AVANTI: A CHALLENGING LEADERSHIP PROGRAM FOR GIRLS BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Fiction All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich M. Remarque To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather My Antonia - Willa Cather Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh The First Circle- Alexander Solzhenitsyn War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina - Leo Toistoy The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevskv Huckleberrv Finn - Mark Twain Billy Budd- Herman Melville
History Battle Cry of Freedom - James McPherson (Civil War) Red Dawn at Lexington - Louis Birnbaum (Revolution) The Long Fuse - Laurence Lafore (origins of WWI) The Day Lincoln Was Shot - Jim Bishop The Great Siege - Ernle Bradford (siege of Malta. 1565) The Galleys at Lepanto - Jack Beechin- (Lepanto Battle) A Night to Remember - Walter Lord (Titanic) The Coming Fury - Bruce Catton (U.S. Civil War) A Stillness at Appomatox - Bruce Catton European Discovery of America(2 vol.) - Samuel Eliot Morison The Blue Nile- Alan Moorehead The White Nile - Alan Moorehead The Path Between the Seas - David McCullough (Panama Canal) Conquest - Hugh Thomas (conquest of Mexico) Saratoga – Richard Ketchum (battle of Saratoga)
Biography Admiral of the OceanSea- Samuel Eliot Morison (Columbus) American Caesar - William Manchester (Gen. Douglas MacArthur) Peter the Great - Robert Massie Campion - Evelyn Waugh (Edmund Campion) Washington, the Indispensable Man - James Thomas Flexner With Malice Toward None - Stephen B. Oates (Abraham Lincoln) Let the Trumpet Sound - Stephen B. Oates (Martin Luther King) Lee and Grant - Gene Smith Magellan - Ian Cameron The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris A Man for Others - Patricia Treece (St. Maximilian Kolbe) Truman - David McCullough Edison: Inventing the Century - Neil Baldwin
General Interest Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville Murder in the Cathedral - T. S. Eliot A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity, - C. S. Lewis The Neck of the Giraffe - Jack Hitching (evolutionary theory) Orthodoxy - G. K. Chesterton The Everlasting Man - G. K. Chesterton Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman (critique of media) What Color is Your Parachute? - Richard Bolles (choosing a career)
Doctrinal/Moral The Map of' Life - Frank Sheed Theology and Sanity - Frank Sheed To Know Christ Jesus - Frank Sheed The Faith Explained - Leo Trese Crossing the Threshold of Hope - Pope John Paul II