The faculty and staff at Charles Wright look forward to winter break just as much as our students do.  For many of us, the highlight of the holiday season is curling up with a good book in front of the fire.  In that spirit, we asked a few of the adults around campus what’s on their reading lists for winter break.

Brian Crawford
Upper and Middle School French Teacher
A Little History of the World, by E.H. Gombrich
Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment, by Deepak Chopra

Creighton King
Upper School English Teacher
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
The Great Enigma, poems by Tomas Transtromer
The Duke of Deception, by Geoffrey Wolff
I Could Tell You Stories, by Patricia Hampl
Rough Music, poems by Deborah Digges

Samantha Harris
Middle School Librarian
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, by Peter Guralnick
The Terror, by Dan Simmons
Extras (fourth book in the “Uglies” series), by Scott Westerfeld
Just Listen, by Sarah Dessen

Rob Scotlan
Eighth grade English Teacher
The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan
What’s the What, by Dave Eggers
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clark
Pushing Ice, by Alastair Reynolds
Gentleman of the Road, by Michael Chabon

Hollie Erickson
Executive Assistant to the Headmaster
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India
and Indonesia, by Elizabeth Gilbert

Kelly Lyons
Lower and Middle School Computer Specialist
A History of Mathematics, by Carl Boyer
The Two Towers (Lord of the Rings, part 2), by J.R.R. Tolkien

Noel Blyler
Senior Admissions Associate and Director of Financial Aid
That Hideous Strength (third book in the Space Trilogy), by C. S. Lewis
Cosmicomics, by Italo Calvino
Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke

Virginia Lane
Business Office Secretary/Bookstore Coordinator
The King’s English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller, by Betsy Burton

Daniel Wicklund
Upper School Physics Teacher
Paris to the Moon, by Adam Gopnik
Chaos, by James Gleick
The book of laughter and forgetting, by Milan Kundera