Favourite Books of the ISD Senior School Teachers and Staff
To celebrate World Book Day 2012, we asked our teachers and staff to tell us their favourite books. Many thanks to everyone who took part!
Here is the list:
Mr. Schwarting To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Ms. Post The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Mr. Stichel Das Parfum by Patrick Suesskind
Ms. Gindera Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
Ms. Cushing The Tale of Three Trees: A Traditional Folktale by Angela Elwell Hunt, Illustrated by Tim Jonke
Mrs. Ater The Outliers by Malcolm Gradwell
Mr. Crouch Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mrs. Hunter Room by Emma Donoghue
Mrs. Scattergood Famous Five or Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton
The Hare With The Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Mrs. Schwarting Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Ms. Swanson The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Ms. Seelye The BFG by Roald Dahl
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell
Mr. Coffey Any books by Christopher Brookmyre,
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Mrs. Endo-Crum Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Mrs. Saiki La Peste (The Plague) by Camus
Mr. Lemmers Dice man by Luke Rheinhart
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Mr. Zernentsch Der dunkle Fluss/Down River by John Hart
Mr. Brown Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Ms. Janning The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
Ms. Laoulach The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Ms. Cuenca The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Mrs. Lenhart The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Ms. Wildeman Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Ms. Sziborsky Die Glut by Sandor Marai
Ms. Munch Beauty by Robin McKinley
Ms. Wong When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne
Dr. Harnish Monster Blood Tattoo: Foundling by D.M. Cornish
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Ms. Skakarchi A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears by Jules Feiffer
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Mrs. Fischer Shut Up, I'm Talking by Gregory Levey
Ms. Dodson The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Mr. Campbell Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Ms. Christ The Old Man who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda
Ms. Cullmann Chuzpe by Lily Brett
Extrem laut und unglaublich nah by Jonathan Safran Foer
Le dieu du carnage by Yasmina Reza
Ms. Rodriguez Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education,
by Martha Nussbaum
Mr. McNeill Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Ms. Foltinek-Simpson Radio Heimat by Frank Goosen
Ms. Newing Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Mr. Fosbenner The Drowning People by Richard Mason
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
Mrs. Wagner Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivfuehrer by Michael Ende
Drachenlaeufer by Khaled Hosseini
Unter der Geisterbahn by Isabel Abedi
Ms. Bortz Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
Ms. Korec-Radloff El candidato melancólico by José Antonio Millán
Mr. Layman IT /The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Mrs. Raider Wahlverwandschaften by J.W. Goethe,
Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann
The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway
Mrs. Batchelor The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Mrs. Isomura Little House on the Prairie Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Are You there God, it's me Margaret by Judy Blume
The Cat ate my Gymsuit by Paula Danziger
Mr. van der Bergh The Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
Mr. Miles Blake The Spoils of Time - A World History from the Dawn of Civilization Through the Early Renaissance
by Dame C.V. Wedgwood
Mr. Grant Lord of the Rings (the trilogy, but also The Hobbit) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
Ms. Bevington En Famille by Hector Malot
Mrs. Maly-Schmidt The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Ms. Wirtz Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship) by J.W. Goethe
Ms. Ceberio La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca
Ms. Manning Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Ms. Drinkall Jean De Florette and Manon Des Sources by Marcel Pagnol
Dr. Harmann The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Here is the list:
Mr. Schwarting To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Ms. Post The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Mr. Stichel Das Parfum by Patrick Suesskind
Ms. Gindera Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
Ms. Cushing The Tale of Three Trees: A Traditional Folktale by Angela Elwell Hunt, Illustrated by Tim Jonke
Mrs. Ater The Outliers by Malcolm Gradwell
Mr. Crouch Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mrs. Hunter Room by Emma Donoghue
Mrs. Scattergood Famous Five or Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton
The Hare With The Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Mrs. Schwarting Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Ms. Swanson The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Ms. Seelye The BFG by Roald Dahl
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell
Mr. Coffey Any books by Christopher Brookmyre,
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Mrs. Endo-Crum Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Mrs. Saiki La Peste (The Plague) by Camus
Mr. Lemmers Dice man by Luke Rheinhart
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Mr. Zernentsch Der dunkle Fluss/Down River by John Hart
Mr. Brown Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Ms. Janning The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
Ms. Laoulach The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Ms. Cuenca The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Mrs. Lenhart The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Ms. Wildeman Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Ms. Sziborsky Die Glut by Sandor Marai
Ms. Munch Beauty by Robin McKinley
Ms. Wong When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne
Dr. Harnish Monster Blood Tattoo: Foundling by D.M. Cornish
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Ms. Skakarchi A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears by Jules Feiffer
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Mrs. Fischer Shut Up, I'm Talking by Gregory Levey
Ms. Dodson The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Mr. Campbell Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Ms. Christ The Old Man who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda
Ms. Cullmann Chuzpe by Lily Brett
Extrem laut und unglaublich nah by Jonathan Safran Foer
Le dieu du carnage by Yasmina Reza
Ms. Rodriguez Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education,
by Martha Nussbaum
Mr. McNeill Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Ms. Foltinek-Simpson Radio Heimat by Frank Goosen
Ms. Newing Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Mr. Fosbenner The Drowning People by Richard Mason
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
Mrs. Wagner Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivfuehrer by Michael Ende
Drachenlaeufer by Khaled Hosseini
Unter der Geisterbahn by Isabel Abedi
Ms. Bortz Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
Ms. Korec-Radloff El candidato melancólico by José Antonio Millán
Mr. Layman IT /The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Mrs. Raider Wahlverwandschaften by J.W. Goethe,
Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann
The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway
Mrs. Batchelor The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Mrs. Isomura Little House on the Prairie Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Are You there God, it's me Margaret by Judy Blume
The Cat ate my Gymsuit by Paula Danziger
Mr. van der Bergh The Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
Mr. Miles Blake The Spoils of Time - A World History from the Dawn of Civilization Through the Early Renaissance
by Dame C.V. Wedgwood
Mr. Grant Lord of the Rings (the trilogy, but also The Hobbit) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
Ms. Bevington En Famille by Hector Malot
Mrs. Maly-Schmidt The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Ms. Wirtz Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship) by J.W. Goethe
Ms. Ceberio La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca
Ms. Manning Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Ms. Drinkall Jean De Florette and Manon Des Sources by Marcel Pagnol
Dr. Harmann The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal