This is a must-read for anyone who is concerned about media ownership and the slant of news today.

The subtitle of this book is “An Inquiry into Values” and that’s what it is. It’s just a great book to raise some very important questions about the way we frame our lives. One of my favorite books to teach.

Next on the list to read.

Impending dad-hood puts this book on the list, but it also is an important teacher book too, I think. I’m hoping this book further informs the sort of philosophical thought-work about care and kindness and how to construct a meaningful life that I’ve been sort of working on over the past few years. I’ll let you know…

This is a must-read. Schlosser examines the way the fast food industry has changed our world. Fast Food Nation looks at the economic, political, social, environmental and health issues that have been raised, and the conclusions he draws aren’t pretty.

Still one of my favorite rainy day books.

You know what you’re getting when you read Michael Moore. Are there times when his rhetoric goes overboard? Of course, but his premise is spot-on, and he raises too many really good points to ignore. A must-read.

Really frames the issues of school leadership and school culture in interesting and powerful ways.

A book from the senior class, and it’s really a brilliant novel, I think. For some reason, Naylor doesn’t get the recognition she deserves for books like this one, but it’s an amazing piece.

This week’s senior book. No writer I’ve ever encountered makes prose feel like poetry as Winterson does. A wonderful book that deconstructs our notions of love, gender, sexuality and writing.