My Reading List

2011

1. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
2. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean – Susan Casey
3. The Hour I First Believed – Wally Lamb
4. Guiding: Reading and Writing in the Content Areas - M. Carrol Tama, Anita McClain Haley
5. The Other Wes Moore – Wes Moore
6. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother – Amy Chua
7. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
9. At Home – Bill Bryson
10. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brain – Nicholas Carr
11. Shakespeare: The World as Stage – Bill Bryson
12. A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
13. The First Part Last – Angela Johnson
14. Return to Sender – Julia Alvarez

2010

1. The Imposter’s Daughter – Laurie Sandell
2. Stitches – David Small
3. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
4. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
5. When You Are Engulfed in Flames – David Sedaris
6. Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict – Irene Vilar
7. Push - Sapphire
8. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
9. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
10. Virgil & Beatrice - Yann Martel
11. Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
12. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
13. The Giver – Lois Lowry
14. The Stranger – Albert Camus
15. The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
16. A Child Called It – Dave Pelzer
17. Voodoo Histories: The role of conspiracy theory in shaping modern history - David Aaronovitch
18. The Beats: A graphic history – Harvey Perkar
19. Columbine – Dave Cullen
20. Girl Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
21. Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Greg Heffley
22. The Girl who Played with Fire – Stieg Larsson
23. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson

2009

1. The Wordy Shipmates – Sarah Vowell
2. Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist – Sharman Apt Russell
3. The American Dream – Harmon Leon
4. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
5. Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen – Ani Phyo
6. Breakdowns – Art Spiegleman
7. Blue Pills: A positive love story – Frederick Peeters
8. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
9. Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
10. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut
11. Animal Farm – George Orwell
12. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century – Thomas Friedman
13. Not in My Classroom: A Teacher’s Guide to Effective Classroom Management - Frederick Wootan
14. Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 – Rafe Esquith
15. Chicken With Plums – Marjane Satrapi
16. American Widow – Alissa Torres
17. Jobnik!: An American Girl’s Adventures in the Israeli Army – Miriam Libicki
18. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism – Naomi Klein
19. The Joy of Keeping Chickens – Jennifer Megyesi
20. Teach With Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers – Erin Gruwell
21. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom – bell hooks
22. Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
23. The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City – Kelly Coyne
24. Twilight – Stephanie Meyers
25. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
26. The China Study – T. Colin Campbell
27. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris
28. Running with Scissors – Augusten Burroughs
29. Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
30. The Shiniest Jewel: a family love story – Marian Henley
31. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Egenides
32. New Moon – Stephanie Meyers
33. The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way – Bill Bryson
34. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
35. Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
36. Hey Kidz! Buy this Book: A radical primer on corporate and governmental propaganda and artistic activism for shoty people – Anne Elizabeth Moore
37. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks – E. Lockhart
38. Dramarama – E. Lockhart
39. The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University – Kevin Roose
40. Adolescents at School: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education – Ed. Michael Sadowski
41. What Every Middle School Teacher Should Know – Dave Brown, Trudy Knowles
42. Perspectives on Learning – D.C. Phillips, Jonas F. Soltis
43. Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World – Joan Wink
44. Jesus Land – Julia Scheeres
45. Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
46. Eclipse – Stephanie Meyers
47. 90 Classic Books for People in a Hurry - Henrik Lange
48. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation – Tim Hamilton
49. The Survival Guide for Kids with LD – Fisher & Cummings
50. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong- James W. Loewen
51. Wintergirls - Laurie Halse Anderson
52. Walking on Water: Reading, writing, and revolution — Derrick Jensen
53. The 14th Dalai Lama — Tetsu Saiwai
54. Other People’s Children: Cultural conflict in the classroom — Lisa Delpit
55. As the World Burns: 50 simple things you can do to stay in denial — Derrick Jensen & Stephanie McMillian
56. Breaking Dawn – Stephanie Meyers
57. The Metamorphosis — Graphic Adaptation by Peter Kuper
58. What We Leave Behind – Derrick Jensen & Aric McBay
59. A Few Perfect Hours…and other stories from Southeast Asia & Central Europe – Josh Neufeld
60. Stuffed! – Glenn Eichler & Nick Bertozzi
61. Eating Animals — Jonathan Safran Foer
62. A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge – Josh Neufeld
63. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — Ken Kesey
64. Inexcusable – Chris Lynch
65. The Vegan Monologues – Ben Shaberman
66. American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang
67. The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher - Harry K. Wong