READING CORNER for Serial Readers

There are few better ways to improve your English than reading books.

You can click on this link: TEEN NOVELS LIST

EASY READS:

For a QUIZ about The Diary of a Wimpy Kid click here

There is also Wonder by R.J. Palacio, which is a bit of a worldwide event.

Check out the school library too, some new books have recently been purchased.

If you do not feel comfortable reading entire novels, try comics.

Here is a link to some of the most famous ones (classics,really): SOME GRAPHIC NOVELS

GOOD READS:

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (C1- C2), and Americanah (C1) or Purple Ibiscus (C1)

Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race—and the ways in which love can complicate them all.

• Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (C1-C2)

In this darkly comic short story collection, S. Alexie, a Spokane / Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation.

• Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (B2-C1)

Alexie switchwes to the young adult genre in order to offer an autobiographical depiction of reservation life that is both bleak and hopeful, and both heartrending and uplifting. The book dropped in 2007 and has been getting heaped with praise from the date of its publication, even winning the ultimate American lit prize: the National Book Award.

• Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes

• The Great Gatsby, by F.S. Fitzgerald

• What is The What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, by Dave Eggers

• The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga

• Ham on Rye, by Charles Bukowski

• The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood

• The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy

• Boy Heaven, by Laura Kasischke

• Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts

• The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

• The Secret History, by Donna Tartt

• Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

• Akata Witch, by Nnedi Okorafor