My favorite question to ask people -- friends, colleagues, and total strangers -- is "What are you reading?" I tell my students if they're shy, to ask this question when they meet people, and they'll never have to say anything other than, "Oh, really? Sounds interesting. Wow. Great. I want to read that one for sure."
So, what are you reading? What are your favorite books? What books do you recommend to others? I would love to compile a list for my students.
Thanks
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Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Good girl heroines in fantasy--
Dealing with Dragons
Green Rider
Blue Sword, Hero & the Crown
Dies the Fire (regressive civilization fiction)
Classic:
The Once & Future King, Book of Merlin
Older/Mature readers...
The Monsters of Templeton
Time Traveller's Wife, Her Fearful Symmetry
Saunders, Sedaris, Vonnegut
Listen, not a read but:
Poetry on Record
Poetry:
Josh Bell
Anthony McCann, Father of Noise
Whitman
Ruth Forman, We Are the Young Magicians
Neruda
Sharon Olds
NonFiction:
Made in America
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Alphabet Juice
Forgotten English
Guns, Germs, & Steel
The Tipping Point (all Gladwell)
Ascent of Man
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
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