美国著名私立高中安多福的夏天读书单

美国著名私立高中安多福的夏天读书单安多福英语系有个老师叫Craig Thorn，从1980到2006年一直教英语。

1976年上Dartmouth College。

大学期间，与Dr. Seuss 建立了个人及专业上的友情。

Dr. Seuss是他的mentor。

1982年取得布朗大学的硕士学位，学的都是英语专业。

于1995–2001年任英语系主任。

精Swift and Twain, 专The Romantic Poets and Shakespeare。

他每年都从本系和其它系的老师那里要推荐给学生读的书目，并编好单子，在学校公享。

他在2006年因癌症去世，时年才47岁。

他去世后，学校继续他的这一未竟工作，持续到今天。

下边就是2010年的夏天的读书单子。

这张单子，学校推荐给每一个学生。

在单子上第二第三的的那两本书(作者Stieg Larsson)可能要在书店买才行。

图书馆可能还借不到，或要预订要等。

Lisa See的头两本书是专门推荐给亚洲女孩读的。

今年秋季她要去安多福讲座。

__________________________________________________________________________________ ____Craig’s List Summer 2010“For the past few years, I’ve asked my colleagues in the English Department to recommend some summer reading. This year, I solicited members of our faculty outside the English Department. Consequently, there are quite a few recommendations”– Craig Thorn (1990)Tracy Kidder PA 1963, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remebrance and ForgettingStieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon TattooStieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with FireMary Karr, LitRebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksElizabeth Strout, Olive KitteridgeAmartya Sen, The Idea of JusticeUwem Akpan, Say You’re One of ThemWells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything BurnedChimamandaAdichie, The Thing Around Your NeckDorren Baingana, Tropical Fish: tales from EntebbeDaniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other WondersJonathan Foer, Eating AnimalsDave Cullen, ColumbineGarth Stein, The Art of Racing in the RainMarie Howe, What the Living DoSeth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire HunterDouglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Any Other Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War IIMarion James, The Book of Night WomenDavid Grann, The Lost City of ZErskine Clark, Dwelling Place: A Plantation EpicLouis de Bernieres, Birds Without WingsRobert Goolrick, A Reliable WifeKathryn Stockett, The HelpJohn Irving, Cider House RulesMalcolm Gladwell, OutliersPaul Harding, TinkersDavid Baldacci, First FamilyBill McKibben, Earth: Making Life on a Tough New PlanetPaul Collier, War, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous PlacesDouglas Rushkof, Life, Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it BackAlexandra Horowitz, Inside of a DogAlison Gopnik, The Philosophical BabyPeter Hessler, Country Driving: A Journey through China from Farm to FactoryJames Belich, Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo World 1783 - 1939Martha Nussbaum, Not for ProfitAlbie Sachs, The Strange Alchemy of Life and LawAlexandra Fuller, Scribbling the CatMathew Glass, UltimatumJen Hanf Korelitz, AdmissionFrank Schaeffer, Baby JackArcher Mayer, BorderlinesChristian Parenti, Lockdown AmericaHoffman, ed., Japanese Death PoemsGeorge Carlin, Last WordsJad Adams, Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a BottleJohn Codman PA 1823, A Solution to the Mormon ProblemJasper McKee PA 1946, The Booze Theory of CivilizationNicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women WorldwideAlexander Mccall Smith, No. 1 Ladie’s Detective AgencyMary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie SocietyPatrick Neate and Damian Platt, Culture is our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives inRio de JaneiroGeorge Lakoff, The Political MindCraig S. Barnes, Democracy at the CrossroadsWendell Berry, Imagination in PlaceWendell Berry, Leavings: PoemsWendell Berry, What Matters? Economics for a Renewed CommonwealthAlan Clements and Aung San Suu Kyi, The Voice of HopeEduardo Galeano, Mirrors: Stories of Almost EveryoneChris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of SpectacleDaniel J. Levitin, The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human NatureKathleen Dean Moore, Wild Comfort: The Solace of NatureStephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play: Improvisation in Life and ArtRebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in DisasterHerman Wouk, The Language God Talks: On Science and ReligionJames Joyce, UlyssesPatrick Nee, A Criminal and an IrishmanHenry Cejudo, American StoryBill Lychak, The Wasp EaterChris Cleave, Little BeeLisa See, Shanghai GirlsLisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret