One of my favorite traditions here in the Waynflete Library is to ask the members of the senior class what their favorite book is.  Every September for the last several years I’ve posted a large sheet of paper with each senior’s name on it.  I ask them to write down one title.  Some respond quickly and decisively.  Others take several months.  Some change their minds, erasing once, twice, or more.  And then there are those students who simply can’t make up their minds.  I have fond memories of one student, a couple of years ago, whose response was, “too numerous to name just one…”  She was a voracious reader, so I could certainly understand her inability to settle on one title.

The list is always eclectic, including everything from Dr. Seuss and J.K. Rowling to the Bronte sisters and J.D. Salinger.  It reflects a lifetime of great books.

Here is this year’s “Seniors’ Favorite Books” list. Thank you and congratulations, Class of 2009!

Laurel

SENIORS’ FAVORITE BOOKS
Class of 2009

Abby Armstrong – The End of Faith by Sam Harris

Zohar Azoulay – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Lisa Beneman – The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Maddie Berrang – The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Josh Bloom – The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini

Lauren Bruns – The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Alicia Chatterjee – The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Ilona Cieplinski – The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Ellie Cole – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Suki Nesvig – Susuki Beane by Sandra Scoppettone

Annie Cutler – Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs

Allie Dawe – Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch

Anna Edwards – Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Adele Espy – Bony Legs by Joanna Cole

Sabrina Garnett – All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Lauren Hadiaris – The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Tucker Hagge – Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Liza Hall – The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Ellie Hallett – The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles by Julie Andrews
Edwards

Dillon Hamilton – The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Zoe Haney-Paradis – The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Tessa Hartley – Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin

Nasra Hassan – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hassan Jeylani – The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Sawyer Hopps – Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier’s
Perspective by Paul Rieckhoff

Anisa Khadraoui – The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

Greer Millard – The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Tara Milliken – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran
Foer

Robin Mitchell – Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link and Shelley Jackson

Mariah Monks – Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Naomi Moser – The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Christine Ordway – A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Stephen Pardy – Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Isabel Parkinson – The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Emma Pedersen – 1984 by George Orwell; A Clockwork Orange by
Anthony Burgess

Eliza Perry – The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Mariam Qazi – How Many Ways Can you Catch a Fly? by Robin Page and
Steve Jenkins

Ian Rummler – Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Nina Russem – The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

Joey Shapell – Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner

Melanie Shelton – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

Zoe Sobel – Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

Ike Voorhees – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander
Solzhenitsyn

Mohamed Warsame – Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Marcela Wilk – Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

Otis Wortley – Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner

Gulaid Abdullahi –  The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger