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2019 US Summer Reading Choice Book

The Choice Book Discussion Event is scheduled for September 5th from 10:15 am-11:00 am during Upper School announcements. Students and faculty are responsible for getting copies of their own books.

Book Group rosters / locations (TBA)

New to Country Day? Sign up for an open book group HERE, but please don't hesitate to add your name on the waiting list at the bottom of the signups for your first and second choices. We will try our best to accommodate your preferences! 

Fiction

Featured Books

The Universal Baseball Association

For Grades 11-12 only due to mature content.

"A dark comedy that will appeal to any person that loves baseball or psychological fantasies."

-Colin Douglas

The Sunlight Pilgrims

"Fagan’s novel is set in 2020, and the world is familiar in every way but for one menacing difference: It is very, very cold."  The New York Times

For Grades 11-12 only.

Parable of the Sower

We used to chill at Nkiru, her moms was a customer
She used to love to buy the books by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower, the main character's name was Lauren 
           --R
apper Talib Kweli, "Ms. Hill"

 

The Radium Girls

"the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still."—NPR Books

Factfulness

Can you score better than a chimp on the Factfulness quiz

Grit

"A book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that—not talent or luck—makes all the difference."

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fiction for Grades 11-12 only

Nonfiction