from The Hawbridge School English Department
(Note: Not all of these are appropriate for all readers.)
YA Prose
The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain, John Boyne
Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli
Copper Sun, Sharon Draper
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
Monster, by Walter Dean Meyers
Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Holes, by Louis Sachar
Love that Dog, Sharon Creech
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
Out of My Mind, Sharon Draper
Tears of a Tiger, Sharon Draper
Touching Spirit Bear, Ben Mikaelsen
Prose (Mostly), Mostly Fiction
Gilead , Marilynne Robinson
Herzog , Saul Bellow
All Will be Well, John McGahern
Exit West, Moshin Hamid
Feel Free, Zadie Smith
Selected Stories, Alice Munro
Selected Stories, Raymond Carver
Into the Woods, Tana French
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
Brick Lane, Monica Ali
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
The Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
What is the What, Dave Eggers
The Return, Hisham Matar
Angels in America, Tony Kushner
The Empathy Exams , Leslie Jamison
Maus, Art Spiegelman
How to Survive a Plague, David French
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffeneger
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Contemporary Poetry
Claudia Rankine, Citizen
Linda Gregson, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep
Louise Gluck, The Wild Iris
Mary Szybist, Incarnadine
Jeffrey Yang, An Aquarium
Shane McCrae, In the Language of My Captor
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Rocket Fantastic
Paisley Rekdal, Animal Eye
Alan Shapiro, The Dead Alive and Busy
Robert Pinsky, The Figured Wheel
Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus
Dana Levin, Wedding Day
Rigoberto Gonzalez, Unpeopled Eden
Anne Winters, The Displaced of Capital
Terrance Hayes, How to be Drawn
Philip Levine, What Work Is
Sharon Olds, Stag’s Leap
Frank Bidart, Under the Western Night
Brenda Hillman, Death Tractates
Carl Phillips, Silverchest