Wanna Know What Our Seniors Read?

I'm always looking for good books for our students to read. (You: Tell me something I don't know, Ms. Lindsay...)

So when I discovered Mr. Hodara's Senior English website, with a discussion board revolving around what Seniors read over the summer, I was all eyes.

I loved reading the posts!

Mr. Hodara kindly gave me permission to share the summer reads that his students discussed.

(in no particular order)

1. Go Ask Alice, Anonymous
2. Water for Elephants, Gruen
3. *Shanghai Girls, See
4. The Lovely Bones, Sebold
5. *The Color Code, Hartman
6. Hunter Games, Collins
7. Mockingjay, Collins 
8. Catching Fire, Collins
9. *Eyes of the Emperor, Salisbury
10. Under the Blood Red Sun, Salisbury
11. Dreams From My Father, Obama
12. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck
13. Lock and Key, Dessen
14. That Summer, Dessen
15. Along for the Ride, Dessen
16. Gone With the Wind, Mitchell
17. Looking for Alaska, Green
18. The Path of the Assassin, Thor
19. Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox, Colfer
20. Ender's Game, Card
21. *A Dance with Dragons, Martin
22. The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien
23. The Two Towers, Tolkien
24. *The Rogue Crew, Jacques
25. *The Evolution of Calpurina Tate, Kelly
26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Rowling
27. Into the Wild, Krakauer
28. *The Sicilian, Puzo
29. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
30. *At First Choice, Sparks
31. Shantaram, Roberts
32. *Again to Carthage, Parker
33. A Long Way Gone, Beah
34. *Pipe Dreams, Slater
35. Angela's Ashes, McCourt
36. *The Social Animal, Brooks
37. A Room With a View, Forester
38. Feed, Anderson
39. Battle Royale, Takami
40. Forever, Blume
41. Speak, Anderson
42. Siddhartha, Hesse
43. *Thin, Rich, Pretty, Harbison
44. The Glass Castle, Walls
45. The Warlock, Scott
46. A History of Pi, Martel
47. *Haunt Me Still, Carrell
48. *Maps of Bones, Rollins
49. Fallen Angels, Myers
50. Animal Farm, Orwell
51. Hatchet, Paulsen
52. *Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect, Rotella
53. Angels and Demons, Brown
54. *Seven Summits, Bass, et al.
55. Nine Stories, Salinger
56. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
57. Outliers, Gladwell
58. Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner
59. Brunelleschi's Dome, King
60. Ishmael, Quinn
61. *Flags of Our Fathers, Bradley
62. A Million Little Pieces, Frey
63. The Devil in the White City, Larson
64. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Larsson
65. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Larsson
66. *Procession of the Dead, Shan
67. *Crazy for the Storm, Ollestad
68. The Hobbit, Tolkien
69. On the Road, Kerouac
70. White Oleander, Fitch
71. *Ahab's Wife, Naslund
72. *Admission, Korelitz
73. *The China Study, Campbell
74. *Uncommon Criminals, Carter
75. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Shaffer and Barrows
76. The Diary of a Young Girl, Frank
77. *The Hawaiians (Version Often Untold)
78. The Help, Stockett
79. *Leviathan Wakes, Corey
80. The Naked Sun, Asimov

* = We don't already have these. Ordering ...

Our Seniors know I treasure these book reviews. Here's a blast from the past (remember Middle School Readers Advisory at lunch?), for our Seniors' enjoyment.

Review of The Guardians of Gahoole, 4:06 min.

MAHALO to Brendan, for allowing me to share this golden oldie!  His recommendations have helped a lot of our Middle School readers over the years. And there were other lunchtime book reviewer stars too: Laura, Kyla, Justine, Nick, Haley -- thanks very much!

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