Macomb Senior High School
SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WORLD LITERATURE
| Abelove, Joan | Go and Come Back (Peru) |
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart (Africa) * |
| Adamson, Joy | Born Free (nonfiction) (Africa) |
| Alvarez, Julia | How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents, In the Time of Butterflies (Dominican Republic) |
| Anaya, Rudolfo A. | Bless Me, Ultima (New Mexico) |
| Aristophanes | The Frogs (Greece) |
| Azuelo, Mariano | The Underdogs (Mexico) |
| Campbell, Joseph | The Power of Myth (all) |
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger (France) |
| Cervantes, Miguel de | Don Quixote (Spain) |
| Chevalier, Tracy | Girl with a pearl Earring (Netherlands) |
| Choi, Sook Nyui | Year of Impossible Goodbyes (Korea) YA |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness (Africa) |
| Crew, Linda | Children of the River (Cambodia) YA |
| Danicat, Edwidge | The Farming of Bones (Caribbean) |
| Diamant, Anita | Red Tent (Israel) |
| Dostoevski, Feodor | Crime and Punishment (Russia) |
| Dumas, Alexander | The Count of Monte Cristo (France), The Three Musketeers (France) |
| Emechti, Buchi | The Bride Price (Africa) |
| Esquivel, Laura | Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico) |
| Geras, Adele | Troy (Greece) |
| Gordon, Sheila | Waiting for Rain (Africa) |
| Hamilton, Edith | Mythology (Greece/Rome) |
| Hesse, Herman | Siddhartha (India) |
| Heyerdahl, Thor | Kon-Tiki (Pacific Ocean) |
| Hicyilmaz, Gaye | Against the Storm (Turkey) |
| Ho, Min Fong | The Clay Marble, Rice without Rain (Thailand) YA |
| Homer | The Odyssey*, The Illiad (Greece)* |
| Hosseini, Khaled | Kite Runner (Afghanistan) |
| Hugo, Victor | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (France), Les miserables (France) |
| Huynh, Quang | The Land I Lost (Africa) YA |
| Joyce, James | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Ireland)* |
| Jenkins, Lyll de | The Honorable Prison (Mexico) |
| Kafka, Franz | The Trial (Czechoslovakia), Metamorpheses (Germany) |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Kim (India) |
| Latifa | My Forbidden Face (Afghanistan) |
| LLewellyn, Richard | How Green was my Valley (Wales) |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo | The Prince (Italy) |
| Malamud, Bernard | The Fixer (Russia) |
| Markandaya, Kamala | Nectar in a Sieve (India) |
| Marshall, James | Walkabout (Australia) |
| Martel, Yann | The Life of Pi (India) |
| Martinez, Ruben | Crossing over: a Mexican family on the migrant trail (Mexico) |
| McCormick, Patricia | Sold (Nepal) |
| McLaren, Clemence | Inside the Walls of Troy (Greece) |
| Mori, Kyoko | Shizulo's Daughter (Japan) |
| Naidoo, Beverly | The Other Side of Truth (Africa) YA |
| Namioka, Lensey | Ties that Bind, Ties that Break (China) YA |
| Orlev, Uri | Man from the Other Side (Poland) YA |
| Park, Linda Sue | A Single Shard (Korea) YA |
| Pasternak, Boris | Dr. Zhivago (Russia) |
| Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country (Africa) |
| Poole, Joyce | Coming of Age with Elephants: a Memoir (Africa) |
| Remarque, Erich Mariai | All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany) |
| Renault, Erich Mariai | The King Must Die (Crete) |
| Richter, Hans Peter | Friedrich (Germany) YA |
| Rostand, Edmond | Cyrano de bergerac (France) |
| Satrapi, Marjane | Persepolis (Iran) |
| Solzhenitsyn, Alexander | A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich (Russia) |
| Staples, Suzanne Fisher | Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Pakistan) |
| Stratton, Allan | Chanda's Secrets (Africa) |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club (China)* |
| Temple, Frances | The Ramsay Scallop (England/Spain) |
| Tolstoy, Leo | Anna Karenina, War and Peace (Russia) |
| Tsukiyama, Gail | Women of the Silk (China) |
| Ung, Luong | First They Killed My Father (nonfiction) (Cambodia) |
| Voltaire | Candide (France)* |
| Wilder, Thornton | The Ides of March (Rome) |
| Yep, Laurence | Dragonwings (China) |
* Not available for Mr. Krehbiel's class
YA = Young Adult Literature
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August 27, 2007.
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