Summer 2020: Teacher reads

The summer holidays are a prime time to get stuck into a book. But what is top of your reading list?
16th July 2020, 3:02pm

Library doors have opened once again, and bookshops have shelves waiting for you to browse.

With the summer holidays nearly here, you are presented with the best opportunity to catch up with any of those must-reads that have escaped them when fighting their way through to the end of term.

So we asked the teachers of Twitter what they would recommend you read this summer.

Some teachers were very organised and had whole school lists.

Here is the version written by adults...https://t.co/40iy5FXyPZ

- Eve Cairns Vollans (@evevollansMCA) July 9, 2020

Angela Carter got a mention - more than once!

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- Bern O’Donoghue (@BernODonoghue) July 10, 2020

Some lists featured some big literary names of the last year.

Little Fires Everywhere
Closing The Reading Gap
Girl, Woman, Other
Koh-i-Noor
Becoming
Witness The Night
Three Daughters of Eve

- Farrah Akhtar (@FAkhtar9) July 10, 2020

Some teachers suggested some non-fiction texts that might help when term resumes.

I would encourage every educator to read ‘Why we sleep’ by @sleepdiplomat. We as teachers are often very guilty of working late and going to bed late and this is a real eye opener. Also a very interesting insight into the impact of sleep on learning amongst many other things.

- Mr G Teacher (@MrGTeach) July 9, 2020

And some teachers want to read certain books again and again and again. 

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro - wish I could forget and read again

- Tin Can Teacher (@tin_teacher) July 9, 2020

Do you have a book you would like to recommend to other teachers? Join the conversation on Twitter, and share your favourite summer reads.

Summer reading!

What books are on your ‘to read’ list?
What should I read?

I’m going to put a @tes list together- what do you think should be on it? pic.twitter.com/zr0iKc6oqq

- Gráinne Hallahan (@heymrshallahan) July 9, 2020