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From BHS Students - December 2019

Fiction

• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy* - Will Thompson, 12th grade
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie* - Ellen Zheng, 12th grade
• American Assassin by Vince Flynn - Aidan Fragassi, 11th grade
• A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Valerie Zenatti
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz* - Tristan Keene, 12th grade
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger* - Amalia von Studnitz, 11th grade
• A Cave in the Clouds by Badeeah Hassan Ahmed - Rebecca Ward, 9th grade
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi* - Ajaia Stargell, 9th grade
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess* - Aidan Latham, 10th grade
• Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid - Taylor Lambert, 10th grade
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card* - Braven Star-Clevenger, 10th grade
• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - Emily Boe, 12th grade
• Inheritance by Christopher Paolini * - Josse Goethals, 9th grade
• Insomnia by Stephen King* - Lea King, 9th grade
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami* - Will Thompson, 12th grade
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds* - Amelia Morgan, 10th grade
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman - Zoe Fetter, 10th grade
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux* - Amelia Morgan, 10th grade
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde- Will Thompson, 12th grade
• Ringworld by Larry Nevins* - Nicholas Colafrancesco, 9th grade
• The Shining by Stephen King* - Andrew Giddens, 9th grade
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith* - Elvis Ingersoll, 11th grade

Nonfiction

• The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss - Martin Bernal, 12th grade
• Educated by Tara Westover* - Lulu Wilson, 11th grade & Elvis Ingersoll, 11th grade
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - Martin Bernal, 12th grade
• Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood by Michael Walker - Janin Griebel, 11th grade
• The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb*- Tyler Igneczi, 12th grade
• Night by Eli Wiesel* - Paris Wibben, 9th grade
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire - Tristan Keene, 12th grade
• Survival of the Sickest by Sharon Moalem - Sam Peterson, 12th grade
• to make monsters out of girls (poems) by Amanda Lovelace - Aislynn Stotler, 12th grade
• The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman* - Madeline Louton, 10th grade

From BHS Staff

Fiction

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr*- Ms. Gaines
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie* - Ms. Segle
• Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak* - Ms. Gaines
• Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani* - Ms. Abbott-Walker
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller* - Mr. Greenwood
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton* - Mr. Greenwood
• The English Patient by Michale Ondaatje* - Ms. Gaines
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid* - Ms. Garrison
• The Farm by Joanne Ramos - Ms. Marwick
• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley* - Ms. Roquet
• Full Throttle: Stories by Joe Hill - Ms. Roquet
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles - Ms. Gaines
• I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek - Mr. Rounds
• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson - Mr. Rounds
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer* - Ms. Guenther
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott* - Ms. Roquet
• The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa - Ms. Roquet
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead* - Ms. Thompson
• Normal People by Sally Rooney* - Ms. Segle
• Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion - Mr. Rounds
• The Practice House by Laura McNeal - Ms. Osmer
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood* - Ms. Kleinschmidt, Ms. Marwick, Ms. Thompson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston* - Mr. Baker
• There There by Tommy Orange* - Ms. Kleinschmidt & Ms. Thompson
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee* - Ms. Honeycutt
• Watchmen by Alan Moore - Mr. Greenwood
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens* - Ms. Hudson & Ms. Kleinschmidt

Nonfiction

• The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business by David T. Courtwright - Mr. Aiken-James
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear - Mr. Koeppen
• The Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz - Mr. Greenwood
• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui* - Ms. Segle
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates* - Ms. Segle
• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins - Mr. Greenwood
• The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang - Ms. Roquet
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport - Mr. Aiken-James
• Educated by Tara Westover* - Ms. Aidt, Ms. Kleinschmidt, Ms. Segle, Ms. Wallace
• The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor - Dr. Charles Young, BUSD Superintendent
• Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka* - Ms. Segle
• Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance* - Ms. Osmer
• How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott Haims - Ms. Cole
• The Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael Pilsbury - Mr. Aiken-James
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson - Ms. Rooney
• Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World by Josh Tickell - Ms. O’Malley
• Legacy by James Kerr - Mr. Koeppen
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - Ms. Westerman
• The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite by Daniel Markovits - Mr. Aiken-James
• Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back by Oliver Bullough - Mr. Aiken-James
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder - Mr. Baker
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris - Mr. Aiken-James
• Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden - Ms. Westerman
• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino - Ms. Roquet
• Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas - Mr. Aiken-James
• Your Brain is a Time Machine by Dean Buonomano - Mr. Starkweather

*Available in the BHS Library