Here's what seniors are currently reading:
PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER Stephen Chbosky
DIVERGENT VERONICA ROTH
THIRTEEN REASONS WHY JAY ASHER
OPEN ANDRE AGASSI
SHERLOCK HOLMES CONAN DOYLE
MIDDLESEX JEFFERY EUGENIDES
ENDER’S GAME ORSON SCOTT CARD
CLOCKWORK ORANGE ANTHONY BURGESS
HUNGER GAMES SUZANNE COLLINS
Best Practice, 4th ed. Steven Zimelman, Harvey Daniels (Heinemann 2012)
Book Love Penny Kittle
Write Beside Them Penny Kittle
Unbroken Laura Hildebrand
The Road
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
Enduring Love Ian Mckewan
Here is Dr Forman's Goodreads link:
If we can start a survey of what teachers, staff and students are reading, here is what we might send out:
Hello. In English, we are reading free choice books this year and want to see what adults and other students are currently reading. Please take a moment to reply with a book that you recommend or are currently reading. If you have time, add one sentence about why you like the book.
--name
P.S. If you’d be interested in giving a three minute Book Talk about your current reading, you can come to our class or we can come to you and use our iPads to record your talk.
Here's what we might read if we had more time:
Penny Kittle (her blog link)
http://whatsnotwrong.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/but-what-if-we-try/
COLUMBINE Dave Cullen
No easy day
· Enclave by Ann Aguirre
· Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie Alender
· The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler
· Wolves, Boys, and Other Things That Might Kill Me by Kristin Chandler (this one had a lot of mixed reactions)
· The Dark Divine by Bree Despain
· Hush, Hush & Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
· Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
· Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach
· Things Change by Patrick Jones
· Audition by Stasia Ward Kehoe
· Exposed by Kimberly Marcus
· Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill
· Fixing Delilah & Bittersweet by Sarah Ockler
· The Pull of Gravity by Gae Polisner
· Freefall by Mindi Scott
· The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd (lots of mixed reaction, but overall I think they liked it)
· Fall for Anything by Courtney Summers
· Title: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
· Title: Just One Day Author: Gayle Forman
From Penny Kittle’s blog:
Peter Abrahams: Reality Check
Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why (3)
Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler: The Future of Us (3)
Jay Bilus: Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court
S. A. Bodeen: The Compound
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Joan Brady: God on a Harley
Sam Brower: Prophet’s Prey
Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything
A.J. Butcher: Spy High: Mission One
Meg Cabot: Big Boned
Orson Scott Card: Ender’s Game
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Cinda Williams Chima: The Dragon Heir
Cinda Williams Chima: The Exiled Queen
Cassandra Clare: Clockwork Princess
Emma Clayton: The Whisper
Peter Clines: Ex-Heroes
Susane Colasanti: Take Me There
Suzanne Collins: Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins: Mockingjay (3)
Ally Condie: Matched
Damien Cox and Gare Joyce: The Ovechkin Project
Chris Crutcher: Angry Management
Chris Crutcher: Deadline
James Dashner: The Maze Runner
James Dashner: The Scorch Trials
Penelope Delta: In the Heroic Age of Basil II: Emperor of Byzantium
Sarah Dessen: What Happened to Goodbye
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2
Debra Driza: Mila 2.0
Susan Ee: Angelfall
Simone Elkeles: How to Ruin Your Boyfriend’s Reputation
Laura Ellen: Blind Spot
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho
John Feinstein: Last Shot
Jim Fergus: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
John Flanagan: Ranger’s Apprentice
Alex Flinn: Beastly
Gregory A. Freeman: The Forgotten 500
Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique
Neil Gaiman: Stardust
Jean Craighead George: My Side of the Mountain
David Macinnis Gill: Black Hole Sun (2)
William Golding: Lord of the Flies (2)
Jim Gorant: The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick’s Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption
John Green: An Abundance of Katherines
John Green: The Fault in Our Stars (3)
John Green: Paper Towns
Julie Halpern: Have a Nice Day (2)
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun
Jack Higgins: Storm Warning
Charlie Higson: Double or Die
Ellen Hopkins: Burned
Ellen Hopkins: Crank
Ellen Hopkins: Impulse
Silas House: Eli the Good
Anthony Horowitz: Stormbreaker
Michael Hingson: Thunder Dog
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Stephen King: 11/22/63
Karen Kingsbury: Unlocked
S. J. Kincaid: Insignia (2)
Jo Knowles: See You at Harry’s
Chris Kyle: American Sniper
Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg: Why Do Men Have Nipples?
Lois Lowry: The Giver
Marie Lu: Prodigy (2)
Mike Lupica: Summer Ball
Mike Lupica: Travel Team
Elizabeth Lunday: Secret Lives of Great Composers
Kimberly Marcus: Exposed
J. H. Marks: Conspiracy Theory
George R. R. Martin: A Game of Thrones
Morgan Matson: Second Chance Summer
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Erin Morgenstern: The Night Circus
Jaclyn Moriarty: A Corner of White
Kate Kae Myers: The Vanishing Game
Joe Navarro: What Every Body is Saying
Patrick Ness: The Ask and The Answer
Tim O’Brien: Going After Cacciato
James Patterson: Angel
James Patterson: London Bridges
Susan Beth Pfeffer: Life As We Knew It
Jodi Picoult: Change of Heart
Alexandra Robbins: The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
Jeremy Roenick: J. R.
