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MARKHAM DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY

GRADE 12 SUGGESTED READING LIST

(Categorized by Settings/Themes/Genres)

Adventure:

Jonasson, Jonas. The 100-year-old-man who climbed out the window and disappeared

Afghanistan:

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner

Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khadra, Yasmina. The Swallows of Kabul

Africa:

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a Yellow Sun (the Nigerian Civil War/Nigerian-Biafran War, 1967-1970)

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Purple Hibiscus (Nigeria)

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. (Nigeria and the United States)

Bulawayo, Noviolet. We Need New Names. Zimbabwe and the United States.

Ferguson, Will. 419.

Habila, Helon. Measuring Time (Nigeria, 1960’s)

Habila, Helon. Waiting for an Angel (Nigeria)

Mohamed, Nadifa. Black Mamba Boy (Homeless boys, Middle East, East Africa, Somlia, Ethiopia)

Mohamed, Nadifa. The Orchard of Lost Souls (Somalia, 1987, Civil War)

Wiwa, Ken. In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy (A memoir. Nigeria)

Kingsolver, Barbara. Poisonwood Bible. (Belgian Congo)

Smith, Wilbur. A Falcon Flies. (Good description of slavery.)

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African American:

Angelou, Maya. The Heart of a Woman

Baldwin, James. Another Country

Baldwin, James. Go Tell it on the Mountain

Baldwin, James. No Name in the Street

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man A classic.

Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying

Hughes, Langston. Not Without Laughter

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God

McBride, James. The Color of Water. (An autobiography)

Morrison, Toni. Beloved

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye (Identity, self-esteem issues.)

Morrison, Toni. Jazz

Morrison, Toni. Love

Morrison, Toni. Paradise

Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon

Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple

Walker, Alice. Possessing the Secret of Joy

African Canadian Authors:

Brand, Dionne. In Another Place, Not Here

Brand, Dionne. What We All Long For

Clarke, Austin. The Bigger Light. Set in Toronto.

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Clarke, Austin. The Meeting Point. Set in Toronto.

Clarke, Austin. Nine Men Who Laughed. Set in Toronto.

Clarke, Austin. The Origin of Waves.

Clarke, Austin. The Polished Hoe (Set in Barbados.)

Hill, Lawrence. The Book of Negroes

Hill, Lawrence. Any Known Blood. Excellent description of the slave trade in Africa and the United States.

Sarsfield, Mairuth. No Crystal Stair (Set in Montreal.)

Alienation:

Clarke, Austin. The Bigger Light

Clarke, Austin. The Meeting Point

Clarke, Austin. Nine Men Who Laughed

Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars

Levy, Andrea. Never Far From Nowhere

Memmi, Albert. The Pillar of Salt. Tunisia.

The American Dream:

Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John. The Pearl

The Arthurian Legend:

Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Mists of Avalon

Bradley, Marion Zimmer. Lady of Avalon

White, T. H. The Once and Future King

Autism:

Genova, Lisa. Love Anthony

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Autobiographical/Memoir:

Allende, Isabel. My Invented Country

Angelou, Maya. The Heart of a Woman

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Chen, Nien. Life and Death in Shanghai

Danticat, Edwidge. Brother, I am Dying

Gates, H.L. Colored People

Manley, Rachel. Drumblair

McBride, James. The Color of Water

McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes

Memmi, Albert. The Pillar of Salt

Walker, Rebecca. Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self

Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery

Wiesel, Elie. Night

Canadian East Coast:

Johnston, Wayne. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

MacDonald. Ann Marie. Fall on Your Knees

MacLeod, Alistair. No Great Mischief

Morgan, Bernice. Random Passage

Morgan, Bernice. Waiting for Time

Morrissey, Donna. Kit’s Law

Proulx, Annie. The Shipping News

Richards, David Adams. Bay of Love and Sorrows

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Richards, David Adams. Mercy Among the Children

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Canadian Literature:

Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace

Atwood, Margaret. Cat’s Eye

Atwood, Margaret. The Robber Bride

Cohen, Matt. Elizabeth and After

Davies, Robertson. The Lyre of Orpheus

Davies, Robertson. The Manticore

Davies, Robertson. A Mixture of Frailties

Davies, Robertson. The Rebel Angel

Davies, Robertson. What’s Bred in the Bone

Findley, Timothy. Famous Last Words

Findley, Timothy. Headhunter

Findley, Timothy. Not Wanted on the Voyage

Findley, Tomothy. The Piano Man’s Daughter

Findley, Timothy. Pilgrim

Findley, Timothy. The Telling of Lies

Findley, Timothy. You Went Away

Hébert, Anne. Kamouraska

Highway, Tomson. Kiss of the Fur Queen

Lawson, Mary. Crow Lake: A Novel

MacDonald, Ann-Marie. Fall on Your Knees

MacLeod. Alastair. No Great Mischief

Shields, Carol. The Stone Diaries

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Shields, Carol. Unless

Toews, Miriam. A Complicated Kindness

Urquhart, Jane. The Stone Carvers

Vanderhaeghe, Guy. The Englishman’s Boy

Vanderhaeghe, Guy. The Last Crossing

Wiebe, Rudy. A Discovery of Strangers

Wiebe, Rudy. Sweeter than all the World. A saga of the Mennonite people

Wright, Richard B. Clara Callan

China:

Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth. Before the Revolution. Written by a Nobel Prize winner.

Jepson, Duncan. All the Flowers in Shanghai. Set in the 1930s in Shanghai.

Lee, Janice Y.K. The Piano Teacher

Shi Nai’an and Luo Guanzhong. Outlaws of the Marsh. Volumes 1, 2 and 3. A Chinese Classic.

Sijie, Dai. Balzac and the little Chinese Seamstress.

Classics: American Literature:

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. (Love and war on the Italian Front during World War I.)

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. (Themes: loyalty, courage, love and defeat. The death of an ideal. Period: the Civil War in Spain.)

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. (Classic theme of courage in the face of defeat.)

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises

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Melville, Herman. Moby Dick. (The Quest)

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. (Historical Romance. The American Civil War and its aftermath.)

Steinbeck, John. East of Eden

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John. The Winter of Our Discontent (Issues of right and wrong, moral dilemma.)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. (Theme: the injustices of slavery.)

Styron, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner. (Historical Fiction. 1830’s slave rebellion.)

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Classics:

Austen, Jane. Emma. (Historical romance.)

Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park (Historical romance.)

Austen, Jane. Persuasion. (Historical romance.)

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. (Historical romance.)

Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. (Historical romance.)

Bronte, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. (Romance.)

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights

Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations

Dickens, Charles. Hard Times

Dickens, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby

Dickens, Charles. Pickwick Papers.

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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure

Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels

Thackeray, William. Vanity Fair

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina

Coming of Age (Female):

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Purple Hibiscus

Anderson-Dargatz, Gail. The Cure for Death by Lightning

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


Azzopardi, Trezza. The Hiding Place

Blais, Marie Claire. St. Lawrence Blues

Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees

Lamb, Wally. She’s Come Undone

Letts, Billie. Where the Heart is

Levy, Andrea. Never Far From Nowhere

McCullough, Colleen. Angel

O’Neill, Heather. Lullabies for Little Criminals

Toews, Miriam. A Complicated Kindness

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Grossman, David. See under: love

Matar, Hisham. In the Country of Men (Set in Libya.)

Coming of Age (Male):

Buckler, Ernest. The Mountain and the Valley

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations

Matar, Hishan. In the Country of Men

Mitchell, David. Black Swan Green

Ondaatje, Michael. The Cat’s Table.

