Kennedy School English Wing

Maybe
Maybe there could be an alternative reading list, after all the typical books required by the school have been read and salted away. Maybe it's a list compiled by the janitor who has become something of a legend over the years by spreading around this particular list of books with strange words of encouragement like, "Do not read any of these books as they might be too much for you at this time," or "If you're not of sound mind..." and things of that sort. He then might go into a strange dance and give you a wink while he sweeps down the hallways. Maybe there is a remote and separate wing of the school where things aren't quite as they should be. It could be the English wing and maybe it's where the janitor holds impromptu readings and discussions and there is where, just maybe, great things can begin....
– Mike McMenamin

• A Box of Rain, Robert Hunter
• The Compleat Angler, Sir Izaac Walton
• The Stand, Stephen King
• The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Garcia: An American Life, Blair Jackson
• Golf In The Kingdom, Michael Murphy
• The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg
• The Greater Trumps, Charles Williams
• Ireland, A Novel, Frank Delaney
• Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry
• The Keep, Jennifer Egan
• Left Out in the Rain: Poems, Gary Snyder
• Little Chapel on the River, Gwendolyn Bounds
• Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
• Mink River, Brian Doyle
• The Mystery of Golf, Arnold Haultain
• The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garciá Márquez
• Paris Was Yesterday, Janet Flanner
• The Philosopher’s Stone, Colin Wilson
• Ramona series, Beverley Cleary
• Returning to Earth: A Novel, Jim Harrison
• The Riddlemaster of Hed, Patricia A. McKillip
• The River Why, David James Duncan
• The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
• Sometimes A Great Notion, Ken Kesey
• Stagecoach and Tavern Days, Alice Morse Earle
• A Thatched Roof, Beverly Nichols
• Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller
• The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett
• Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin