Read On...Part 2 - Folger Education

By Folger Education

We’re back with the second half of your summer reading recommendations. Be sure to read till the end for a bonus list!

Book Title	Author
Portrait of a Lady	Henry James
Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan	Tiffany Stern
Romeo is Bleeding (Movie)	Peter Medak
Room	Emma Donoghue
Ruby	Cynthia Bond
Savage Inequalities	Jonathan Kozol
Secrets of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach	Patrick Tucker
Shakespeare in Kabul	Stephen Landrigan and Qais Akbar Omar
Shotgun Lovesongs	Nickolas Butler
Siddhartha	Herman Hesse
Slaughterhouse V	Kurt Vonnegut
So We Read On	Maureen Corrigan
Sons and Other Flammable Objects	Porchista Khakpour
Speaker for the Dead	Orson Scott Card
Station Eleven	Emily St. John Mandel
Teach as if Your Hair is on Fire	Raif Esquith
Teach Like a Pirate	Dave Burgess
The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho
The Art of Racing in the Rain	Garth Stein
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Junot Diaz
The Cuckoo’s Calling	Robert Galbraith
The Dinner	Herman Koch
The Garden of Evening Mists	Tan Twan Eng
The Girl on the Train	Paula Hawkins
The Giving Tree	Shel Silverstein
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy
The Golden Bowl	Henry James
The Golem and the Jinni	Helene Wecker
The Grand Design	Stephen Hawking
The Harry Potter series	J.K. Rowling
The Hidden Girls of Kabul	Jenny Nodberg
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot
The Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time	Marie Howe
The Last Illusion	Porchista Khakpour
The MaddAddam trilogy	Margaret Atwood
The Mathematician’s Shiva	Stuart Rojstaczer
The Mockingbird Next Door	Marja Mills
The Neapolitan Novels	Elena Ferrante
The Palace Walk	Naguib Mahfouz
The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver
The Rocks	Peter Nichols
The Secret Life of William Shakespeare	Jude Morgan
The Show Child	Eowyn Ivey
The Six Wives of Henry VIII	Alison Weir
The Smartest Kids in the World, and How They Got That Way	Amanda Ripley
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry	Gabrielle Zevin
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle	David Wroblewski
The Thirteenth Tale	Diane Setterfield
The Universe in a Nutshell	Stephen Hawking
The Weight of Blood	Laura McHugh
The Woods	Harlan Coben
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII’s most Faithful Servant	Tracy Borman
Time and Again	Jack Finney
Ulysses	James Joyce
Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand
War and Peace	Leonid Tolstoy
What it is	Lynda Barry
What She Left Behind	Ellen Wiseman
White Oleander	Janet Fitch
White Teeth	Zadie Smith
Wings of the Dove	Henry James
Year of Wonders	Geraldine Brooks

We asked our amazing group of summer interns to share their summer reading recommendations with us and here they are:

Book Title	Author
Americanah	Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
The Lowland	Jhumpa Lahiri
Looking for Alaska	John Green
Good Behavior	Donald Westlake
The Art of Power	Thich Naht Hanh
No Mud, No Lotus	Thich Naht Hanh
Go Ask Alice	Anonymus
Heavier than Heaven	Charles Cross
Les Miserables	Victor Hugo
The Elegance of the Hedgehog	Muriel Barbery
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll
The Crying of Lot 49	Thomas Pynchon
Salvation on Sand Mountain	Dennis Covington
The Other Wes Moore	Wes Moore
Confederates in the Attic	Tony Horwitz
The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber	Julian Rubinstein
A Spy Among Friends	Ben Macintyre
Hitch-22	Christopher Hitchens
Ghettoside	Jill Leovy
Lenin’s Tomb	David Remnick
A Long Way Gone	Ishmael Beah

Happy reading!

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Read On…Part 2

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