Post links on the Blogspot to at least ONE book you would love to read but haven’t had time; these should be books by American authors, and not in our 6-12 curriculum. Your posting should include:
- title
- author
- link to a preview of the book (amazon.com, author webpage)
Your posting should NOT be on a book currently on the list... choose another one, if yours is already here.
36 comments:
Ceallach Gibbons (Per. 5)
1. Slash (Slash with Anthony Bozza)
An autobiography of one of my favorite musicians.
http://www.amazon.com/Slash/dp/0061351423
2. The Looming Tower (Lawrence Wright)
A history of the Al Qaeda and their terrorist activities.
http://www.amazon.com/Looming-Tower-Al-Qaeda-Road-11/dp/037541486X
Rachel Y-D
How To Steal A Car by Pete Hautman
really good author - wrote G-dless and Rash
http://www.teenreads.com/reviews/9780545113182.asp
Maggie Johnson (Period 5)
1. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
http://www.amazon.com/Glass-Castle-Memoir-Jeannette-Walls/dp/074324754X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267390269&sr=8-1
2. Perfect by Natasha Friend
http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Novel-Natasha-Friend/dp/1571316515/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267390326&sr=1-3
Kristin Knutzen
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
a futuristic novel written in the 50's in which firemen burn books
http://www.amazon.com/Fahrenheit-451-Ray-Bradbury/dp/0345342968/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267391837&sr=1-1
Hannah's Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived
by Maria Housden
The story of a mother as her 3 year old daughter Hannah dies of cancer.
http://www.amazon.com/Hannahs-Gift-Lessons-Fully-Lived/dp/0553802100/ref=cm_lmf_img_2
1. Going Rogue: An American Life
Author - Sarah Palin
Palin = great female American trailblazer
http://www.amazon.com/Going-Rogue-American-Sarah-Palin/dp/0061939897
2. Apples
everything about apples
http://www.amazon.com/Apples-Frank-Browning/dp/0865475792/ref=pd_sim_b_1
oops i forgot the author of the Apples book.
author: Frank Browning
Caroline Blanchard (Period 6)
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
http://www.amazon.com/Me-Talk-Pretty-One-Day/dp/0316776963#noop
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
http://www.amazon.com/Blink-Power-Thinking-Without/dp/0316172324
Rachel K
Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon
http://www.amazon.com/Promise-Not-Tell-Jennifer-Mcmahon/dp/0061143316/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267405543&sr=8-1
Mary Cann (Per. 6)
1. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Because we didn't get to read it this year.
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Innocence-Barnes-Noble-Classics/dp/159308143X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267401917&sr=1-1
2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
http://www.amazon.com/Catcher-Rye-J-D-Salinger/dp/0316769177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267405861&sr=1-1
Oh and I forgot, any book by David Sedaris- Mary Cann
Austin Wu
1. Monster hunter international by Larry Correia
it is a corny sci fi book i mean what could be better? Plus you can buy patches
http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/mhi-sample/
Edward Xie (period 5)
The Gods Themselves
A science fiction novel by Issac Asimov
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Themselves-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553288105/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267411231&sr=8-1
Whoops, that's Isaac not Issac
GABRIEL CHANG (PER. 5)
(MY CAPS LOCK MAY OR MAY NOT BE BROKEN)
1. CATCH-22
A SATIRE.
http://www.amazon.com/Catch-22-Joseph-Heller/dp/0684833395 (THIS WAS COPYPASTED)
2. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
MORE PROFOUND INSIGHT ON THE HUMAN MIND.
http://www.amazon.com/One-Flew-Over-Cuckoos-Nest/dp/014028334X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267412301&sr=1-1
Andrew Bradley
Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk
a story of escaping a mid life crisis to the carribean, and it doesnt go as planned.
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Stop-Carnival-Herman-Wouk/dp/0316955124
Daniel Porter
SuperFreakonomics by Steven Levitt (SPA alum) and Stephen Dubner
http://www.amazon.com/SuperFreakonomics-Cooling-Patriotic-Prostitutes-Insurance/dp/0060889578/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267412507&sr=8-1
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Drugs-Cocoa-Puffs-Manifesto/dp/0743236017/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267414299&sr=8-1
Ashlee Johnson
Along For The Ride by Sarah Dessen
http://www.sarahdessen.com/along-for-the-ride
Danny Foussard (Period 5)
The Old Man and The Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Story about an elderly fisherman and the beauty of the struggle
http://www.amazon.com/Old-Man-Sea-Ernest-Hemingway/dp/0684801221/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267419014&sr=8-1
If I did it
O.J. Simpson
O.J. tells us all how he did it
http://www.amazon.com/If-I-Did-Confessions-Killer/dp/0825305934/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267419486&sr=1-1
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Family goes west to make a better life, turns into a story about unions and oppression.
