GRADE 12 ENGLISH

COMPARATIVE ESSAY

LIST OF SUGGESTED BOOKS FOR COMPARISON WITH LITERATURE CIRCLE SELECTIONS

LITERATURE CIRCLE SELECTION SUGGESTIONS FOR COMPARISON

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah Nigeria and the U.S.) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 419 by Will Ferguson Half of a Yellow Sun (Nigeria)

• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Purple Hibiscus

• Adiga, Aravind. Last Man in Tower

• Adiga, Aravind. White Tiger

• Bulawayo, NoViolet. We Need New Names (Zimbabwe and the U.S.)

• Beah, Ishmael. Radiance of Tomorrow (Sierra Leone)

• Clarke, Austin. The Polished Hoe (Barbados)

• Danticat, Edwidge. The Farming of Bones

• Danticat, Edwidge. Breath, Eyes, Memory

• Gibb, Camilla. Sweetness in the Belly (Ethiopia)

• Gordimer, Nadine. July’s People (South Africa)

• Graham, Greene. The Honorary Consul

• Graham, Greene. The Power and the Glory

• DeSoto, Lewis. A Blade of Grass

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(South Africa)

• Habila, Helon. Waiting for an Angel

• Irani, Anosh. The Song of Kahunsha

• Khan, Uzma Aslam. Thinner than Skin

• Barbara Kingsolver. The Poisonwood Bible

• Mankell, Henning. Chronicler of the Winds

• Memmi, Albert. The Pillar of Salt

• Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance (Bombay, India)

• Mistry, Rohinton. Such a Long Journey

• Ostlere, Cathy. Karma

• Swarup, Vikas. Slumdog Millionaire

• Theroux, Paul. Kowloon Tong (Hong Kong, China)

• Vassanji, M.G. The Assassin’s Song (India)

• Vassanji, M.G. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

The Wars by Timothy Findley • Blake, Sarah. The Postmistress

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels • Bock, Dennis. The Ash Garden

• Boyden, Joseph. Three Day Road (World War 1)

• Findley, Timothy. You Went Away

• Grossman, David. See under: love (the Holocaust)

• Guterson, David. Snow Falling on

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Cedars

• Heig, Ursula. Stones From the River (World War II)

• Hemingway, Ernest. Farewell to Arms

• Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises

• Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls

• Mowat, Farley. And No Birds Sang ( A memoir of World War I)

• Michael Ondaatje. The English Patient (World War II)

• Styron, William. Sophie’s Choice

• Urquhart, Jane. The Stone Carvers

• Elizabeth Wein. Code Name Verity

• Elizabeth Wein. Rose Under Fire

• Markus Zusak. The Book Thief

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini • Hosseini, Khaled. And the Mountains Echoed

• Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns

• Khadra, Yasmina. The Swallows of Kabul

• Matar, Hisham. In the Country of Men

• Umrigar, Thrity. The Space Between Us

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje. • Brand, Dionne. What We All Long For

• Chabon, Chael. Kavalier and Clay

• Chang, Lan Samantha. Inheritance

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• Choy, Wayson. The Jade Peony

• Clarke, Austin. More

• Hegi, Ursula. The Vision of Emma Blau

• Ricci, Nino. Where She has Gone

• Tan, Amy. The Bonesetter’s Daughter

• Tan, Amy. The Hundred Secret Senses

• Urquhart, Jane. Away

• Urquhart, Jane. The Stone Carvers

• Vassanji, M.G. No New Land

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood • Baldwin, Shauna Singh. What the Body Remembers

• Courtenay, Bryce. Tandia

• Diamant, Anita. The Red Tent

• Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha

• Hill, Lawrence. The Book of Negroes

• Kidd, Sue Monk. The Invention of Wings

• McBride, James. Song Yet Sung

• Stockett, Kathryn. The Help

• Toews, Miriam. A Complicated Kindness

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath • Kaysen, Susanna. Girl, Interrupted (a true story, memoir)

• Lamb, Wally. She’s Come Undone

• Malladi, Amulya. Serving Crazy with Curry

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• Oates, Joyce Carol. I’ll Take You There

Fifth Business • Lawson, Mary. Crow Lake

• Morgan, Bernice. Random Passage

• MacLeod, Alistair. No Great Mischief

• Messud, Claire. The Last Life

• Oates, Joyce Carol. We Were the Mulvaneys

• Richards, David Adams. Bay of Love and Sorrows

• Richards, David Adams. Mercy Among the Children

• Shield, Carol. Unless

• Wright, Richard B. Clara Callan

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels • Bock, Dennis. The Ash Garden

• Heig, Ursula. Stones From the River

• Wein, Elizabeth. Rose Under Fire (World War II)

• Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief

• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga • Adiga, Aravind. Last Man in Tower

• Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

• Steinbeck, John. The Winter of Our Discontent

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