Mrs. Alamour's Recommended Reading

Mrs. Alamour'sRecommended Reading

The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini (Afghanistan + US)Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquival (Mexico)The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Canada)The Queen of Waterby Laura Resau (US) and María Virginia Farinango (Ecuador)

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakBefore We Were Free by Julia AlvarezCall Me by My Name by John Ed BradleyThe Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Samurai's Garden by Gail TsukiyamaMississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris CroweUnder a Painted Skyby Stacey Lee

Thomas WolfeCarl Sandburg Wiley CashJenny HubbardAlexandra DuncanJaye Robin Brown

The House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosMore than This by Patrick NessAn Abundance of Katherinesby John GreenEverything, Everythingby Nicola YoonMy Sister's Keeperby Jodi PicoultWhere Things Come Back by John Whaley

Across the Universe by Beth RevisThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Maze Runner by James DashnerDivergent by Veronica RothCity of Bones by Cassandra ClareReawakened by Colleen HouckThe Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

Fantasy/Science Fiction

General Fiction

Historical Fiction

Maus by Art SpiegelmanThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonPopular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek by Maya van WagenenInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerFriday Night Lights by H.G. BissingerLaughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw

Non-Fiction

Mystery/Suspense

Billy Collins (US)Pablo Neruda (Chile)Langston Hughes (US)Shane Koyczan (Canada)Kahlil Gibran (Lebanon)Kofi Awoonor (Ghana)Nikki Giovanni (US)Sherman Alexie (US)Matsuo Basho (Japan)

Poetry

"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe

Short Stories

World Literature

Local

Classic Literature

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoyevskyWuthering Heights by Emily BronteTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldTell No Oneby Harlan CobenThe Forgetting by Nicole MaggiTen by Gretchen McNeilThe White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughreanSherlock Holmes: Selected Storiesby Arthur Conan Doyle