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SUMMER READING 2017
Biography. Historical. Military. 2011
Book opening:
“In the predawn darkness of August 26, 1929, in the back bedroom of a small house in Torrance, California, a twelve-year-old boy sat up in bed, listening. There was a sound coming from outside, growing ever louder.”
#1 New York Times bestseller * Now a major motion picture * Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine * Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award.
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Fiction. Classic. 20th Century Indian novels. 1954
Book opening:
“Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. Then morning comes, the wavering grey turns to gold, there is a stirring within me as the sleepers awake, and he softly departs.’”
Review: “I read this book for school. Having never heard of it, I assumed it would be boring. I was greatly surprised at how interesting it was.” (Truthful Consumer)
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Science Fiction. 1985
Nebula and Hugo awards
Book opening:
“‘I’ve watched through his eyes, I’ve listened through his ears, and I tell you he’s the one. Or at least as close as we’re going to get.’”
Review: “I would recommend this book to readers because of its excitement, meaning and unpredictability” (MrModenait)
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Horror, Gothic. 1897
Book opening:
“Jonathan Harker’s Journal -- (Kept in shorthand.)
3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 p.m., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.”
Review: “Dracula is to vampire novels as A Study in Scarlet is to detective novels: one of the first, greatest and the story which introduced the character for those genres.” (Milo)
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Novel of manners, Romance. 1815
Book opening:
“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
Review: “I genuinely found it a real page-turner” (Lattice)
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Novel of manners, Romance. 1813
Book opening:
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Review: “I love the wonderful and spirited Lizzie Bennett, with her wit and humour” (Popcornapple)
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Drama, Crime, Mystery. 1999
Michael L. Printz award, Coretta Scott King Award Honor, National Book Award Finalist
Book opening:
“The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.”
Review: “The road from innocence to trouble is comprised of small, almost invisible steps…” (Kirkus)
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Science Fiction, Humor. 1979
Book opening:
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.”
Review: “To read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is to step into the garden shed of a maverick genius while he’s out.” (Secret Scribbler)
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Historical Fiction. 1931
Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize for Buck in 38
Book opening:
“It was Wang Lung’s marriage day.”
Review: “Buck was the first western writer to describe ordinary Chinese as they really were, with warmth and depth.” (Shuyun)
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Works citedKirkus Reviews. "MONSTER by Walter Dean Myers." Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus, 24 June 2010, www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/walter-dean-myers/monster-myers/ .
Accessed 08 June 2016.
Lattice. "Emma by Jane Austen – Review." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 21 July 2015, www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/jul/21/emma-Jane-austen-review. Accessed 08 June 2016.
Milo. "Dracula by Bram Stoker - Review." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 4 Feb. 2014, www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/feb/04/review-Dracula-bram-stoker. Accessed 8 June 2016.
MrModenait. "Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - Review." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 14 May 2012, www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/14/enders-game-scott-card-review. Accessed 8 June 2016.
Popcornapple. "Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Review." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 14 Apr. 2016, www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/apr/14/pride-and-prejudice-jane-austen-review. Accessed 8 June 2016.
Secret Scribbler. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams – Review." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 9 July 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/jul/09/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-by-douglas-adams-review. Accessed 8 June 2016.
Shuyun, Sun. "Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling | Book Review." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 17 Apr. 2010, www.theguardian.com/books/
2010/apr/18/burying-bones-pearl-buck. Accessed 8 June 2016.
Truthful Consumer. “Pleasantly Surprised.” Amazon.com. 3 Mar 2014, www.amazon.com/Nectar-Signet-Classics-Kamala-Markandaya/product-reviews/0451528239. Accessed 25 May 2017.
