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List: Mr. Doggett's Suggested Summer Reading for Students

Days of Grace: A Memoir (1993) - Arthur Ashe (1943-1993) (Grade:B)

Friday Night Lights : A Town, a Team, and a Dream (1990https://intranet.kingarthurflour.com/home.php) - Buzz Bissinger (11/01/1954 -) (Grade:A+)

Ordinary People (1976) - Judith Guest (3/29/1936 -)  (Grade:A+)

Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) - David Guterson (1956-)  (Grade:C-)

Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (05/01/1923 -12/12/1999)  (Grade:A)

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997) - Sebastian Junger (01/01/1962 -)  (Grade:B-)

Shoeless Joe (1982) - W. P. Kinsella (5/25/1935 -9/16/2026) (Grade:A+)

A River Runs Through It (1976) - Norman MacLean (12/23/1902 -8/02/1990) (Grade:A+)

Angela's Ashes : A Memoir (1996) - Frank McCourt (-) (Grade:B+)

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1/01/1919 -1/27/2010)  (Grade:A+)

Johnny Got His Gun (1939) - Dalton Trumbo (12/09/1905 -9/10/1976)  (Grade:F)

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Kurt Vonnegut (11/11/1922 -4/11/2007)  (Grade:C)

The Right Stuff (1979) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018) (Grade:A+)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - Malcolm X (5/19/1925 -2/21/1965)  (Grade:A+)

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996) - Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-)  (Grade:A-)

A Civil Action (1995) - Jonathan Harr (-)  (Grade:C+)

A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) - John Irving (1942-)  (Grade:C)

House (1985) - Tracy Kidder (1945-)  (Grade:B)

Into the Wild (1996) - Jon Krakauer (4/12/1954 -)  (Grade:C)

Levels of the Game (1969) - John McPhee (3/08/1931 -)  (Grade:A)

The Pine Barrens (1968) - John McPhee (3/08/1931 -)  (Grade:A)

Encounters with the Archdruid [Narratives about a Conservationist and Three of his Natural Enemies] (1971) - John McPhee (3/08/1931 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968)  (Grade:B)

A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) - John Kennedy Toole (12/17/1937 -3/26/1969)  (Grade:B-)

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1971) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018) (Grade:A+)