Prep School Library: Faculty Favorites

• Keefe, Patrick Radden: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
• Herbert, Frank. Dune
• Aslan, Reza. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
• Camus, Albert. The Stranger
• Le Carre, John. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time
• Brooks, Max. World War Z
• Schlosser Eric. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, The Damascus Incident, and the Illusion of Safety.
• Zahn, Timothy. Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
• Clarke, Arthur C. Rendezvous With Rama
• Herr, Michael. Dispatches

• Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass
• Lee, Min Jin. Pachinko
• Knoll, Andrew H. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
• Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• by Stephen Chbosky
• Page, Elliot. Pageboy

• Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
• Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel.
• Graeber, David. Debt: the First 5,000 Years.
• Jacobsen, Annie. The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency.
• Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine.
• Steinbeck, John. The Pearl.

• Ramper sand Arnold, editor. The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry
• Verghese, Abraham. Cutting for Stone
• Lamb, Wally. I Know This Much Is True
• Hossein, Khaled.  The Kite Runner
• Picoult, Jodi. Small Great Things

• Dundy, Elaine. The Dud Avocado
• Woolf, Virginia. Orlando
• Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
• Baldwin, James. Giovanni's Room
• Diaz, Junot. The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
• Waheed, Nayira. Salt
• Menakem, Reesmaa.  My Grandmother's Hands
• Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime (audiobook is a MUST!)
• Heller, Joseph. Catch-22
• Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl

• Hong, Cathy Park. Minor Feelings. 
• Cook, Diane. The New Wilderness.
• Xie, Jenny. Eye Level.
• Francis, Vievee. Forest Primeval. 
• Kaminsky, Ilya. Dancing in Odessa.
• Grattan, Thomas. The Recent East.
• Harvey, Samantha. Orbital. 
• Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking.
• Lacey, Catherine. Pew. 

• Wilson, Kevin. Nothing To See Here
• Frankl, Viktor. Man's Search For Meaning
• Guidara, Will. Unreasonable Hospitality

Tahir, Sabaa. An Ember in the Ashes

Jones, Dianne Wynn. Howl's Moving Castle

Klune, TJ. The Extraordinaries

Rowell, Rainbow. Carry On

Brown, Brene. Dare to Lead

• Austen, Jane. Persuasion. 
• Chambers, Becky. A Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet; Record of a Spaceborn Few; A Psalm for the Wild-Built.
• Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.
• LeGuin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. 
• Odell, Jenny. How to Do Nothing
• Baldwin, James. Giovanni's room

• Albee, Edward. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• DeLillo, Don. White Noise
• Zambra, Alejandro. My Documents
• Schweblin, Samanta. Seven Empty Houses
• Groff, Lauren. The Vaster Wilds
• Lynch, Paul. Prophet Song
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved

• Mitchell, David.  Black Swan Green.
• Eco, Umberto.  The Name of the Rose.
• Hammett, Dashiell.  Red Harvest; The Glass Key.
• Robinson, Marilynne.  Housekeeping.
• Penn Warren, Robert.  All the King’s Men.
• Carver, Raymond.  Where I'm Calling From.
• Adams, Richard.  Watership Down.
• Chesterton, G.K.  The Man Who Was Thursday.
• Cather, Willa.  Lucy Gayheart.
• Westover, Tara. Educated.
• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah.
• Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight Behavior.
• Powers, Richard. The Overstory.

• Solnitt, Rebecca. Men Explain Things to Me
• Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day

• Rand, Ayn.  The Fountainhead.
• Caro, Robert A.  The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York.
• Lukas, Anthony. On Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families.
• Carroll, John.  Basketball Diaries

• Kang, Han.  Human Acts.
• Steinbeck, John.  The Grapes of Wrath.
• Smith, Zadie.  White Teeth.
• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi.  Americanah.
• Atwood, Margaret.  The Handmaid’s Tale.
• Wright, Richard.  Native Son.
• Ehrenreich, Barbara.  Nickel and Dimed.

