Ms. Taylor’s recommended books for 8’s and 9’s:
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Allegra Maud Goldman by Edith Konecky
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
The #1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Ms. Taylor’s recommended books for 10’s, 11’s, & 12’s:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Atonement by Ian McEwan
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
What is the What by Dave Eggers
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton


Ms. Jacobs’s recommended books:
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Regeneration by Pat Barker
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Dr. Wilcove’s recommended books:
The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault
The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart
The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

Mr. Silverman’s recommended books:
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
by Mark Mathabane
Dubliners by James Joyce
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Miss Spillios’s recommended books:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto
In the Memory of the Forest by Charles Powers
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Out of Egypt by André Aciman
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire

Ms. Smilios’s recommended books:
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Birds of America (short stories) by Lorrie Moore
Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Where I’m Calling From (short stories) by Raymond Carver
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
On Love by Alain de Botton
Runaway by Alice Munro
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Divine Comedy by Dante