For Juniors in Mrs. Kies’ AP Language class:
This is a list of all the books the Platteville Public Library owns on your summer reading list, as well as all the books you can request from the other libraries in our system. Happy reading!
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Memoirs
| at Platteville Public Library |
in the Southwest Wisconsin Library System |
call number |
# of pages |
Title |
Author |
|
| yes |
yes |
306.4 Fad |
339 |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
Anne Fadiman |
|
| yes |
yes |
B Barker, Russell |
278 |
Growing Up |
Russell Baker |
|
| yes |
yes |
B McCourt Family |
364 |
Angela’s Ashes |
Frank McCourt |
also on tape: PT B McCourt Family |
| yes |
yes |
B McCourt, Malachy |
290 |
A Monk Swimming |
Malachy McCourt |
also on tape: PT B McCourt, Malachy |
| yes |
yes |
B Sedaris, David |
291 |
Naked |
David Sedaris |
|
| yes |
yes |
B X, Malcolm |
460 |
The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
|
2 copies |
|
yes |
|
209 |
The Woman Warrior |
Maxine Hong Kingston |
|
|
yes |
|
304 |
This Boy’s Life |
Tobias Wolff |
|
|
yes |
|
205 |
In Patagonia |
Bruce Chatwin |
|
|
yes |
|
380 |
Out of Africa |
Isaak Dinesen |
|
|
yes |
|
214 |
An American Childhood |
Annie Dillard |
|
|
yes |
|
449 |
Hand To Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure |
Paul Auster |
|
|
yes |
|
316 |
Speak, Memory |
Vladimir Nabokov |
|
|
yes |
|
293 |
West with The Night |
Beryl Markham |
|
|
yes |
|
238 |
The Road From Coorain |
Jill Ker Conway |
|
|
yes |
|
328 |
The Color of Water |
James McBride |
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Colored People |
Henry Louis Gates |
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The Duke of Deception |
Geoffrey Wolff |
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Hunger of Memory |
Richard Rodriquez |
|
Travel Narrative
| at Platteville Public Library |
in the Southwest Wisconsin Library System |
call number |
# of pages |
Title |
Author |
| yes |
yes |
914.4 Bry |
276 |
A Walk in The Woods |
Bill Bryson |
| yes |
yes |
914.5 May |
280 |
Under the Tuscan Sun |
Francis Mayes |
| yes |
yes |
944 May |
207 |
A Year in Provence |
Peter Mayle |
| yes |
yes |
973.7 Hor |
406 |
Confederates in the Attic |
Tony Horwitz |
|
yes |
|
509 |
The Pillars of Hercules |
Paul Theroux |
|
yes |
|
379 |
The Great Railway Bazaar |
Paul Theroux |
|
yes |
|
438 |
Coming into the Country |
John McPhee |
|
yes |
|
246 |
Travels with Charley |
John Steinbeck |
|
yes |
|
307 |
Balkan Ghosts |
Robert Kaplan |
|
yes |
|
448 |
Blue Highways |
William Least-Heat Moon |
|
yes |
|
271 |
Travels with Lizbeth |
Lars Eighner |
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The Seasons of Rome |
Paul Hofmann |
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A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg |
Tim Cahill |
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Road Fever |
Tim Cahill |
Essayists and other general non-fiction
| at Platteville Public Library |
in the Southwest Wisconsin Library System |
call number |
# of pages |
Title |
Author |
|
| yes |
yes |
305.42 Wol |
348 |
The Beauty Myth |
Naomi Wolf |
(cultural criticism) |
| yes |
yes |
305.568 Did |
237 |
Slouching Towards Bethlehem |
Joan Didion |
(essays) |
| yes |
yes |
305.569 Her |
221 |
Nickel and Dimed |
Barbara Ehrenreich |
(cultural criticism) |
| yes |
yes |
305.569 Shi |
319 |
The Working Poor |
David K. Shipler |
(cultural criticism) |
| yes |
yes |
364.1 Cap |
343 |
In Cold Blood |
Truman Capote |
(true crime) |
| yes |
yes |
394.1 Sch |
356 |
Fast Food Nation |
Eric Schlosser |
(food) |
| yes |
yes |
818 Tho |
291 |
Walden |
Henry David Thoreau |
(nature) |
| yes |
yes |
940.5318 Are |
312 |
Eichmann in Jerusalem |
Hannah Arendt |
(political) |
| yes |
yes |
976.1 Age |
471 |
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men |
James Agee and Walker Evans |
(hard to classify) |
| yes |
yes |
B Bourdain, Anthony |
307 |
Kitchen Confidential |
Anthony Bourdain |
(food) |
|
yes |
|
221 |
The White Album |
Joan Didion |
(essays) |
|
yes |
|
108 |
Salvador |
Joan Didion |
(travel/essays) |
|
yes |
|
428 |
Lincoln at Gettysburg |
Garry Wills |
(history) |
|
yes |
|
270 |
Mother Tongue |
Bill Bryson |
(language) |
|
yes |
|
417 |
Made in America |
Bill Bryson |
(language) |
|
yes |
|
194 |
Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon |
Joe Queenan |
(cultural criticism) |
|
yes |
|
356 |
The Age of American Unreason |
Susan Jacoby |
(cultural criticism) |
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After Henry |
Joan Didion |
(essays) |
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The Armies of the Night |
Norman Mailer |
(war) |
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Homage to Catalonia |
George Orwell |
(political/war) |
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The Art of Eating |
M.F.K. Fisher |
(food critic) |
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I Lost It At the Movies |
Pauline Kael |
(film critic) |
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Waist-High in the World |
Nancy Mairs |
(essays) |
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The Miracle of Language |
Richard Lederer |
(language) |
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Socrates Cafe |
Christopher Phillips |
(philosophy) |
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Bad, or The Dumbing of America |
Paul Fussell |
(cultural criticism) |
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Into the Buzzsaw |
Kristina Borjesson |
(media studies) |
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Killed Cartoons |
David Wallis |
(media studies) |