Welcome to my leaning tower of I promise I will read you this week. We book enthusiasts have a tower. My tower has spilled into my home office, kitchen, living room, and various additional rooms of my home.
Some may ask why not read online via Kindle or Tablet? I am “old-school.” There is something about walking into a bookshop and the mere anticipation that today is the day I will find another great read. Also, there is the smell of a new book. Admit it. A true enthusiast will smell the books. Not just a little sniff, sniff. Oh no. It’s closing your eyes, taking a slow deep breath, drinking in the potential, and there it is….perfection. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt. Independent Bookshops are my absolute favorite! The selections are carefully curated and the recommendations can not be matched.
As a child I spent my summers at the library and reading on family road trips. I had and continue to have a passion for literature, which I have passed down to my daughter and my students.
The “To be read” list is not all encompassing. These were in the closet tower to my laptop. Keep checking back, as I am certain that more is yet to come. If you have book recommendations, please, please, please click on the “Contact” tab and send me an email.
In the meantime, enjoy my tower!
—Jenn
Classroom Literature
Non-Fiction
Coming Soon…
Fiction
Willodeen, by Katherine Applegate
The One and Only Ruby, by Katherine Applegate
The Ogress and the Orphans, by Kelly Barnhill
Raymie Nightingale, by Kate DiCamillo
A First Time for Everything, by Dan Santat
Big Nate Nailed It!, Lincoln Peirce
Doctor Dolittle: The Complete Collection, by Hugh Lofting
Literature for Jenn
Non-Fiction
Boho Days: The Wider Works of Jonathan Larson, by J. Collins
Black Women Writers at Work, by Claudia Tate
Have I Told You This Already?, By Lauren Graham
Michael J. Fox: No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, by Michael J. Fox
Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual, by Luvvie Ayayi Jones
The Wind at my Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from my Mentor Raven Wilkinson, by Misty Copleland & Susan Fales-Hill.
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts, by Josh Hammer
The Nature Fix: Why Mother Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, by Florence Williams
A Man of Salt & Trees: The Life of Joy Morton, by James Ballowe
Fiction
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson
Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus
Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, Translated & Adapted by David Grimm
Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austin
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Comfort Food, by Kate Jacobs
Where’d You Go Bernadette, By Maria Semple
See You in the Piazza, by Frances Mayes
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