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Grade 12 English Book Suggestions for Comparison with Literature Circle Selections 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 1 (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 2 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 3 • 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 4 • 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 5 .
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