MVS Summer Reading, 2011

MVS Upper School: Summer Reading, 2011

From our philosophy that reading should be an ongoing process, and, therefore a lifetime activity, the English department of The Miami Valley School has developed a summer reading program. Through this required reading, the department hopes students will cultivate an appreciation of literature and further develop skills of critical analysis and independent thinking. Finally, all students will share their common reading experiences at the beginning of the fall term.

2011 Shared Summer Reading
Entire Upper School, Grades, 9-12 & Faculty
Peace by Richard Bausch ISBN-10: 9780307268334

In addition, students in grades 9-12 are expected to select at least one additional title of their choosing to read over the summer. Members of the English Department have recommend the following books for summer reading.
Happy Reading!

Wagner recommends:
Selected Short Stories - Richard Bausch
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India - William Dalrymple
A Visit From The Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - Joshua Foer
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War - Tony Horowitz
In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India - Edward Luce
Anything for Billy - Larry McMurtry
The Barn at the End of the World: Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd - Mary Rose O’Rilley
Civilwarland in Bad Decline - George Saunders
Your Inner Fish - Neil Shubin

Romeo recommends:
1984 - George Orwell
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
October Country - Ray Bradbury
The Hunger Games trilogy - Suzanne Collins
The Stand (unabridged) - Stephen King
The Next President (political thriller) - Joseph Flynn
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Kindness of Strangers - Katrina Kittle
China Run - David Ball
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls

Moulton recommends:
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Room - Emma Donoghue
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Don’t I Know You - Karen Shepard
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Nine Stories - JD Salinger
The Brothers Karamsov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Kindness of Strangers - Katrina Kittle
Tree of Sighs - Lucrecia Guerrero
The Sweet Hereafter - Russell Banks

Cleary recommends:
Kitchen House - K. Grissom
One Amazing Thing - Chithra Banerjee Divakurani
Stones into Schools - Greg Mortenson
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
Little Bee - Chris Cleave
The Yellow House - Pat Falway
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Munhofen recommends:
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor - Flannery O’Connor
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Tartuffe - Moliere
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli