Bayside Learning Commons CCA Novel Database: Themes and Settings

Current as of September 2018 Compiled by Mrs. Morrow

Aboriginal Peoples Aboriginal Peoples, Cont’d Bemrose, John. The Last Woman Assiniwi, Bernard. The Beothuk Saga Workman, P.D. Questing for a Boyden, Joseph. Through Black Spruce Dream (Cree) and Three Day Road (Cree) Vermett, Katherena. The Break Cooper, James. Deerslayer. (Mohicans (Metis) and Hurons) and Last of the Mohicans ​ ​ th (Am.-Aboriginal relations 18 ​ cent) Taylor, Drew. Motorcycles and ​ ​ ​ Sweetgrass and In A World Created Crummy, Michael. River Thieves by a Drunken God (Beothuk saga) ​ ​ Alexie, Sherman. Reservation Grenville, Kate. The Secret River Blues (Aboriginal Peoples of Australia) ​ ​ Alexie, Sherman. War Dances King, Thomas. Green Grass, Running Water (Blackfoot traditions vs. today) ​ Boyden, Joseph. Born with a Tooth (short stories about Mowat, Farley. The Desperate People, aboriginal issues) and Wenjack People of the Deer (Ihalmuit, Inland ​ (Ojibwe) Inuit) and The Snow Walker ​ Armstrong, Jean. Whispering in Slipperjack, Ruby. Weeksquachak Shadows (Anishinabeg) ​ Meyer, Phillip. The Son Thacuterriault, Yves. Agaguk (Inuit) (Comanche Indians) ​

Wagamese, Richard. Keeper’n Me Boyden, Joseph. The Orenda: A (Ojibway) and Medicine Walk Novel (Wyandot and Iroquois) ​ ​

Wiebe, Rudy. The Temptations of Big Harlick, R.J. A Green Place for Bear (Plains Cree) Dying

Wiggins, Marianne. The Shadow Erdrich, Louise. The Round House catcher (Native Americans) (Ojibway) ​ ​

Wagamese, Richard. Embers Aboriginal Peoples, Cont’d (Ojibway) Kline, Christina. Orphan Train

(Penobscot)

King, Thomas. Back of the Turtle

Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace Abuse, Abandonment or Abduction Abuse cont’d Hay, Elizabeth. Alone in the Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Classroom Bees Sebold, Alice. Lucky Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees Toten, Teresa. Beware that Girl

Kogawa, Joy. The Rain Ascends MacIntyre, Linden. The Bishop’s Man O’Neill, Heather. Lullabies for Little Criminals Nabokov, Vladim. Lolita

Trevor, William. Felicia’s Journey Somerville, Pat. The Cradle (abandonment) Walker, Alice. The Colour Purple Grisham, John. A Time to Kill Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad. Creech, Sharon. Walk Two Moons

Keith, Ellen. The Dutch Wife Lapena, Shari. The Couple Next Door Hannah, Kristin. The Great Alone (abuse against women, 1960/70 attitude) Khelawan, Rajni. Kalyana

Acting Acceptance and Belonging Corbeil, Carole. In the Wings (acting in Hamlet) Hegi, Ursula. Stones from the River ​ ​

Davies, Robertson. The Salterton Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Trilogy. (The Tempest) Algernon

Findley, Timothy. Spadework (Stratford) Laurence, Margaret. The Diviners

Moritsugu, Kim. The Showrunner McKay, Ami. The Virgin Cure

Nabokov, Vladim. Lolita Bustin, Pam. Mostly Happy

Urquhart, Jane. Sanctuary Line

Gibbons, Kaye. Ellen Foster

Coady, Lynn. Saints of Big Harbour

Morrison, Toni. God Help the Child Abolition Acadia (setting) Kidd, Sue Monk. The Invention of Wings Graham, Genevieve. Promises to Keep Spalding, Linda. A Reckoning Adoption Addiction Gowdea, Shilpi. Secret Daughter. Welsh, Irvine. Trainspotting