Richler, Mordecai. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Vanderhaeghe, Guy. The Englishman’s Boy

Contemporary American Fiction:

Delillo, Don. White Noise

Irving, John. Cider House Rules

Irving, John. The World According to Garp

Lamb, Wally. I Know this Much is True


Oates, Joyce Carol. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

Oates, Joyce Carol. I'll Take You There

Oates, Joyce Carol. The Falls

Oates, Joyce Carol. We Were the Mulvaneys

Stockett, Kathryn. The Help

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Crime/Mystery:


Callaghan, Morley. More Joy in Heaven

Findley, Timothy. The Telling of Lies

Hébert, Anne. In the Shadow of the Wind

Moore, Brian. No Other Life

Pessl, Marisha. Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Richards, David Adams. Bay of Love and Sorrows

Death:

Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie

Choy, Wayson. Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and almost Dying


Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying

Gaines, Ernest. A Lesson Before Dying

Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones

The Depression: (1930’s):

Atwood, Margaret. The Blind Assassin

Callaghan, Morley. More Joy in Heaven

Callaghan, Morley. Such is My Beloved

Callaghan, Morley. They Shall Inherit the Earth

MacLennan, Hugh. The Watch that Ends the Night (Montreal)

Potok, Chaim. Davita’s Harp

Ross, Sinclair. As For Me and My House

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Roy, Gabrielle. The Tin Flute

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath

Discrimination:

Clarke, Austin. The Bigger Light

Clarke, Austin. The Meeting Point

Clarke, Austin. Nine Men Who Laughed

Callaghan, Morley. The Loved and the Lost

Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars

Kogawa, Joy. Itsuka

Kogawa, Joy. Obasan

Domestic Abuse:

Doyle, Roddy. The Woman Who Walked into Doors


Dystopia/Utopia:

Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake

Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange

Hilton, James. Lost Horizon

James, P.D. The Children of Men

Lessing, Doris. Memoirs of a Survivor

Skinner, B.F. Walden Two

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels

Theroux, Paul. Mosquito Coast

Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano

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Zamiatin, Yevgeny. We

Existentialism:

Camus, Albert. The Plague

Saramago, J. Blindness

Exploitation and Victimization:

Atwood, Margaret. The Edible Woman

Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing

Atwood, Margaret. Lady Oracle.

Atwood, Margaret. Life Before Man

Atwood, Margaret. Bodily Harm


Atwood, Margaret. Unearthing Suite

Atwood, Margaret. Encounters with the Element Man

Family Relationships:

Anderson-Dargatz, Gail. A Recipe for Bees

Atwood, Margaret. The Blind Assassin

Azzoparadi, Trezza. The Hiding Place

Badami, Anita Rau. The Hero’s Walk. (Family, complexity of family relationships, India primarily, Canada/India connections.)

Badami, Anita Rau. Tamarind Mem

Bissoondath, Neil. The Innocence of Age

Blais, Marie Claire. Mad Shadows

Burnard, Bonnie. A Good House


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MacLeod, Alistair. No Great Mischief

McDonald, Ann Marie. Fall On Your Knees

Mistry, Rohinton. Family Matters

Oates, Joyce Carol. We Were the Mulvaneys


Ricci, Nino. Lives of the Saints

Ricci, Nino. Where She Has Gone

Richards, David Adams. Mercy Among the Children

Richler, Mordecai. Barney’s Version

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things

Fantasy:

Card, Orson Scott. Enchantment

Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game

Card, Orson Scott. Xenocide

Jordan, Robert. The Great Hunt

Jordan, Robert. The Shadow Rising

Stoker, Bram. Dracula

Fathers and Sons:

Callaghan, Morley. They Shall Inherit the Earth

MacFarlane, David. Summer Gone

Female Quest:



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Laurence, Margaret. The Fire Dwellers

Friendship:


Historical Fiction:

Allende, Isabel. Portrait in Sepia


Auel, Jean M. Clan of the Cave Bear (Pre-historic)

Auel, Jean M. The Mammoth Hunters (Pre-historic.)

Auel, Jean M. The Valley of Horses (Pre-historic.)

Auel, Jean M. The Plains of Passage (Pre-historic.)

Boyden, Joseph. The Orenda. Native People in North America.

Buck, Pearl S. Imperial Woman

Buck, Pearl S. Peony. (China. Nineteenth Century.)

