What to Read During Spring Break and Beyond!

Are you looking for a good book to read over the break? Try one of these recommendations from Bryn Mawr Upper School students, faculty and staff. 

The Selection Series by Kiera Cass is a wonderful read! I have read it multiple times and would highly recommend!

-Logan

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

-Ruby

And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

-Noran

Educated by Tara Westover

-Rory

Emma by Jane Austen

-Shreya

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty (fiction, ya, fantasy, romance)

The Power by Naomi Alderman (fiction, sci-fi, feminism?, dystopia)

Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin (ya, fantasy, witches, romance)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari (non fiction, history/science, philosophy)

The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller (ya, fantasy, romance)

Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray (sci-fi, fiction, ya, romance)

-Mya

The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman

-Jenna

The Fifth Season Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

Other Minds:The Octopus, The Sea, and The Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith (nonfiction)

-Lex

The Boys On The Boat by Daniel James Brown (nonfiction)

-Grace Martin

Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel

-Ella

Born A Crime by Trevor Noah

-Naria

We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

-Meley and Adelaide

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

-Sabina

D-Day Girls by Sarah Rose

-Maddie

The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks

-Laura

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

-Aeven

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

-Lujza

“One book that I have read in the past few months that our students might enjoy is American Spy
by Lauren Wilkenson. I thought it was a well written spy thriller that gets you interested and engaged.”

-Mr. Amann

With the Fire on High, Elizabeth Acevedo

Sadie, Courtney Summers

Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid

One of Us is Lying and One of Us is Next, Karen McManus (I think the first book was better though)

The 7 and 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their World, Dashka Slater

What If It's Us, Becky Albertali & Adam Silvera

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

People Like Us, Dane Mele (an all girls school mystery!)

-Ms. Cutler

A book that several BMS faculty and staff read that I loved is Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

I also really enjoyed the Truly Devious Trilogy

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

-Ms. Rickert-Wilbur

Crosstalk by Connie Willis

-Dr. Spector-Marks

Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy by Sadhguru.

-Ms. Tschantret

The Dutch House and Bell Canto by Ann Patchett

Irish writers for St. Patrick's Day: 

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Nora Webster by Colm Toibin

-Ms. Brynes

The Flavia De Luce Series by Alan Bradley.

A brilliant girl living in a creepy British manor solves crimes with forensic science in the post WWII era.
Gothic and lovely. The audiobooks are a treat and available through Libby/Overdrive

-Dr. McMillan