http://www.amazon.com/Grapes-Wrath-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143039431/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267419438&sr=1-1
Ella C:
Vladimir Nabokov- Lolita
(came to the United States in 1940)
About a middle-aged man who is sexual involved with a twelve-year-old girl who is especially promiscuous
http://www.amazon.com/Lolita-Vladimir-Nabokov/dp/0679723161#reader_0679723161
Grant Whitaker
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye
Ryan Hobert (Period 6)
1. Promise Me (Harlen Coben)
Kidnap mystery
2. Capatain Underpants?
Gabrielle Mosher (Pr.6)
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Dragon-Tattoo-Vintage/dp/0307454541/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267457591&sr=1-1
2. Being (Kevin Brooks)
http://www.amazon.com/Being-Kevin-Brooks/dp/0439903424/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267457267&sr=1-1
3. Thirteen Reason's Why (Jay Asher)
http://www.thirteenreasonswhy.com/
Zoe Burton
1. Push: A Novel (Sapphire)
The novel that the movie precious is based on.
http://www.amazon.com/Push-Novel-Sapphire-Author/dp/B002XVI2O0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267461934&sr=1-3
2.Hometown (Tracy Kidder)
A non-fiction book, Tracy Kidder follows a small town police man for a year. I am also interested in some of the other books he has written.
http://www.amazon.com/Home-Town-Tracy-Kidder/dp/0671785214/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Bayert (Period 6)
1. I am America (Stephen Colbert)
A political commentary by stephen colbert
http://www.amazon.com/Am-America-So-Can-You/dp/B0029LHWSQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267551586&sr=1-1
2. If I did it (O.J. Simpson)
a murder mystery by O.J. Simpson
http://www.amazon.com/If-I-Did-Confessions-Killer/dp/0825305934/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267551708&sr=1-1
Ceallach Gibbons
High Crimes by Michael Kodas
From the inside cover:
In 2004 journalist Michael Kodas joined mountain climbers from New England on an expedition to Mount Everest. He anticipated an exhilirating adventure, but discovered thieves, prostitutes, con men and blackmailers, all willing to do anything to make a quick buck or a guarantee they would reach the top of the mountain. And some of them were on his own team.
http://www.amazon.com/High-Crimes-Fate-Everest-Greed/dp/B002KHMZJ0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267567092&sr=1-1
Ella:
Oh and an addition,
The Dead Father by
Donald Barthelme.
It is post-modern novel
which is a "manual for sons"
it explores the ideas of creation an procreation through the eyes of a family trying to bury their father
it is told in a series of ancedotes and dialogs
+ said to be slighty autobiographical about the authors struggle with his father's disaproval of the way he lives.
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Father-Donald-Barthelme/dp/0374529256/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267570567&sr=8-1
Rachel Y-D
my list of three:
Lost It by Kristin Tracy
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Lost-It/Kristen-Tracy/e/9781416934752/?pwb=1&
Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Last-Song/Nicholas-Sparks/e/9780446570961/?itm=1
Peak by Roland Smith
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Peak/Roland-Smith/e/9780152062682/?pwb=1&
Ashlee Johnson
My Top Three Books:
1. Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
http://www.sarahdessen.com/along-for-the-ride
2. Shiver by Maggie Steifvater
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Shiver/Maggie-Stiefvater/e/9780545123266/
3. Hope was Here by Joan Bauer
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Hope-Was-Here/Joan-Bauer/e/9780142404249/?pwb=1&
Andrew Bradley
TOP THREE
The White Dawn by James Houston
http://www.amazon.com/White-Dawn-Eskimo-Sage-Saga/dp/015696256X
Dont Stop the Carnival by Hermon Wouk
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Stop-Carnival-Herman-Wouk/dp/0316955124
The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick
http://www.amazon.com/Man-High-Castle-Philip-Dick/dp/0679740678
Maggie Johnson
Top 3 Books:
1. Perfect by Natasha Friend
http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Novel-Natasha-Friend/dp/1571316515/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267390326&sr=1-3
2. Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Last-Song/Nicholas-Sparks/e/9780446570961/?itm=1
3. If you have to cry, Go outside
By: Kelly Cutrone
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hlAxwLoD0IWjtvvIvfiLTMp6w8EwD9E5S6080
THREE TOP BOOKS
1. CATCH-22
http://www.amazon.com/Catch-22-Joseph-Heller/dp/0684833395
2. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
http://www.amazon.com/Old-Man-Sea-Ernest-Hemingway/dp/0684801221/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267419014&sr=8-1
3. THE LOOMING TOWER
http://www.amazon.com/Looming-Tower-Al-Qaeda-Road-11/dp/037541486X
CJ Whit:
3 Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games.
2 Colfer, Eoin. Airman
1 Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/09bbya.cfm
Edward Xie
1. Asimov, Isaac. The Gods Themselves
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Themselves-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553288105/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267411231&sr=8-1
2. The Man in the High Castle
Phillip K. Dick
http://www.amazon.com/Man-High-Castle-Philip-Dick/dp/0679740678
3. Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
http://www.amazon.com/Fahrenheit-451-Ray-Bradbury/dp/0345342968/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267391837&sr=1-1
Daniel Porter
Top 3:
3. Downtown Owl (a NOVEL by Chuck Klosterman)
2. Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)
1. Breaks of the Game (David Halberstam)
Matt Nelson
Period 6
1.The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye
2.SuperFreakonomics
Steven Levitt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfreakonomics
3.If I did it
O.J. Simpson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_i_did_it
Post a Comment