Clavel, James. Shogun. (17th century Japan.)

Clavel, James. Gai-Jin. (Nineteenth Century Japan.)

Campion, Jane. The Piano. (Nineteenth Century New Zealand.)

Diamant, Anita. The Red Tent. (Biblical.)

Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo (A classic of historical fiction.)

Dumas, Alexandre. The Man in the Iron Mask (Classic.)

Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers. (Classic.)

Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo

Eco, Umberto. The Island of the Day Before. (17th century Europe.)

Eco, Umberto. The Name of the Rose (14th century Italy.)

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Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain (Civil War, United States)

Gedge, Pauline. House of Dreams (Egypt.)

Gedge, Pauline. House of Illusions (Egypt.)

Graves, Robert. I, Claudius (Rome. Classic historical fiction.)

Graves, Robert. Claudius, the God

Heyer, Georgette. The Spanish Bride

Johnston, Wayne. Johnston, Wayne. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Newfoundland during the days of Joey Smallwood.)

Johnston, Wayne. The Navigator of New York

Jonasson, Jonas. The 100-year-old-man who climbed out the window and disappeared

McCullough, Colleen. The First Man in Rome

McCullough, Colleen. Morgan’s Run (The Settling of Australia.)

McCullough, Colleen. The Thorn Birds (Australia)

McCullough, Colleen. The Touch (Australia)

Michener, James. Hawaii.

Michener, James. The Covenant (South Africa.)

Orczy, Baroness. The Scarlet Pimpernel

Plaidy, Jean. The Widow of Windsor

Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe

Smith, Wilbur. As the Falcon Flies

Smith, Wilbur. Golden Fox (Africa.)

Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe

Smith, Wilbur. The River God (Ancient Egypt.)

Smith, Wilbur. The Seventh Scroll (Ancient Egypt.)

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Smith, Wilbur. Rage (Africa)

Smith, Wilbur. Flight of the Falcon

Stone, Irving. The Agony and the Ecstasy. (Fictionalized biography of Michelangelo.)

Sundaresan, Indu. The Twentieth Wife

Unsworth, Barry. Sacred Hunger. (Subject: the slave trade. Themes: Human rivalry, greed. Period: 1752-1765.)

Wallace, Randall. Braveheart. (Medieval Scotland.)

Holocaust:

Bock, Dennis. The Ash Garden.

Keneally, Thomas. Schindler’s Ark

Michaels, Anne. Fugitive Pieces

De Rosnay, Tatiana. Sarah’s Key.

Sebald, W.G. Austerlitz

Styron, William. Sophie’s Choice

Horror:

Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Inheritor

King, Stephen. The Shining

Stevenson, Robert. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stoker, Bram. Dracula

Immigrant Experiences:

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. Nigerians in the United States.

Bulawayo, Noviolet. We Need New Names. Zimbabweans in the United States.

Alvarez, Julia. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

Brand, Dionne. What We All Long For

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Clarke, Austin. More

Clarke, Austin. The Origin of Waves. Barbados/Toronto

Clarke, Austin. The Question.

Espinet, Ramabai. The Swinging Bridge. Trinidad/Canada

Hegi, Ursula. The Vision of Emma Blau. German immigrants to the U.S.

Junot, Díaz. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Levy, Andrea. Every Light in the House Burnin'. Jamaican immigrants in England.

Levy, Andrea. Never Far From Nowhere. Jamaican immigrants in England.

Levy, Andrea. Small Island. Jamaican immigrants in England.

Moodie, Susanna. Roughing it in the Bush. Early Canadian settlers.

Proulx, Annie. Accordion Crimes

Ricci, Nino. In a Glass House (Italian Canadians. South Western Ontario.)

Ricci, Nino. Where She has Gone

Selvon, Sam. The Lonely Londoners

Theroux, Paul. Kowloon Tong (This novel describes the period when the British are handing over Hong Kong to China.)

Urquhart, Jane. Away.

Immigrant Experiences, Asian Culture:

Ali, Monica. Brick Lane. Immigrants from Bangladesh in England.

Bannerjee, Anjali. Invisible Lives.

Chang, Lan Samantha. Inheritance. China/United States.

Chong, Denise. The Concubine’s Children.

Choy, Wayson. All that Matters.

Choy, Wayson. The Jade Peony. Growing up in Vancouver’s early Chinatown.

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Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha.

Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars. (War. Japanese internment.)

Kogawa, Joy. Itsuka. (Contemporary Japanese Canadian story. Political theme.) Japanese Canadian fight for redress for losses experienced during war time internment.)

Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake

Lee, Chang-Rae. Native Speaker. (Story of a Korean American. Highlights alienation from American mainstream life, the straddling of two cultures.)

Mukherjee, Bharati. Wife.

Mukherjee, Bharati. Jasmine.

Mulladi, Amulya. Serving Crazy with Curry. Traditional Indian family in North America. Mental illness.

Nakano, Takeo Ujo. Within the Barbed Wire Fence.

Rushdie, Salman. East, West.

Tan, Amy. The Hundred Secret Senses. San Francisco and China.

Tan, Amy. The Kitchen God’s Wife (China and San Francisco. Chinese American families, mother and daughter theme.

Tan, Amy. Saving Fish from Drowning.

Vassanji, M. G. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. Describes the world of South Asian immigrants in Kenya.

Vassanji, M.G. No New Land. (South Asian immigrants in Toronto.)

India:

Adiga, Aravind. The White Tiger.

Badami, Anita Rau. Tamarind Mem (Mother/daughter theme.)

Badami, Anita Rau. The Hero’s Walk

Baldwin, Shauna Singh. What the Body Remembers (Family issues: traditional marriage. Political issues: Departure of the British, changes in Indian society, Sikhs caught in the crossfire of tensions between Hindus and Muslims.)

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Davidar, David. The House of Blue Mangoes

Desai, Anita. Fasting, Feasting.

Desai, Kiran. The Inheritance of Loss.

Irani, Anosh. The Song of Kahunsha. Street children in Mumbai.

Kaye, M.M. The Far Pavilions.

Kirchner, Bharti. Darjeeling.

Ondaatje, Michael. Anil’s Ghost (Sri Lanka, political upheaval, main character who straddles two worlds --- Sri Lanka and the West, strong political, human rights theme.)

Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance. (1970’s during Indira Gandhi’s leadership. Set in a time of political turmoil. State of Emergency.)

Mistry, Rohinton. Family Matters. Generational differences. Aging. The influence of the past on the present.

Mistry, Rohinton. Such a Long Journey. (Mumbai, India. Then called Bombay. 1971. Political and social change. Effect on family life. Turbulent political period)

Mulladi, Amulya. A Breath of Fresh Air. Fiction set around the true life event of the gas leak at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in 1984.

Mulladi, Amulya. The Mango Season.

Narayan, R.K. The Man-Eater of Malgudi.

Roberts, Gregory David. Shantaram. Written by an Australian.

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Set in1969. Family saga.

Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s Children. Starts with the period of India’s independence.

Rushdie, Salman. The Moor’s Last Sigh.

Rushdie, Salman. The Satanic Verses.

Rushdie, Salman. Shalimar the Clown.

Seth, Vikram. A Suitable Boy (A wonderful book about India in the early 1950's. The story takes place a few years after the partition of the country into India and Pakistan.)

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Sidhwa, Bapsi. Water. Set in India in 1938 during the period of Mahatma Gandhi’s rise to power. This is the story of traditional India and the fate of child brides.

Sidhwa, Bapsi. Cracking India (Set during the period of the partition of India into India and Pakistan).

Sundaresan, Indu. The Twentieth Wife (Historical novel recounts stories of India’s distant past during the days of the Mughal Empire.)

Sundaresan, Indu. The Feast of Roses.

Umrigar, Thrity. The Space Between Us.

Vassanji, M. G. The Assassin’s Song.

Vassanji, M. G. A Place Within: Rediscovering India. A memoir.

Ireland:

Doyle, Roddy. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Enright, Anne. The Gathering

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. (Set in Ireland. Early 20th century. The artist and his society.)

McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes

McGahern, John. Amongst Women

Isolation/Extremes of Climate:

Morgan, Bernice. Random Passage

Morgan, Bernice. Waiting for Time



Israel:

Grossman, David. The Book of Intimate Grammar

Grossman, David. To the End of the Land

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Grossman, David. See Under: Love

Latin American authors, settings, themes: (Magical realism)

Allende, Isabel. Daughter of Fortune

Allende, Isabel. Eva Luna

Allende, Isabel. The House of Spirits

Allende, Isabel. Portrait in Sepia

Esquivel, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico is the setting of this story.)

García Márquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude

García Márquez, Gabriel. Love in the Time of Cholera

Malaysia:

Au, Tash. The Harmony Silk Factory

Memoirs:

Choy, Wayson. Not Yet: A memoir of living and almost dying.

This may be Wayson Choy’s most powerful work. It describes his serious health issues to which the title refers and gives a glimpse of his life so far.

Mental Health (The Human Mind):


Findley, Timothy. The Piano Man’s Daughter

Fowles, J. The Collector.



Mulladi, Amulya. Serving Crazy with Curry

Modern Urban Life:

Coupland, Douglas. Generation X

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Coupland, Douglas. Girlfriend in a Coma

Coupland, Douglas. Shampoo Planet

Moral dilemma:

Edwards, Kim. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Stedman, M. L. The Light between Oceans

Steinbeck, John. The Winter of our Discontent

Mother/Daughter Relationships:

Badami, Anita Rau. Tamarind Mem. Set in India.

Chang, Lan Samantha. Inheritance

Kidd, Sue Monk. The Invention of Wings


Shields, Carol. Unless

Tan, Amy. The Kitchen God’s Wife (China, Chinese American families, mother daughter theme.)

Native People:

Armstrong, Jeannette. Slash

Highway, Tomson. Kiss of the Fur Queen

King, Thomas. Green Grass, Running Water

King, Thomas. Medicine River

Wiebe, Rudy. A Discovery of Strangers

Old Age:

Anderson-Dargatz, Gail. A Recipe for Bees

Ignatieff, Michael. Scar Tissue

Mistry, Rohinton. Family Matters

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Murdoch, Iris. Bruno’s Dream

Richler, Mordecai. Barney’s Version

Swift, Graham. Last Orders

Ordinary Existence:

Shields, Carol. Larry’s Party

Shields, Carol. The Stone Diaries

Political Intrigue:

Chen, Nien. Life and Death in Shanghai.

Matar, Hisham. In the Country of Men

Ondaatje, Michael. Anil’s Ghost (Civil War in Sri Lanka)

Psychology/Psychoanalysis:


Findley, Timothy. Pilgrim


Laurence, Margaret. The Diviners

MacLennan, Hugh. The Watch that Ends the Night

Quebec:

Hébert, Anne. Kamouraska

Romance (Gothic):

Du Maurier, Daphne. The Glass Blowers

Du Maurier, Daphne. My Cousin Rachel

Du Maurier, Daphne. Frenchman’s Creek

Du Maurier, Daphne. Jamaica Inn

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Du Maurier, Daphne. The King’s General

Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca

Science Fiction:

Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot

Asimov, Isaac. Pebble in the Sky (Dystopia/Utopia); (Time Travel/Time Warp)

Asimov, Isaac. The Rest of the Robots

Bradbury, Ray. Martian Chronicles

Bradley, Marion Zimmer. Darkover Series

Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange

Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game (Alien Beings)

Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Shadow (Alien Beings)

Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Clarke, Arthur C. 2010: Odyssey Two

Clarke, Arthur C. 2061: Odyssey Three

Crichton, Michael. The Lost World

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Lost World

Herbert, Frank. Dune.

Herbert, Frank. Dune Messiah

Herbert, Frank. Children of Dune

Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet

McCarthy, Cormac. The Road

Robinson, Kim Stanley. Green Mars.

Sagan, Carl. Contact

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Verne, Jules. Journey to the Center of the Earth. (Lost Worlds.)

Verne, Jules. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat’s Cradle

Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano (Describes a world run by a super computer and completely dominated by machines.)

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five

Wells, H.G. The Time Machine. (Time Travel/Time Warp)

Self-esteem issues:


Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye (Identity, self-esteem issues.)

Slavery:


Somalia:

Mohamed, Nadifa. The Orchard of Lost Souls

South Africa:

Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace

Coetzee, J.M. Elizabeth Costello (Not really about South Africa, but written by a South African author. Nobel Prize winner.)

Coetzee, J.M. Youth (South African author. The story is set in England and South Africa. A coming of age story)

Courtenay, Bryce. The Power of One

Courtenay, Bryce. Tandia

Gordimer, Nadine. July’s People

Gordimer, Nadine. My Son’s Story

Gordimer, Nadine. None to Accompany Me

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Gordimer, Nadine. The Pick-Up

Paton, Alan. Cry the Beloved Country (Classic novel about apartheid.)

South Asian settings and/or themes:

Mukherjee, Bharati. Desirable Daughters.

Mukherjee, Bharati. The Tree Bride.

Mulladi, Amulya. The Mango Season.

Ondaatje, Michael. Anil’s Ghost (Sri Lanka, political upheaval, main character straddles two worlds --- Sri Lanka and the West, strong political, human rights theme.)

Vassanji, M.G. The Book of Secrets. A view of the South Asian community in East Africa.

Vassanji, M.G. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. (The world of South Asians in East Africa during a time of political change.)

Through the eyes of children:


Grossman, David. See under: love

Matar, Hisham. In the Country of Men (Set in Libya.)

Ricci, Nino. Lives of the Saints

Utopian Literature:

Bunyan, John. Pilgrim’s Progress

de Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quijote

Hilton, James. Lost Horizon

Skinner, B.F. Walden Two

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

West Indian Novels:

Bissoondath, Neil. A Casual Brutality

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Clarke, Austin. The Origin of Waves

Clarke, Austin. The Polished Hoe

Danticat, Edwidge. Breath, Eyes, Memory

Danticat, Edwidge. The Farming of Bones

Naipaul, V.S. House for Mr. Biswas

Naipaul, V.S. Miguel Street

Naipaul, V.S. Mimic Men

Women/Gender Roles:

Allende, Isabel. Daughter of Fortune


Atwood, Margaret. Life Before Man

Atwood, Margaret. Bodily Harm

Chang, Lan Samantha. Inheritance

Hoffman, Alice. The Dovekeepers


Laurence, Margaret. A Bird in the House

Laurence, Margaret. The Diviners

Laurence, Margaret. The Fire-Dwellers

Laurence, Margaret. A Jest of God

Laurence, Margaret. The Stone Angel


World War I:

Barker, Pat. Regeneration

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Boyden, Joseph. Three Day Road.

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms (Love and war on the Italian Front during World War I.)

Itani, Frances. Deafening

Mowat, Farley. And No Birds Sang (A memoir)

Slade, Arthur. Megiddo’s Shadow

Urquhart, Jane. The Stone Carvers

World War II:

Baldwin, Shauna Singh. The Tiger Claw.

Ballard, J.G. Empire of the Sun.

Blake, Sarah. The Postmistress.

Charlesworth, Monique. The Children’s War.

de Bernières, Louis. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Dunmore, Helen. The Siege

Findley, Timothy. Famous Last Words

Findley, Timothy. You Went Away

Hegi, Ursula. Stones from the River

Lee, Janice Y.K. The Piano Teacher (Set in Hong Kong in the 1940s.)

Michaels, Anne. Fugitive Pieces

Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient

Steinbeck, John. The Moon is Down

Thien, Madeleine. Certainty

Compiled by R.Gibbs. Librarian, M.D.H.S. Updated, June, 2015.

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