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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







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