Lynde’s Personal
Reading Favorites
Revised 8-08
1.
Ceremony, Silko
2.
Sophie’s World, Gaarder
3.
God of Small Things, Arundhati
4.
Poisonwood Bible, Kingslover
5.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera
6.
The Traveler, John Twelve Hawks
7.
Ishmael, Quinn
8.
Grendel, Gardner
9.
Confederacy of Dunces, Toole
10. Unquiet
Mind, Jamieson
11. Life
of Pi, Martel
12. A
Personal History, Katharine Graham
13. The
Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood
14. Pride and Prejudice, Austen
15. A
Prayer for Owen Meany,
16. The
Road, McCarthy
17. The
Book Thief, Zusak
18. Sold,
McCormick
19. Saturday,
McEwan
20. Atonement,
McEwan [often on AP
Exam]
21. How
to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster
22. The
23. The
Time Traveler’s Wife, Niffengger
24. Kite
Runner, Hosseini
[often on AP Exam]
25. Out
Stealing Horses, Petterson
26.
Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah [book assigned to all
incoming freshman at UVM 2007]
27. Stalin’s
Ghost, Smith
28. Water
for Elephants, Gruen
29. March,
Brooks
30. Year
of Wonders, Brooks
31. Until
Death Do Us Part, My Struggle to Reclaim
32. The
Pillars of the Earth and World
Without End Follett
33. Little
Brother Cory Doctorow
34. The
Dew Breaker Edwidge
Danticat
35. Skeletons
at the Feast Bohjalian
Summer Reading 2008
1.
The Adoration
of Jenna Fox Mary E. Pearson
2.
The
Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl Barry Lyga
3.
American Shaolin Matthew Polly
4.
The Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglas
5.
Fallen Angels Walter Dean
Myers
6.
Burning Bright Tracy
Chevalier
7.
The Absolutely
True Diary of a Part Time Indian
8.
The Things
They Carried Tim O’Brien
9.
10. People of the Book Geraldine Brooks
11. My Father’s Secret War Lucinda
Franks
12. Austenland Shannon
Hale
13. The Great Gatsby F.S. Fitzgerald
14. The Great Gatsby, Critical Studies Kathleen
Parkinson
15. Jake Reinvented Gordon Korman
16. Thunderstruck Erik Larson
17. Careless in Red Elizabeth George
18. Shakespeare’s Kitchen Lore Segal
19. In the Woods Tana French
20.
21. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski
22. The Autobiography of Malcom
X
Alex Haley
23. Lock and Key Sarah Dessen