Saint Ann’s School - Suggested Summer Reading List for High School, Faculty, and Staff, 2025

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Curated summer reading recommendations from Saint Ann’s School for high school students, faculty, and staff, covering a wide range of fiction and nonfiction voices. The list pairs each selected title with short reader commentary, highlighting themes such as identity, exile, refugee life, literary experimentation, historical memory, survival psychology, and social satire. It also includes access guidance for the school’s digital library platform, noting that many selections are available as ebooks and audiobooks for summer use.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages10

Reading Time15 min

AccessFree to download

Suggested Summer Reading List

High School, Faculty, and Staff (2025)

Digital Library Access (Sora)

Book Recommendations

Saint Ann’s School Suggested Summer Reading List for HighSchool, Faculty, and Staff, 2025 Akbar, Kaveh Martyr. Martyr is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. It is the first prose work from a young poet from the Iranian diaspora, connecting the downing of the Iran Air Flight 655 (a passenger airplane shot down by a U.S. Navy guided missile killing all 290 aboard) to his struggles with addiction in the midwest and his work as an artist in Brooklyn. It is hilarious and genius and tragic, a true joy to read. (Golnar Adili)􀃄 Alameddine, Rabih. The Wrong End of the Telescope. A transgender Lebanese doctor travels to volunteer in the infamous refugee camp of Moria on Lesbos, Greece. Crystal clear vision, pitch perfect voice. ( Larissa Tokmakova) 􀃄 Babitz, Eve. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. Published in 1977, this collection of essays is a time capsule of Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s. Eve Babitz was an it girl, with movie star boyfriends and a handful of socialite friends who always seemed to be on some kind of bender at the Chateau Marmont. The trick to Babitz, though, is that she was also a brilliant writer. ( Lenny Sheppard) 􀃄􀂗 Balle, Solvej. On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1). What happens when one involuntarily steps off the train of time? For bookseller Tara Selter, it is November 18 for the 122nd time. They day repeats itself recursively—remixing, foreshadowing, re-membering—until it’s time to wake up. Again, it’s November 18. Experimental fiction that for me defies genre. Spotted on ‘Recommended by Booksellers’ shelves at Greenlight, Center for Fiction, and Barnes & Noble. Thank you, Eliza Callahan ’13, for suggesting this new Nordic fiction. ( Laura Barnett) 􀃄 Banville, John. Doctor Copernicus. And for all of you wonderers out there, a must read! ( Larissa Tokmakova) 􀃄􀂗 Bechdel, Alison. Spent. I only started Alison Bechdel's newest comic novel, Spent, yesterday and I am already recommending it to everyone I know. Nearly impossible to explain, beyond meta, beyond smart, it's a wonderful send-up of both capitalism and the human ego. Alison does it again, as always. (Sarah Moon) Brodesser-Akner, Taffy. Long Island Compromise. This sprawling page-turner, told from the perspectives of three siblings, was a satisfying read this long, cold winter; I think it would be even better over the summer. A fictionalized account of a 1974 kidnapping, the writer satirically and empathically takes on family dysfunction, Los Angeles, suburbia, and the long tentacles of intergenerational Jewish trauma, compartmentalization, and survival. It sounds heavy. It is very funny! And throughout, the metaphor of a dybbuk. ( Laura Barnett) 􀃄 Read library books all summer with Sora: The Saint Ann’s Digital Library! Access it at [https://soraapp.com/library/saintannssny](https://soraapp.com/library/saintannssny). Many titles on this list are available on the digital library as an ebook 􀃄, audiobook 􀂗, or both 􀃄􀂗. See the end of this list for more instructions. Suggested Summer Reading for High School, Faculty, and Staff, 2025 Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. When it was announced that Jacob E lordi was cast as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s 2026 film adaptation I thought “Huh?!?! OK, I must finally read this classic, so that I too may join in on the collective outrage and confusion.” And wow! I’m so glad that I did. What a hateful story about the most unkind and pitiful creatures ever put to print! Absolutely loved it, 10/10 . (Sara Gunn) 􀃄􀂗 Brooks, Geraldine. Horse. The racehorse Lexington (1850-1875) is the titular horse in this moving novel by Pulitzer-prize winner Brooks. Art historian Theo chances upon a portrait of a horse at a yard sale. Theo studies 19th century equestrian painting—notably the depiction of thoroughbreds and their enslaved Black groomers—through a post-colonial lens. Three intertwined stories, set in 1850s Kentucky, 1950s New York, and 2019 DC, unfold

FAQs

这份书单的适用对象是谁？

书单面向高中的学生，以及教师与员工。

数字图书馆 Sora 如何使用？

文中提供了 Sora 的访问链接，便于在数字平台上获取书目。

书单里的书是否有电子书或有声书版本？

有，列表说明许多书目可在数字图书馆中以电子书、音频或两者形式获取。

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