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Readers Among Us – Session K-11
Chicago 2011
The point of this session is to discuss we are reading as teachers who read. Many of us were drawn to our profession because we liked to read. At the conference we are so concerned with what everyone else is reading or with what we have to read that we neglect what drew us here in the first place. Here we have what our readers are reading. Feel free to distribute our list to everyone.
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison – I keep going back to tis novel because it forces me to reconsider what happens when an individual, a family, a community internalizes pain and hatred from within and without
The Dune Series – Frank Herbert – I appreciate that this sci fi goes beyond science and provokes the reader to think about politics, economics, ecology, religion, and so much more
Little Bee – Chris Cleave
The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver –
Circle Mirror Transformation – Annie Baker
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Out of Oz – Gregory McGuire – Last book in the Wicked Series
The Sword of Truth Series – Terry Goodkind
A Parchment of Leaves – Silas House
On Writing – Stephen King
War and Peace – The Pevear/Volokhonsky translation – Leo Tolstoy
The Lexicographer’s Dilemma – Jack Lynch
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel (sequel yet?)
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky – Heidi Durrow
First They Killed My Father – Loung Ung
Lucky Child – Loung Ung
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead (last year’s Newbery; you’ll finish and
want to read it again immediately)
Russian Winter: A Novel (P.S.) – Daphne Kalotay (ballerina who donates
jewelry…surprise ending)
State of Wonder – Anne Patchett
Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann
Bossy Pants – Tina Fey (hilarious book; ugly cover)
Stiff – Mary Roach
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet – Jamie Ford
The Glass Palace – Amitov Ghosh
Loving Frank – Nancy Horan
The Lemon Tree – Sandy Tolan
The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates – Wes Moore
The State of Wonder – Ann Patchett – A researcher in Southe America does not respond to the drug company that is funding her research. Two doctors go in search. Great book club book.
The Eyre Affair – Jasper fforde
Readicide – Kelly Gallagher
That Used To Be Us – Thomas L. Friedman
The Little Prince – Saint Exupery
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee – Needs to be read regularly
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
The Given Day – Dennis Leary
Columbine – David Cullen
Mary Ann in Autumn – Armistead Maupin
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson
The Master – Colm Toibin
Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein – Julie Salamon
Just Kids – Patti Smith
Must You Go – Antonia Fraser
Kosher Chinese – Michael Levy
The Sorcerer’s Apprenticeships: A Season in the Kitchen of El Bulli
The Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht
The Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka
We the Animals – Julie Otsuka
A Long Hard Look – Napolitano
Blood, Bones and Butter – Gabrielle Hamilton
The Women - T.C. Boyle
Slam – Nick Hornby
Juliet Naked – Nick Hornby
Great House – Nicole Krauss
Fall of Giants – Ken Follett
When She Woke – Hilary Jordan
Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
Dreams of Joy - Lisa See – Sequel to Shanghai Girls
The Invisible Bridge – Julie Orringer – WWII, Jews in Hungary – Family saga
Major Pettigrews Last Stand – Helen Simonsen – Comedy of manners-funny in a Jane Austin way-but set in modern England, with protagonists in their 60s
Three Men in a Boat – Jerome Jerome – Farcical travel/adventure – Oscar Wilde meets Monty Python – On the Thames – Written over 100 years ago and still funny and relevant
I Think I Love You – Allison Pearson – Woman revisits her teen obsession with David Cassidy
The Winter Sea – Susanna Kearsley – Scotland, The Old Pretender, present/past switching
Okay for Now – Gary Schmidt – Young boy 1967, tough family life, brother has retunred from Vietnam, kid is trying to draw Audobon plates (as a metaphor for his life)
The Return of Captain John Gonnett – Elizabeth Speller – WWI, British mystery, desertion, suicide
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
States of Wonder – Ann Patchett – Perfect book club book (medical ethics-fertility drug) like Heart of Darkness with female main characters
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin – Erik Larson – Berlin-WWII, American Ambassador to Germany (like reading a newsreel)
Fall of Giants – set in WWI, beginning in a Welsh mining town -
Girl Who Fell From the Sky – Durrow – Bi-racial child, remarkable story
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Other books from my notes that didn’t make it onto the cards, thereby missing the list:
Marcello and the Real World, Francisco Stark (best book on Asberger’s)
The Feed, M. T. Anderson (social networking—great on audio!)
The Sense of an Ending (Booker) reminiscent of Flaubert’s Parrot, tiny and
brilliant
Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke, Amitav Ghosh (two perspectives on the
opium trades wars; third book expected)
IQ84, Harukami Marakami—long book, love story
Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer—nonfiction, memory championship
From Carol Jago’s list (anticipated annually):
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (new translation by Lydia David, “the
original desperate housewife)
The Good Soldiers, David Finkel (nonfiction)
Lost and Found, Shaun Tan
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Adam Sisman
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman (was a Chicago Big Read)
Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Game of Thrones (series), George R. R. Martin
The Cat’s Table, Michael Ondaatje
Other titles that were shared at a Roundtable:
The Grief of Others, Leah Hager Cohen
The Dirty Life, Kristin Kimble
Battle of Jericho, Sharon Draper (1st or 3 books re: bullying rituals)
Unbroken, Laura Hildebrand (author of Seabiscuit)
While I Was Gone, Sue Miller
Sorta Like a Rock Star, Matthew Quick
Dancing Under the Red Star: The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the
Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag, Karl Tobein
The Hangman’s Daughter, Oliver Potzsch and Lee Chadeayne
Living Dead Girl, Elizabeth Scott
There Are No Children Here, Alex Kotlowitz
Scratch Beginnings (Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream, Adam
Shepherd
Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh
Berlin: City of Stones, Jason Lutes (Book one)
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