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Book recommendations and lists are everywhere. There are too many to list! Below is a sampling to get you started.
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Refreshing the Canon

School Library Journal editors and members of the National Council of Teachers of English are working together to identify contemporary books that "can reinvigorate the canon, or books considered classics by U.S. educators."*
Take a look at their suggestions for updated takes on the "classics!"

2023 List

2022 List

*https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/time-to-refresh-the-canon-here-are-our-picks-slj-ncte

National English Honor Society

Are you a member or thinking about becoming a member of the National English Honor Society? Consider reading NEHS's 2024 Common Reader:

The Botanist’s Daughter, written by Kayte Nunn

"In Victorian England, headstrong adventuress Elizabeth takes up her late father's quest for a rare, miraculous plant. She faces a perilous sea voyage, unforeseen dangers and treachery that threatens her entire family.

In present-day Australia, Anna finds a mysterious metal box containing a sketchbook of dazzling watercolours, a photograph inscribed 'Spring 1886' and a small bag of seeds. It sets her on a path far from her safe, carefully ordered life, and on a journey that will force her to face her own demons.

In this spellbinding botanical odyssey of discovery, desire and deception, Kayte Nunn has so exquisitely researched nineteenth-century Cornwall and Chile you can almost smell the fragrance of the flowers, the touch of the flora on your fingertips . . ."

From: https://www.hachette.com.au/kayte-nunn/the-botanists-daughter