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 * 12 Ways to Mark Up A Book by Bert WebTeacher Lists:**

__ [|Professional Reading] ____ [|Fiction] ____ [|Young Adult] ____ [|Nonfiction] __ **Student Lists:**

Required Reading: __ [|Fiction] ____ [|Nonfiction] __

Non-required Reading: __ [|Fiction] ____ [|Nonfiction] __

Lists From Teachers
**Professional Reading** __ [|“The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time,”] __ Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson __ [|“How to Support Struggling Students,”] __ Robyn R. Jackson and Claire Lambert __ [|“Better under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others,”] __ Justin Menkes __ [|“Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,”] __ Daniel Pink __ [|“The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education,”] __ Diane Ravitch __ [|“Helping Gifted Children Soar: A Practical Guide for Parents and Teachers,”] __Carol A. Strip and Gretchen Hirsch __ [|“The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units,”] __ Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe **Fiction** __ [|“The Peach Keeper,”] __ Sarah Addison Allen __ [|“The Blind Assassin,”] __ and __ [|“The Year of the Flood,”] __ Margaret Atwood __ [|“Map of the Invisible World,”] __ Tash Aw __ [|“Those Bones Are Not My Child,”] __ Toni Cade Bambara __ [|“Jane Eyre,”] __ Charlotte Brontё __ [|“Caleb’s Crossing,”] __ Geraldine Brooks Novels by __ [|Jim Butcher] __ __ [|“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’] __ and __ [|“Gentlemen of the Road”] __Michael Chabon Stories by __ [|Agatha Christie] __ __ [|“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,”] __ Junot Díaz __ [|“A Visit From the Goon Squad,”] __ Jennifer Egan __ [|“The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man,”] __ Mark Hodder __ [|“Whale Rider,”] __ Witi Ihimaera __ [|“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest,”] __ Ken Kesey __ [|“Girl in Translation,”] __ Jean Kwok __ [|“The Lover’s Dictionary”] __ David Levithan __ [|“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,”] __ __ [|“The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”] __and __ [|“The Girl Who Played With Fire,”] __ Stieg Larsson __ [|“Immortali,”] __ Anne Lewington __ [|“The Paris Wife: A Novel,”] __ Paula McLain __ [|“Warm Bodies,”] __ Isaac Marion “Miss New India,” Bharati Mukherjee __ [|“The Windup Bird Chronicles,”] __ Haruki Murakami __ [|“Lolita,”] __ Vladimir Nabokov __ [|“Leaving Las Vegas,”] __ John O’Brien __ [|“The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel,”] __ Téa Obreht __ [|“Game of Thrones,”] __ George R. R. Martin The __ [|The “Harry Potter” series,] __ J. K. Rowling __ [|“The Help,”] __ Kathryn Stockett The “Lord of the Rings” Trilogy, __ [|J. R. R. Tolkien] __ __ [|“Battle Royale,”] __ Koshun Takami __ [|“The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint,”] __ Brady Udall __ [|“The Judges,”] __ Elie Wiesel The __ [|“Maisie Dobbs,”] __ series by Jacqueline Winspear __ [|“The Uncoupling,”] __ Meg Wolitzer **Young Adult and Children’s Books** __ [|“Ship Breaker,”] __ Paolo Bacigalupi __ [|“Beauty Queens,”] __ Libba Bray __ [|“Heartless (The Parasol Protectorate #4),”] __ Gail Carriger __ [|“The Perks of Being A Wallflower,”] __ Stephen Chbosky __ [|“Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, Book 1),”] __ Cassandra Clare __ [|“What Happened to Goodbye,”] __ Sarah Dessen __ [|The “Hunger Games” Trilogy,] __ Suzanne Dominus __ [|“Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer,”] __ John Grisham __ [|“Liar Society,”] __ Lisa and Laura Roecker __ [|“Divergent,”] __ Veronica Roth __ [|“The Dead-Tossed Waves,”] __ Carrie Ryan __ [|“The Fourth Stall,”] __ Chris Rylander __ [|“The Lucky Kind,”] __ Alyssa B. Sheinmel __ [|“Everfound,”] __ Neal Shusterman __ [|“Montmorency” series,] __ Eleanor Updale **Nonfiction** //History// __ [|“The New York City Draft Riots,”] __ Iver Bernstein __ [|“Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age,”] __Kevin Boyle __ [|“In Cold Blood,”] __ Truman Capote __ [|“Lincoln,”] __ David Herbert Donald __ [|“Why the North Won the Civil War,”] __ edited by David Herbert Donald __ [|“Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent Into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death,”] __ Jim Frederick __ [|“The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom,”] __ Steven Hahn __ [|“Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption,”] __Laura Hillenbrand __ [|“In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin,”] __ Erik Larson __ [|“The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood,”] __ Jane Leavy __ [|“The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris,”] __ David McCullough __ [|“Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family,”] __ Pauli Murray __ [|“Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution,”] __ James M. McPherson __ [|“‘We Cannot Escape History’: Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth,”] __ edited by James M. McPherson __ [|“A Hard Fight for We: Women’s Transition for Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina,”] __ Leslie A. Schwalm __ [|“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,”] __ Rebecca Skloot __ [|“Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln,”] __ John Stauffer __ [|“Ar’n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South,”] __ Deborah Gray White __ [|“The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,”] __Isabel Wilkerson **Memoir**

__ [|“Heaven Is for Real,”] __ Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent __ [|“Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy,”] __ Carlos Eire __ [|“Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House,”] __Elizabeth Keckley __ [|“The Woman Warrior,”] __ Maxine Hong Kingston __ [|“A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs: Reminiscences of My Life. . .”] __ Susie King Taylor __ [|“Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?”] __ Steven Tyler //Current Events and Culture// __ [|“Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism,”] __ Harm de Blij __ [|“What the Dog Saw,”] __ Malcolm Gladwell __ [|“The Book of Basketball,”] __ Bill Simmons //Science// __ [|“Red Flags or Red Herrings: Predicting Who Your Children Will Become,”] __Susan Engel __ [|“The Disappearing Spoon And Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of Elements,”] __ Sam Kean __ [|“The Orchid Thief,”] __ Susan Orlean __ [|“Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant,”] __Daniel Tammet

Lists From Students
Note: If the student did not specify, we have classified those choices under “Non-Required Reading.” **Non-Required Reading** //Fiction// “End of Story,” Peter Abrahams “Have a Little Faith,” __ [|Mitch Albom] __ __ [|“I, Robot,”] __Isaac Asimov “Pride and Prejudice,” __ [|Jane Austen] __ “The Secret Series,” Pseudonymous Bosch __ [|“Fahrenheit 451,”] __ Ray Bradbury __ [|“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,”] __ Ann Brashares __ [|“Jane Eyre,”] __ Charlotte Brontё “Deception Point,” __ [|Dan Brown] __ __ [|“Breakfast at Tiffany’s,”] __ Truman Capote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” __ [|Lewis Carroll] __ Novels by __ [|Agatha Christie] __ “The Pickwick Papers,” “Oliver Twist” and “Great Expectations,” __ [|Charles Dickens] __ __ [|“Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,”] __ Roddy Doyle __ [|“An American Tragedy,”] __ Theodore Dreiser __ [|“The Little Book,”] __ Selden Edwards __ [|“The Great Gatsby,”] __ F. Scott Fitzgerald __ [|“Term Limits,”] __ Vince Flynn __ [|“American Gods,”] __ Neil Gaiman __ [|“The Lord of the Flies,”] __ William Golding __ [|“Water for Elephants,”] __ Sara Gruen “Airport,” Arthur Hailey “The Scarlet Letter,” __ [|Nathaniel Hawthorne] __ __ [|“For Whom the Bell Tolls,”] __ Ernest Hemingway __ [|“The Book of Negroes,”] __ Lawrence Hill __ [|“The Kite Runner,”] __ Khaled Hosseini __ [|“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,”] __ Washington Irving “Different Seasons,” __ [|Stephen King] __ “Confessions of a Shopaholic” series, Sophie Kinsella __ [|“Salt Fish Girl,”] __ Larissa Lai __ [|“To Kill a Mockingbird,”] __ Harper Lee __ [|“One Hundred Years of Solitude,”] __ Gabriel García Márquez __ [|“Life of Pi,”] __ Yann Martel Works by __ [|W.S. Maugham] __ “Gone With the Wind, __ [|Margaret Mitchell] __ __ [|“Beloved,”] __ Toni Morrison __ [|“Norwegian Wood,”] __ Haruki Murakami __ [|“The Sea, the Sea,”] __ Iris Murdoch __ [|“Lolita,”] __ Vladimir Nabokov __ [|“One Day,”] __ David Nicholls “1984″ and “Animal Farm,”__ [|George Orwell] __ Novels by __ [|James Patterson] __ Anything–everything!–by __ [|Gary Paulsen] __ “The Godfather,” __ [|Mario Puzo] __ Novels by Ann Rinaldi __ [|“Monkey Beach,”] __ Eden Robinson The __ [|The “Harry Potter” series,] __ J. K. Rowling __ [|Sagas of Icelanders] __ “The Catcher in the Rye,”__ [|J. D. Salinger] __ “The Bride of Lammermoor,” “Rob Roy” and other works by __ [|Sir Walter Scott] __ __ [|“I,Q Series,”] __ Roland Smith Novels by Nicholas Sparks __ [|“The Help,”] __ Kathryn Stockett “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy, __ [|J. R. R. Tolkien] __ “The Color Purple,” __ [|Alice Walker] __ __ [|“The Innocent Traveler,”] __ Ethel Wilson __ [|“The Book Thief,”] __ Markus Zusak **Non-Fiction** //Sports, Culture, Current Events// “Touchdown Alexander,” Shaun Alexander __ [|The Best American Magazine Writing 2010] __ Biographies of former child stars and others in entertainment __ [|“Coming Back Stronger,”] __ Drew Brees “Quiet Strength and Uncommon,”__ [|Tony Dungy] __ __ [|“The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference”] __ and __ [|“Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,”] __ Malcolm Gladwell __ [|“The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century,”] __ Thomas L. Friedman “Lies Chelsea Handler Told Me,” __ [|Chelsea Handler] __ “Jon & Kate Plus Eight: ‘Reality’ TV & the Selling of the Gosselins,” Polly Kahl __ [|Freakonomics] __ and __ [|“Superfreakonomics,”] __ Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner __ [|“Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan,”] __ Greg Mortenson __ [|“What I Talk About When I Talk About Running,”] __ Haruki Murakami __ [|Newspapers] __ and articles on __ [|ESPN] __ //College Preparedness, Campus Life, Academic Skills// Assorted Advanced Placement study guides and college guides “Chicken Soup for the College Soul: Inspiring and Humorous Stories About College,” Jack Canfield, et al __ [|“How They Got Into Harvard: 50 Successful Applicants Share 8 Key Strategies for Getting into the College of Your Choice,”] __ The Staff of the Harvard Crimson __ [|“On Writing Well,”] __ William Zinsser //Psychology, Motivation, and Human Relations// __ [|“Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions,” Dan Ariely] __

__ [|“Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman’s Guide to Winning Her Man’s Heart,” Sherry Argov] __ __ [|“He’s Just Not That Into You,” Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo] __

__ [|“The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement,”] __ David Brooks __ [|“The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us,”] __ Robert Frank and Philip J. Cook __ [|“Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Do More Than IQ,”] __ Daniel Goleman “The Love Dare,” Alex and Stephen Kendrick “How to Make Anyone Like You: Proven Ways to Become a People Magnet,” Leil Lowndes “Influencer: The Power to Change Anything,” Kerry Patterson, et al //Literary Criticism and Philosophy// __ [|“Why Read the Classics?”] __ Italo Calvino “Discipline and Punish,” __ [|Michel Foucault] __ “Five Minds for the Future,” __ [|Howard Gardner] __ “A Brief History of Time,” __ [|Stephen W. Hawking] __ “Our Knowledge of the External World and In Praise of Idleness,” __ [|Bertrand Russell] __ “A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein,” Roger Scruton “Civil Disobedience,” __ [|Henry David Thoreau] __ //Memoir and Biography// __ [|“Out of Africa,”] __ Isak Dinesen “The Diary of Anne Frank,” __ [|Anne Frank] __ __ [|“Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hilary Rodham Clinton,”] __Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” Walter Isaacson “Coco Chanel: a Biography,” Axel Madsen __ [|“The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years of Reporting in Washington,”] __ Robert D. Novak __ [|“Dreams From My Father,”] __ Barack Obama __ [|“The Other Side of Me,”] __ Sidney Sheldon //Spirituality, Inspiration and Self-Help// __ [|“The Five People You Meet in Heaven,”] __, “Have a Little Faith” and “Tuesdays With Morrie,” Mitch Albom “Dewey: The Small Town Cat Who Touched the World,” Vicki Myron with Bret Witter __ [|“The Power of Now,”] __ Eckhart Tolle __ [|“23 Minutes In Hell,”] __ Bill Wiese //History and Government// __ [|“American Government,”] __ Lowi and Ginsberg __ [|“Government by the People,”] __ David B. Magleby, et al “Records of the Grand Historian,” Shiji //Money and Business// “What made Jack Welch JACK WELCH: How Ordinary People Become Extraordinary Leaders,” Stephen H. Baum with Dave Conti “The Practice of Management,” Peter F. Drucker “Everything I Know About Business I Learned at McDonald’s: The 7 Leadership Principles that Drive Break Out Success,” Paul Facella with Adina Genn __ [|“The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World,”] __ Niall Ferguson __ [|“The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World,”] __ Alan Greenspan “The Intelligent Investor series and Security Analysis,” Benjamin Graham “Harvard Business Review on Developing High Potential Leaders,” compiled by Harvard Business School Press __ [|“A Sense of Urgency,”] __ John P. Kotter “One Up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market,” Peter Lynch and John Rothchild “Present Like a Pro: The Field Guide to Mastering the Art of Business, Professional, and Public Speaking,” Cyndi Maxey and Kevin E. O’Connor “The Starbucks Experience: Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary,” Joseph Michelli “Finding the Next Starbucks: How to Identify and Invest the Hot Stock Tomorrow,” Michael Moe “Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Understanding Industries and Competitors,” Michael E. Porter __ [|“The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life,”] __ Alice Schroeder “The Magic of Thinking Big,” David J. Schwartz __ [|“The Stocks for the Long Run and The Future for Investors,”] __ Jeremy J. Siegel “Globality: Competing With Everyone From Everywhere for Everything,” Hal Sirkin, et al “Wikinomics,” Dan Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams __ [|“Winning,”] __ Jack Welch with Suzy Welch **Required Reading** //Fiction// __ [|“Oryx and Crake,”] __ Margaret Atwood “The Scarlet Letter,” __ [|Nathaniel Hawthorne] __ “The Catcher in the Rye,” __ [|J. D. Salinger] __ __ [|“Frankenstein,”] __ Mary Shelley “Wuthering Heights,” __ [|Emily Bronte] __ //Nonfiction// __ [|“How to Read Literature Like a Professor,”] __ Thomas C. Foster