Kline, Christina. Orphan Train. Wilde, Oscar. Picture of Dorian Gray (addiction to debauchery) ​ ​ Ng. Celeste. Little Fires Everywhere Wallace, David. Infinite Jest: A Novel

McGregor, Jon. Even the Dogs

Workman, P.D. Questing for a Dream (Cree) Adultery Afghanistan (setting) Urquhart, Jane. Sanctuary Line Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina Holeman, Linda. The Moonlit Cage. Waugh, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust Hashimi, Nadia. A House Without Windows Wright, Richard. Adultery Hosseini, Khale. And the Mountains Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Echoed. Letter O'Hagan, Andrew. The Ricci, Nino. Lives of the Saints Illuminations

Rackman, Jeff. The Rag and Bone Shop Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner, Foreman, Amanda. The Duchess The Mountains Echoed

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary Busfield, Andre. Born Under a Million Shadows Hamilton, Jane. Disobedience Urquhart, Jane. Sanctuary Line (subplot involves a soldier in Afghanistan)

Pazira, Nelofer. A Bed of Red Flowers

Winter, Michael. Minister without Portfolio

Hashimi, Nadia. House without Windows

Africa (Setting) Africa (Setting) cont’d

Achebe, Chinua. Tademy, Lalita. Cane River (Creole) Things Fall Apart (African colonization) ​ Laurence, Margaret. This Side of Blixen, Karen. Out of Africa Jordan (Africa, 1950s) (Coffee plantation in early 1900's) ​ ​ Lessing, Dorothy. The Grass is Brink, Andre. A Dry White Season Singing (Rhodesia, South Africa) (South Africa, Apartheid) ​ ​ Moore, Brian. The Magician’s Wife Courtenay, Bryce. The Power of One (Africa, 1856)

Forrester, C.S. The African Queen Paton, Alan. Cry the Beloved Country (South Africa in 1940s) and Jones, Edward P. The Known World Too Late the Phalarope (plantation) ​ ​ Stratton, Allan. Chanda’s Wars Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible (Belgian Congo, 1950's to 1960's) Vassanji, M. G. The Book of Secrets ​ (East Africa) ​ ​ African American Experience African American Experience cont'd Allison, Dorothy. Bastard out of Byrne, Paula. Belle: The Slave Carolina (setting: 1930's 1950's) Daughter and the Chief Justice ​ ​

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man (50’s Kidd, Sue Monk. The Invention of USA) Wings

Hill, Lawrence. The Book of Negroes Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the Bones and Any Known Blood (Canada) (modern day Mississippi) ​

Stockett, Katherine. The Help (1962 Hurston, Zora. Their Eyes Were Mississippi , black help experience) Watching God

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Lansens, Lori. Rush Home Road Bird Sings. Walker, Alice. The Colour Purple Morrison, Toni. God Help the Child, The Bluest Eye, Jazz and Sula Alaska (Setting) Alcoholism Hannah, Kristin. The Great Alone Morris, Mary. Songs in Ordinary Times.

Alberta (Setting) McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes Kinsella, W.P. Box Socials Moore, Brian. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Coady, Lynn. Saints of Big Harbour

Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the Bones Allegory American Dream

Adams, Richard. Watership Down Collins, Michael. The Keepers of Truth Bunyan, John. Pilgrim’s Progress Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Golding, William. Lord of the Flies Gatsby

Grove, Frederick. Consider Her Ways Millhauser, Steven. Martin Dressler (mankind from an ant’s viewpoint)

Lewis, C.S. The Pilgrim’s Regress

Orwell, George. Animal Farm

Martel, Yann. Beatrice & Virgil (Holocaust)

Alexis, Andrea. Fifteen Dogs

Ambulance Drivers in WWI (female)

Robson, Jennifer. Somewhere in France.