FanLisa See, On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family**Lisa See will be on campus during the 2010-2011 school yearJhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed EarthThrity Umrigar, The Space Between UsLisa Genova, Still AliceLauralee Summer, Learning Joy from Dogs Without Collars: A MemoirChang-rae Lee, The SurrenderedJeffrey Eugenides, MiddlesexJohn Maxim, The Bannerman SolutionStieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With FireMichael Lewis, Liar’s PokerDaniel Coyle, The Talent CodeCory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic KingdomTony Judt, Ill Fares the LandJacques Rancière, Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics Per Lagerkvist, The SibylDave Eggers, ZeitounLouise Glück, A Village LifeMartha Nussbaum, Not for ProfitLewis Robinson, Officer Friendly and Other Stories Lewis Robinson, Water Dogs**Lewis Robinson is the new Writer-in-ResidenceAnita Amirrezvani, The Blood of FlowersKathryn Stockett, The HelpBarbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and DimedRichard Russo, That Old Cape MagicRichard Russo, Bridge of SighsChris Bohjalian, The Double BindMarjorie Williams, The Woman at the Washington ZooMuriel Barbery, The Elegance of the HedgehogNaomi Klein, The Shock DoctrineAnnette-Gordon Reed, The Hemingses of MonticelloAnne Carson, An OresteiaApostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, Logicomix: an Epic Search for TruthThomas Jefferson, The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of NazarethEmily Wise Miller, The Food Lover’s Guide to FlorenceDiane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining EducationJeff Shesol, Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme CourtRobert Skidelsky, Keynes: The Return of the MasterNicholas Fox Weber, Le Corbusier: a LifeRick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of AmericaAndre Aggasi, OpenSandra Day O'Connor, Lazy BMadeleine Albright, Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel BoxHilary Mantel, Wolf HallJ.R. Moehringer, The Tender BarKathryn Stockett, The HelpTimothy Eagan, The Worst Hard TimeDaniel Boyne, The Red Rose Crew: A Story of Women, Winning and the WaterFrank Kermode, Shakespeare’s WorldFrank Kermode, Shakespeare’s LanguageFrank Kermode, The Sense of Ending: Studies in the Theory of FictionFrank Kermode, The Art of Telling: Essays on FictionPhilip Caputo, CrossersDavid Remnick, The BridgeBarack Obama, Dreams of My FatherPaul Auster, InvisibleGary Snyder, No Nature: New and Selected PoemsHenning Menkel, The PyramidCathleen Schine, The Three Weissmans of WestportAbraham Verghese, Cutting For StoneSarah Dunant, Birth of VenusIdan Ben-Barak, The Invisible Kingdom: From the Tips of Our Fingers to the Tops of Our Trash, Inside the Curious World of MicrobesCarl Zimmer, Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous CreaturesFaye Flam, The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern ManNick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of EvolutionGreg Gibson, It Takes A Genome: How A Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us SickJudith Horstman, The Scientific American A Day In the Life of Your BrainAmy Stewart, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical AtrocitiesRichard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us HumanSimon Igs, A Natural History of Seeing: The Art and Science of VisionBart D.Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions of the BibleRay Bradbury, The short stories of Ray BradburyJuliet B. Schor, Plenitude: The New Economics of True WealthRoger G. Kennedy and David Larkin, When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and DemocracyBruce Fleming, “The Academies’ March Toward Mediocrity”Ira Berlin, The Making of African America: The Four Great MigrationsEvan S. Connell, Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little BighornAlan Furst, Spies of the BalkansTony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945Michael O'Brian, Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon Anne L. Poulet, Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the EnlightenmentGordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815“There will be a written exam in the fall.”– Craig Thorn (1958-2006)。