Janet Hartwell, Head of School
What Janet is Reading:
The House of Names
by Colm Toibin10% Happier
by Dan HarrisThe Secret History
by Donna TarttCuckoo’s Calling
by Robert GalbraithThe Silkworm
by Robert GalbraithCareer of Evil
by Robert GalbraithWhen in French: Love in a Second Language
by Lauren CollinsThe Age of Kali
by William DalrympleThe Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
by George PackerThe Underground Railroad
by Colson WhiteheadString Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J.D. VanceThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay
by Elena FerranteThe Story of a New Name
by Elena FerranteBlind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People
by Mazarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. GreenwaldMost Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids For The Innovation Era
by Tony Wagner and Ted DintersmithThe One World School House: Education Reimagined
by Salman KhanIn Defense of a Liberal Education
by Fareed ZakariaMajor Pettigrew’s Last Stand
by Helen SimonsonMy Brilliant Friend
by Elena FerranteThe Road to Little Dribbling
by Bill BrysonRomantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
by Charlotte GordonJust Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan StevensonEuphoria
by Lily KingA Clue to the Exit
by Edward St. AubynWhere You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
by Frank BruniThe Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
by James RebanksThe Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
by Elaine SciolinoH is for Hawk
by Helen MacdonaldCity of Lies: Love, Sex, Death And The Search For Truth In Tehran
by Ramita NavaiThe Road Not Taken – Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong
by David OrrBetween The World And Me
by Ta-Nehisi CoatesToo Much Happiness
by Alice MunroGo Set A Watchman
by Harper LeeA God In Ruins
by Kate AtkinsonWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy FowlerThe Buried Giant
by Kazuo IshiguroSticks and Stones:
Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
by Emily BazelonAmericanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Children Act
by Ian McEwanBlack Count
Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and The Real Count of Monte Cristo
by Tom ReissThe Boy Detective: A New York Childhood
by Roger RosenblattThe French House
by Don WallaceBehind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death, And Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine BooShakespeare’s Restless World
A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects
by Neil MacGregorJanet’s Books A Life Like Other People’s
by Alan BennettAll The Light We Cannot See
by Anthony DoerrEmpire of the Summer Moon
by S.C. GwynneShort Nights of the Shadow Catcher The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
by Timothy EganLife after Life
by Kate AtkinsonLawrence in Arabia
by Scott AndersonThe Daughters of Mars
by Thomas KeneallyA House in the Sky
by Amanda Lindhout and Sara CorbettWilson
by A. Scott BergDevil in the Grove
by Gilbert KingThe Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
by George PackerThe Goldfinch
by Donna TarttTransAtlantic
by Colum McCannThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel JoyceWhy Teach
In Defense of a Real Education
by Mark EdmundsonThe Shallows
What the Internet is Doing to our Brains
by Nicholas CarrThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne FadimanThe Chaperone
by Laura MoriartyThe Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel WilkersonFire in the Ashes
by William W. JohnstoneTo Repair the World
by Paul FarmerThe City of Falling Angels
by John BerendtThe Testament of Mary
by Colm ToibinLet’s Explore Diabetes with Owls
by David SedarisCatherine the Great
by Robert MassieDaughter of Persia
by Sattereh Farman Farmaian <The Round House
by Louise ErdrichRez Life
by David TreuerCloud Atlas
by David MitchellThe Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Moshin HamidHow to Succeed – Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
by Paul ToughChicken with Plums
by Marjane SatrapiThe Swerve, the World Became Modern
by Stephen GreenblattCreating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
by Tony WagnerMr. Pip
by Lloyd JonesLong Walk to Freedom
by Nelson MandelaBring up the Bodies
by Hilary MantelThe Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss
by Edmund De WaalThe Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
by Lucette Lagnado LagnadoThe Glass Room
by Simon MawerThe Sense of an Ending
by Julian BarnesA Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today
by David AndelmanThe Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
by Lucette LagnadoThe Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
by Peter GodwinCocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
by Alexandra FullerTo the End of the Land
by David GrossmanArguably: Selected Essays
by Christopher HitchensRiver Of Doubt
by Candice Millard .From the Holy Mountain
by William DalrymplePriceless
by Robert WittmanCrisis on Campus
by Mark C. TaylorThe Little Stranger
by Sarah WatersThe Social Animal
by David BrooksGreat House
by Nicole KraussPortrait of a Turkish Family
by Irfan OrgaThe Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
by Stephen FryThe Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
by Jacqueline NovogratzComedy in a Minor Key
by Hans KeilsonParrot and Olivier in America
by Peter CareyThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca SklootThe Modern Middle East
A Political History since the First World War
by Mehran KamravaPersian Pilgrimages:
Journeys Across Iran
by Afshin MolaviWhen Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
by Gail CollinsBest Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
by Michael Thompson and Catherine O’Neill-GraceNorthanger Abbey
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Four years ago, at noon on Good Friday, I stood by Bab Touma (Thomas’ Gate), the ancient gate into the old city of Damascus. Suddenly, simultaneously I heard the midday call to prayer from the muezzin on one side of … Continue reading
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