List the titles of the required readings from courses during the school year or summer that you enjoyed most in the past year.
Readings from IB I enjoyed most:
Pygmalion, George Barnard Shaw
A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
Physics for the IB Diploma, K.A. Tsokos Macbeth, William Shakespeare
The Complete Short-Story Collection, Edgar Allan Poe
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Emma, Jane Austen
Advanced Computer Science: For the IB Diploma Program, Kostas Dimitriou
Readings from YSPA I enjoyed most:
Asteroid and Dwarf Planets and How to Observe Them, Roger Dymock The Planet Factory, Elizabeth Tasker
Readings from Pioneer I enjoyed most:
Scala for the Impatient, Cay Horstmann
Domain-Specific Languages, Martin Fowler
List the titles of the books you read for pleasure that you enjoyed most in the past year.
All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling (reread)
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Sapien: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, Jordan Ellenberg
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
The English Teacher, RK Narayan
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer, Rick Riordan
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
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