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Choose a novel from the suggested list in the instruction letter or the list below. Read the novel. Compose an original essay analyzing what you learned about the culture in the novel.
In August, Schoology should be available for your class to submit the final copy of your essay. |
Each student must choose one book to read from this list. Challenge: Pick a culture that is personally new or unknown to widen your global perspective.
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, (Colombia)
- The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende (Argentina)
- Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano (Latin America)
- At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig by John Gimlette (Paraguay)
- Like Water for Chocolate (Como Agua para Chocolate) by Laura Esquivel (Spain)
- Knitting the Fog (Tejiendo la Niebla) by Claudia D. Hernandez (Guatemala)
- Next Year in Havana (El próxima año en La Habana) by Channel Cleeton (Cuba)
- Mexican Gothic (Gótica Mexicana) by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexico)
- The Architect’s Apprentice By Elif Shafak (Turkey)
- Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane (South Africa)
- Country of My Skull By Antjie Krog (South Africa)
- The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho (North Africa)
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, (South Africa)
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, (Sierra Leone, Africa)
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (Africa)
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria, Africa)
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, (India)
- White Tiger by Arvind Adiga (India)
- Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markanday (India)
- The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor (India)
- Behind the Beautiful Forever by Katherine Boo (Mumbia, India)
- The Milk Lady of Bangalore By Shoba Narayan (India)
- Ghandi-An Autobiography-The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi (India)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Australian perspective- Germany WWII-)
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, (Germany WWI)
- We, the Drowned By Carsten Jensen (Denmark)
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (China)
- The Woman Warrior By Maxine Hong Kingston (China)
- The Late homecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yangby (Hmong)
- Hiroshima by John Hersey (Japan)
- Pachinko By Min Jin Lee (Japan and Korea)
- Dragon Chica or Tiger Girl by May-Lee Chai (Vietnam)
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (Iraq)
- Song of a Captive Bird By Jasmin Darznik (Iran)
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai & Patricia McCormick (Pakistan)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)
- Day of the Oprichnik, by Vladimir Sorokin (Russia)
- Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol (Russia)
- Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia)
- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (Russia)
- And Quiet Flows the Don, by Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russia)
- Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak (Russia)
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Russia)