Teacher Recommendations

Mr. Becker

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Hays translation) 
• 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

Mr. Tommaso 

• Everyday Millionaires by Chris Hogan
• Ponzi's Scheme: The true story of a financial legend  by Mitchell Zuckoff 
• I Will Teach you to be Rich" by Ramit Sethi
• 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

Dr. Abbott

Contemporary Reads:

• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa al-Sanea
• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Classics:

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Poetry:

• Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver 
• Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson by Jen Bervin and Marta L. Werner
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• The Dream of Common Language by Adrienne Rich

Dramatic Works:

• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Non-Fiction

• Sister Outsider, Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• Reckless Daughter by David Yaffe

Ms. Ablondi

Fiction:

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden by John Steinbeck 
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Feed by M.T. Anderson
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 

Non-fiction:

• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad 
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch 
• Educated by Tara Westover
• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

Ms. DaSilva

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Rotting Room by Viggy Parr Ham
• Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
• A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
• Babel by R.F. Kuang
• A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

Mrs. Earles

My current reads hail from Ireland. I love the discrete cultural rules and behaviors that Tana French includes in her novels. All the novels involve crime and mystery as well as family and social dynamics,

• The Likeness
• The Trespasser
• Faithful Place
• The Hunter (1)
• The Searcher (2- sequel to The Hunter)
   
• The Dictionary of Lost Words by Philippa Williams
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• This Other Eden by Paul Harding
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (memoir)

These two novels make a great pair:

• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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

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

• Patriot by Alexei Navalny
• Martyr by Akbar Keveh
• Solito by Javier Zamora
• Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
• 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

Ms. K. Smith

Anything by: 

• Jason Reynolds
• Angie Thomas
• Nic Stone
• Jodi Picoult
• Gillian Flynn
• Karen McManus
• Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction:

• Internment by Samira Ahmed
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
• Beartown Series by Fredrick Backman
• Girl in Pieces by Katherine Glasgow
• Punching the Air by Ibi Ziboi
• Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

Non-Fiction:

• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
• Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshmen
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Dopesick by Beth Macy
• Atomic Habits by James Clear

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
• Anything written by Toni Morrison

• 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

• All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
• The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros
• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
• The Women by Kristin Hannah
• Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah
• The Housemaid by Freida McFadden 
• Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
• 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

• The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
• The Women by Kristin Hannah
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
• 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
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles 
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy 
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo 
• I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

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. Gage (Music)

• Books by Wally Lamb:  The River is Waiting, The Hour I First Believed, and I Know This Much Is True
•  The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
• The Women by Kristin Hannah 
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things  by  Iain Reid 
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• 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

Mr. Kiefer

• The Emergency by George Packer
• Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
• Lifelines by Heidi Diehl
• Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks

Ms. Fiorelli (Library)

• Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer by Paige Classey - otherwise known as Paige Przybylski from Polson!
• Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser
• The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
• Homeseeking by Karissa Chen
• Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• Just Until by Joseph Moldover
• Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
• I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
• The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni
• The Women by Kristin Hannah
• First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
• The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
• The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
• The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
• Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
• The House of Eve by Sadequa Johnson
• Chaos Theory by Nic Stone
• Storyteller: tales of life and music by David Grohl
• Pachinko by Lee Min-jin
• 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

Ms. Simos (Library)

• We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida
• The Names by Florence Knapp
• The Wedding People by Alison Espach
• Lulu's Little Library of Banned Books byKirsten Miller
• A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen
• What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
• Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
• Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon and Harlen Coben
• Suzanne Diary for Nicholas- James Patterson
• The Little Liar- Mitch Albom 
• The Women -Kristin Hannah
• What you are looking for is in the library- Michiko Aoyama
• The Seaside Library -  Brenda Novak
• Killing Me - Michelle Gagnon
• Death on the Nile- - Agatha Christie 
• Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kinsolver
• Young Mungo - Douglas Stuart 
• Before we were innocent -  Ella Berman
• The Chateau -Jaclyn Goldis
• Holly- Stephen King 
• Summer Sisters- Judy Blume

Mr. Soja

• Project Smoke: Seven Steps to Smoked Food Nirvana, Plust 100 Irresistible Recipes from Classic (Slam-Dunk Brisket) to Adventurous (Smoked Bacon-Bouron) by Steven Raichlen
• What to Listen for in the World by Bruce Adolphe
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

• The Raven
• The Fall of the House of Usher

Ms. Brako

• Tana French:  The Searcher, The Hunter, The Likeness 
• 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

• Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell
• They Called Us Enemy by George Taikai was a graphic novel
• Heartwood by Amity Gaige
• Caleb's Crossing and March by Geraldine Brooks
• Flowers of the Killer Moon by David Grann
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabelle Allende
• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• 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

Mr. Docker

• Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson: The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages.
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Jurassic Park by Michael Chriton
• Starry Messenger by Neil Degrass Tyson
• Star Wars Aftermath series by Chuck Wendig
• Name of the Wind  by Patrick Rothfuss
• UnF!@# Yourself by Gary Bishop
•  Star Wars Darth Plagueis by James Luceno

Mr. Russo

• The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
• Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Hail Mary  by Andy Weir
• How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Michael Brown
• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
• Silo Trilogy which includes: Wool, Shift, and Dust by Hugh Howey
• Stiff: The Secret Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
• 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. Werman

 C is for Childhood Cancer by Katherine Vandrilla

Mr. Bizier

• Teaching What Really Happened by James Loewen
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen
• Don't Know Much About History by Kenneth Davis
• Don't Know Much About Geography by Kenneth Davis
• Terrible, But True: Awful Events in American History by Dinah Williams
• Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson
• Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
• The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson
• Project 1065 by Alan Gratz

Mr. Glasser

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

Ms. 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

• Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
• Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
• 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
• 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

Ms. 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 

• Sunflower Sisters- Martha Hall Kelly 
• Lost Roses- Martha Hall Kelly
• Once We Were Brothers- Ronald H. Balson
• All the Light We Cannot See- Anthony Doerr
• The Great Alone- Kristin Hannah 
• Lone Survivor- Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson 

Ms. Greco (Guidance)

• Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
• The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhorn
• The Last Thing He told Me by Laura Dave
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

• Ms. J. Smith
• Just for Summer Abby Jimenez
• Don't Forget to Write Sara Goodman Corfino
• First Lie Wins Ashley Elston 
• Lady Tan's Circle of Women - Lisa See
• Horse by Geraldine Brooks
• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
• 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

Mr. Pardo (Security)

• Dead Wake by Erik Larson
• Soul of the Lion: A Biography of General Joshua L. Chamberlain by Willard Wallace
• Band of Brothers by Steven Ambrose 
• Plum Island by Nelson Demille - My favorite
• The Ice Princess by Camille Lackberg

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
• Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes
• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
• Love Does by Bob Goff
• Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
• The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
• The Pact by Jodi Picoult

Ms. 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

• The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
• The Secret Life of Julia Child - Diana R. Chambers
• The Little Paris Bookshop - Nina George
• The Women - Kristin Hannah
• 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