By Davies, Robertson

Fine Balance [A]

Fiction
By Mistry, Rohinton

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Fiction
By Vreeland, Susan

God of Small Things

Fiction
By Roy, Arundhati

Half a Life

Fiction
By Naipaul, V.S.

Help, The

Fiction
By By Kathryn Stockett

Hiroshima

Fiction
By Hersey, John

Howard's End

Fiction
By Forster, E.M.

In the Time of the Butterflies

Nonfiction
By Alvarez, Julia

Iona Moon

Fiction
By Thon, Melanie Rae

Last of the Mohicans [The]

Fiction
By Cooper, James Fenimore

Let the Great World Spin

Fiction
By Colum McCann

Libra

Fiction
By DeLillo, Don

Long Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously

Nonfiction
By McKibben, Bill

Love in the Time of Cholera

Fiction
By Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Meadow [The]

Fiction
By Galvin, James

Men at Work

Nonfiction
By Will, George

Mission [The]

Nonfiction
By Priest, Dana

My Family and Other Animals

Nonfiction
By Durrell, Gerald

Never Let Me Go

Fiction
By Ishiguro, Kazuo

No Country for Old Men

Fiction
By McCarthy, Cormac

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Fiction
By Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories

Short Story
By Adiche, Chimamanda Ngozi and Lahiri, Jhumpa

Out of Africa

Fiction
By Dinesen, Isak

Outliers: The Story of Success

Nonfiction
By Gladwell, Malcolm

Peace Like a River

Fiction
By Enger, Leif

People of the Book

Fiction
By Brooks, Geraldine

Persepolis

Nonfiction
By Satrapi, Marjane

Places In Between [The]

Nonfiction
By Stewart, Rory

Portrait of a Lady

Fiction
By James, Henry

Power of One [The]

Fiction
By Courtenay, Bruce

Purple Hibiscus

Fiction
By Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

Reluctant Fundamentalist [The]

Fiction
By Hamid, Mohsin

Road [The]

Fiction
By McCarthy, Cormac

Room with a View [A]

Fiction
By Forster, E.M.

Sailing Alone Around the Room

Poetry
By Collins, Billy

Sea of Poppies

Fiction
By Ghosh, Amitav

Shadow of the Wind [The]

Fiction
By Zafon, Carlos Ruiz

Shipping News [The]

Fiction
By Proulx, Annie

Simply Einstein

Nonfiction
By Wolfson, Richard

Sister Carrie Pacific

Fiction
By Helprin, Mark

Snow

Fiction
By Pamuk, Ohran

Souls of Black Folk [The]

Essays
By Dubois, W.E.B.

Story of Edgar Sawtelle [The]

Fiction
By Wroblewski, David

Tale of Two Cities [A]

Fiction
By Dickens, Charles

Terrorist

Fiction
By Updike, John

The Prodigal Summer

Fiction
By Kingsolver, Barbara

Things Fall Apart

Fiction
By Achebe, Chinua

Thirteenth Tale [The]

Fiction
By Setterfield, Diana

Thousand Splendid Suns [A]

Fiction
By Hosseini, Khaled

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World…One Child at a Time

Nonfiction
By Mortenson, Greg and Relin, David Oliver

Through the Looking-Glass

Fiction
By Carroll, Lewis

Time Traveler's Wife [The]

Fiction
By Niffenegger, Audrey

Tom Jones

Fiction
By Fielding, Henry

Tree Grows in Brooklyn [A]

Fiction
By Smith, Betty

Water for Elephants

Fiction
By Gruen, Sara

White Tiger [The]

Fiction
By Adiga, Aravind

Year in Provence [A]

Nonfiction
By Mayle, Peter

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Nonfiction
By Pirsig, Robert M.

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