The House of Names
by Colm Toibin
10% Happier
by Dan Harris
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
Cuckoo’s Calling
by Robert Galbraith
The Silkworm
by Robert Galbraith
Career of Evil
by Robert Galbraith
When in French: Love in a Second Language
by Lauren Collins
The Age of Kali
by William Dalrymple
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
by George Packer
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J.D. Vance
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
by Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name
by Elena Ferrante
Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People
by Mazarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids For The Innovation Era
by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith
The One World School House: Education Reimagined
by Salman Khan
In Defense of a Liberal Education
by Fareed Zakaria
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante
The Road to Little Dribbling
by Bill Bryson
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
by Charlotte Gordon
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
Euphoria
by Lily King
A Clue to the Exit
by Edward St. Aubyn
Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
by Frank Bruni
The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
by James Rebanks
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
by Elaine Sciolino
H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death And The Search For Truth In Tehran
by Ramita Navai
The Road Not Taken – Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong
by David Orr
Between The World And Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Too Much Happiness
by Alice Munro
Go Set A Watchman
by Harper Lee
A God In Ruins
by Kate Atkinson
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
The Buried Giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sticks and Stones:
Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
by Emily Bazelon
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Children Act
by Ian McEwan
Black Count
Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and The Real Count of Monte Cristo
by Tom Reiss
The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood
by Roger Rosenblatt
The French House
by Don Wallace
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death, And Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
Shakespeare’s Restless World
A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects
by Neil MacGregor
Janet’s Books A Life Like Other People’s
by Alan Bennett
All The Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
Empire of the Summer Moon
by S.C. Gwynne
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
by Timothy Egan
Life after Life
by Kate Atkinson
Lawrence in Arabia
by Scott Anderson
The Daughters of Mars
by Thomas Keneally
A House in the Sky
by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett
Wilson
by A. Scott Berg
Devil in the Grove
by Gilbert King
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
by George Packer
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
TransAtlantic
by Colum McCann
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce
Why Teach
In Defense of a Real Education
by Mark Edmundson
The Shallows
What the Internet is Doing to our Brains
by Nicholas Carr
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman
The Chaperone
by Laura Moriarty
The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson
Fire in the Ashes
by William W. Johnstone
To Repair the World
by Paul Farmer
The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt
The Testament of Mary
by Colm Toibin
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls
by David Sedaris
Catherine the Great
by Robert Massie
Daughter of Persia
by Sattereh Farman Farmaian
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The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
Rez Life
by David Treuer
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Moshin Hamid
How to Succeed – Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
by Paul Tough
Chicken with Plums
by Marjane Satrapi
The Swerve, the World Became Modern
by Stephen Greenblatt
Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
by Tony Wagner
Mr. Pip
by Lloyd Jones
Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela
Bring up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss
by Edmund De Waal
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
by Lucette Lagnado
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The Glass Room
by Simon Mawer
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today
by David Andelman
The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
by Lucette Lagnado
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
by Peter Godwin
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
by Alexandra Fuller
To the End of the Land
by David Grossman
Arguably: Selected Essays
by Christopher Hitchens
River Of Doubt
by Candice Millard
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From the Holy Mountain
by William Dalrymple
Priceless
by Robert Wittman
Crisis on Campus
by Mark C. Taylor
The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
The Social Animal
by David Brooks
Great House
by Nicole Krauss
Portrait of a Turkish Family
by Irfan Orga
The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
by Stephen Fry
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
by Jacqueline Novogratz
Comedy in a Minor Key
by Hans Keilson
Parrot and Olivier in America
by Peter Carey
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
The Modern Middle East
A Political History since the First World War
by Mehran Kamrava
Persian Pilgrimages:
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by Afshin Molavi
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
by Gail Collins
Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
by Michael Thompson
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
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Thank you, Janet, for your incisive and important statement. Complexity, depth, specificity, creativity, precision and more continue to be redefined with each new generation of learners. I actually worry every day about where our species is headed based on our lack of respect for “the Word.”