HSPVA Summer Reading 22-23

Browse the books below. Clicking on the image will take you to a specific page about that selection. There, you'll find a brief synopsis of the book/play as well as the options to JOIN BOOK CLUB, BUY THE BOOK, View Other Books.

By clicking on JOIN BOOK CLUB, you'll go to a Google Form. Complete the form and CHECK for an emailed CONFIRMATION. If you do not receive one, then you HAVE NOT signed up for the book club. Try Again. If the book club is FULL, then you must select another one of the many amazing titles.

BUY THE BOOK will link you to purchase the title; however, you may purchase the title from anywhere you would like. The only exception to this is the UIL Play. For this, you're provided a link to email Mr. Davis for the proper adaptation.

VIEW THE BOOK will take you back to this screen to continue browsing for a title that you'd like to read.

Returning back to previous years, there WILL BE an ASSIGNMENT with this years novel selections. This can be found on the "Assignment" tab above.

As always, faculty have done their best to provide TRIGGER WARNINGS (Found on Selections specific pages), but please do your own digging before selecting a book.

Happy Reading!

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguch

The Black Church

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

Coding and the Arts

Josh Caldwell

Doughnut Economics

Kate Raworth

The Gifts of Imperfection

Brene' Brown

Good Poems

Garrison Keillor

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

Carlo Rovelli

Hello, Molly!

Molly Shannon

The House in the Cerulean Sea

TJ Klune

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Little Book of Hygge Danish Secrets to Happy Living

Meik Wiking

Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Science of Can and Can’t

Chiara Marletto

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

The Sentence

Louise Erdrich

The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Book

Charlie Mackesy

Unshakeable Faith:

Carey H. Latimore IV

We Were the Lucky Ones

Georgia Hunter

The Weirdest People in the World

Joseph Henrich

What to Listen for in the World

Bruce Adolphe

Wild

Cheryl Strayed

First Time for Everything

Henry Fry

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert M. Pirsig

The Other Boleyn Girl

Philippa Gregory

UIL Play


What If?

Randall Munroe

Pure Invention

Matt Alt

Pedro Paramo

Juan Rulfo