Oxford Academy 2008 Summer Reading List
ADMINISTRATORS
Headmaster's PicksTuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek
Fortune's Rock by Anita Shreve
Mr. Cocchiola's Picks
Forgotten Realms series by R.A. Salvatore
Mrs. White's Picks
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Haj by Leon Uris
ART DEPARTMENT
Ms. Vaughn's PicksThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Mr. Cartier's PicksHoles by Louis Sachar
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
The Beach by Alex Garland
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
Ms. Fiedler's Picks
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
1984 by George Orwell
Mr. Hayden's Picks
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Cork Boat by John Pollack
Mrs. Zimmermann's Picks
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Land Girls by Angela Huth
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Hawaii by James Michener
FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
Mrs. Castro-Maguder's PicksPapillon by Henri Charriere
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Mr. Gross's Picks
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Mrs. Monroy's Picks
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
100 Years of Solitude by Marquez
Mrs. Neale's Picks
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
The Iliad & The Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Genius by Dave Eggers
HISTORY DEPARTMENT
Mr. Babits'sPortrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
Fast Food Nation by Schlosser
Nickel and Dimed by Ehrenreich
Bringing Down the House by Mezrich
Founding Brothers by Ellis
Mr. Hartt's Picks
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
I, the Jury by Mickey Spillaine
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Mr. Klosson's Picks
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Harry Potter series
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Daniken
Truman by McCullough
John Adams by McCullough
Mr. LaSota's Picks
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
MATH DEPARTMENT
Mrs. Gilstad-Hayden's PicksLast Days of Summer by Kluger
Mr. Katz's Picks
Morgan's Passing by Ann Tyler
Atlas Shrugged by Rand
1984 by George Orwell
The Ethics of Liberty by Rothbard
Mr. Staat's Picks
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
One Bullet Away by Fick
Mr. Laundy's Picks
The Pillar's of the Earth by Ken Follett
Eye of the Needle by Follett
Gorky Park by Martin Craig Smith
The Shadows of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Favorite Authors: John Grisham, Jonathan Kellerman, Dan Brown, Carl Hiaasen
Mr. Thomsen's Picks
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Dan Brown Books: DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress
SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
Mrs. DeWolfe's PicksA Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
A Sand County Almanac by Leopold
Adventures of a Nature Guide by Mills
Mr. Eddy's Picks
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The entire Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
The Late George Apley by John Marquand
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J.E. Gordon
In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Mr. Samson's Picks
Down home Dixie by Pamela Browning
Runaway Cowboy by Judy Christenberry
The Pilot's Woman by Ann Roth
Texas Lullaby by Tina Leonard
STAFF
Ms. (Sally) Cornish's Picks
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail by Jared Diamond
Women's Work, The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Mrs. (Patti) Davis
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Mr. (Chef) Forrest's Picks
Kite Runner by Hosseini
Plum Island by Nelson DeMille
Step on a Crack by Patterson
Mr. (Jack) Franco's Picks
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Ms. (Kim) Gregory's Picks
Outsiders by Hinton
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Stephen King books
Mrs. (Shirley) Lusk's Picks
Gentlemen of the Roads; a Tale of Adventure by Michael Chabon
Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Mrs. (Pat) Mackenzie-Thompson's Picks
Juggling Elephants by Jones Loflin and Todd Musig
A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Dr. (Herbert) Schwartz Picks
Mature Mind by H.A. Overstreet
One Flew Over the Cuckloo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Mrs. (Robin) Sogge
The Last Time they Met by Anita Shreve
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein
Mrs. (Elizabeth) Stratidis's Picks
Joshua: A Parable for Today by Joseph F. Girzone
The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
Mr. (Brian) Toolan's Picks
The Patriot by Tom Clancy
Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Steven King books
Mr. (Dewey) Worms's Picks
Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
The Source by James Michener
OUTGOING SENIORS BOOK PICKS 2008
Alex Bigger's pick is Survivor by Chuck PalahniukMax Franklin's pick is Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Spencer Johnson's pick is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Kyle Kinnear's pick is Confessor by Terry Goodkind
Randall McEnaney's pick is The Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman
Lucas O'Keefe's pick is Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
Skyler Richman's pick is Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Pete Riguardi's pick is The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Craig Saphire's pick is Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Max Segal's pick is A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Zachary Shine's pick is A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Michael Smith's pick is The Ice Man by Philip Carlo
Robin Sykes-Nichols pick is The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
Eric Thompson's pick is Enderšs Game by Orson Scott Card
Scott Tolson's pick is The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Logan Walker's pick is On the Road by Jack Kerouac
John Weller's pick is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Ricky Woodward's pick is The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
