As summer 2020 approaches, our fabulous Fieldston librarians have put together a list of recommended reads for the season. Hopefully this list will help keep our idle minds occupied in this new age of social distancing and put good literature on the minds of all members of the Fieldston Community.
The librarians and Mr. Montera have gathered a list of books, old and new, fiction and non-fiction . Most of these titles can be found in e-format or in audio-book form through your local library or using New York Public Library. Because of you-know-what, the NYPL and Brooklyn Public library have made access to their online book collection EASY – you do not need a plastic library card – you can register online, as long as you are over the age of 13, for an e-card and then borrow any title available. Take a look at our Libguide :
http://ecfs.libguides.com/eBooksAudiobooks
But WAIT ! there’s more …
If you go to this website https://www.audiobooksync.com/ , follow the directions and you can download 2 FREE audiobooks each week until the middle of July – Sit back, close your eyes and let someone else read you a story – if you don’t like it, no harm, just ‘return’ it and move on – If you like it, it is yours to keep FOREVER –
Here is our list to start you off :
Fiction:
Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
Adichie, Chimamanda – Half of a Yellow Sun
Butler, Octavia – Kindred
Diaz, Junot – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Henriquez, Cristina – The Book of Unknown Americans
Ishiguru, Kazuo – Never Let Me Go
Lahiri, Jhumpa – Interpreter of Maladies
Mandel, Emily St. John – Station Eleven
Miller, Madeline – Circe
Moore, Alan – Watchman series
Morrison, Toni – The Bluest Eye
Murakami, Haruki – Norwegian Wood
Naipaul , V. S.
O’Connor, Flannery – Short Stories
Orange, Tommy – There There
Percy, Walker -The Moviegoer
Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things
Seth, Vikram – A Suitable Boy
Smith, Zadie – Swing Time
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Lord of the Rings series
Weir, Andy – The Martian
Whitehead, Colson – The Nickel Boys
Wright, Richard – Native Son
Non-fiction:
Alexander, Michelle – The New Jim Crow
Baldwin, James – The Fire Next Time
Broom, Sarah M – The Yellow House
Coates, T-Nehisi – Between the World and Me
Diamond, Jared – Guns, Germs and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies
Grann, David – Killers of the Flower Moon
Hillenbrand, Laura – Seabiscuit and/or Unbroken
Kurlansky, Mark – Milk or Cod or Paper
McPhee, John – anything – The Pine Barrens, Annals of the Former World, A Sense of Where You Are : A Profile of William Warren Bradley
Miller, Chanel – Know My Name: A Memoir
Mukherjee, Siddhartha – The Gene: An Intimate History
Obama, Michelle – Becoming
Prinstine, Mitch – Popular
Robinson, JoAnn – Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It
Walker, Rebecca – Black, White and Jewish: An Autobiography of a Shifting Self
Westover, Tara – Educated
Wollstonecraft, Mary – Vindication of the Rights of Women
YA titles:
Albertali, Becky – Yes No Maybe So ; Simon vs the Homosapiens Agenda
Arden, Katherine – The Winternight Trilogy (The Bear and the Nightingale)
Bowman, Akemi – Starfish
Dessen, Sarah – The Truth About Forever
Johnston, E. K. – The Inevitable Victorian Thing
Pan, Emily – The Astonishing Color of After
Rowell, Rainbow – Pumpkinheads