Ambition Ambition, cont’d Adiga, Aravand. White Tiger Hollinghurst, Alan. The Line of Atwood, Margaret. Bodily Harm Beauty

Beauchemin, Yves. The Alley Cat Kirby, William. The Golden Dog

Dunmore, Helen. With Your Crooked Milhauser, Steven. Martin Dressler Heart Phjillips, Arthur. Prague Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge Richler, Mordecai. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Wiseman, Adele. Crackpot West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume Mantel. Hilary. Wolf Hall Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby

America (Setting-General) Ancient Writings Caldwell and Thomason, The Rule Russo, Richard. Empire Falls of Four (Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (blue collar America) ​ ​

Steinbeck, John. Travels with Charley (cross America trek), ​ ​ Cannery Row, Grapes of Wrath

Moore, Lorrie. A Gate at the Stairs Anti Heroes

Heller, Joseph. Catch 22

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Animals (Treatment of) Apartheid Gruen, Sara. Ape House Brink, Andre. A Dry White Season Gruen, Sara. Water for Elephants Argentina Wells. H.G. The Island of Doctor Keith, Ellen. The Dutch Wife Moreau

Oppel, Kenneth. Half Brother

Martel, Yann. Beatrice & Virgil

Alexis, Andre. Fifteen Dogs

Artificial Life Asia (Setting)

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein Garland, Alex. The Beach (South East Asia) ​ ​ Architecture Arkansas (setting)

Hodgins, Jack. Innocent Cities Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Art and Artists Art and Artists (cont’d) Park, Jacqueline. The Secret Book Winawer, Melodie. The Scribe of Sienna of Grazia Dei Rossi (Renaissance)

Davies, Robertson. What’s Bred in the Redhill, Michael. Martin Sloane Bone (character is an art expert) ​ ​ Urquhart, Jane. The Underpainter MacGregor, Roy. Shorelines and The Night Stages (NS is the (Tom Thomson’s disappearance) story of artist Kenneth Lochead) ​

Essex, Karen. Leonardo’s Swans Tartt, Donna. The Goldfinch (Renaissance) Amend, Allison. A Nearly Perfect Copy Bojonowki, Marc. The Dog Fighter (poet)

Arranged Marriages Asperger’s Syndrome

Gowda, Shilpi Somaya. The Golden Son. McHenry, Jael. The Kitchen Daughter

Auschwitz

Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Australia (Setting) Australia (Setting) cont’d

Bail, Murray. Eucalyptus Winton, Tim. Cloudstreet and Dirt Music Carey, Peter. True History of the Kelly Gang Hodgins, Jack. Distance Grenville, Kate. The Secret River th Courtenay, Bryce. The Four Fires (19 ​ century) ​ ​ ​

Lawrence, David. Kangaroo B.C. (Setting) Baffin Island (setting) Wagamese, Richard. Medicine Walk Fiorito, Joe. The Song Beneath the Ice (also takes place in TO for part of plot) Baseball Biblical Events or Figures Diamant, Anita. The Red Tent Kinsella, W.P. Box Socials, The Iowa (women in the Bible) ​ ​ Baseball Confederacy, If Wishes were Horses and Shoeless Joe Findley, Timothy. Not Wanted on the Voyage (the Flood) ​ ​

Schoemperlen, Diane. Our Lady of the Lost and Found (Virgin Mary is main character) Betrayal Betrayal cont’d

Richards, David. The Friends of Meager Kearsley, Susanna. A Desperate Fortune Fortune

Urquhart, Jane. The Underpainter Findley, Timothy. You Went Away: A Novella Bock, Denis. The Communist’s Daughter Morrison, Toni. God Help the Child Koch, Herman. Summer House with Swimming Pool Boarding Schools British Columbia (setting) Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go Anderson-Dargatz, Gail. Turtle Valley Boston (setting) Taylor, Timothy. Stanley Park Pearl, Matthew. The Dante Club (Boston 1865) Lee, Sky. Disappearing Moon Café

Vreeland, Susan. The Forest Lover

Rosnau, Laisha. The Sudden Weight of Snow (1960's BC)

Hodgins, Jack. Innocent Cities (Victoria in 1881)

Wagamese, Richard. Medicine Man Bosnia (Sebrenica) Brothels McKay, Ami. The Virgin Cure. Khan, Ausma. The UnQuiet Dead Keith, Ellen. The Dutch Wife

Bulgaria (Setting)

