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Staff Recommendations.
Ever wonder what books your teachers love? What about some of the other staff here at Troy High? Here is a list of favorite books of some of the people you see every day at Troy High.

Mrs. Kozuchowski
          Fiction:
Winger by Andrew Smith
The Alchemist by Paolo CoelhoFortune is a Woman by Elizabeth Adler
​          Nonfiction:

Outliers
 by Malcom Gladwell
The Last Lecture
 by Randy Pausch
Ms. Abele
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 
The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith 
The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter 

Ms. Rick
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Lightless Sky by Gulwali Passarlay

Mr. Paciorek
The Ophan series by Edward Paciorek

Ms. Lopez
Anything by Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Emily Bronte

Mr. Prowse
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Mr. Aldinger
           Non-Fiction:        
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
The Wealth of Nations by  Adam Smith
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman               
          Novels:
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Fatal Equilibrium by Marshal Jevons 
          Biography:
Theodore Rex (Teddy Roosevelt) by Edmund Morris
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend by James Hirsch
Evel: The High Flying Life of the Legend by Leigh Montville

Mr. Mastrovito
1776 by McCullough
Night by Wiesel
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn

Ms. Loucks
Anything by Karen Kingsbury

Ms. Ekanayake
Books by Lisa See:
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Peony in Love
Shanghai Girls



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