• Allyn, John.  47 Ronin.
• Soseki, Natsume. Kokoro (Translated by Edwin McClellan)

• Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things.
• Bryan Stevenson. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
• Kidder, Tracy.  Mountains Beyond Mountains.
• Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood.
• Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees
• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah.

• Brönte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.
• Fujimoto, Tatsuki. Look Back.
• Caddow, Kenneth M. Gather.
• Jackson, Holly. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.
• Hothschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost
• Krakauer, Jon. Under the Banner of Heaven
• Green, John. Everything is Tuberculosis
• Oyeyemi, Helen. Mr. Fox.
• Rogers, Andrea. Man Made Monsters.
• Wein, Elizabeth. Code Name Verity.

• Sacks, Oliver. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
• Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women.
• Bryson, Bill.  A Short History of Nearly Everything.
• Diamond, Jared. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal.
• Kean, Sam. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements.
• Weiner, Jonathan.  The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time.
• Roach, Mary. Gulp: Adventures along the Alimentary Canal.
• McPhee, John. Oranges.
• Heinrich, Bernd.  Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival.

• Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon.
• Stoll, Clifford.  The Cuckoo’s Egg.

• Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.
• Chapin, Ted. Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies.
• King, Stephen. The Dark Tower (series).
• Racculia, Kate. Bellweather Rhapsody.
• Scott, A.O. Better Living Through Criticism.
• Liu, Cixin. The Three-Body Problem.
• McDonagh, Martin. The Pillowman.
• Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night.
• Wallace, David Foster.  A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.
• Zevin, Gabrielle. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
• Westover, Tara.  Educated.
• Clarke, Susanna. Piranesi

• Anders, Charlie Jane. All the Birds in the Sky.
• Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship Breaker.
• Butler, Octavia. Kindred.
• Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
• Clarke, Susanna. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
• Doerr, Anthony. Cloud Cuckoo Land.
• Doyle, Roddy. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
• Edugyan, Esi. Washington Black.
• Fowler, Karen Joy. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
• Grossman, Lev. The Magicians.
• Jemisin, N. K. The Fifth Season.
• Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air.
• Malamud, Bernard. The Fixer.
• O'Malley, Daniel. The Rook.
• Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front.
• Walton, Jo. Among Others.
• Willis, Connie. Doomsday Book.
• Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's Cradle.

• Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
• In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
• Carrie - Stephen King
• The Passage - Justin Cronin

• Paley, Grace. The Little Disturbances of Man; Enormous Changes at the Last Minute.
• Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.
• Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway.
• Don DeLillo, White Noise
• Thurber, James. My Life and Hard Times
• Paley, Grace. The Little Disturbances of Man; Enormous Changes at the Last Minute.
• Towles, Amor. Rules of Civility
• Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Sympathizer

• Egan, Jennifer. A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Candy House.
• Betts, Reginald Dwayne. A Question of Freedom.
• Tolentino, Jia. Trick Mirror.
• Wilson, Kevin. Nothing to See Here.
• Jamison, Leslie. The Empathy Exams.
• Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love.
• Forster, E. M. A Room with a View
• Evans, Danielle. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. 

• Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See. 
• Millard, Candace. Destiny of the Republic.
• Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands.
• Fitzharris, Lindsay. The Facemaker.
• van der Kolk, Bessel. The Body Keeps the Score.
• Bryson, Bill. The Body. 

• Alvarez, Julia. Afterlife. 
• Acevedo, Elizabeth. Clap when you land.
• Acevedo, Elizabeth. The Poet X.
• Callender, Kacen. Felix Every After.
• Cepeda, Raquel. Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina.
• Coster, Naima. Halsey Street. 
• Herrera, Adriana. American Dreamer.
• Washington, Bryan. Memorial
• Wucker, Michelle. Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for Hispaniola.

