It’s the end of the year, and the Colorado Academy libraries are wrapping up the school year and preparing for our Horizons at CA students and summer camps. Students and teachers have been returning their most recent reads with enthusiasm for what they have read this year and what they will be reading this summer. We’ve been celebrating our reading with popsicle parties and lunchtime Book Club meetings! The abundant book chatter inspired the Library Team to run some statistical reports in our library catalog to discover which books were the most popular during the 2021-2022 school year.
In the Lower School Library, we were excited to learn that students and teachers checked out 20,257 items this year. In addition, 538 holds were placed! We found that the top titles of the year for independent reading were mostly graphic novels. Featured below are some of the Lower School student favorites.
In the Raether Library, serving both Middle and Upper School students, we found a wide variety of popular books spanning the interests and tastes of Sixth through Twelfth Graders. Also, Raether Library students and teachers checked out 500 more items than last year, with a total of 4,058 check-outs and 233 holds placed. Wow! Way to go, readers!
Are you thinking about what you will read this summer? Do you need some suggestions? Following are the CA faculty and staff summer reading book recommendations, brought to you by the CA Library Team. We hope you find a book (or books) that you love!
Have a wonderful summer!
Fiction Titles
- Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
- The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
- Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
- The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe
- The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad
- Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- True Biz by Sara Nović
- Trust by Hernan Diaz
- The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
- Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Non-Fiction Titles
- Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton
- The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found by Frank Bruni
- Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
- From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo
- Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
- In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling Through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father by Derek Baxter
- The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice by Benjamin Gilmer
- Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment by Kate Kelly
- The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live by Danielle Dreilinger
- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl