English Teachers Spill Their Most Captivating Reads

English Teachers Spill Their Most Captivating Reads Abigail Maxey

Angelina Cicero - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (romance / gothic fiction)

Cicero, Creative Writing teacher, said, "It's about a woman who despite the times in which she lives follows her own conscious and determines the way she lives her life. Plus it's beautiful!"

Alison Porter - The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware (psychological thriller)

Porter, Language and Composition teacher, said, "Psychological thrillers are the types of books I like to read for fun. The premise is a girl who nannies and I guess I kind of relate to it a little because I used to nanny, but it was really good."

Kelly Denk - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (historical fiction / war literature)

Denk, American Literature teacher, said, "I was deeply engaged in the book months after I read it...it's about women's struggles with the rise and fall of the taliban in the middle east. The characters were written in a way that was super engaging."

Ashley Pozel - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (modern thriller)

Pozel, AP English Language and Composition teacher, said, "This was such a crazy page-turner that I think I finished within a single day and it had SUCH a surprising ending. This is one that I’m really hoping gets turned into a movie someday because it was so enthralling."

Michaela Fraley - The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis (philosophy)

Fraley, Honors English 9 teacher, said, "If I'm going with literature, I really love pretty much anything by C.S. Lewis. The Four Loves is a philosophical book about how there's so many different types of loves between mother and child, sister and brother, etc. It's really beautiful."

Eric Moser - The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien (fantasy / adventure)

When prompted about why he enjoys this novel, Moser, Language and Composition teacher, credited "childhood nostalgia," saying, "It was my favorite book series growing up."

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