Reading for pleasure is critical for ensuring that the practice become part of a learners’ everyday life, and is not just seen as a classroom-based activity.
There are a range of benefits gained from reading for pleasure:
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2019-2020
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Finding the Magic in Middle School, Chris Balme
The House of Eve, Sadeqa Johnson In the Wild Light, Jeff Zentner The House in the Pines, Ana Reyes Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano Evidence of the Affair, Taylor Jenkins Reid Killers of a Certain Age, Deanna Raybourne Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner The People We Keep, Allison Larkin Go as a River, Shelley Read Counterfeit, Kirstin Chen The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell Spare, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy Horse, Geraldine Brooks Deacon King Kong, James McBride The Shift to Student-Led, Tucker & Novak Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy One True Loves, Taylor Jenkins Reid The Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel Hester, Laurie Lico Albanese The Cloisters, Katy Hays Verity, Colleen Hoover The Passenger (#1), Cormac McCarthy Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng The Butcher and the Wren, Alaina Urquhart The Rosie Result, Graeme Simsion The Rosie Effect, Graeme Simsion Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Jonah Berger Carrie Soto is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid Ariadne, Jennifer Saint Family of Liars, E Lockhart Hell of a Book by Jason Mott The Rosie Project, Graeme Simison
Rose Code, Kate Quinn True Biz, Sara Nović Sense and Second Degree Murder (Jane Austen Murder Mystery #2), Tirzah Price Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood/Youth/Dependency, Tove Ditlevsen Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, Amanda Montell To Paradise, Hanya Yanagihara Evvie Drake Starts Over, Linda Holmes Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy The Witch Haven, Sasha Peyton Smith Outlawed, Anna North Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen Oh, William, Elizabeth Strout Matrix, Lauren Groff The Family, Naomi Krupitsky The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah Carnegie's Maid, Marie Benedict The Other Einstein, Marie Benedict The Clean House and Other Plays, Sarah Ruhl When the Apricots Bloom, Gina Wilkinson Dear Edward, Ann Napolitano The Exiles, Kristina Baker Kine The Push, Ashley Audrain The Bridge, Bill Konigsberg Pride and Premeditation, Tirza Price The Clockmaker’s Daughter, Kate Morton A Mother’s Reckoning, Sue Klebold Daisy Jones and the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz The Maidens, Alex, Michaelides What Happened to Paula, Katherine Dykstra The Fourth Child: A Novel, Jessica Winter Long Bright River, Liz Moore We Keep the Dead Close, Becky Cooper
Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart Caste, Isabel Wilkerson American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Issa Rae Articulate While Black, H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman The Great Alone, Kristin Hanna The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo Open Book, Jessica Simpson The Symptoms of Being Human, Jeff Garvin The Racial Healing Handbook, Annaliese Singh Untamed, Glennon Doyle The Overstory, Richard Powers Good Talk, Mira Jacob A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles Miracle Creek, Angie Kim
Know My Name, Chanel Miller The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates An American Marriage, Tayari Jones There, There, Tommy Orange The Gifted School, Bruce Holsinger A Dog Called Hope, Damien Lewis and Jason Morgan A Woman is No Man, Etaf Rum Where Reasons End, Yiyun Li The Astonishing Color of After, Emily X.R. Pan You're Welcome, Universe, Whitney Gardner
Becoming, Michelle Obama Gmorning, Gnite, Lin-Manuel Miranda Braving the Wilderness, Brene Brown The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo Tangerine, Christine Mangan Circe, Madeline Miller Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng Educated, a Memoir, Tara Westover Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Exit West, Mohsin Hamid Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine Dear Committee Members: A Novel, Julie Schumacher Future Home of the Living God: A Novel, Louise Erdrich The Master and the Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Seige of Leningrad, M.T. Anderson The Dog Stars, Peter Heller You Don't Have To Tell Me You Love Me, Sherman Alexie Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi Bull, David Elliott Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly
The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen The Third Reconstruction, William J. Barber My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, Fredrik Backman Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier Certain Dark Things: A Novel, Silvia Moreno-Garcia Seriously...I'm Kidding, Ellen Degeneres Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama, Alison Bechdel I'll Give You The Sun, Jandy Nelson Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, Mary Norri The Porcupine of Truth, Bill Konigsburg Eligible: a modern retelling of Pride & Prejudice, Curtis Sittenfeld The Other Wes Moore, Wes Moore Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Carol Rifka Brunt Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders |
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff Lexicon, Max Barry The Known World, Edward P. Jones Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue, Will Eisner The Complete Persepolis, Marjane. T Satrapi Maus I & Maus II, Art Spiegelman Wandering Son, Book 1., Shimura Takako American Born Chinese, Gene Yang When She Woke, Hillary Jordan The 5th Wave, Josh Yancey |