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Monday, May 21, 2012
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Library: Suggested Reading
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Abington Public Schools
High School
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Science
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Biology
The Origin of Species, ,Charles Darwin
The Medical Detectives,, Berton Roueche
The Panda's Thumb,, Stephen Jay Gould
The Lives of a Cell,, Lewis Thomas
The Double Helix, ,James Watson
Chemistry
The Extraordinary Chemistry of Ordinary Things, ,Carl H. Snyder
The Architecture of Molecules: The Nature of the Chemical Bond,, Linus Pauling
Earth Sciences
Silent Spring, ,Rachel Carson
The Immense Journey, , Loren Eisley
Physics
E=mc^2, David Bodanis
The Cartoon Guide to Physics, Larry Gonick and Art Huffman
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
How Things Work, David Macaulay
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French
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La Peste
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Albert Camus
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L'Etranger
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Albert Camus
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Victor Hugo
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Les Miserables
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Victor Hugo
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La Jalousie
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Business
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The One Minute Manager
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Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D. & Spencer Johnson, M.D.
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What Color is Your Parachute?
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Richard Nelson Bolles
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
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Dale Carnegie
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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Stephen R. Covey
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Who Moved My Cheese?
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Spencer Johnson, M.D.
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In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
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Thomas Peters & R. Waterman
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Mathematics
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Fermat's Last Theorem Amir D. Aczel
A History of Pi Peter Beckman
The Mathematical Experience Philip J. Davis & Rueben Hersh
Complete How to Figure It: Using Math in Everyday Life Darrell Huff
Thinking Mathematically J. Mason,L. Burton and K. Stacy
A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr. Sylvia Nasar
A Mathematician Reads The Newspaper John Allen Paulos
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English Language Arts
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The 10 Most Recommended Authors " The authors most frequently recommended by all the colleges are listed . . . These authors, playwrights and poets represent "the best of the best," so you should try to include some of their works in your personal reading list." Doug Estell, Michele Satchwell and Patricia S. Wright in Reading Lists for College Bound Students, 3rd Edition, 2000, p.21.
- William Shakespeare
- William Faulkner
- Charles Dickens
- Ernest Hemingway
- Jane Austen
- Homer
- Mark Twain
- Sophocles
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Important Books for Literary Study
Bible - "A collection of the sacred literature of Judaism and Christianity. Much of our western writing alludes to the language and stories in the Bible. Many colleges suggest the King James version for literary study," (Estell, Satchwell & Wright, p.33).
Epics - These heroic stories of ancient adventures have become the models for many contemporary works of art and literature. Consider reading one of the following in prose or poetry: Gilgamesh, by Akkadian The Iliad, by Homer The Odyssey, by Homer The Aeneid, by Virgil
Mythology - Although any collection of Greek, Roman and Norse myths would be helpful, Edith Hamilton's Mythology is most often recommended for those who would like to understand more of the allusions in the language and literature of the Western world.
Vocabulary - Any book that provides a course of study that includes Greek and Latin roots as well as words grouped together by category or content area is helpful to the high school reader. Random House Webster's Build Your Power Vocabulary (1998) is one such book.
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Pre-College
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| Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe |
| In the Time of the Butterfly |
Julia Alvarez |
| Bless Me, Ultima |
Rudolpho Anaya |
| Clan of the Cave Bear |
Jean M. Auel |
| Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain |
James Baldwin |
| Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Bronte |
| Cold Sassy Tree |
Olive Ann Burns |
| Alice in Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll |
| O, Pioneers! |
Willa Cather |
| The Red Badge of Courage |
Stephen Crane |
| Breath, Eyes, Memory |
Edwidge Danticat |
| Great Expectations |
Charles Dickens |
| Crime and Punishment |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Rebecca |
Daphne DuMaurier |
| Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
| Walden |
Henry David Thoreau |
| As I Lay Dying |
William Faulkner |
| Pillars of the Earth |
Ken Follet |
| A Lesson Before Dying |
Ernest Gaines |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
Thomas Hardy |
| Mythology |
Edith Hamilton |
| Snow In August |
Peter Hammill |
| Farewell to Arms |
Ernest Hemingway |
| Enemy of the People |
Henrik Ibsen |
| Turn of the Screw |
Henry James |
| The Dubliners |
James Joyce |
| Schindler's List |
Thomas Kenneally |
| A Separate Peace |
John Knowles |
| Annie John |
Jamaica Kincaid |
| The Bean Trees |
Barbara Kingsolver |
| Woman Warrior |
Maxine Hong Kingston |
| Call of the Wild |
Jack London |
| The Natural |
Bernard Malamud |
| Lonesome Dove |
Larry McMurtry |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
Carson McCullers |
| Billy Budd |
Herman Melville |
| Gone with the Wind |
Margaret Mitchell |
| Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
| The Women of Brewster Place |
Gloria Naylor |
| Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
| Cry, the Beloved Country |
Alan Paton |
| The Bell Jar |
Sylvia Plath |
| The Chosen; My Name is Asher Lev |
Chaim Potok |
| The Killer Angels |
Michael Shaara |
| Pygmalion |
George Bernard Shaw |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Betty Smith |
| The Joy Luck Club |
Amy Tan |
| The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Ethan Frome |
Edith Wharton |
| The Once and Future King |
T.H. White |
| Our Town |
Thornton Wilder |
| Native Son |
Richard Wright |
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Social Studies
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US History/AP US History 2
Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy
In Retrospect, Robert McNamara
All Quiet on the Western Front , Eric Maria Remarque
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
AP US History 1
John Adams, David McCullough
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
World History
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandus K. Ghandi
Abnormal Psychology
Crazy All the Time, F.L. Cowen
On the Edge of Darkness, E. Cronkite
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, J. Greenberg
A Child Called It, Dave Pelzer
A Man Called Dave, Dave Pelzer
The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing, J.L. Rapoport
Sybil, F.R. Schreiber
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Art
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The Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone
Lust for Life Irving Stone
Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalar
Theories of Modern Art Herschel B. Chipps
Brunelleschi's Dome Ross King
The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
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