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The English Department's Shortlist of Excellent Fiction

You should join our book club where we’ll be reading and discussing Head of School Brad Bates’s favorite book 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People. But maybe a book on developmental psychology isn’t what you’re after, or maybe you’ve already read 10 to 25, or maybe you only consume works of fiction. If so, read on for the English Department’s shortlist of excellent fiction savored during 2024. These works were introduced earlier in the year when English faculty invited students to join their “Novel Bunch” by reading all four before April 1st - you can join, too!
 
Liz Peyton-Levine recommends Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead

Jon Phinney’s pick is George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo

Emily Giangiulio would like you to read Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. 

Mary Stewart wrote to plug Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: “I recommend Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow not only because its title is a literary allusion to a Shakespeare soliloquy, but also because it’s a beautiful story of friendship, creativity, and ambition as it tracks the friendship of two video game creators over 30 years.”

Be sure to let us know if you read and enjoy any of these titles! 

 

Article by Liam Sullivan