Summer Reading Information - 2017-18 Summer reading expectations at NMH are divided into two categories: an English department assignment and a selection for a book-group style discussion held at the beginning of the academic year. Every student at NMH will be required to read at least two books during the summer, one for the book-group discussion and one for their English course. Students enrolled in AP-level courses may be required to read additional books. English Summer Reading: This summer, you are required to read one or more texts. It is suggested that students annotate as they read. This includes writing questions in the margins and locating interesting words and lines. Please arrive at your first English class of the year ready to discuss and write about the book. Required summer reading texts: ● Post Graduates:​ ​The Things They Carried​ by Tim O'Brien ● Senior English:​ ​Americanah​ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ● AP Composition and Language:​ ​Bonfire of the Vanities​ by Tom Wolfe (but NOT ​Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) ● AP Composition and Literature:​ ​Saturday​ by Ian McEwan and ​Lolita​ by Vladimir Nabokov (but NOT ​Americanah​ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) ● Juniors​: ​Passing​ by Nella Larsen ● Sophomores​: ​I'm Not Scared​ by Niccolo Ammaniti ● Freshmen​: ​The Girl Who Fell From the Sky​ by Heidi Durrow; and two poems, "Birches," by Robert Frost, and "The Fish," by Elizabeth Bishop (the poems are easily available online) If you have any questions, please contact John Corrigan, English Chair, [email protected]. School-wide Book Discussions: The second reading assignment is part of a school-wide book discussion initiative where students and faculty read and discuss a shared text. The goal of each book group is to have people with a common interest discuss a book at length. It is important for students to read with close attention to detail, but there is no writing assigned. Students will be evaluated based on thoughtful participation in the discussion group. ​Students must be prepared to discuss this book during the first week of school. Freshmen ONLY: ​All members of the Class of 2021 will all read the same book, ​The 10 p.m. Question​ ​by Kate De Goldi. Sophomores through Postgraduates: ​Students will be placed in discussion groups based on the book they select. The books listed on the following pages have been chosen by NMH faculty and staff. Students will select their book on a first come first serve basis using the following form: https://goo.gl/adUsDv​. Returning students should complete the form by May 5; after that date they will be automatically assigned a book. New students should complete the form by May 15; after that date they will be automatically assigned a book. If you have difficulty with the link for the Google selection form, please contact Sheryl Miner at 413-498-3111 or ​[email protected]​. 

  Sophomore - Postgraduate School-wide Book Discussion Choices   Diversity and Social Justice - Fiction Luna​ by Julie Anne Peters Flight Behavior: A Novel​ by Barbara Kingsolver Purple Hibiscus​ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Franny and Zooey​ by JD Salinger Doubt​ by John Patrick Shanley Sweet Thursday​ by John Steinbeck Double Deuce​ by Robert B. Parker Homegoing​ by Yaa Gyasi Diversity and Social Justice - Nonfiction Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America​ by Andrea Tone Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption​ by Bryan Stevenson

Sex, College, and Social Media: A Commonsense Guide to Navigating the Hookup Culture​ by Cindy Pierce

Notorious RGB: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg​ by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis​ by J.D. Vance Notes of a Native Son​ by James Baldwin Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca​ by John McWhorter The Meaning of Matthew; My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed​ by Judy Shepard The Association of Small Bombs: A Novel​ by Karan Mahajan And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students​ by Miles Corwin How Does It Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America​ by Moustafa Bayoumi White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America​ by Nancy Isenberg A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity​ by Nicholas Kristoff & Sheryl WuDunn You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain​ by Phoebe Robinson Between the World and Me​ by Ta-Nehisi Coates Born a Crime, Stories from a South African Childhood​ by Trevor Noah El país bajo mi piel (The Country Under My Skin)​ by Gioconda Belli ​(Need to read at Spanish III level or higher) History - Fiction Brotherhood​ by Anne Bryan Westrick The Underground Railroad​ by Colson Whitehead Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress​ by Dai Sijie Catch-22​ by Joseph Heller The Awakening​ by Kate Chopin Hidden Figures​ by Margot Lee Shetterly The Cat's Table​ by Michael Ondaatje The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale​ by Robert Louis Stevenson It Can't Happen Here​ by Sinclair Lewis The Sympathizer​ by Viet Thanh Nguyen Sarah's Key​ by Tatiana De Rosnay

History - Nonfiction D-Day: The Battle for Normandy ​by Anthony Beevor

Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother​ by Kate Hennessy

D.L. Moody -- A Life: Innovator, Evangelist, World Changer​ by Kevin Belmonte

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire​ by Stephen Kinzer

Psychology - Nonfiction Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep​ by David K. Randall The Geography of Bliss​ by Eric Weiner Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global ​by Faith Eidse and Nina Sichel The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy​ by Jon Gordon Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking​ by Malcolm Gladwell Life is What you Make it: Find your own Path to Fulfillment​ by Peter Buffett Science - Nonfiction The World Without Us​ by Alan Weisman Lab Girl​ by Hope Jahren The Botany of Desire​ by Michael Pollan Science Fiction/Fantasy/Mystery - Fiction Childhood's End​ by Arthur C. Clarke Dark Matter: A Novel ​by Blake Crouch The Road​ by Cormac McCarthy Shadowshaper​ by Daniel José Older Nightfall​ by David Goodis and Larry Withers Station Eleven​ by Emily St. John Mandel Ready Player One ​by Ernest Cline Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West​ by Gregory Maguire Foundation​ by Isaac Asimov Alice in Wonderland​ by Lewis Carroll Unwind​ by Neal Shusterman Red Queen​ by Victoria Aveyard Before the Fall​ by Noah Hawley Sports/Outdoors - Nonfiction A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail​ by Bill Bryson Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for its Soul​ by Bill Reynolds Running Ransom Road: Confronting the Past, One Marathon at a Time​ by Caleb Daniloff The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run that Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace​ by Dean Karnazes 18 in America: A Young Golfer's Epic Journey to Find the Essence of the Game​ by Dylan Dethier Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood​ by Jeffery Marx

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