Thursday, April 30, 2015

Ms. Sandberg's Book Wish List




Ms. Frankel Book Wish List.  To find out more how you can help Ms.Sandberg get these books go HERE



AP English Language Reading Wish List:  56 authors we’d like to add to our classroom library, 1-2 copies of each

1. Alexander, Caroline. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition.
2. Alexander, Michelle.  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness.
3. Arana, Marie. American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood.
4.  Barber, Benjamin. Jihad vs. Mc World: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World.
5. Barry, Dave. I'm Not Taking This Sitting Down.
6. Buzz Bissinger.  Friday Night Lights.
7. Boylan, James Finney. Getting In.
8. Boyle, TC.  Tortilla Curtain.
9. Bragg, Rick. All Over but the Shoutin'.
10.   Bugliosi, Vincent. Helter Skelter.
11.  Carter, Stephen. Culture of Disbelief, and God’s Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics.
12.  Chen, Da. Colors of the Mountain.
13.  Codell, Esmé Raji. Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
14.  Conroy, Pat. The Water Is Wide: A Memoir
15.  Didion, Joan.  The White Album.
16.  Dillard, Annie. An American Childhood.
17.  Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
18.  Eire, Carlos. Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy.
19.   Eggers, Dave.  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
20.   Foer, Franklin. How Soccer Explains the World.
21.  Friedman, Thomas. Hot, Flat, and Crowded. From Beirut to Jerusalem.
22.  Gates, Louis Henry. Colored People.
23.  Gilbert, Daniel. Stumbling on Happiness.
24.  Greenlaw, Linda. The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey.
25.  Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs.
26.James, LeBron and Buzz Bissinger.  Shooting Stars.
27.Jay Z.  Decoded.
28.Jen, Gish.  Typical American.
29.  Kennedy, Caroline. Profiles in Courage for our Time.
30.  King, Stephen. On Writing.
31.  Koppel, Lily. The Red Leather Diary.
32.  Kotlowitz, Alex. There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America.
33.  Kurson, Robert. Shadow Divers.
34.  Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird.
35.  Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America.
36.  Levitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.
37.  Maclean, Norman. Young Men and Fire.
38.  Manchester, William. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age.
39.  Markham, Beryl. West With the Night.
40.  Moehringer, J.R. The Tender Bar.
41.  Mooney, Jonathan. The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal.
42.  Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran
43.  Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
44.  Read, Piers Paul. Alive.
45.  Redding, Stan and Frank W. Abagnalie. Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake.
46.  Rodriguez, Richard.  Hunger of Memory.
47.  Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales.
48.  Shepard, Adam W. Scratch Beginnings: Me $25, and the Search for the American Dream.
49.  Silko, Leslie Marmon.  Ceremony
50.  Stanton, Doug. Into Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors.
51.  Terkel, Studs. Working.
52.   Twenge, Jean M. Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—And More Miserable Than Ever Before, and The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement.
53.  Walker, Alice.  The Color Purple.
54.  Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, and  The Right Stuff.
55.  Zakaria, Fareed. Post-America World.
56.  Zinsser, William. On Writing Well: An informal guide to writing nonfiction, and Writing to Learn: How to Write—and Think—Clearly about any Subject at All.

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