Read Around the World

You read. Some of you read A LOT. Now, let's stretch your perspectives beyond borders, genres, & our comfort zones.

Are you on the Reader's Pathway, happiest & most at ease with a book in hand?

You are welcome to "just read" one of these many challenging & interesting books. If you're also looking to stretch yourself with a mini-project, do a one-page book project that gives you an artifact of your reading.

I want to explore high school & college reading, diverse authors and new-to-me genres!

Click here to discover diverse world literature. These books are written BY or FEATURE authors of color. That means people who may be biracial or multiracial. or of African, Asian, Polynesian, Hispanic/Latino, First Nations/Native American/Aboriginal, Middle Eastern, or Persian background.

Click here to discover contemporary literature. These are books written within the last 50-60 years, and concern relevant-to-us topics, people, or groups.

Click here to discover high school & college-level literature. You've heard of some of these--why not pick one up? These are the books that grow us into well-educated global citizens. They challenge us with the big ideas that built civilizations. Many are controversial, and that's ok! Challenge = growth.

Click here to discover books by and about LGBTQIA people and groups. Still learning what it all means and don't know who to ask? LGBTQIA is a way of providing visibility and respect to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, or asexual.

Click here to discover books by and about women. These books are written BY or FEATURE people who identify as women, including people who may be transgender women.

Click here to discover books by and about men. These books are written BY or FEATURE people who identify as men, including people who may be transgender men.

I want to challenge myself with world literature! (see below)

The Nobel Reading Project is something for those of you interested in advanced global and historic literature. Some of these winners have been controversial, while others (like Halldor Laxness, Toni Morrison, and Rudyard Kipling) are authors that have helped to define that country's literature. Click here to learn more about the Nobel Prize in literature.

Ms. Lane's picks? One of my favorite books of all time is Halldor Laxness's Independent People (I also love Iceland). Isaac Bashevis Singer's stories: they always bring me to tears. So readable! Sinclair Lewis wrote of America in a way that will make you very thankful for labor laws (like a 40-hour work week.) Toni Morrison was one of America's defining, and greatest, writers. Gabriel García Márquez's work was originally written in Spanish, and is some of the most beautiful you'll ever read.