Thank you to all who contributed:
Sharon Slaney, Librarian
Timberlake H.S. Library
Spirit Lake, ID
Kathleen Dunbar
Mount Si High School, Washington
Marsha ReddLibrarian, Kelloggsville High School Grand Rapids, MI
Cheryl Youse, MLS
Media Specialist
Colquitt County High School
Debra Giannone
Librarian
Long Island Lutheran Middle and High School
Brookville, NY
Here are the recommendations:
You did not specify what period you were asking for so here are titles
for modern literature as well as classical. These authors have other
titles that are also good. Check the awards such as The Booker Prize,
The Man Booker Prize, The Nobel Prize in Literature as well as other
International awards given for literature, especially for modern titles.
Adrift on the Nile - Naquib Mahfouz
Aeneid by Vergil
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
All's well that Ends Well - Shakespeare
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Antigone by Sophocles
Anthony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare
The Arabian Nights' Entertainments - Unknown
As You like it - Shakespeare
The Bacchae by Euripides
Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
A Bend in the River - V. S Naipaul
Beowulf - unknown
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevski
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
The Captain's Daughter - Pushkin
The Castle - Franz Kafka
Charter House of Parma - Stendhal
The CID - Pierre Corneille
Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Patton
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
Divine Comedy - Dante Alighiere
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
Don Juan - George Gordon
Don Quixote de la Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Elegy for Kosovo - Ismail Kadare
Epic of Gilgamesh - Unknown
Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
Giants in the Earth - O.E. Rolvaag
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - Shakespeare
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipaul
Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Iliad - Homer
Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Miserable, Les - Victor Hugo
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Pasage to India - E. M. Forster
Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac
Phantom of the Opera - Leroux, Gaston
The Pilgrims Progress - John Bunyan
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Plague, Albert Camus
Red and the Black - Stendhal
Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
Scarlet Pimpernel - Orczy
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Sharon Slaney Librarian
Timberlake H.S. Library
5973 W. Hwy 54
P.O. Box 909
Spirit Lake, Id. 83869
208-623-6303
sslaney@lakeland272.
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Dear Mike,
I have read all of Marquez but it's been a while.
What about Isabel Allende? She is similar to Marquez.
Daughter of Fortune and House of Spirits are two of
my favorites by her.
Adichie Chimananda Ngozi's hit book "Purple Hibiscus"
is another must read for World Lit. She is from
Nigeria. Another great Nigerian author is Buchi
Emecheta. Her most popular book is "Bride Price".
As far as Japanese authors go I love Koji Suzuki's
"Ring" series, but they might be too graphic for high
school students. Another great Japanese book is "The
Tale of Jenji" or something like that...I don't
remember the author's name, however. There's another
Japanese series, it's a trilogy. I only read the
first book "Spring Snow" but I don't remember the
author. The Jenji book and Spring Snow are Japanese
classics, fabulous books!
Sincerely,
Kathleen Dunbar
Mount Si High School
Snoqualime, Washington
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I would definitely recommend Kite Runner or A thousand splendid suns by Khaled
Hosseini and perhaps the Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo.
Marsha ReddLibrarian, Kelloggsville High School Grand Rapids, MI
marsharedd@hotmail.comEducation is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone
is a student. Everyone is a teacher.
My teachers are using:
~
Divine Wind~/ Gary Disher (Australia)
~The Alchemist~/ Coehle~(Spain and Egypt)
Things Fall Apart~/ ~Achebe (Nigeria)
Snow Falling on Cedars / Guterson (set in Washington state but about a
Japanese-American)
Cheryl Youse, MLS
Media Specialist
Colquitt County High School
HYPERLINK "mailto:cyouse@gmail.com"cyouse@gmail.com
The 10th graders in my school do world lit.~ I can give you authors that some of
them do for the research paper.~ They need to read a primary source and a biography
about the author and talk about how their lives influence their work.~
Jane Austen (Especially popular with the girls)
Isabel Allende
Julia Alvarez
Saki
Erich Maria Remarque
Cervantes
Dante
Agatha Christie
Robert Louis Stevenson
Doris Lessing
Goethe
LeFanu (especially popular for the boys and students who like gothic horror)
~
Here are some titles also:
Last Chronicle of Barset- Trollope
Mrs. Dalloway
Dracula
Middlesex
Brideshead Revisited
Mill on the Floss
Frankenstein
~
I'm sure I could come up with even more but this is a rough idea.
Debra Giannone
Librarian
Long Island Lutheran Middle and High School
Brookville, NY
watersdeb@aol.com
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
Mike Weidlich
Media Coordinator
Gresham-Barlow School District
mike_weidlich@gbsd.gresham.k12.or.us
503.674.5545
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