Mr. Spagnolo's Favorites
A
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
"If I Could Tell You" by W.H. Auden
B
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
"The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
C
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
"In the Desert" by Stephen Crane
"anyone lived in a pretty how town" by ee cummings
"dive for dreams" by ee cummings
D
“Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl
“The Landlady” by Roald Dahl
“The Way Up to Heaven” by Roald Dahl
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
"Much Madness is Divinest Sense" by Emily Dickinson
"There's a Certain Slant of Light" by Emily Dickinson
E
“After I Was Thrown Into the River and Before I Drowned” by Dave Eggers
"The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
"I Am a Mad Dog Biting Myself For Sympathy" by Louise Erdrich
F
"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
"Birches" by Robert Frost
G
Leaf Storm by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
“Welding With Children” by Tim Gautreaux
"City Lovers" by Nadine Gordimer
"She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon (Lord Byron)
The Fault With Our Stars by John Green
"The Destructors" by Graham Greene
H
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
“English as a Second Language” by Lucy Honig
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
I
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
J
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
“Emergency” by Denis Johnson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
K
Different Seasons by Stephen King
“Evil Robot Monkey” by Mary Robinette Kowal
L
“The Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
M
“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World: A Tale for Children” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Contempt by Alberto Moravia
N
"Sonnet XVII" by Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems by Pablo Neruda
O
"Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
P
"The Allegory of the Cave" by Plato
"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe
R
S
"The Little Prince" by Anton de Saint Exupéry
"Mag" by Carl Sandburg
"Child of the Romans" by Carl Sandburg
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
T
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
U
“A&P” by John Updike
V
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
“Long Walk to Forever” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
W
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
X
Y
"When You are Old" by William Butler Yeats
Z
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak