PARENTS & GUARDIANS

Windsor parents and guardians are valued members of our community. As such, the Windsor Upper School faculty put together a list of suggestions for your reading pleasure as well!

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HISTORICAL FICTION

SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY

NONFICTION

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of…Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s reve…

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther Kin…In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mot…

Crying in H MartA memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her m…

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Gre…Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achieve…

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family,…On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Ado…

The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her a…

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African ChildhoodThe memoir of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the t…

Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsThe Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The W…

Between the World and Me“This is your country, this is your world, this is your…

The Man Who Climbs Trees“A vertiginous, white-knuckled adventure through some o…

Oh, Florida!: How America's Weirdest State Influences t…A New York Times Bestseller Oh, Florida! That name. Th…

Tent Life in Siberia: An Incredible Account of Siberian…In the 1860s, the Russo-American Telegraph Company set …

HISTORICAL FICTION

River Sing Me HomeHer search begins with an ending.... The master of the…

God's Angry BabiesThis coming-of-age novel, by the Bahamanian writer, tra…

HomegoingGhana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born in…

The Covenant of WaterFrom the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting f…

HamnetDrawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination wit…

The Beekeeper of AleppoThe unforgettable love story of a mother blinded by los…

One Hundred Years of SolitudeThe brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells t…

Lessons in ChemistryAlternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385547345.. Chemis…

The Personal LibrarianThis is a previously-published edition of ISBN 97805931…

PachinkoIn the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter…

A Gentleman in MoscowFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of …

Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The …

FICTION

Homeland ElegiesA deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nat…

MaameAn alternate cover edition for the ISBN 9781250282521 c…

YellowfaceWhat's the harm in a pseudonym? New York Times bestsell…

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowIn this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love,…

Black CakeWe can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who …

So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterran…Introduction by Marlon James and Sia Figuel So Many Is…

Hag-SeedWhen Felix is deposed as artistic director of the Makes…

A Man Called OveA grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turn…

Remarkably Bright CreaturesRemarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendsh…

The Faraway World: Stories* A New York Times Editors’ Choice * From Patricia Eng…

The Violin ConspiracyA mystery about a Black classical musician whose family…

Once There Were WolvesFrom the author of the beloved national bestseller Migr…

SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and …

Cloud Cuckoo LandWhen everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive.…

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness…

Kaikeyi“I was born on the full moon under an auspicious conste…

Sharks in the Time of SaviorsIn 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation,…

AriadneAriadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn …

The Light PirateFlorida is slipping away. As devastating weather patter…

The MartianSix days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the f…

Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Myt…Mythos is a modern collection of Greek myths, stylishly…

Sea of TranquilityA novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that take…

The MeasureEight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It se…

CirceIn the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of…

POETRY

Above GroundA remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable g…

Time Is a MotherIn this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean…

Call Us What We CarryFormerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Aman…

Such Color: New and Selected Poems“Tracy K. Smith’s poetry is an awakening itself.” ― Vog…

Blue: A Book of PoetryHer first lyrical collection, Tanicia Pratt tells an au…

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: PoemsPoems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience f…

Deaf RepublicIlya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, W…

Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fif…Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo ha…

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