Teacher Recommendations

Mr. Becker

• The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
• The Alchemist by Pablo Coelho
• The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz 
• Eating Well for Optimum Health by dr Andrew Weil 
• Food Rules: an eater's manual by Michael Pollan
• Chop Wood Carry Water: How to fall in love with the process of being great  by Joshua Medcalf
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Ms. Rocchio 

• The Night the Lights Went Out by Karen White 
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman 
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 
• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S Sharma

Mr. Tommaso 

• Once a Runner by John L. Parker
• Running for my Life: One Lost Boy’s Journey from the Fields of Sudan to the Olympics by Lopez Lomong
• Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics By Jeremy Schaap
• The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb
• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins

• The Sports Gene by David Epstein

Ms. Coretti

• I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
• The Firekeeper's Daughter by 
• Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes and/or The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Animal Farm or 1984 by George Orwell
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Mrs. Corvino

• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 
• Quiet by Susan Cain
• Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich 
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt  
• Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
• Someone Else's Shoes by JoJo Moyes
• Know My Name by Chanel Miller
• The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
• My Brilliant Friend (Series) by Elena Ferrante
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• The LIncoln Highway by Amor Towles
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller
• Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
• Chorus of Mushrooms by Hiromi Goto
• Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
• The Maid by Nita Prose
• The Iliad by Homer
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 
• The Epic of Gilgamesh

Ms. DaSilva

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• Heart in Atlantis by Stephen King
• The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Mrs. Earles

All of my students know how much I love trees, and this book list certainly represents that. In each of the fiction texts below, trees and/or nature play an important role. The last text is a fascinating nonfiction text about the way that trees communicate with each other ( yes you read that correctly!). If you read any of these stop in to chat with me.

• The Overstory by Richard Powers : The book that stared it all for me.
• Greenwood by Michael Christie
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
• Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

Mr. Lajoie

• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Mr. Harris

• Scythe by Neal Schusterman
• Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• Far From The Tree by Robin Benway
• Zeithoun by Dave Eggers
• Winger by  Andrew Smith
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
• Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
• Columbine by  Dave Cullen
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys 
• They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera 
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• After The Shot Drops by Randy Ribay
• One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
• Incendiary by Zoraida Cordova

Ms. McMahon

• Liars Inc. by Paula Stokes
• Exo by Fonda Lee
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
• Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Mr. Morrison

• The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
• Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy D. Snyder

Ms. Rubino

• Homegoing by Yas Gyasi
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Excellent Sheep by William Deresiewicz
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Mr. Young

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Push by Sapphire 
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

• Outliers: the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Storm by Dan Blanchard
• Season of Life by Jeffrey Marx 
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• The Short Bus: a journey beyond normal by Jonathan Mooney 
• Change Leadership: a practical guide to transforming our schools by Tony Wagner

Ms. Whitcher

• Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
• Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
• The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
• Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell 
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Mr. Bodner

• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley and Ron Powers
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Captain Class: A New Theory of Leadership by Sam Walker
• Chasing the Bear: How Bear Bryant and Nick Saban Made Alabama the Greatest College Football Program of All Time by Lars Anderson

Mr. Farrell

• The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon
• No Complaining Rule by Jon Gordon
• Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
• Make Your Bed  by Admiral William H McRaven
• Chop Wood Carry Water by Joshua Medcalf
• Lead… for God’s Sake!  By Todd G. Gongwer
• Relentless by Tim S. Grover
• The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

Ms. Evans

• Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner
• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles 
• The Guest List by Lucy Foley 
• The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn 
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy 
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo 
• I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

Ms. Heller

All That She Carried: the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake by Tiya Miles.

Ms. McIsaac

• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn 
• The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel,
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Ms. Minniti

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Amanda Knox Waiting To Be Heard by Amanda Knox
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• Building a Life Worth Living by Marsha M. Linehan
• Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Mr. Engelhardt

• Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean 
• The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
•  A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Ms. Sayin

• The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Interesting Facts for Curious Minds by Jordan Moore
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• The Innocent by David Baldacci
• The Poet by Michael Connelly
• David Baldacci’s Amos Decker series
  • Memory Man
  • The Last Mile
  • The Fix

Mr. Ballantyne

Stephen King: The Green Mile, The Stand, It, The Shining, and many more!

