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U2013SENIORS REQUIRED

The Other Wes Moore Wes Moore The Art of Hearing Heartbeats Jan-Philipp Sendker Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls

SUGGESTEDThe Art of Fielding: A Novel Chad HarbachThe Devil in the White City Erik LarsonWest with the Night Beryl MarkhamState of Wonder Ann PatchettConfederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole

JUNIORS REQUIREDThe Kite Runner Khaled HosseiniThe Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

JUNIORS TAKING ADVANCED SEMINARFrankenstein Mary Shelley

SUGGESTEDThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh Michael ChabonA Prayer for Owen Meany John IrvingAtonement Ian McEwanMe Talk Pretty One Day David SedarisThe Joy Luck Club Amy Tan

SOPHOMORES REQUIREDCaleb’s Crossing: A Novel Geraldine BrooksThe Curious Incident Mark Haddon of the Dog in the Night-Time 1984 George Orwell

SUGGESTEDCrow Lake Mary LawsonBel Canto Ann PatchettMy Name Is Asher Lev Chaim PotokBalzac and the Little Dai Sijie Chinese Seamstress Black Boy Richard Wright

FRESHMEN REQUIREDThe Bu�alo Soldier Chris Bohjalian Hotel on the Corner Jamie Ford of Bitter and Sweet Outliers Malcolm Gladwell

SUGGESTEDWarriors Don’t Cry Melba Pattillo Beals Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card God Grew Tired of Us John Bul Dau To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee A Story Like the Wind Laurens van der Post

JUNIORS TAKING U.S. HISTORY AND AMERICAN CIVILIZATION COURSESCHOOSE ONE:

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Kevin Boyle Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age The Murder of Helen Jewett Patricia Cline CohenConfederates in the Attic Tony Horwitz

JUNIORS TAKING AP U.S. HISTORYGive Me Liberty! Eric Foner (Seagull 3rd Ed.) – chapters 1, 2, 27 & 28

BOOKS FOR 2013REQUIRED + SUGGESTED

See the SUMMER READING Web page for more information about the required readings. Scan the QR Code or go to www.tinyurl.com/lc-summer13.

ALL SCHOOL READEaarth: Making a Life Bill McKibben on a Tough New Planet

ARTS: TOP PICKSInstant: The Story of Polaroid Christopher BonanosSteal Like an Artist Austin KleonDa Vinci’s Ghost Toby LesterThe Art of the Illusion Brad Honeycutt

& Terry StickelsCharles Dickens and the Simon Callow Great Theatre of the World

ATHLETICS: TOP PICKSSports Nutrition Guidebook Nancy ClarkAmerican Idle: A Journey Mary Collins ’79 Through Our Sedentary Culture Caddy for Life John FeinsteinInto Thin Air Jon KrakauerSoccernomics Simon Kuper

& Stefan Szymanski

COLLEGE: TOP PICKSI’m Going to College—Not You! Jennifer DelahuntyAcceptance David L. MarcusAdmission Matters Springer, Reider & FranckThe Gatekeepers Jacques SteinbergCollege Unranked: Ending the Lloyd Thacker College Admissions Frenzy

COMMON GOOD: TOP PICKSThe Shallows: What the Nicholas Carr Internet Is Doing to Our BrainsThe Better Angels Steven Pinker of Our NatureWhistling Vivaldi: How Claude M. Steele Stereotypes A�ect Us and What We Can DoThe Thing Itself: Richard Todd On the Search for Authenticity The Future of Freedom: Fareed Zakaria Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad

GLOBAL STUDIES: TOP PICKSRunning the Rift: A Novel Naomi BenaronOver the Edge of the World Laurence BergreenBlue Latitudes: Boldly Going Tony Horwitz Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Planet India Mira KamdarDark Star Safari: Paul Theroux Overland from Cairo to Capetown

HEAD OF SCHOOL: TOP PICKSPride and Prejudice Jane AustenThe Fiery Trial: Eric Foner Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery The Unlikely Pilgrimage Rachel Joyce of Harold FryBring Up the Bodies Hilary MantelThe Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twan Eng

HISTORY: TOP PICKSLittle Pink House: A True Story Je� Benedict of Defiance and Courage The Autobiography Malcolm X & Alex Haley of Malcolm XKing Leopold’s Ghost Adam HochschildThe Story of America: Jill Lepore Essays on OriginsIn the Garden of Beasts Erik Larson

LANGUAGES: TOP PICKSThe Buried Mirror: Carlos Fuentes Reflections on Spain and the New World The Swerve: How the World Stephen Greenblatt Became ModernA Train in Winter Caroline MooreheadNostalgia, My Enemy: Poems Saadi YoussefChina in Ten Words Yu Hua

MATHEMATICS: TOP PICKSFlatland: A Romance Edwin A. Abbott of Many DimensionsMoneyball Michael LewisBringing Down the House Ben MezrichThe Housekeeper and Yoko Ogawa the ProfessorThe Calculus of Friendship Steven Strogatz ’76

MUSIC: TOP PICKSHiding in the Spotlight Greg DawsonHigh Fidelity Nick HornbyThe Rest is Noise: Listening Alex Ross to the Twentieth CenturySerendipity: A Novel Louise Sha�erThe Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Eric Siblin Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY & RELIGION: TOP PICKSQuiet: The Power of Introverts Susan Cain in a World That Can’t Stop TalkingNo Easy Choice Ellen Painter DollarEden’s Outcasts: The Story John Matteson of Louisa May Alcott and Her FatherThe Thief Fuminori NakamuraZen and the Art of Robert M. Pirsig Motorcycle Maintenance

SCIENCE: TOP PICKSHow I Killed Pluto and Mike Brown Why It Had It ComingThe Disappearing Spoon Sam KeanThe Emperor of All Maladies: Siddhartha Mukherjee A Biography of CancerUncle Tungsten: Memories Oliver Sacks of a Chemical BoyhoodSync: How Order Emerges Steven Strogatz ’76 From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life

BOOK TO FILMAbraham Lincoln, Seth Grahame-Smith Vampire HunterAnna Karenina Leo TolstoyThe Great Gatsby F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Hobbit J. R. R. TolkienLes Miserables Victor HugoLife of Pi Yann MartelOn the Road Jack KerouacThe Perks of Being Stephen Chbosky a Wallflower

READER’S CHOICEBehind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine BooThe Social Animal David BrooksPercival’s Planet Michael ByersEating Dirt Charlotte GillWhen She Woke Hillary Jordan11/22/63 Stephen KingBorn Standing Up: Steve Martin A Comic’s LifeThe Watch: A Novel Joydeep Roy-BhattacharyaFollowing Atticus Tom RyanRadioactive Boy Scout Ken SilversteinWild: From Lost to Found Cheryl Strayed on the Pacific Crest TrailThe Age of Miracles Karen WalkerThe Family Fang: A Novel Kevin Wilson

THE CLASSICSNorthanger Abbey Jane AustenA Farewell to Arms Ernest HemingwayOne Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García MárquezSong of Solomon Toni MorrisonTreasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson

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