Looking for a book or two or three to read during the summer?
Here is a list of recommendations from the Ward Melville High School English department. Our school library has many of these titles in the collection. You are welcome to borrow books during the summer. Stop by the library's front desk and we will assist you. Have a great summer!
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Classic Texts
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Contemporary Texts
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Dickens, Charles. -Bleak House
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Fountain, Ben. -Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
- The
House of the Seven Gables
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Wallace, Daniel. -Big Fish
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Hesse, Herman. Siddhartha
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Smith,
Betty. A -Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Vonnegut, Kurt. -Slaughterhouse
Five
Momaday, N. Scott.
-House
Made of Dawn
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Murakami,
Haruki.
-After Dark
Bulawayo,
NoViolet.
- We Need New Names
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Steinbeck, John. -East of Eden
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Moore, Wes. -The Other Wes Moore
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Ellison, Ralph. -Invisible
Man
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Tolstoy, Leo. -Anna
Karenina
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Diffenbaugh, Vanessa.
-The
Language of Flowers
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.
-Crime
and Punishment
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Harbach, Chad. -The
Art of Fielding
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von Goethe, JW. -Faust
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Obreht, Tea.
-The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel
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de Saint-Exupery,
Antoine.
- The Little Prince
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Safran Foer,
Jonathon. -Everything is Illuminated.
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Angelou, Maya.
- I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Otto, Whitney. -How to Make an American Quilt
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Morrison, Toni. -The
Bluest Eye
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Carroll, Lewis. -Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland
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Naipaul, VS.
- A
House for Mr. Biswas
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Matthiessien, Peter.
- The
Snow Leopard
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Alcott, Louisa May.
- Little
Women
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Brooks, Geraldine. March
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Gibran, Kahlil.
-The Prophet | Keegan, Marina. -The Opposite of Loneliness |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey. -Canterbury
Tales
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Flynn, Gillian. -Gone
Girl
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Woolf, Virginia. -Mrs.
Dalloway
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Morrison, Toni. -Home
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Mr. McAuliffe
Mr. Cereola
Ms.Cisar-Buhler
Ms. Cowan's
top 3 picks
Ms. DiIorio
Mr. Eaton
Ms. Etheridge
Ms. Favre
Ms. Gandt
Dr. Kelso
Ms. Kunkel
Ms. Murolo
Mr. Oatis
Ms. Rochford
Ms. Taliercio
Mr. Swain
Ms. Thomas |
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