Mr. Gage (Music)

• Daisy Jones and The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
• American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins
• Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Julian Sancton
• The Storyteller, Dave Grohl
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
• The Circle by Dave Eggers
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck 
• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Ms. Fiorelli (Library)

• I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
• The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni
• The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
• Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
• The House of Eve by Sadequa Johnson
• I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
• The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani
• Storyteller: tales of life and music by David Grohl
• Pachinko by Lee Min-jin
• Whalebone Theater by Joanna Quinn
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
• Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• By Alka Joshi: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Mrs. Brako

• Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister  
• The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
• The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
• I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
• The Sports Gene by David Epstein
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
• The Beauty of the Beastly by Nathalie Angier
• The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
• The Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Ms. Browne

• The Dutch House by Ann Pachett
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabelle Allende
• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Ms. Ciampi

• We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch
• Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
• Tuesday’s with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• Firefly Lane by Kristen Hannah

Ms. Grissom

• Death from the Skies: the Science Behind the end of the World  by Dr. Philip Plait
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by Tolkein
• Things In Jars  by Jess Kidd
• Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
• The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
• Kings of the Wild by Nicholas Eames
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mr. Russo

• His Dark Materials Trilogy by Sir Philip Pullman
• Aftermath Trilogy (Star Wars) by Chuck Wendig
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr 
• Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr 
• Dune by Frank Herbert

Mr. Glasser

• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Mrs. Johnson

• When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal
• This Place of Wonder by Barbara O’Neal
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• Atomic Habits  by James Clear
• Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Jedi Mind: Secrets from the Force for Balance and Peace by Amy Ratcliffe
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
• Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Mr. Pelletier

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
• Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
• Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
• Range by David Epstein
• The Lost City of Z by David Grann
• Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash
• Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Race and Reunion by David Blight
• The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
• The Tragedy of American Diplomacy by William Appleman Williams

 Mr. Quirk

• A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
• Escape from Camp 14  by Blaine Harden
• Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World Jack Weatherford
• Seventeen Seventy-six by David McCullough
• An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina
• Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss
• Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup

Mr. Spears

• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
• Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Four Feathers by A.E.W Mason
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• A Room with a View by E.M. Forrester
• Silas Marner by George Elliot
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Hunger  by Knut Hamsun

Mrs. Stott

• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
• Dopesick: the dealers, doctors and drug company that addicted America by Beth Macy
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Ms. Carroll 

• Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O’Reilly
• Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly
• Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
• Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

Ms. Greenvall

• Lincoln Highway- Amor Towles- A WONDERFUL story
• Broken Horses- Brandi Carlile (Audio HIGHLY recommended- as she narrates and sings between chapters!)
• Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
• Midnight Library- Matt Haig
• Glass Castle- Jeanette Walls
• Water For Elephants- Sara Gruen
• The Nightingale- Kristin Hannah
• 11-22-63- Stephen King
• Daisy Jones & The Six
• Circe-Madeline Miller
• The Dutch House- Ann Patchett
• Breakfast with Buddha- Roland Merullo
• Cutting for Stone- Abrahan Verghese

• The Lincoln Highway- Amor Towles

Ms. Greco (Guidance)

• Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
• Art & Fear: Observations on the perils (and rewards) of artmaking by David Bayles & Ted Orland
• The Last Thing He told Me by Laura Dave
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Ms. Karsanow

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Ms. J. Smith

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
• Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
• Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Call us What we Carry – Amanda Gorman
• The Girl With the Louding Voice – Abi Dare
• The Rent Collector – Camron Wright
• Anxious People – Fedrik Backman
• The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
• The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah

Mrs. Halloran (Athletics)

• The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

Ms. Aguzzi

• The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King 
• The Girl in the Box series by Robert Crane
• Solar Storms by Linda Hogan
• Before the Broken Star (series) by Emily King
• The Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard
• Collected Stories by Gabriel García Márquez
• City of the Beasts (series) by Isabel Allende

Ms. Butcher 

• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio
• Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo
• Love Does by Bob Goff
• The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
• The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• The Pact by Jodi Picoult

Mrs. Casais

• The Guest List by Lucy Foley
• Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• Testimony by Anita Shreve
• Defending Jacob by William Landay
• Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz (audiobook)

Ms. Gauley

• My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
• Cider House Rules John Irving
• Let’s Eat Italy François-Régis Gaudry
• Violeta Isabel Allende
• Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens

Ms. Merkle

• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• The Stranger by Albert Camus (if you study French, give it a go in French)
• In the Country of Others by Leila Slimani (if you study French, give it a go in French)
• Mr. Malcolm’s List by Suzanne Allain
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Ms. Pelphrey

• A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• *80s guilty pleasure read:  Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews