Book: Great Books for High School Kids
Author: Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford
ISBN: 0-8070-3255-7
U-$1.00-B-0.0046743907-BE-214
Comments: This book is a great source for trying to find the right book for your high school child/student. The following is a list of books the book recommends.
Overcoming Childhood
1.
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Childhood Stories
1.
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
2.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
3.
Concrete Candy by Apollo
4.
Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
5.
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
6.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
7.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
8.
Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox
9.
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
10.
Liar's Club by Mary Karr
11.
Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi
12.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
13.
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
14.
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
15.
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
16.
Hamlet's Dresser by Bob Smith
17.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
18.
Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
19.
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
Abuse and Recovery
1.
The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
2.
Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
3.
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
4.
A Life Without Consequences by Stephen Elliot
5.
There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
6.
Cool for You by Eileen Myles
7.
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe
8.
Pure by Rebbecca Ray
9.
The Late Great Me by Sandra Scoppettone
Legacies: The Identities We Inherit From the Past
1.
Two or Three Things I know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
2.
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
3.
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
4.
To See and See Again by Tara Bahrampour
5.
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
6.
Leaving by Richard Dry
7.
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
8.
The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
9.
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
10.
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
11.
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
12.
Short Stories by Langston Hughes
13.
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
14.
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
15.
Balm in Gilead by Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
16.
Li Po and Tu Fu by Li Po and Tu Fu
17.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
18.
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
19.
Sula by Toni Morrison
20.
Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray
21.
Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
22.
Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham
23.
Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai
24.
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
25.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
26.
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
27.
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
28.
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Political Struggle for Freedom
1.
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
2.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
3.
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
4.
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
5.
A Lesson before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
6.
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
7.
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
8.
The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon
9.
Dune by Frank Herbert
10.
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
11.
Short Stories by Langston Hughes
12.
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
13.
First World Ha Ha Ha by Elaine Katzenberger
14.
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
15.
Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic
16.
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
17.
1984 by George Orwell
18.
The Terrorism Trap by Michael Parenti
19.
This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
20.
The Jungle Novels: The Cotton Pickers, The Bridge in the Jungle
21.
The General from the Jungle, The Rebellion of the Hanged by B. Traven
22.
Native Son by Richard A. Wright
Talking Back: Making Moral Choices in An Inmoral World
1.
Another Country by James Baldwin
2.
Two Years before the Mast by Henry Richard
3.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
4.
Esperanza's Box of Saints by Maria Amparo Escandon
5.
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
6.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
7.
The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga
8.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
9.
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
10.
Geeks by Jonathan Katz
11.
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
12.
Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol
13.
The Color of Water by James McBride
14.
Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall
15.
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
16.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
17.
Working on the Chain Gang by Walter Mosley
18.
1984 by George Orwell
19.
Catapult by Jim Paul
20.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues by Tom Robbins
21.
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
22.
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
23.
Miss Lonelyhearts/Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
24.
The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
25.
Bomb the Suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt
26.
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Journey to Adulthood
1.
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
2.
Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
3.
Donald Duk by Frank Chin
4.
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
5.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
6.
The Boy with a Thorn in His Side by Keith Fleming
7.
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
8.
The Saskiad by Brian Hall
9.
Hoop Dreams by Ben Joravsky
10.
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
11.
Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall
12.
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
13.
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
14.
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
15.
The Late Great Me by Sandra Scoppettone
16.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
17.
The Adventures of Huckbleberry Finn by Mark Twain
18.
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
Hubris and Nemesis
1.
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
2.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3.
The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney
4.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
5.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Is Your Future Fated?
1.
The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
2.
The Stranger by Albert Camus
3.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
4.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
5.
Leaving by Richard Dry
6.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7.
Young Men and Fire by Norman MacLean
8.
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
9.
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
10.
The House of Mirth by Richard Russo
11.
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
12.
The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams
The Cycle of Violence
1.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
2.
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
3.
Leaving by Richard Dry
4.
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
5.
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
6.
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
7.
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
8.
Palestine by Joe Sacco
9.
The Dying Ground by Nichelle D. Tramble
Spiritual Journeys
1.
It Begins with Tears by Opal Palmer Adisa
2.
The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
3.
Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
4.
Life Is a Miracle by Wendell Berry
5.
Tracks by Louise Erdrich
6.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Ann Fadiman
7.
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
8.
East of the Mountains by David Guterson
9.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
10.
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
11.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
12.
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
13.
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
14.
Contact by Carl Sagan
15.
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
16.
Seven Arrows by Hyemeyohsts Storm
Fathers and Sons
1.
A Death in the Family by James Agee
2.
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
3.
So Far from God by Anna Castillo
4.
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
5.
Sometimes a Great Nation by Ken Kesey
6.
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman MacLean
7.
Zenzele by J. Nozipo Maraire
8.
Maus by Art Spiegelman
History Reimagined
1.
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
2.
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
3.
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
4.
Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano
5.
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
6.
The Mysterious Stranger and other Stories by Mark Twain
7.
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
8.
The Man Who Cried I Am by John Williams
9.
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
Gotta Laugh to Keep From Crying
1.
Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
2.
Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara
3.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
4.
Dead Souls by Nicolai Gogol
5.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
6.
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes
7.
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
8.
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
9.
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
10.
The World According to Garp by John Irving
11.
All in the Timing by David Ives
12.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
13.
Being There by Jerzy N. Kosinski
14.
Milagro Beanfield War by John Treadwell Nichols
15.
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
16.
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
17.
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
18.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
19.
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
20.
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
21.
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
Cultural Survival
1.
The Lone Ranger and Tanto by Sherman Alexie
2.
Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
3.
Drink Cultura by Jose Antonio Burciaga
4.
Counting Coup by Larry Colton
5.
Their Eyes Were Watching god by Zora Neale Hurston
6.
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
7.
Blues People by LeRoi Jones
8.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
9.
This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Toer
10.
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
True War Stories
1.
Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden
2.
The Face of Battle by John Keegan
3.
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
4.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
5.
Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
6.
In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff
Parallel Universes of Human Experience
1.
West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary
2.
To See and See Again by Tara Bahrampour
3.
Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
4.
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
5.
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
6.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Ann Fadiman
7.
The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
8.
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
9.
Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson
10.
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
11.
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
12.
Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
13.
China Boy by Gus Lee
14.
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
15.
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
16.
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
17.
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
18.
Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
19.
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight
20.
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
21.
Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman
22.
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
The Rashomon Effect: Fiction and Nonfiction Told From Shifting Perspective
1.
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
2.
Grendel by John Gardner
3.
The Color of Water by James McBride
4.
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
5.
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight
Recommended Great Books for High School Kids
1.
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
2.
It Begins with Tears by Opal Palmer Adisa
3.
A Death In the Family by James Agee
4.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
5.
Genesis by Peter Alter
6.
Concrete Candy by Apollo
7.
The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
8.
The blind Assasin by Margaret Atwood
9.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
10.
To See And See Again by Tara Bahrampour
11.
Another Country by James Baldwin
12.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
13.
Where I'm Bound by Allen Ballard
14.
My Love Gorilla by Toni Cade Bambara
15.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
16.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
17.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
18.
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo by Jose Antonio Burciago
19.
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
20.
Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada
21.
The Nine Guardians by Rosario Castellanos
22.
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
23.
Billy by Albert French
24.
Honor Thy Children by Molly Fumia
25.
West of the Jordan by Laila Halaby
26.
The Saskiad by Brian Hall
27.
Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line by Ben Hamper
28.
Mississippi Swamp by John Hatch
29.
The Wailing Wind by Tony Hillerman
30.
Yesterday Will Make You Cry by Chester Himes
31.
When the Elephants Dancy by Tess Uriza Holte
32.
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
33.
Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai
