Favorite Senior Books

Each April, the Sidwell Friends Upper School Library celebrates National Library Week. One of our traditions is to ask our graduating seniors to recommend their favorite books for the library collection. Recognizing that we are all looking for good book suggestions, we have published the lists from each year, beginning with 1999 when the program first began. That year we asked teachers what their favorite books were and followed in the subsequent years by querying seniors. Please check our library catalog or the catalogs of your favorite library to enjoy these wonderful books.

Below is our published book list from past years. Books are sorted by author's last name

 

Author Title Years
Abbey, Edward Desert Solitaire:  A Season in the Wilderness 2007
Abbey, EdwardThe Monkey Wrench Gang 2012 
Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy  2001, 2005, 2009
Adams, Douglas The Salmon of Doubt 2006
Adams, Richard    Watership Down 2010
Adichie, Chimamanda NgoziHalf of a Yellow Sun2011
Adiga, AravindThe White Tiger2011
Adkins, Roy The Keys of Egypt 2002
Albom, Mitch The Five People You Meet in Heaven 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012
Albom, Mitch Tuesdays With Morrie 2004, 2011
Alcott, Louisa May Little Women 2002, 2003, 2012
Alexander, Lloyd   The Book of Three2011
Allende, Isabel  El Zorro 2007
Allende, Isabel  The House of the Spirits 2005
Allison, Dorothy Bastard Out of Carolina  2001
Alvarez, JuliaIn the Time of Butterflies2011
Ambrose, Stephen, et. Al. What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 2003
Amis, Kingsley Lucky Jim  2001
Angelou, Maya Poems 2000
Applegate, K.A. Animorphs #11 -- The Forgotten 2007
Armstrong, KarenTwelve Steps for a Compassionate Life 2012 
Asimov, Isaac The Foundation Series 2002, 2009
Auden, W. H. and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds.Romantic Poets, Blake to Poe 2012 
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice 1999, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012
Austen, Jane Sense and Sensibility 2002
Austen, Jane Emma 2009
Babbitt, Natalie Tuck Everlasting 2010
Bagdasarian, Adam Forgotten Fire 2010
Baker, Kevin Paradise Alley 2004
Baldwin, James Giovanni's Room 2002, 2004
Balls, Edward K. Early Uses of California Plants 2010
Banks, Russell Rule of the Bone 2006, 2007, 2009
Barbery, Muriel The Elegance of the Hedgehog 2010
Barry, Dave Big Trouble 2003, 2007
Barry, DaveClaw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in One Week 2012 
Beah, Ishmael A Long Way Gone:  Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2008, 2009
Beer, Mark H. Merck Manual of Medical Information 2008
Behrendt, Greg He's Just Not That Into You:  The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys 2006
Bell, Heather Nothing Unrequited Here 2010
Bell, TedTsar: A Thriller2011
Bemelmans, LudwigMadeline 2012 
Benioff, David City of Thieves 2010, 2011
Bernstein, Carl and Bob WoodwardAll the President's Men2011
Bissinger, Buzz Three Nights in August:  Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager 2008
Bissinger, H.G.  Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream  2005
Blume, Judy Summer Sisters 2003, 2009
Bradbury, Ray Dandelion Wine 2002, 2006
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451 2004
Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes 2004
Bradley, James Flags of our Fathers 2007
Bradley, Marion Zimmer The Mists of Avalon 2002
Brand, RussellMy Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up2011
Brashares, Ann The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2007, 2009, 2012
Bray, Libba A Great and Terrible Beauty 2007
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre 2000, 2007, 2011
Bronte, Emily  Wuthering Heights 2005
Brooks, Geraldine The Year of Wonders 2008
Brooks, Max       World War Z 2009
Brown, Dan Angels and Demons 2004, 2005, 2008, 2011
Brown, Dan Deception Point 2007
Brown, Dan The Da Vinci Code 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009
Brown, Dan       The Lost Symbol 2010
Brumberg, Joan The Body Project:  An Intimate History of American Girls 2000
Bryson, BillA Short History of Nearly Everything2011
Bryson, Bill A Walk in the Woods:  Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail  2007, 2010
Buckley, Christopher Thank You for Smoking    2010
Bulgakov, Mikhail The Master and Margarita 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006
Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange 2003, 2008
Byatt, A. S. Possession 2010
Cabot, Meg All-American Girl 2010
Caldwell, Ian and Thomason, Dustin The Rule of Four 2008
Campbell, Reece Biology 2006
Canfield, Jack and Hansen, Mark Chicken Soup for the Soul 2000
Cao, Xuegin The Dream of the Red Chamber 2000
Capote, Truman   In Cold Blood2011
Card, Orson Scott Ender's Game 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012
Card, Orson Scott Pastwatch 2003
Carr, E.H. What Is History? 2003
Carroll, Lewis Alice in Wonderland 2010, 2011
Carter, Stephen L. The Emperor of Ocean Park 2003
Cary, Lorene Black Ice 2002
Cather, Willa The Song of the Lark 2010
Cervantes, Miguel de Saavedra Don Quijote de la Mancha  2006
Chabon, Michael The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 2004
Chang, David and Peter MeehanMomofuku2011
Charnas, DanThe Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop2011
Charrière, Henri Papillion 2009
Chbosky, Stephen  The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2005, 2012
Chevalier, Tracy The Girl with the Pearl Earring 2007
Christie, Agatha And Then There Were None 2008, 2012
Clancy, TomThe Hunt for Red October2011
Clapton, Eric Clapton:  The Autobiography 2009
Clarke, Susanna Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell 2010
Clavell, James Shogun 2008, 2009, 2012
Clavell, James Tai-Pan: A Novel of Hong Kong  2001, 2011
Cleaver, Eldridge Soul on Ice 2004, 2012
Clement-Davies, David  Fire Bringer 2005
Codell, Esmi Raji Educating Esme: Diary of Teacher’s First Year  2000
Coelho, Pablo The Alchemist 2004
Coetzee, J.M.  Disgrace 2005, 2007
Colbert, Stephen    I am America (And So Can You!) 2009
Coleridge, Samuel  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner  2000
Collins, SuzanneThe Hunger Games 2012 
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness 2008
Conroy, Pat The Lords of Discipline 2004
Conroy, Pat The Water Is Wide 2004
Conroy, Pat          Beach Music    2009
Conroy, Pat The Price of Tides    2010
Coupland, DouglasJPod2011
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage 2006
Creech, Sharon    Bloomability 2009
Crews, Donald  Truck 2005
Crichton, Michael The Great Train Robbery 2008
Crichton, Michael  Congo  2001
Crichton, Michael  Timeline 2005
Crichton, Michael  Next 2009
Crichton, Michael Prey 2010
Crutcher, Chris Whale Talk 2004, 2009
cummings, e.e. e.e. cummings: Selected Poems 2006
Cunningham, MichaelThe Hours 2012 
Dahl, Roald Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2003
Dahl, Roald The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl 2002
Dahl, Roald  The Witches 2005
Danielewski, Mark Z.  House of Leaves 2001, 2012
Davis, Wade The Serpent and the Rainbow 2007
Dawes, Christopher Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail 2007
Deighton, Len Goodbye, Mickey Mouse 2002
Delillo, Don White Noise 2000, 2008
de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
Le Petit Prince2012 
Dessen, Sarah The Truth About Forever 2007
Deveaux, Scott  The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History 2005
Diamond, Jared Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 2003, 2008
Diamont, Anita The Red Tent 2004
Diaz, JunotThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao2011
Dickens, Charles  A Tale of Two Cities 2008
Dickens, Charles  David Copperfield 2008, 2012
Dickens, Charles  Great Expectations 2008
Dickens, Charles  The Pickwick Papers 2005
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment  2001, 2008
Dostoevsky, Fyodor The Brothers Karamazov 2003, 2008
Dostoevsky, Fyodor The Idiot 2010
Doty, MarkDog Years 2012 
Dr. Seuss Oh, Cuan lejos llegras (Oh, the Places You'll Go!) 2008
Dr. Seuss One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish 2005
Dr. Seuss The Butter Battle Book 2007
Dr. SeussGreen Eggs and Ham2011
Dr. SeussThe Lorax2011
Dumas, Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo 2003, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers 2008
Dunn, Katherine  Geek Love 2005
Durrell, GeraldThe Whispering Land2011
Durrell, Lawrence Justine 2004, 2007, 2008
Eco, Umberto The Name of the Rose  2001, 2008
Editors of The New York Times The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge 2008
Eggers, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 2002, 2006, 2008
Eggers, DaveWhat is the What2011
Eggers, Dave  You Shall Know Our Velocity 2005
Eiseley, Loren The Immense Journey 1999
Eliot, George Middlemarch 2008
Eliot, T.S. The Wasteland and Other Poems 2008
Ellis, Bret Easton American Psycho 2007
Ellison, Ralph  Invisible Man  2001, 2004, 2005
Falconer, IanOlivia 2012 
Farmer, Nancy The House of the Scorpion 2007
Farmer, Nancy The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 2009
Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury  2000
Faulkner, William  As I Lay Dying 2005
Feinstein, JohnThe Last Shot 2012 
Felber, AdamSchrodinger's Ball2011
Fey, TinaBossypants 2012 
Feynman, Richard P. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman 2002
Fick, NathanielOne Bullet Away2011
Fielding, Helen Bridget Jones’s Diary  2001, 2003
Fisher, David Hackett Paul Revere's Ride 2008
Fitch, Janet White Oleander 2002, 2006
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby  2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012
Fitzgerald, F. Scott This Side of Paradise 2003
Foer, FranklinHow Soccer Explains the World 2012 
Foer, Jonathan Safran Everything is Illuminated       2010, 2012
Foer, Jonathan Safran Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2006, 2008
Follett, KenWorld Without End 2012 
Forster, E.M. A Room with a View 2003
Forsyth, Frederick The Day of the Jackal  2001
Frankl, Victor E. Man's Search for Meaning 2008
Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain 2004
Freidman, Thomas The World is Flat:  A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century 2007
French, Marilyn The Women's Room 2003
Frey, James  A Million Little Pieces 2005, 2011
Friedman, Milton Capitalism and Freedom 2008