• Sacks, Oliver. Island of the Colorblind, Oliver Sacks
• Yu, Charles. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu
• Zauner, Michelle. Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
• Nagamatsu, Sequoia. How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Boo, Katherine. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
   

• Steinbeck, John.  East of Eden.
• Guzeman, Tracy.  The Gravity of Birds.
• Brkic, Angela Courtney.  The First Rule of Swimming.
• White, Kate.  Hush.
• Barnes, Kim.  In the Kingdom of Men.
• Picoult, Jodi.  The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, and House Rules.
• Hoffman, Alice.  The Drowning Season and The Story Sisters.
• Flynn, Gillian.  Gone Girl.
• Gruen, Sara.  Water for Elephants.
• Schlink, Bernard.  The Reader.
• Allen, Sarah Addison.  The Peach Keeper.
• Walls, Jeannette.  The Glass Castle.
• Byran, Helen.  The Sisterhood.

• Lozano, Rosina. An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States 
• Fernández, Lilia. Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Post-War Chicago
• Reynolds, Jason. Stamped
• Kendi, Ibram X. and Keisha N. Blain. Four Hundred Souls
• Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime
• Morris, Heather. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
• Allende, Isabel. Paula
• Diaz, Junot. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Miller, Madeline. The Song of Achilles
• Nelson A. Denis. War Against All Puerto Ricans
• Baldwin, James. Giovanni's Room
• Silvera, Adam. They Both Die at the End

• Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the Bones.
• Menakem, Resmaa. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
• Gibron, Kahlil. The Prophet.
• Cage, John. Silence: Lectures and Writings.
• Yamada, Kobi. What Do You Do With an Idea? 
• Zauner, Michelle. Crying in H Mart
• Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love: A Novel.
• Cameron, Julia. The Artist's Way.
• Kaur, Rupi. Home Body.
• Acevedo, Elizabeth. The Poet X.

• Chiang, Ted.  Stories of Your Life.
• Weinberger, Eliot. 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways
• Davis, Lydia. Collected Stories

• Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo.
• Steinbeck, John. East of Eden.
• McDermott, Alice. Someone; Charming Billy.
• Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things.
• Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies.
• Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead.
• Eliot, George. Middlemarch.
• Enger, Leif. Peace Like A River.

• Jin, Ha.  Waiting.
• Uris, Leon.  Exodus.
• Smith, Betty.  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
• Hosseini, Khald.  A Thousand Splendid Suns.

• Amis, Martin. Time's Arrow.
• Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me.
• Dias, Hernan. In the Distance.
• Enger, Leif. Virgil Wander.
• Hersey, John. Hiroshima.
• Matthiessen, Peter. The Snow Leopard.
• Saunders, George. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.
• Obama, Barack. Dreams from My Father.
• Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff.

• Cheever, John. The Stories of John Cheever.
• Wright, Richard. Native Son.
• Torres, Justin. We the Animals.
• Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five.
• Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol.
• Wolff, Tobias. In Pharaoh's Army.
• Carver, Raymond. Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories.
• O'Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find.

• Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead.
• Atwood, Margaret.  The Blind Assassin.
• Gardner, John.  Freddy’s Book.
• Henriquez, Christina.  The Book of Unknown Americans
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor.  The Brothers Karamazov
• Gaiman, Neil.  The Norse Myths.
• Gaiman, Neil.  The Graveyard Book
• Chandler, Raymond.  Lady in the Lake.
• Lalami, Laila.  The Other Americans

• Desmond, Matthew.  Evicted.
• Kozol, Jonathan.  Savage Inequalities
• Steinbeck, John.  The Grapes of Wrath.
• McBride, James. The Color of Water.
• Westover, Tara. Educated.
• Ng, Celeste. Everything I Never Told You. 
• Feynman, Richard P. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• Lewis, C.S. Til We Have Faces

• Marra, Anthony. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, The Tzar of Love and Techno.
• Ghosh, Amitav. Sea of Poppies.
• Lee, Min Jin.  Pachinko.
• Hamid, Mohsin.  Exit West.
• Butler, Octavia. Wild Seed

• Robinson, Marilynne.  Housekeeping.
• Harbach, Chad.  The Art of Fielding.
• Morrison, Toni.  Beloved.
• Sittenfeld, Curtis. American Wife.
• Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
• Wilkerson, Charmaine. Black Cake.
• Zevin, Gabrielle. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

