Atlanta Reads!

According to the America's Most Literate Cities 2013 study recently released by Central Connecticut State University, Atlanta ranks 4th out of all large cities (250,000+) in the United States, and the only Southern city in the top 10.  We've moved up from 8th place in 2012. Could it be due to all the reading our High School teachers have done in the past couple of years?

I was looking in the "What I'm Reading Now" folder on my laptop, and was kind of surprised at how many book cover images I've distributed since fall of 2012.   Twenty-one high school teachers (including me) are participating; I've got over a hundred images in that folder, and I know there are several missing (some clues are in last winters's "Caught Reading" post).  Check out the long list below.

Whatever Atlanta's doing right, let's keep doing it!

What are YOU reading now???

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What We've Been Reading

12 Years a Slave   by Solomon Northup
36 Arguments for the Existence of God  by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

The Elegance of the Hedgehog  by Muriel Barbery

A Walk in the Woods  by Bill Bryson

After Dark  by Haruki Murakami

Alone Together  by Sherry Turkle

The App Generation  by Howard Gardner & Katie Davis

Augusta Played  by Kelly Cherry

Bangkok Noir  edited by Christopher S. Moore

Banquet at Delmonicos  by Barry Werth

Beautiful Ruins  by Jess Walter

The Best American Poetry 2013

Biko  by Donald Woods

Bill Veek: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick  by Paul Dickson

A Short History of Nearly Everything  by Bill Bryson

One Summer: America 1927  by Bill Bryson

The Bone Bed  by Patricia Cornwell

The Moonstone  by Wilkie Collins

The Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin  by Jill Lepore

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain  by Daniel Siegel

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21^st Century  by Christian Caryl

Clemente  by the Clemente family

Cooked  by Michael Pollan

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter  by Tom Franklin

The Culture of Defeat  by Wolfgang Schivelsbusch

Curtsies and Conspiracies  by Gail Carriger

Dear Life  by Alice Munro

Death of a Red Heroine  by Qiu Xiolong

Dust of 100 Dogs by A. S. King

One Foot in Eden  by Ron Rash

The English Girl by Daniel Silva

Every Day by David Levithan

The Fault in Our Stars  by John Green

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

Flying Too High  by Kerry Greenwood

The Forger’s Spell  by Edward Dolnick

Fractured  by Karen Slaughter

From Beirut to Jerusalem  by Thomas Friedman

The Gardner Heist  by Ulrich Boser

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief  by Lawrence Wright

The Good Lord Bird  by James McBride

Gospel of Freedom: MLK, Jr.’s Letters from Birmingham Jail

The Heart of Everything That Is  by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

A History of Food in 100 Recipes  by William Sitwell

I Am Malala  by Malala Yousafzai

Idiot America  by Charles P. Pierce

In Human Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World  by David Bryon Davis

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death & Detection  by Judith Flanders

Jennifer Government  by Max Barry

The Language of Bees  by Laurie R. King

Glitz  by Elmore Leonard

Lexicon  by Max Barry

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Lincoln Lawyer  by Michael Connelly

Little Bee  by Chris Cleave

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren  by Iona & Peter Opie

Lowland  by Jhumpa Lahiri

Mao’s Great Famine  by Frank Dikotter

Legend  by Marie Lu

Middlesex  by Jeffrey Eugenides

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children  by Ransom Riggs

Norwegian Wood  by Haruki Murakami

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth & Happiness  by Richard H. Thaler

Nurture Shock  by Po Bronson

On These Courts  by Wayne B. Drash

The Orphan Master’s Son  by Adam Johnson

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Book Shop  by Robin Sloan

The Battle of the Labyrinth  by Rick Riordan

A Person of Interest  by Susan Choi

The Last Picture Show  by Larry McMurtry

Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking   by Michael Ruhlman

Reservation Blues  by Sherman Alexie

The Savage Detectives  by Roberto Bolaño

Serena  by Ron Rash

The Shining  by Stephen King

Steve Jobs  by Walter Isaacson

Stiff: The Curios Lives of Human Cadavers by  Mary Roach

Suite Française  by Irene Nemirovsky

Suspect  by Robert Crais

Swamplandia!  by Karen Russell

Sweet Tooth  by Ian McEwan

The Lives of Tao  by Wesley Chu

The Bingo Palace  by Louise Erdrich

The Wedding  by Dorothy West

The Last Olympian  by Rick Riordan

The Burgess Boys  by Elizabeth Strout

The City and the City  by China Mieville

The Maid’s Version  by Daniel Woodrell

The Mayor of Casterbridge  by Thomas Hardy

The Tilted World  by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fenelly

The Lightning Thief  by Rick Riordan

Thieves’ Quarry   by D. B. Jackson

The Highest Tide  by Jim Lynch

The Titan’s Curse  by Rick Riordan

The Vision of a Champion  by Anson Dorrance and Gloria Averbuch

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty  by James Thurber

The Golem and the Jinni  by   Helene Wecker

Where’d You Go, Bernadette?  by Maria Semple

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of 
     Modern Conservatism  by Kevin Kruse

Wild  by Cheryl Strayd

Winger  by Andrew Smith

World War Z  by Max Brooks

The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar

4/21/2104 (post-spring break!) additions

Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest 
     to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York  by Richard Zacks
The Interestings  by Meg Wolitzer
The Round House  by Louise Erdrich
The Golden Notebook  by Doris Lessing
Case Histories  by Kate Atkinson
 Regeneration   by Pat Barker
The Dreyfus Affair  by Peter Lefcourt
Cesar Chavez  by Miriam Pawel
Room by Emma Donohue
Female Trouble  by Antonya Nelson
Boy, Snow, Bird  by Helen Oyeyemi
The Cigarette Century: The Rise and Fall of the Drug that Defined America   by Allan Brandt

Year Zero: A History of 1945  by Ian Buruma
Chronicle of a Death Foretold  by Gabriel García Marquez