 

 

Author Title Years
Gaarder, Jostein Sophie's World 2002, 2004
Gaimen, Neil Good Omens 2007, 2011
Gaimen, Neil Sandman:  Preludes and Nocturnes 2008
Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying 2008
Gallmann, Kuki  I Dreamed of Africa 2005
Garcia Locra, Federico Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) 2008
Gaskins, Pearl Fuyo, ed. What Are You?:  Voices of Mixed-Race Young People 2009
Gawande, AtulComplications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science2011
Gibran, Kahlil Thoughts and Meditations 2007
Gilbert, Elizabeth Eat, Pray, Love 2009
Gilman, Dorothy The Maze in the Heart of the Castle 2007
Gladwell, Malcolm Blink:  The Power of Thinking Without Thinking 2006
Gladwell, Malcolm Outliers 2010
Gladwell, Malcolm and Bill SimmonsThe Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy2011
Golden, Arthur Memoirs of a Geisha 2004
Golding, William Lord of the Flies  2000, 2005
Goldman, William  The Princess Bride 2005
Gonick, Larry  The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance  2005
Goodwin, Doris Kearns Team of Rivals:  The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 2008
Gorey, Edward Gashlycrumb Tinies 2008
Gould, JonathanCan't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America2011
Grahame-Smith, Seth Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 2010
Green, JohnLooking for Alaska2011
Greene, Brian The Elegant Universe:  Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory 2003, 2012
Gregory, Phillipa The Other Boleyn Girl 2010
Grisham, John The Client  2000
Grossman, Dave On Killing:  The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society 2010
Gruen, Sara    Water for Elephants 2009, 2010
Guterson, Dave Snow Falling on Cedars 2010
Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 2006, 2012
Hal Leonard corp. The Real Book 2006
Haley, Alex Roots 2008
Haley, Alex The Autobiography of Malcolm X   1999
Hallie, Philip Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed  1999
Hammett, Dashiel The Maltese Falcon 2002
Hanh, Thich Nhat  Living Buddha, Living Christ 2007
Hanh, Thich Nhat  The Miracle of Mindfulness   1999
Harmon, William, ed.Top 500 Poems 2012 
Hawking, Stephen A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes   2001
Heinlein, Robert Stranger in a Strange Land 2004, 2005, 2006
Heller, Joseph Catch-22  2000, 2001, 2008, 2009, 2010
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2012
Hemingway, Ernest A Moveable Feast 2007
Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea 2007, 2008
Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises  2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
Herbert, Frank  Dune 2005, 2009
Herge Tintin in Tibet 1999
Hesse, Hermann Demian 2008
Hesse, Hermann Siddhartha 2004, 2009
Hessler, Peter    River Town 2009
Hiaasen, CarlStormy Weather2011
Hidier, Tanuja Desai Born Confused 2008
Hinton, S.E. That Was Then This Is Now 2008
Hoff, Benjamin The Tao of Pooh 2012 
Hoffman, Alice Turtle Moon 2004
Hofstadter, Richard The American Political Tradition:  And the Men Who Made It 2010
Hollingham, RichardBlood and Guts: A History of Surgery 2012 
Holman, Sheri The Dress Lodger 2008
Holmes, Richard Coleridge:  Early Visions, 1772-1804 1999
Homer The Iliad 2002
Hopkins, Jerry No One Here Gets Out Alive 2007
Hornby, Nick High Fidelity 2003, 2005
Hosseini, Khaled  The Kite Runner 2006, 2008
Hosseini, Khaled  A Thousand Splendid Suns 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Hughart, Barry Bridge of Birds    2010
Hulme, Keri The Bone People 2008
Hurston, Zora Neal Their Eyes Were Watching God  2000, 2006, 2008, 2009
Huston, James W.  Flash Point 2005
Huxley, Aldous Island  2001
Irving, John The Ciderhouse Rules 2003, 2004
Irving, JohnA Prayer for Owen Meany2011
Irving, John The World According To Garp 2004
Irwin, William et. al. The Simpsons and Philosophy:  the "d'oh!" Of Homer 2002
Ishiguro, Kazuo The Remains of the Day  2000
Jacques, Brian  Redwall 2005, 2009, 2010
Jacques, Brian  Taggerung 2006
Jarry, Alfred  Ubu Roi 2005
Jones, Diana Wynn Dark Lord of Derkholm 2004
Jones, Diana Wynn Howl's Moving Castle 2012 
Jordan, Robert The Eye of the World 2006
Joyce, James Dubliners 2003
Juster, Norton The Phantom Tollbooth 2006, 2007, 2011. 2012
Kaku, Michio Physics of the Impossible 2010, 2011
Kapuscinski, Ryszard Travels with Herodotus 2010
Kay, Guy Gavriel The Lions of Al-Rassan  2000
Keeney, Bradford Ropes to God:  Experiencing the Bushman Spiritual Universe 2008
Keith, Harold Rifles for Watie 2002
Kennedy, John F.       Profiles in Courage 2009
Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2008, 2011, 2012
Kesey, Ken Sometimes a Great Notion 2010
Keyes, DanielFlowers for Algernon2011
Kidd, Sue Monk  The Secret Life of Bees 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010
Kidder, TracyMountains Beyond Mountains2011
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal Dreams 2002
Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible  1999, 2000, 2005, 2008
Kinsella, W.P.  Shoeless Joe 2005
Kleinbaum, N.H. Dead Poet's Society 2002
Kluger, Steve Last Days of Summer 2007
Knowles, John  A Separate Peace  2001
Kosztolanyi, DezsoSkylark 2012 
Kot, GregWilco: Learning How to Die2011
Koziebrodzka, MariaMathematics: A Collection of Problems 2012 
Krakauer, Jon  Into the Wild 2009, 2011, 2012
Krakauer, Jon  Into Thin Air  2000, 2007, 2009
Krakauer, JonUnder the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith2011
Krakauer, JonWhere Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman2011
Ku, Hung-mingThe Spirit of the Chinese People 2012 
Kundera, Milan The Unbearable Lightness of Being  1999, 2004, 2008, 2012
Kunitz, Stanley Passing Through: Collected Poems  1999
L’Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time 2004
Ladinsky, Daniel, Translator  The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master 2005
Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies 2002, 2010, 2011
Lahiri, JhumpaThe Namesake2011
Lahiri, Jhumpa Unaccustomed Earth 2010
Larsson, Stieg The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2010
Laye, Camara L'enfant Noir (The Dark Child) 2008
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird  2000, 2004, 2009, 2012
Lent, Jeffrey In the Fall 2008
Leopold, Aldo  Sand County Almanac, with Other Essays on Conservation from Round River  2001
Levi, CarloChrist Stopped at Eboli - The Story of a Year2011
Levine, Gail Carson Ella Enchanted 2007
Levitt, Steven D. and Dubner, Stephen J. Freakonomics:  A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
Lewis, C.S.The Great Divorce2011
Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 2008
Lewis, JohnWalking with the Wind 2012 
Lewis, Michael The Blind Side:  The Evolution of a Game 2007, 2012
Lewis, MichaelMoneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game2011, 2012
Lieberman, Robert The Last Boy 2008
Lornell & Stephenson The Beat:  Go-Go’s Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop 2005

 

 

Author Title Years
Machiavelli, Niccolò The Prince 2004
Maguire, GregoryWicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West2011
Mahfouz, Naguib  Palace Walk   1999
Maltin, Leonard, ed. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2008
Markham, Beryl  West With the Night 2006
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Love In the Time of Cholera 2004, 2006
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia  One Hundred Years of Solitude 1999, 2003, 2007
Martel, Yann  Life of Pi 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012
Martin, George R. R. Fire and Ice series 2008
Martin, George R. R.A Game of Thrones2012 
Maskalyk, JamesSix Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-Torn Village2011
Maugham, W. Somerset Of Human Bondage  2000
McBride, James  The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother  2005
McCaffrey, Anne Dragonsong Trilogy 2007
McCall Smith, Alexander Friends, Lovers, Chocolate       2009
McCarthy, CormacThe Road2011, 2012
McCloskey, Robert Blueberries for Sal  1999, 2012
McCourt, Frank Angela’s Ashes  2000
McDermott, Alice Charming Billy   1999
McEwan, Ian Atonement 2003
McGinniss, Joe The Miracle of Castel di Sangro 2007
McKay, HilaryIndigo's Star 2012 
McKernan, Victoria Shackleton's Stowaway 2008
McKinley, Robin Sunshine 2007
McMurtry, Larry Lonesome Dove 2003, 2004
McPhee, John A Sense of Where You Are:  A Profile of William Warren Bradley 2003, 2007
Mearsheimer, John J. and Walt, Stephen M. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy 2009
Melville, Herman Moby-Dick 2004, 2005, 2008
Meno, Joe Hairstyles of the Damned 2007
Menzel, Peter Material World:  A Global Family Portrait 2009
Meyer, Stephanie    Twilight 2009
Meyers, CharlieThe Little Red Book of Fly Fishing 2012 
Merwin, W. S. The Vixen  2000
Merzich, Ben Bringing Down the House:  The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for millions 2006, 2010
Michener, James A.  The Source 2005
Milton, JohnParadise Lost2011
Mitchell, DavidCloud Atlas2011
Moore, Alan The Watchmen 2009, 2012
Moore, Alan and Lloyd, David  V for Vendetta 2006
Moore, Christopher Lamb:  The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal 2008
Moore, Lorrie Birds of America  2000
Morris, Suzanne Galveston 2009
Morris, Willie  The Courting of Marcus DuPree 2005
Morrison, Toni Beloved 2008
Morrison, Toni Paradise  1999
Morrison, Toni Song of Solomon 2003
Morrison, Toni Sula  1999
Morton, Kate The House at Riverton 2009
Muhammad, Elijah  Message to the Blackman in America 2005
Mullen, Thomas The Last Town on Earth 2010
Murakami, Haruki  A Wild Sheep Chase 2005
Murakami, Haruki  Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World 2005
Murakami, Haruki  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 2005
Murakami, Haruki  Kafka on the Shore 2010
Murch, Walter In the Blink of an Eye:  A Perspective on Film Editing 2007
Myers, Walter Dean Fallen Angels 2003, 2005
Nelson, Craig Rocket Men:  The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon 2010
Newton, Huey P. Revolutionary Suicide 2006
Niffenegger, AudreyThe Time Traveler's Wife 2012 
Northam, Bruce Globetrotter Dogma:  100 Canons for Escaping the Rat Race and Exploring the World 2008
O' Brien, Tim The Things They Carried

2007, 2012
O’Donohue, John Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom  1999
O’Rourke, P.J. Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics 2002
Obama, Barack Dreams from My Father 2008
Obama, Barack The Audacity of Hope    2009
Ondaatje, Michael  The English Patient   2001
Orwell, George Down and Out in Paris and London 2010
Orwell, George 1984 2000, 2002, 2012
Orwell, George Animal Farm 2003, 2009
Osbourne, Ozzy I am Ozzy    2010
Palahniuk, Chuck  Fight Club 2005, 2008
Patchett, Ann Bel Canto 2007, 2009
Patchett, Ann Run 2008
Patton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country 2010
Paulsen, Gary Winterdance:  The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod 2007
Pausch, Gary       The Last Lecture 2009
Percy, WalkerThe Moviegoer2011
Pessl, Marisha Special Topics in Calamity Physics 2008, 2012
PetroniusSatyricon 2012 
Philbrick, Nat In the Heart of the Sea:  The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex 2007
Picoult, Jodi  The Pact 2005, 2007
Picoult, Jodi  My Sister's Keeper   

2009, 2011
Picoult, JodiVanishing Acts 2012 
Piercy, MargeWoman on the Edge of Time2011
Pinkwater, Manus D. The Big Orange Splot 2007
Pirsig, Robert Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance   1999
Plath, SylviaThe Bell Jar 2012 
Power, Eileen Edna Medieval People 2008
Prachett, Terry Night Watch    2010
Pressfield, Steven Gates of Fire:  An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae 2007, 2010
Proulx, Annie Brokeback Mountain 2008
Proulx, Annie The Shipping News 2008
Pullman, Philip The Amber Spyglass 2002
Pullman, Philip The Golden Compass 2002, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011
Pullman, Philip The Subtle Knife 2007
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49 2009
Quindlen, Anna One True Thing  1999
Quinn, Daniel Ishmael 2002
Rand, Ayn Atlas Shrugged 2007, 2009
Rand, Ayn The Fountainhead  1999, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2011
Raskin, Ellen    The Westing Game 2009
Reilly, Rick Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly 2010
Remarque, Erich MariaAll Quiet on the Western Front2011
Rennison, LouiseAngus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson2011
Riordan, Rick The Lightning Thief 2010
Roach, Marion The Roots of Desire:  The Myth, Meaning, and Sexual Power of Red Hair 2007
Roach, Mary Stiff:  The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 2008
Robbins , Tom  Diet for a New America 2010
Robbins , Tom  Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 2010
Robbins , Tom  Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas 2005
Robbins , Tom  Jitterbug Perfume 2006
Robbins , Tom  Still Life with Woodpecker 2008
Robinson, Marilynne    Home 2009
Rollins, James Map of Bones 2007
Rombauer, IrmaThe Joy of Cooking 2012 
Root, Waverley The Food of France 2003
Roth, Philip Goodbye Columbus   2000
Rothfuss, Patrick The Name of the Wind 2008, 2010, 2011
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2004, 2010
Rowling, J.K.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2004, 2009, 2010
Rowling, J.K.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2012 
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2004, 2010
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban  2001, 2002, 2004, 2010
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 2004, 2010, 2012
Rowling, J.K., translated by Needham, Peter Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) 2008
Roy, Arundhati The God of Small Things  2000
Rushdie, Salman Haroun and the Sea of Stories 2006, 2010
Russell, Bertrand The History of Western Philosophy 2004
Russell, Maria Doria The Sparrow 2008
Russo, Richard Nobody’s Fool 2004
Ryan, Cornelius The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day 2007

 

Author Title Years
Sachar, Louis Holes 2002, 2012
Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey 2002, 2006
Salinger, J.D. Nine Stories 2003, 2010
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye  2001, 2007, 2009, 2010
Saramago, Jose Blindness 2009
Schelling, Thomas C.   The Strategy of Conflict 2005
Schlink, BernhardThe Reader 2012 
Schumacher, E.F.Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered2011
Sebold, Alice The Lovely Bones 2003, 2006
Sedaris, David Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 2006, 2007, 2009
Sedaris, David Me Talk Pretty One Day 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008
Senna, Danzy Symptomatic 2006
Senna, Danzy Caucasia 2009
Seraji, MahbodRooftops of Tehran2011
Service, Robert Stalin:  A Biography 2008
Seth, Vikram A Suitable Boy  1999, 2011
Shaara, Michael The Killer Angels 2009
Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie BarrowsThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 2012 
Shakespeare, William Hamlet 2006, 2010
Shakespeare, William Henry IV, Part I 2006
Shakespeare, William King Lear 2004
Shakespeare, William Macbeth 2008
Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet  1999
Shand, Rosa The Gravity of Sunlight 2008
Shange, Ntozake For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide, When The Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem 2002
Sheldon, Sidney Tell Me Your Dreams 2007
Shriver, LionelWe Need to Talk About Kevin 2012 
Shute, Nevil  A Town Like Alice 2005
Siken, RichardCrush 2012 
Silverstein, ShelThe Giving Tree 2012 
Simmons, Bill Now I Can Die in Peace:  How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank and the 2004 2008
Sittenfeld, Curtis  Prep 2005
Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  2001, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
Smith, Dodie  I Capture the Castle 2005, 2010
Smith, Zadie White Teeth 2008, 2009
Sontag, Susan The Volcano Lover 2006
Soyinka, Wole Ake:  The Years of Childhood 2009
Sparks, Nicholas Dear John 2010
Sparks, NicholasThe Guardian2011
Sparks, NicholasA Walk to Remember2011
Spiegelman, Art Maus 2010
Steinbeck, John East of Eden 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2012
Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men  2000, 2005, 2012
Steinbeck, John The Moon is Down 2010
Steinbeck, John The Winter of Our Discontent 2008
Steinbeck, John  Cannery Row 2005, 2006
Stephenson, Neal Cryptonomicon 2007
Stephenson, Neal Snow Crash 2002
Stewart, Jon  America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction 2005
Stewart, Jon  Naked Pictures of Famous People 2006
Stockett, KathrynThe Help2011, 2012
Stone, Geoffrey R. Perilous Times:  Free Speech in Wartime, From the Sedition Acts of 1798 to the War on Terrorism 2010
Styron, William Sophie's Choice 2009
Sun-tzu The Art of War  2001
Suskind, Patrick  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer  2005
Suskind, Ron  A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League  2005, 2007, 2011
Suzuki, Koji Ring 2004
Suzuki, Shunryu  Zen Mind Beginner's Mind 2006
Takami, KoushunBattle Royale 2012 
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club 2002, 2009
Tan, Amy The Kitchen God’s Wife 2004
Tatum, Beverly Daniel  Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 2006
Tevis, Walter The Queen’s Gambit   1999
The Editors of Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated:  Fifty Years of Great Writing 2007
The Philological Society, et. al. The Oxford English Dictionary 2006
Thomas, Lewis Lives of a Cell 2006
Thompson, Hunter S.  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream  2005, 2008
Thompson, Hunter S.Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, '72 2012 
Thompson, Hunter S.  The Rum Diary 2007
Thompson, Tony Gangs:  A Journey Into the Heart of the British Underworld 2006
Thurston, BaratundeHow to Be Black 2012 
Tolkien, J.R.R.The Fellowship of the Ring 2012 
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Return of the King 2010
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Two Towers 2010
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit 2002, 2010
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings 2002, 2004, 2011
Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace 2008
Toole, John Kennedy A Confederacy of Dunces 2006, 2011
Trauer, Robert Anatomy of a Murder 2006
Tremain, Rose Sacred Country 2008
Trevanian Shibumi 2004
Tuchman, Barbara  A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century  2005
Tutu, Desmond  No Future Without Forgiveness 2005
Twain, Mark A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 2003
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2004, 2012
Tyler, Anne The Accidental Tourist 2003
Updike, John Gertrude and Claudius 2002
Updike, John Marry Me 2006
Uris, Leon Exodus 2002
Van-Leeuwen, Jean  The Great Cheese Conspiracy 2005
VergilThe Aeneid 2012 
Vikram, Seth An Equal Music 2004
Von Ziegesar, Cecily Gossip Girl 2008
Vonnegut, Kurt  Breakfast of Champions: or, Goodbye Blue Monday  2001
Vonnegut, Kurt  Cat’s Cradle  2001, 2005
Vonnegut, Kurt  Galapagos 2003
Vonnegut, Kurt  Slaughterhouse-Five:  Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death 2001, 2004, 2008
Vonnegut, Kurt  The Sirens of Titan 2004
Vonnegut, Kurt  Welcome to the Monkey House 2004
Walker, Alice The Color Purple 2006
Walker, Sam Fantasyland:  A Season Baseball's Lunatic Fringe 2009
Wallant, Edward Lewis  The Tenants of Moonbloom  1999
Walls, Jeanette The Glass Castle 2009, 2011
Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men  2000, 2002, 2008
Waterson, Bill  Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"!:  A Calvin and Hobbes Collection 2005
Waterson, BillThere's Treasure Everywhere 2012 
Waugh, Evelyn Scoop 2008
Weis, Margaret The Dragonlance Chronicles 2007
Weisberger, Lauren  The Devil Wears Prada 2005
Wells, Rebecca The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 2002
Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence 2008, 2010
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth 2006, 2007, 2008
Wilde, OscarThe Importance of Being Earnest2011
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray 2008
Will, George F. Men at Work:  The Craft of Baseball 2009
Wilson, AugustFences2011
Winchester, Simon The Professor and the Madman   1999
Wodehouse, P.G. Joy in the Morning 2010
Wodehouse, P.G.Right Ho, Jeeves2011
Wojnarowski, Adrian The Miracle of St. Anthony:  A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty 2007, 2009
Wolfe, GeneThe Shadow of the Torturer 2012 
Wolfe, Thomas Look Homeward, Angel 2003
Wolfe, Tom I am Charlotte Simmons 2008
Wolfe, Tom The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 2002, 2012
Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway 2006
Woolf, VirginiaTo the Lighthouse2011
Wouk, Herman The Winds of War 2008
Wright, LawrenceThe Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/112011
Wright, RichardNative Son2009
Wulffson, Don L.Soldier X2011
Xiao Di Zhu Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China  2005
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz The Shadow of the Wind 2008
Zamyatin, Yevgeny We  2008
Zusak, MarkusI am the Messenger 2012 
Zusak, MarkusThe Book Thief2008 

World Atlas of Architecture 2012 
 Past Worlds2012 

Each April, the Sidwell Friends Upper School Library celebrates National Library Week. One of our traditions is to ask our graduating seniors to recommend their favorite books for the library collection. Recognizing that we are all looking for good book suggestions, we have published the lists from each year, beginning with 1999 when the program first began. That year we asked teachers what their favorite books were and followed in the subsequent years by querying seniors. Please check our library catalog or the catalogs of your favorite library to enjoy these wonderful books.

Below is our published book list from past years. Books are sorted by author's last name.

 

Author Title Years
Abbey, Edward Desert Solitaire:  A Season in the Wilderness 2007
Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy  2001, 2005
Adams, Douglas The Salmon of Doubt 2006
Adkins, Roy The Keys of Egypt 2002
Albom, Mitch The Five People You Meet in Heaven 2008
Albom, Mitch Tuesdays With Morrie 2004
Alcott, Louisa May Little Women 2002, 2003
Allende, Isabel  El Zorro 2007
Allende, Isabel  The House of the Spirits 2005
Allison, Dorothy Bastard Out of Carolina  2001
Ambrose, Stephen, et. Al. What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 2003
Amis, Kingsley Lucky Jim  2001
Angelou, Maya Poems 2000
Applegate, K.A. Animorphs #11 -- The Forgotten 2007
Asimov, Isaac The Foundation Series 2002
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice 1999, 2003, 2007, 2008
Austen, Jane Sense and Sensibility 2002
Baker, Kevin Paradise Alley 2004
Baldwin, James Giovanni's Room 2002, 2004
Banks, Russell Rule of the Bone 2006, 2007
Barry, Dave Big Trouble 2003, 2007
Beah, Ishmael A Long Way Gone:  Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2008
Beer, Mark H. Merck Manual of Medical Information 2008
Behrendt, Greg He's Just Not That Into You:  The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys 2006
Bissinger, Buzz Three Nights in August:  Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager 2008
Bissinger, H.G.  Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream  2005
Blume, Judy Summer Sisters 2003
Bradbury, Ray Dandelion Wine 2002, 2006
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451 2004
Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes 2004
Bradley, James Flags of our Fathers 2007
Bradley, Marion Zimmer The Mists of Avalon 2002
Brashares, Ann The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2007
Bray, Libba A Great and Terrible Beauty 2007
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre 2000, 2007
Bronte, Emily  Wuthering Heights 2005
Brooks, Geraldine The Year of Wonders 2008
Brown, Dan Angels and Demons 2004, 2005, 2008
Brown, Dan Deception Point 2007
Brown, Dan The Da Vinci Code 2004, 2005, 2006
Brumberg, Joan The Body Project:  An Intimate History of American Girls 2000
Bryson, Bill A Walk in the Woods:  Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail  2007
Bulgakov, Mikhail The Master and Margarita 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006
Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange 2003, 2008
Caldwell, Ian and Thomason, Dustin The Rule of Four 2008
Campbell, Reece Biology 2006
Canfield, Jack and Hansen, Mark Chicken Soup for the Soul 2000
Cao, Xuegin The Dream of the Red Chamber 2000
Card, Orson Scott Ender's Game 2006
Card, Orson Scott Pastwatch 2003
Carr, E.H. What Is History? 2003
Carter, Stephen L. The Emperor of Ocean Park 2003
Cary, Lorene Black Ice 2002
Cervantes, Miguel de Saavedra Don Quijote de la Mancha  2006
Chabon, Michael The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 2004
Chbosky, Stephen  The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2005
Chevalier, Tracy The Girl with the Pearl Earring 2007
Christie, Agatha And Then There Were None 2008
Clavell, James Shogun 2008
Clavell, James Tai-Pan: A Novel of Hong Kong  2001
Cleaver, Eldridge Soul on Ice 2004
Clement-Davies, David  Fire Bringer 2005
Codell, Esmi Raji Educating Esme: Diary of Teacher’s First Year  2000
Coelho, Pablo The Alchemist 2004
Coetzee, J.M.  Disgrace 2005, 2007
Coleridge, Samuel  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner  2000
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness 2008
Conroy, Pat The Lords of Discipline 2004
Conroy, Pat The Water Is Wide 2004
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage 2006
Crews, Donald  Truck 2005
Crichton, Michael The Great Train Robbery 2008
Crichton, Michael  Congo  2001
Crichton, Michael  Timeline 2005
Crutcher, Chris Whale Talk 2004
cummings, e.e. e.e. cummings: Selected Poems 2006
Dahl, Roald Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2003
Dahl, Roald The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl 2002
Dahl, Roald  The Witches 2005
Danielewski, Mark Z.  House of Leaves 2001
Davis, Wade The Serpent and the Rainbow 2007
Dawes, Christopher Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail 2007
Deighton, Len Goodbye, Mickey Mouse 2002
Delillo, Don White Noise 2000, 2008
Dessen, Sarah The Truth About Forever 2007
Deveaux, Scott  The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History 2005
Diamond, Jared Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 2003, 2008
Diamont, Anita The Red Tent 2004
Dickens, Charles  A Tale of Two Cities 2008
Dickens, Charles  David Copperfield 2008
Dickens, Charles  Great Expectations 2008
Dickens, Charles  The Pickwick Papers 2005
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment  2001, 2008
Dostoevsky, Fyodor The Brothers Karamazov 2003, 2008
Dr. Seuss Oh, Cuan lejos llegras (Oh, the Places You'll Go!) 2008
Dr. Seuss One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish 2005
Dr. Seuss The Butter Battle Book 2007
Dumas, Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo 2003, 2006, 2008
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers 2008
Dunn, Katherine  Geek Love 2005
Durrell, Lawrence Justine 2004, 2007, 2008
Eco, Umberto The Name of the Rose  2001, 2008
Editors of The New York Times The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge 2008
Eggers, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 2002, 2006, 2008
Eggers, Dave  You Shall Know Our Velocity 2005
Eiseley, Loren The Immense Journey 1999
Eliot, George Middlemarch 2008
Eliot, T.S. The Wasteland and Other Poems 2008
Ellis, Bret Easton American Psycho 2007
Ellison, Ralph  Invisible Man  2001, 2004, 2005
Farmer, Nancy The House of the Scorpion 2007
Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury  2000
Faulkner, William  As I Lay Dying 2005
Feynman, Richard P. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman 2002
Fielding, Helen Bridget Jones’s Diary  2001, 2003
Fisher, David Hackett Paul Revere's Ride 2008
Fitch, Janet White Oleander 2002, 2006
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby  2000, 2001, 2005, 2006
Fitzgerald, F. Scott This Side of Paradise 2003
Foer, Jonathan Safran Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2006, 2008
Forster, E.M. A Room with a View 2003
Forsyth, Frederick The Day of the Jackal  2001
Frankl, Victor E. Man's Search for Meaning 2008
Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain 2004
Freidman, Thomas The World is Flat:  A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century 2007
French, Marilyn The Women's Room 2003
Frey, James  A Million Little Pieces 2005
Friedman, Milton Capitalism and Freedom 2008

 

 

Author Title Years
Gaarder, Jostein Sophie's World 2002, 2004
Gaimen, Neil Good Omens 2007
Gaimen, Neil Sandman:  Preludes and Nocturnes 2008
Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying 2008
Gallmann, Kuki  I Dreamed of Africa 2005
Garcia Locra, Federico Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) 2008
Gibran, Kahlil Thoughts and Meditations 2007
Gilman, Dorothy The Maze in the Heart of the Castle 2007
Gladwell, Malcolm Blink:  The Power of Thinking Without Thinking 2006
Golden, Arthur Memoirs of a Geisha 2004
Golding, William Lord of the Flies  2000, 2005
Goldman, William  The Princess Bride 2005
Gonick, Larry  The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance  2005
Goodwin, Doris Kearns Team of Rivals:  The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 2008
Gorey, Edward Gashlycrumb Tinies 2008
Greene, Brian The Elegant Universe:  Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory 2003
Grisham, John The Client  2000
Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 2006
Hal Leonard corp. The Real Book 2006
Haley, Alex Roots 2008
Haley, Alex The Autobiography of Malcolm X   1999
Hallie, Philip Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed  1999
Hammett, Dashiel The Maltese Falcon 2002
Hanh, Thich Nhat  Living Buddha, Living Christ 2007
Hanh, Thich Nhat  The Miracle of Mindfulness   1999
Hawking, Stephen A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes   2001
Heinlein, Robert Stranger in a Strange Land 2004, 2005, 2006
Heller, Joseph Catch-22  2000, 2001, 2008
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms 2004, 2005, 2007
Hemingway, Ernest A Moveable Feast 2007
Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea 2007, 2008
Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises  2000, 2007, 2008
Herbert, Frank  Dune 2005
Herge Tintin in Tibet 1999
Hesse, Hermann Demian 2008
Hesse, Hermann Siddhartha 2004
Hidier, Tanuja Desai Born Confused 2008
Hinton, S.E. That Was Then This Is Now 2008
Hoffman, Alice Turtle Moon 2004
Holman, Sheri The Dress Lodger 2008
Holmes, Richard Coleridge:  Early Visions, 1772-1804 1999
Homer The Iliad 2002
Hopkins, Jerry No One Here Gets Out Alive 2007
Hornby, Nick High Fidelity 2003, 2005
Hosseini, Khaled  The Kite Runner 2006, 2008
Hulme, Keri The Bone People 2008
Hurston, Zora Neal Their Eyes Were Watching God  2000, 2006, 2008
Huston, James W.  Flash Point 2005
Huxley, Aldous Island  2001
Irving, John The Ciderhouse Rules 2003, 2004
Irving, John The World According To Garp 2004
Irwin, William et. al. The Simpsons and Philosophy:  the "d'oh!" Of Homer 2002
Ishiguro, Kazuo The Remains of the Day  2000
Jacques, Brian  Redwall 2005
Jacques, Brian  Taggerung 2006
Jarry, Alfred  Ubu Roi 2005
Jones, Diana Wynn Dark Lord of Derkholm 2004
Jordan, Robert The Eye of the World 2006
Joyce, James Dubliners 2003
Juster, Norton The Phantom Tollbooth 2006, 2007
Kay, Guy Gavriel The Lions of Al-Rassan  2000
Keeney, Bradford Ropes to God:  Experiencing the Bushman Spiritual Universe 2008
Keith, Harold Rifles for Watie 2002
Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2008
Kidd, Sue Monk  The Secret Life of Bees 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal Dreams 2002
Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible  1999, 2000, 2005, 2008
Kinsella, W.P.  Shoeless Joe 2005
Kleinbaum, N.H. Dead Poet's Society 2002
Kluger, Steve Last Days of Summer 2007
Knowles, John  A Separate Peace  2001
Krakauer, Jon  Into Thin Air  2000, 2007
Kundera, Milan The Unbearable Lightness of Being  1999, 2004, 2008
Kunitz, Stanley Passing Through: Collected Poems  1999
L’Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time 2004
Ladinsky, Daniel, Translator  The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master 2005
Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies 2002
Laye, Camara L'enfant Noir (The Dark Child) 2008
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird  2000, 2004
Lent, Jeffrey In the Fall 2008
Leopold, Aldo  Sand County Almanac, with Other Essays on Conservation from Round River  2001
Levine, Gail Carson Ella Enchanted 2007
Levitt, Steven D. and Dubner, Stephen J. Freakonomics:  A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2008
Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 2008
Lewis, Michael The Blind Side:  The Evolution of a Game 2007
Lieberman, Robert The Last Boy 2008
Lornell & Stephenson The Beat:  Go-Go’s Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop 2005

 

 

Author Title Years
Machiavelli, Niccolò The Prince 2004
Mahfouz, Naguib  Palace Walk   1999
Maltin, Leonard, ed. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2008
Markham, Beryl  West With the Night 2006
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Love In the Time of Cholera 2004, 2006
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia  One Hundred Years of Solitude 1999, 2003, 2007
Martel, Yann  Life of Pi 2005, 2006, 2007
Martin, George R. R. Fire and Ice series 2008
Maugham, W. Somerset Of Human Bondage  2000
McBride, James  The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother  2005
McCaffrey, Anne Dragonsong Trilogy 2007
McCloskey, Robert Blueberries for Sal  1999
McCourt, Frank Angela’s Ashes  2000
McDermott, Alice Charming Billy   1999
McEwan, Ian Atonement 2003
McGinniss, Joe The Miracle of Castel di Sangro 2007
McKernan, Victoria Shackleton's Stowaway 2008
McKinley, Robin Sunshine 2007
McMurtry, Larry Lonesome Dove 2003, 2004
McPhee, John A Sense of Where You Are:  A Profile of William Warren Bradley 2003, 2007
Melville, Herman Moby-Dick 2004, 2005, 2008
Meno, Joe Hairstyles of the Damned 2007
Merwin, W. S. The Vixen  2000
Merzich, Ben Bringing Down the House:  The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for millions 2006
Michener, James A.  The Source 2005
Moore, Alan and Lloyd, David  V for Vendetta 2006
Moore, Christopher Lamb:  The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal 2008
Moore, Lorrie Birds of America  2000
Morris, Willie  The Courting of Marcus DuPree 2005
Morrison, Toni Beloved 2008
Morrison, Toni Paradise  1999
Morrison, Toni Song of Solomon 2003
Morrison, Toni Sula  1999
Muhammad, Elijah  Message to the Blackman in America 2005
Murakami, Haruki  A Wild Sheep Chase 2005
Murakami, Haruki  Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World 2005
Murakami, Haruki  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 2005
Murch, Walter In the Blink of an Eye:  A Perspective on Film Editing 2007
Myers, Walter Dean Fallen Angels 2003, 2005
Newton, Huey P. Revolutionary Suicide 2006
Northam, Bruce Globetrotter Dogma:  100 Canons for Escaping the Rat Race and Exploring the World 2008
O' Brien, Tim The Things They Carried 2007
O’Donohue, John Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom  1999
O’Rourke, P.J. Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics 2002
Obama, Barack Dreams from My Father 2008
Ondaatje, Michael  The English Patient   2001
Orwell, George 1984 2000, 2002
Orwell, George Animal Farm 2003
Palahniuk, Chuck  Fight Club 2005, 2008
Patchett, Ann Bel Canto 2007
Patchett, Ann Run 2008
Paulsen, Gary Winterdance:  The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod 2007
Pessl, Marisha Special Topics in Calamity Physics 2008
Philbrick, Nat In the Heart of the Sea:  The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex 2007
Picoult, Jodi  The Pact 2005, 2007
Pinkwater, Manus D. The Big Orange Splot 2007
Pirsig, Robert Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance   1999
Power, Eileen Edna Medieval People 2008
Pressfield, Steven Gates of Fire:  An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae 2007
Proulx, Annie Brokeback Mountain 2008
Proulx, Annie The Shipping News 2008
Pullman, Philip The Amber Spyglass 2002
Pullman, Philip The Golden Compass 2002, 2004, 2007
Pullman, Philip The Subtle Knife 2007
Quindlen, Anna One True Thing  1999
Quinn, Daniel Ishmael 2002
Rand, Ayn Atlas Shrugged 2007
Rand, Ayn The Fountainhead  1999, 2003, 2007, 2008
Roach, Marion The Roots of Desire:  The Myth, Meaning, and Sexual Power of Red Hair 2007
Roach, Mary Stiff:  The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 2008
Robbins , Tom  Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas 2005
Robbins , Tom  Jitterbug Perfume 2006
Robbins , Tom  Still Life with Woodpecker 2008
Rollins, James Map of Bones 2007
Root, Waverley The Food of France 2003
Roth, Philip Goodbye Columbus   2000
Rothfuss, Patrick The Name of the Wind 2008
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2004
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2004
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2004
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban  2001, 2002, 2004
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 2004
Rowling, J.K., translated by Needham, Peter Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) 2008
Roy, Arundhati The God of Small Things  2000
Rushdie, Salman Haroun and the Sea of Stories 2006
Russell, Bertrand The History of Western Philosophy 2004
Russell, Maria Doria The Sparrow 2008
Russo, Richard Nobody’s Fool 2004
Ryan, Cornelius The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day 2007

 

Author Title Years
Sachar, Louis Holes 2002
Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey 2002, 2006
Salinger, J.D. Nine Stories 2003
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye  2001, 2007
Schelling, Thomas C.   The Strategy of Conflict 2005
Sebold, Alice The Lovely Bones 2003, 2006
Sedaris, David Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 2006, 2007
Sedaris, David Me Talk Pretty One Day 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008
Senna, Danzy Symptomatic 2006
Service, Robert Stalin:  A Biography 2008
Seth, Vikram A Suitable Boy  1999
Shakespeare, William Hamlet 2006
Shakespeare, William Henry IV, Part I 2006
Shakespeare, William King Lear 2004
Shakespeare, William Macbeth 2008
Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet  1999
Shand, Rosa The Gravity of Sunlight 2008
Shange, Ntozake For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide, When The Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem 2002
Sheldon, Sidney Tell Me Your Dreams 2007
Shute, Nevil  A Town Like Alice 2005
Simmons, Bill Now I Can Die in Peace:  How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank and the 2004 2008
Sittenfeld, Curtis  Prep 2005
Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  2001, 2005, 2008
Smith, Dodie  I Capture the Castle 2005
Smith, Zadie White Teeth 2008
Sontag, Susan The Volcano Lover 2006
Steinbeck, John East of Eden 2003, 2004, 2007
Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men  2000, 2005
Steinbeck, John The Winter of Our Discontent 2008
Steinbeck, John  Cannery Row 2005, 2006
Stephenson, Neal Cryptonomicon 2007
Stephenson, Neal Snow Crash 2002
Stewart, Jon  America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction 2005
Stewart, Jon  Naked Pictures of Famous People 2006
Sun-tzu The Art of War  2001
Suskind, Patrick  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer  2005
Suskind, Ron  A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League  2005, 2007
Suzuki, Koji Ring 2004
Suzuki, Shunryu  Zen Mind Beginner's Mind 2006
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club 2002
Tan, Amy The Kitchen God’s Wife 2004
Tatum, Beverly Daniel  Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 2006
Tevis, Walter The Queen’s Gambit   1999
The Editors of Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated:  Fifty Years of Great Writing 2007
The Philological Society, et. al. The Oxford English Dictionary 2006
Thomas, Lewis Lives of a Cell 2006
Thompson, Hunter S.  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream  2005, 2008
Thompson, Hunter S.  The Rum Diary 2007
Thompson, Tony Gangs:  A Journey Into the Heart of the British Underworld 2006
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit 2002
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings 2002, 2004
Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace 2008
Toole, John Kennedy A Confederacy of Dunces 2006
Trauer, Robert Anatomy of a Murder 2006
Tremain, Rose Sacred Country 2008
Trevanian Shibumi 2004
Tuchman, Barbara  A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century  2005
Tutu, Desmond  No Future Without Forgiveness 2005
Twain, Mark A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 2003
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2004
Tyler, Anne The Accidental Tourist 2003
Updike, John Gertrude and Claudius 2002
Updike, John Marry Me 2006
Uris, Leon Exodus 2002
Van-Leeuwen, Jean  The Great Cheese Conspiracy 2005
Vikram, Seth An Equal Music 2004
Von Ziegesar, Cecily Gossip Girl 2008
Vonnegut, Kurt  Breakfast of Champions: or, Goodbye Blue Monday  2001
Vonnegut, Kurt  Cat’s Cradle  2001, 2005
Vonnegut, Kurt  Galapagos 2003
Vonnegut, Kurt  Slaughterhouse-Five:  Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death 2001, 2004, 2008
Vonnegut, Kurt  The Sirens of Titan 2004
Vonnegut, Kurt  Welcome to the Monkey House 2004
Walker, Alice The Color Purple 2006
Wallant, Edward Lewis  The Tenants of Moonbloom  1999
Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men  2000, 2002
Watterson, Bill  Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"!:  A Calvin and Hobbes Collection 2005
Waugh, Evelyn Scoop 2008
Weis, Margaret The Dragonlance Chronicles 2007
Weisberger, Lauren  The Devil Wears Prada 2005
Wells, Rebecca The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 2002
Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence 2008
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth 2006, 2007, 2008
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray 2008
Winchester, Simon The Professor and the Madman   1999
Wojnarowski, Adrian The Miracle of St. Anthony:  A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty 2007
Wolfe, Thomas Look Homeward, Angel 2003
Wolfe, Tom I am Charlotte Simmons 2008
Wolfe, Tom The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 2002
Woolf, Virgina Mrs. Dalloway 2006
Wouk, Herman The Winds of War 2008
Xiao Di Zhu Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China  2005
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz The Shadow of the Wind 2008
Zamyatin, Yevgeny We  2008