2025 School Summer Reading Lists: Wilmington Friends - Upper School

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

They Called Us Enemy by Justin EISINGER; Steven Scott; George Takei

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang; LeUyen Pham (Illustrator)

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

Ghost world by Clowes, Daniel

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

March: Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)

There There by Tommy Orange

The Buddha in the attic by Otsuka, Julie

When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Colson Whitehead

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith

Foster by Claire Keegan

Klara and the Sun: a GMA Book Club Pick by Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse; Hilda Rosner (Translator)

The Pursuit of Glory by Tim Blanning; David Cannadine (Editor)

To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild

Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (Based on a novel by, Original Author); John Pasden (Editor-In-Chief, Editor); Xingxing Liu (Adapted by, Editor)