Veronica Roth: Divergent
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Nic Sheff: Tweak
Tim Shoemaker: Code of Silence
Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Jennifer E. Smith: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Lemony Snicket: Who Could That Be at This Hour?
Maggie Stiefvater: Shiver
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Todd Strasser: Boot Camp
Danny Sugarman: Appetite for Destruction: The Days of Guns N’ Roses
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (2)
Richard Ungar: Time Snatchers
Ned Vizzini: It’s Kind of A Funny Story
Alice Walker: The Color Purple
Jessica Warman: Beautiful Lies
Scott Westerfield: Extras
Daisy Whitney: The Rivals
Evan Wright: Generation Kill
Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief (2)
Markus Zusak: I Am The Messenger
Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why (3)
Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler: The Future of Us (3)
Jay Bilus: Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court
S. A. Bodeen: The Compound
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Joan Brady: God on a Harley
Sam Brower: Prophet’s Prey
Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything
A.J. Butcher: Spy High: Mission One
Meg Cabot: Big Boned
Orson Scott Card: Ender’s Game
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Cinda Williams Chima: The Dragon Heir
Cinda Williams Chima: The Exiled Queen
Cassandra Clare: Clockwork Princess
Emma Clayton: The Whisper
Peter Clines: Ex-Heroes
Susane Colasanti: Take Me There
Suzanne Collins: Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins: Mockingjay (3)
Ally Condie: Matched
Damien Cox and Gare Joyce: The Ovechkin Project
Chris Crutcher: Angry Management
Chris Crutcher: Deadline
James Dashner: The Maze Runner
James Dashner: The Scorch Trials
Penelope Delta: In the Heroic Age of Basil II: Emperor of Byzantium
Sarah Dessen: What Happened to Goodbye
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2
Debra Driza: Mila 2.0
Susan Ee: Angelfall
Simone Elkeles: How to Ruin Your Boyfriend’s Reputation
Laura Ellen: Blind Spot
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho
John Feinstein: Last Shot
Jim Fergus: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
John Flanagan: Ranger’s Apprentice
Alex Flinn: Beastly
Gregory A. Freeman: The Forgotten 500
Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique
Neil Gaiman: Stardust
Jean Craighead George: My Side of the Mountain
David Macinnis Gill: Black Hole Sun (2)
William Golding: Lord of the Flies (2)
Jim Gorant: The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick’s Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption
John Green: An Abundance of Katherines
John Green: The Fault in Our Stars (3)
John Green: Paper Towns
Julie Halpern: Have a Nice Day (2)
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun
Jack Higgins: Storm Warning
Charlie Higson: Double or Die
Ellen Hopkins: Burned
Ellen Hopkins: Crank
Ellen Hopkins: Impulse
Silas House: Eli the Good
Anthony Horowitz: Stormbreaker
Michael Hingson: Thunder Dog
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Stephen King: 11/22/63
Karen Kingsbury: Unlocked
S. J. Kincaid: Insignia (2)
Jo Knowles: See You at Harry’s
Chris Kyle: American Sniper
Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg: Why Do Men Have Nipples?
Lois Lowry: The Giver
Marie Lu: Prodigy (2)
Mike Lupica: Summer Ball
Mike Lupica: Travel Team
Elizabeth Lunday: Secret Lives of Great Composers
Kimberly Marcus: Exposed
J. H. Marks: Conspiracy Theory
George R. R. Martin: A Game of Thrones
Morgan Matson: Second Chance Summer
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Erin Morgenstern: The Night Circus
Jaclyn Moriarty: A Corner of White
Kate Kae Myers: The Vanishing Game
Joe Navarro: What Every Body is Saying
Patrick Ness: The Ask and The Answer
Tim O’Brien: Going After Cacciato
James Patterson: Angel
James Patterson: London Bridges
Susan Beth Pfeffer: Life As We Knew It
Jodi Picoult: Change of Heart
Alexandra Robbins: The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
Jeremy Roenick: J. R.
Veronica Roth: Divergent
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Nic Sheff: Tweak
Tim Shoemaker: Code of Silence
Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Jennifer E. Smith: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Lemony Snicket: Who Could That Be at This Hour?
Maggie Stiefvater: Shiver
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Todd Strasser: Boot Camp
Danny Sugarman: Appetite for Destruction: The Days of Guns N’ Roses
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (2)
Richard Ungar: Time Snatchers
Ned Vizzini: It’s Kind of A Funny Story
Alice Walker: The Color Purple
Jessica Warman: Beautiful Lies
Scott Westerfield: Extras
Daisy Whitney: The Rivals
Evan Wright: Generation Kill
Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief (2)
Markus Zusak: I Am The Messenger