• Pratchett, Terry. Small Gods.
• Asimov, Isaac. Foundation. 
• Miller Jr, Walter. A Canticle for Leibowitz.
• Simmons, Dan. Hyperion.
• Herman, Edward S. and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
• Dahl, Robert A. How Democratic is the American Constitution?
• Spolsky, Joel. Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity
• Thomas, David and Andrew Hunt. The Pragmatic Programmer

• Alvarez, Julia.  How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents; In the Time of the Butterflies.
• Atwood, Margaret.  Cat's Eye; Alias Grace.
• Hurston, Zora Neale.  Their Eyes Were Watching God.
• Kingsolver, Barbara.  The Bean Trees; The Poisonwood Bible.
• Steinbeck, John.  Travels with Charley; Cannery Row.
• McEwen, Ian.  Atonement.
• Lahiri, Jhumpa.  Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth.
• Orlean, Susan. The Orchid Thief
• Keegan, Claire. Foster

• Balzac, Honoré de.  Lost Illusions. 

• Wouk, Herman.  Marjorie Morningstar.

• Bellow, Saul.  Herzog.

• Heller, Joseph.  Catch-22.

• Russo, Richard.  Straight Man.

• Benioff, David. City of Thieves.
• Wiggins, Marianne.  Evidence of Things Unseen.
• Lahiri, Jhumpa.  Unaccustomed Earth.
• Nemirovsky, Irene. Suite Francaise.
• Russo, Richard.  Straight Man.
• Ford, Richard. The Sportswriter.
• Millard, Candice. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey.

• Verghese, Abraham. Cutting for Stone.
• Hannah, Kristen. The Nightingale.
• Egan, Jennifer. A Visit from the Goon Squad.
• de Rosnay, Tatiana. Sarah's Key.
• du Maurier, Daphne.  Rebecca.
• Gyasi, Yaa. Homegoing.
• Russo, Richard. Empire Falls.

• Gsaii, Yaa. Homegoing.
• Henríquez, Cristina. The Book of Unknown Americans. 
• Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime.
• Orange, Tommy. There, There.
• Saén, Benjamin Alire. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.
• Van Pelt, Shelby. Remarkably Bright Creatures.
• Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents: Adapted for Young Adults; The Warmth of Other Suns. 
• Zevin, Gabrielle. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

• Reichert, Bonny. How to Share an Egg
• Golding, William. Lord of the Flies
• McCarthy, Cormac. Outer Dark
• Klosterman, Chuck. The Visible Man
• Schechter, Harold. Nevermore 
• Gibbons, Stella. Cold Comfort Farm

• Stephenson, Neal.  Snow Crash.
• Robertson, James.  The Testament of Gideon Mack.
• Smith, Zadie.  On Beauty.
• Dubus, Andre.  Separate Flights.
• Josopovici, Gabriel.  In a Hotel Garden.
• Heaney, Seamus (trans.) Beowulf.
• Tartt, Donna. The Secret History.
• Whitehead, Colson. The Nickel Boys; The Underground Railroad.
• Erdrich, Louise. Future Home of the Living God.
• Finn, A.J. The Woman in the Window.
• Eggers, Dave.  A Hologram for the King.
• Shusterman, Neal. Scythe Trilogy: Scythe; Thunderhead; The Toll.

• Loory, Ben. Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day.
• de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine. The Little Prince. 
• Márquez, Gabriel García. The Autumn of the Patriarch. 
• Zamyatin, Yevgeny. We.
• Carver, Raymond. Where I'm Calling From.
• Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles.
• Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. 
• O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.
• Ferguson, Kitty. Measuring the Universe.
• Feynman, Richard. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• Levenson, Thomas. The Hunt for Vulcan. 
• Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel. 
• Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. 
• Tyson, Neil deGrasse. Death by Black Hole. 
• Cole, K.C. First You Build a Cloud.
• Goldacre, Ben. Bad Science.
• Natarajan, Priyamvada. Mapping the Heavens.
• Brown, Michael. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
• Johnson, George. Strange Beauty. 
• Okasha, Samir. Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction.