Craig’s List: 2023 summer reading

Beginning in 1990, beloved English instructor Craig Thorn began collecting and distributing a summer reading list with suggestions from members of the faculty and staff. The tradition of ‘Craig’s List' has been carried on, curated, and shared among the Andover community in recent years by long-time faculty member David Fox. This year’s edition is dedicated to Craig’s friend and colleague Tom McGraw (1950-2023).

Craig Thorn

John Bird

Bennett, Jane, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
Jackson, Jay, Bungleton Green and Mystic Commandos
Reed, Adolph, The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

Robert Briggs

Ellis, Joseph, The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
Peart, Neil, Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road
Posnanski, Joe, The Baseball 100
Schulz, Charles, The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958: Vol 4

Chris Capano

Bacon, John, The Greatest Comeback: How Team Canada Fought Back, Took the Summit Series, and Reinvented Hockey
Bissinger, Buzz, The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
Bill Lichtenstein, WBCN and the American Revolution: How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll
Pearlman, Jeff, The Last Folk Hero, the Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
Tucci, Stanley, The Tucci Table: Cooking with Family and Friends
Wenner, Jan, Like A Rolling Stone: A Memoir

Sara Erdmann

Aronson, Louise, Elderhood
Chan, Jessamine, The School for Good Mothers
Oshetsky, Claire, Chouette
Patchett, Ann, These Precious Days

David Fox

Bogdanich, Walt, When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm
Bringley, Patrick, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Checkoway, Julie, The Three-Year Swim Club
Delmont, Matthew, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
Luckerson, Victor, Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street
Robin, Corey, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas

Anna Gesing

Cohen, Deborah, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial
Grann, David, Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders & the Birth of the FBI Macintyre, Ben, Prisoners of the Castle: an Epic
Story of Survival & Escape from Colditz
Morton, Kate, Homecoming
Walls, Janette, Hang the Moon

Jacques Hugon

Gaiman, Neil, The Graveyard Book
LeGuinn, Ursula, A Wizard of Earthsea

Maxine Hugon

Jenkins Reid, Taylor, Daisy Jones & The Six
Lazaridis, Henriette, Terra Nova
Zevin, Gabrielle, Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Chris Jones

Dewey, John, Democracy and Education
Griffiths, Elly, The Crossing Places
Shepard, Jim, Like You’d Understand, Anyway
Thompson, Helen, Blood in the Water

Emma Lavoi

Benedict, Marie, The Only Woman in the Room
Benedict, Marie and Victoria Murray, The Personal Librarian
Quinn, Kate, The Rose Code
Williams, Beatriz, A Hundred Summers

Kate McQuade

Armfield, Julia, Our Wives Under the Sea
Chan, Jessamine, The School for Good MOthers
Garza, Kimberly, The Last Karankawas
Makkai, Rebecca, I Have Some Questions for You
Shaitkin, Alexis, Elsewhere
Zevin, Gabrielle, Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

KeeShawn Murphy

Backman, Fredrik, A Man Called Ove
Ching, Bora, Closed Bunny
Danticat, Edwidge, The Dew Breaker
Fernandes, Megan, Good Boys
Laymon, Kiese, Long Division
Machado, Carmen Maria, The Low Low Woods Naga, Noor, If an Egyptian cannot speak English
Reid, Iain, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Vuong, Ocean, Time is a Mother
Zevin, Gabrielle, Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Emily Raymundo

Alam, Rumaan, Leave the World Behind
Chung, Gina, Sea Change
Córdova, Zoraida, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina Jones, Stephen Graham, The Only Good Indians Nardone, Mai, Welcome Me to the Kingdom
Reid, Kiley, Such A Fun Age
Solomon, Rivers, Sorrowland
Vo, Nghi, Siren Queen

Garrett Richie

Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame, Chain Gang All Stars

Paige Roberts

Graeber, David, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Krasznahorkai, Laszlo, Seiobo There Below
Machado de Assis, Joaquim, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
Melchor, Fernanda, Hurricane Season

John Rogers

Gay, Ross, The Book of Delights: Essays
Gyasi, Yaa, Transcendent Kingdom
Saunders, George, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: in which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Reading, Writing, and Life
Susskind, Leonard, The Theoretical Minimum Series: General Relativity

Jose Zorilla

Rhodes, Richard, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Vallejo, Irene, Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
Weinberg, Steven, The First Three Minutes

There will be a written exam in the fall.

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Craig Thorn (1958-2006)

June 16, 2023

Craig’s List: 2023 summer reading

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