Summer is on the horizon, which means, among other things, lots of quality time spent with loved ones and … books! Who isn’t looking forward to chilling out by the pool or on a beach somewhere with a high quality read? Below is a list of the titles your teachers intend to tackle this summer for our own curiosity and enjoyment (we will, of course, be reading other selections for our classes and professional development). We’d love to hear from you if you have read or intend to read anything that made our list, or if you have any other recommendations you think we should check out. Read on …
- Paxton: The Calculus of Friendship by Steven Strogatz
- Tommy: The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt;Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Laura: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Tsuchi: Neophilia by Lyall Watson; The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster; Sixty-Nine (English Edition) by Ryu Murakami
- Lewis: Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku; Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
- Jones: Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon; Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
- Misako: Life is Everywhere by Milan Kundera; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- Kyoko: The Bear and the Paving Stone by Toshiyuki Horie; A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
