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