Dasgupta, Rana. Solo Buddhist Nuns Bullying Ozeki, Ruth L. A Tale for the Time Being Pierre, DBC. Vernon God Little

Coady, Lynn. Saints of Big Harbour

Uppal, Priscilla. The Divine Economy of Salvation California (Setting) Cambridge (setting) Atkinson, Kate. Case Histories Dubus, Andre. House of Sand and Fog (Iranian immigration) ​ ​

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Love of the Last Tycoon Canadian Politics Cancer Burnard, Bonnie. Suddenly Aquin, Herbert. Next Episode (Quebec politics) Wright, Richard. October ​ ​

Endicott, Marin. Good to a Fault

Haddon, Mark. A Spot of Bother

Joyce, Rachel. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Capitalism Cape Breton (Setting) Marche, Stephen. The Hunger of the Wolf Currie, Sheldon. The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum

MacLeod, Alistair. Island: Collected Short Stories

Caribbean Setting Chicago (Setting) Doyle, Roddy. Oh, Play That Thing Jones, Lloyd. Mister Pip (20s)

Clarke, Austin. The Question

th Chile (19 ​ century setting) ​

Allende, Isabel. Portrait in Sepia. China (setting) Chinese Canadians ​ Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth (Pre-revolutionary China) Bates, Judy Fong. Midnight at the Dragon Café Harrison, Kathryn. The Binding Chair (Shanghai, 1900's) Chong, Denise. The Concubine’s ​ Daughter Tan, Amy. The Hundred Secret Senses and The Bonesetter’s Daughter (fictional Choy, Wayson. The Jade Peony memoirs of life in China) Lee, Sky. Disappearing Moon Cafe Gao, Zingian. Soul Mountain (China)

Circus Life and Circus Performers Civil Rights Movement

Davies, Robertson. Salterton Trilogy Angelou, Maya. The Heart of a (Fifth Business) Woman

Gruen, Sara. Water for Elephants Civil War

Irving, John. A Son of the Circus Saunders, George. Lincoln in Bardo

Donoghue, Emma. Frog Music

Kline, Christina. The Orphan’s Tale

Class System Class System, cont’d Austen, Jane. Emma, Mansfield Park, Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride Artist as a Young Man (Irish lower ​ and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility. middle class ​ ​

Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Steinbeck, John. The Winter of our Day Discontent

Czech Americans Code Breaking Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Kearsley, Susanna. A Desperate Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Fortune Columbia (Setting) Colonialism Cooper, Fenmore. Last of the Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years Mohicans of Solitude (several generations of family life chronicled) Naipaul, V. S. The Mimic Men

Vassanji, M. G. The Book of Secrets

Wiebe, Rudy. A Discovery ofStrangers (Canadian/Native, 1820) Comic Strips Communes

Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Vreeland, Susan. The Forest Lover Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Communism Constantinople Birney, Earle. Down the Long Table (50s) Rich, Roberta. The Harem Widwife

Bock, Denis. The Communist’s Daughter (Communist Revolution)

Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon

Swarup, Vikas. Slumdog Millionaire

Waught, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust Coming of Age Coming of Age, cont’d Anderson-Dargatz, Gail. Le Guin, Ursula. Very Far Away A Rhinestone Button, A Recipe for Bees from Anywhere Else and The Cure for Death by Lightning Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Bondage (1900's) Horses (teenage boy perspective) Moore, Lorrie. A Gate at the Stairs

Atkinson, Kate. Behind the Scenes at the Busfield, Andre. Born Under a Museum (female perspective) Million Shadows

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Kyle, Aryn. The God of Animals. Paradise Vreeland, Susan. The Forest Lover Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Hay, Elizabeth. His Whole Life

Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees Mitchell, W. O. How I Spent My Summer Holidays Laurence, Margaret. The Diviners Munro, Alice. Lives of Girls and Lawson, Mary. Crow Lake Women

Le Guin, Ursula. Very Far Away from Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar

Thorne, Matt. Child Star Rosnau, Laisha. The Sudden Weight of Snow Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Richler, Mary. The Imposter Bride

Willis, Sarah. Some Things That Stay Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye

Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief and The Selvadurai, Shyam. Funny Boy Messenger Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in McKay, Ami. The Virgin Cure. Brooklyn Morrisey, Donna. Sylvanus Now Gibbons, Kaye. Ellen Foster Cornwall (Setting) Corruption Hill, Lawrence. The Illegal Du Maurier, Daphne. My Cousin Rachel; Rebecca

Crime, Punishment or Murder Crime, Punishment or Murder Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace cont'd Rotenberg, Robert. Old City Hall Collins, Michael. The Keepers of Truth Saramango, Jose. Blindness Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders Slade, Michael. Swastika Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Punishment Hyde

Doyle, Roddy. A Star Called Henry Stoker, Bram. Dracula

Fitch, Janet. White Oleander Sebold, Alice. The Almost Moon Scaramango, Joes. Baltasar and Hanif, Mohammed. A Case of Exploding Blimunda (Portugal 1711) Mangoes Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame Koch, Herman. The Dinner

Pierre, DBC. Vernon God Little Grisham, John. A Time to Kill ​

Barker, Pat. Border Crossing Uppal, Priscila. The Divine Economy of Salvation Booth, Stephen. Lost River Alexis, Andre. The Hidden Keys Atkinson, Kate. Case Histories Donoghue, Emma. The Wonder Redhill, Michael. Bellevue Square Hynes, Joel Thomas. We’ll Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night Cross Canada Trek Curses Hynes, Joel Thomas. We’ll Be Burnt in Zentner, Alexi. The Lobster Kings Our Beds Some Night

Culinary Arts Cuba (Setting)

Bauermesiter, Erica. The School of Arenas, Reinald. Farewell to the Essential Ingredients Sea: A Novel of Cuba

Taylor, Timothy. Stanley Park Hemingway, Ernest. Islands in the Stream McHenry, Jael. The Kitchen Daughter Correa, Armando. The German Girl Morais, Richard. The Hundred-Foot Journey Doppelgangers Dante’s Inferno Rehdill, Michael. Bellevue Square Pearl, Matthew. The Dante Club Deafness Death Row Mailer, Norman. The Executioner's Itani, Frances. Deafening Song Death and Dying Death and Dying cont’d Albon, Mitch. For One More Day Richardson, C.S. The End of the Alphabet Albon, Mitch. The Five People You Meet In Heaven Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye Barker, Pat. Another World Schwarz, Christina. Drowning Ruth Bergen, David. See The Child Moore, Lisa. February

Burnard, Bonnie. Suddenly Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones

Enright, Anne. The Gathering Straub, Peter. A Dark Matter

Gibson, Graeme. Gentlemen Death Updike, John. Rabbit Redux

Death and Dying cont’d Death and Dying cont’d

Gruen, Sara. Water for Elephants Urquhart, Jane. The Whirlpool and Riding Lessons Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and Saunders, George. Lincoln In the Sea Bardo (death of a child)

Richardson, C.S. The End of the Woolf, Virginia. To The Lighthouse Alphabet Wright, Richard. October Mosionier, Beatrice. In the Shadow of Evil Young, William Paul. The Shack

Dasgupta, Rana. Solo McKay, Leo Jr. Twenty-Six

McHenry, Jael. The Kitchen Daughter Harding, Paul. Tinkers

Winton, Tim. Dirt Music Donoghue, Emma. The Wonder

Moore, Lisa. February. Albom, Mitch. The Timekeeper

Urquhart, Jane. Sanctuary Line Hodgis, Jack. Distance

Warren, Dianne. Cool Water Spalding, Linda. The Purchase

Wing, Natasha. Munro vs the Coyote Deception or Disguise Deception or Disguise cont’d Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre McCabe, Erin Lindsay. I Shall Be Findley, Timothy. Spadework Near to You Koch, Herman. Summer House with Harris, Joanne. Five Quarters of the Swimming Pool Orange Redhill, Michael. Bellevue Square Thomas, Audrey. Isobel Gunn Richler, Mary. The Imposter Bride Robbins, Tom. Villa Incognito Disasters Disappearance Fiorito, Joe. The Song Beneath the Moore, Lisa. February (sinking of the Ice Ocean Ranger) O’Melveny, Regina. Madness and Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the Bones Cures (Hurricane Katrina) Dsillusionment King, Thomas. The Back of the Turtle Hardy, Thomas. Far From the (environmental disaster) Madding Crowd

Disfigurement Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises Scarsbrook Rick. The Monkeyface Chronicles Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame Wright, Richard. The Weekend Man

Barnes, Julian. The Sense of An Ending

Coady, Lynn. Mean Boy Divine Intervention Diving Guterson, David. Our Lady of the Forest Levine, Elise. Blue Field

Dreams Dogfighting

Joyce. Finnegans Wake Bojanowski, Marc. The Dog Fighter

Doerr, Anthony. About Grace

Irving, John. Avenue of Dreams

Dystopia

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451

Garland, Alex. The Beach

Orwell, George. 1984

Huxley, Aldous. Island

Egypt (setting) Entomology Mahfoutz, Nagib. Midaq Alley Urquhart, Jane. Sanctuary Line

Pullinger, Kate. The Mistress of Nothing (Egypt, Victorian period)

Michaels, Anne. The Winter Vault

Aswany, Alaa. The Automobile Club of Egypt England (Setting) England (Setting) cont’d Austen, Jane. Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride Foreman, Amanda. The Duchess th and Prejudice, and Sense and (England, 18 ​ century) th ​ Sensibility (England 19 ​ century) ​ Galsworthy, John. Forsyte Saga th Barker, Pat. The Ghost Road (20 ​ c) (British society 1860's to 1919) ​

Bronte, Charlotte. Shirley Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South th (Napoleonic War, 1805) (rural vs. city class in 19 ​ c Eng) ​

Byatt, A.S. Still Life (England, Gregory, Phillipa. The Boleyn th 1960's)and The Children’s Book Inheritance (Eng. 16 ​ century) ​ (Edwardian England)

Chevalier, Tracy. Falling Angels England (Setting) cont’d England (Setting) cont’d

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House, David Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Casterbridge, Far From Twist theMadding Crowd, A Pair of Blue Eyes, and Tess of the d’Ubervilles Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss th and Middlemarch (19 ​ century farming Hearn, Miranda. A Life Everlasting ​ in England) Hollinghurst, Alan. The Line of Gaynor, Hazel. The Girl From the Savoy Beauty (England, 1980's)

Erickson, Carolly. The Last Wife of Humphreys, Helen. The Lost th Henry VIII (England 16 ​ century) ​ Garden (England, 1940's) Fielding, Henry. Amelia th (London, 19 ​ century) Houston, Nancy. The Mark of the ​ Angel (England, 1950's) Follett, Ken. The Pillars of the Earth th (England, 12 ​ century) and World Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of ​ the Day (England, 1950s) Without End (England, 14th ​ century-Black Death) Maugham, W. Somerset. Liza of Lambeth (1800's) Jocelyn, Marthe. Folly (Victorian England McEwan, Ian. On Chesil Beach st (1960's) and Saturday (21 ​ century) ​ Rushdie, Salman. Ground Beneath my Feet (1960's) Pearl, Matthew. The Last Dickens ​ ​ (1870's England) Lawrence, D.H. The Rainbow Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe Levy, Andrea. Small Island Thackeray, William. Vanity Fair (1800's) Jones, Lloyd. Mr. Pip (“setting” is London in Dickens’ day) Kearsley, Susanna. A Desperate Fortune (1700s) Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall England (Setting) cont’d Robson, Jennifer. After the War is Over (England, post WWI)

Holeman, Linda. The Moonlit Café (Victorian England) Epidemics Ethiopia (Setting) Kneale, Matthew. Sweet Thames Verghese, A. Cutting for Stone (Cholera epidemic, London, 1850's) Gaynor, Hazel. The Girl From the Marquez, Gabriel. Love in the Time of Savoy Cholera

Winawer, Melodie. The Scribe of Sienna

Donoghue, Emma. Frog Music

Existentialism Euthanasia Blais, Marie-Claire. A Season in the Hodgins, Jack. Distance Life of Emmanuel Wright,, Richard. October

Exploration Exploration, cont'd Dugard, Marin. The Last Voyage of Columbus Stenson, Fred. The Trade

Flanagan, Richard. Death of a River Wiebe, Rudy. A Discovery of Guide (Tasmania) Strangers (Franklin Expedition)

Forrester, C.S. The African Queen Kneale, Matthew. English Passengers Mowat, Farley. West Viking

Johnston, Wayne. The Navigator of New York Family Relationships Family Relationships cont’d Findley, Timothy. Not Wanted on the Gruen, Sara. Riding Lessons Voyage and Last of the Crazy People Smith, Zadie. White Teeth Richards, David Adam. The River of the Brokenhearted Lawson, Mary. Crow Lake

Shield, Carol. The Stone Diaries Lawrence, D.H. The Rainbow and Women in Love Gibbons, Stella. Cold Comfort Farm MacLeod, Alistair. No Great Drew Gibbons, Stella. Cold Comfort Mischief Farm. Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the Bones Skibsrud, Johanna. The Sentimentalists Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Cameron, Anne. Wedding Cakes, Rats Years of Solitude and Rodeo Queens McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes Moses, Kate. Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath McEwan, Ian. Atonement

Munro, Alice. The View From Castle Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance Rock and Family Matters

Ravel, Edeet. A Wall of Light Thayer, Cynthia. Strong for Potatoes Bustin, Pam. Mostly Happy Toews, Miriam. A Complicated Shield, Carol. The Stone Diaries Kindness; The Flying Troutmans

Edugyan, Esi. The Second Life of Irma Voth Samuel Tyne Woolf, Virginia. To The Lighthouse Tyler, Anne. A Spool of Blue Thread Wright, Richard. Adultery Vreeland, Susan. The Forest Lover Drew, Alan. Gardens of Water Family Relationships cont’d Family Relationships cont’d

Coady, Lynn. Saints of Big Harbour Coady, Lynn. Saints of Big Harbour

Moore, Lisa. February Spalding, Linda. The Purchase

Skibsrud, J. The Sentimentalists Wallace, David. Infinite Jest: A Novel Koch, Herman. The Dinner Steinbeck, John. East of Eden DeWoskin, Rachel. Blind Pullinger, Kate. Landing Gear. Hosseini, Khale. And the Mountains Echoed. Von Konigslow, Alexis. The Capacity for Infinite Happiness Urquhart, Jane. The Night Stages Preston, Rachael. The Fishers of Ng. Celeste. Little Fires Everywhere Paradise

Hynes, Joel Thomas. We’ll Be Burnt In Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach Our Beds Some Night Family Trees Famous Fictional Characters found in other works of fiction Von Konigslow, Alexis. The Capacity for con’td Infinite Happiness Findley, Timothy. Headhunter (Kurtz and Marlow from H of D) Famous Fictional Characters found in other works of fiction Jones, Lloyd. Mr. Pip

Von Konigslow, Alexis. The Capacity for Chevalier, Tracy. At the Edge of the Infinite Happiness (Harpo Marx) Orchard (Johnny Appleseed)

Galland, Nicole. I, Iago Marsden, John. Hamlet and Ophelia Feldman, Joshua Max. The Book of Jonah

Farming and Mill Owners Fasting Gibson, Graeme. Perpetual Motion th (Farming in Ontario in 19 ​ century) Donoghue, Emma. The Wonder ​

Grover, Frederick. Master of the Mill Female Investigators Hardy, Thomas. Far From the Madding Crowd Gibson, William. Recognition

McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1930's mill town)

Smiley, Jane. A Thousand Acres Fatherhood Fatherhood, cont'd Findley, Timothy. The Piano Man’s Glass, Julia. Three Junes Daughter Edugyan, Esi. The Second Life of Ricci, Nino. Lives of the Saints Samuel Tyne

Haddon, Mark. A Spot of Bother Ferguson, Will. 419

Hodgins, Jack. Distance Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach

Saunders, George. Lincoln in Bardo

Fate Fiji Islands (setting) Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas Khelawan, Rajni. Kalyana Feminism Feminism, cont’d Khelawan, Rajni. Kalyana Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach

Laurence, Margaret. The Diviners Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale or Surfacing Dargatz, Gail Anderson. The Cure for Death by Lightning Film Stars Von Konigslow, Alexis. The Capacity for Infinite Happiness Fishing French Resistance Day, Parker. Rockbound Mah, Ann. The Lost Vintage Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea

Morrisey, Donna. Sylvanus Now

Zentner, Alexi. The Lobster Kings France (setting) France (setting) cont’d

Harrison, Kathryn. The Binding Chair Faulkner, William. A Fable (WWI)

th DeRosnay, Tatiana. Sarah’s Key Glover, Douglas. Elle (16 ​ century ​ France) Kearsley, Susanna. A Desperate Fortune (Paris) Harris, Joanne. Four Quarters of the Orange Berg, Elizabeth. The Dream Lover (Paris) Chevalier, Tracy. The Virgin Blue

Robson, Jennifer. Somewhere in France Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two th Cities (19 ​ century) ​ Hannah, Kirstin. The Nightingale (WWII female perspective) Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three th Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Muskateers (France, 17 ​ century) ​ Dame (Medieval period) and Les Miserables (France, 1815) Friendship Friendship, General cont'd Mitchell, W. O. Ladybug, Ladybug Clarke, Austin. The Origin of Waves Ricci, Nino. The Origin of the Species Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto Shields, Carol. Larry’s Party Schoemperlen, Diane. Our Lady of the Lost and Found

Friendship, General cont'd Friendship, General cont'd Von Herzen, Lane. The Unfastened Heart Stockett, Kathryn. The Help

Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending Shields, Carol. The Stone Diaries

Strout, Elizabeth. Oliver Kitteridge Byrne, Paula. Belle.

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go Robson, Jennifer. Somewhere in France and After the War Is Over ​ ​

Female Friendships Female Friendships cont’d Moorehead, Caroline. A Train in Winter Uppal, Priscila. The Divine Atwood, Margaret. The Robber Bride Economy of Salvation and Cat’s Eye. Moore, Lisa. Alligator Burnard, Bonnie. A Good House Mitchell, Gilaine. Film Society Cunningham, Michael. The Hours Morrison, Toni. Sula Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections McKay, Ami. The Birth House Munro, Alice. short stories

Pendziwol, Jean E. The Light Keeper’s Ng. Celeste. Little Fires Everywhere Daughter Forbidden Love Forbidden Love, cont’d Forster, E.M. A Room with a View Lady Chatterley’s Lover Foreman, Amanda. The Duchess Maugham, W. Somerset. Liza of Hardy, Thomas. Return of the Native Lambeth and Jude the Obscure Reynolds, Sheri. The Rapture of Kaye, M. M. The Far Pavilions Canaan

Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers and Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader Foster Care or Foster Parents Freedom of Thought/Expression Fitch, Janet. White Oleander Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451

Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief Orwell, George. 1984.

Kline, Christina. Orphan Train Huxley, A. Brave New World

Pendziwol, Jean E. The Light Keeper’s MacLeod, Janice. Paris Letters Daughter Drew, Alan. Gardens of Water Muslin

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita

Baldwin, Shauna. The Tiger Claw

Spalding, Linda. The Purchase Futuristic Worlds Futuristic Worlds, cont’d

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 or The Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano. Martian Chronicles Wells, H.G. The Time Machine Frank, Pat. Alas Babylon Wyndham, John. The Chrysalids Gaiman, Neil. Neverwhere (alternative but contemporary world) Robinson, Kim. Galileo's Dream

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World Haldeman, Joe. The Forever War.

Mark, Jan. Useful Idiots Vassanji, M.G. Nostalgia

Rushdie, Salman. Two Years, Eight Months, 28 Nights

Galapagos Islands (setting) Gambling and or Gangsters

Quarrington, Paul. The Boy on the Back Lam, Vincent. The Headmaster’s of the Turtle Wager

Ricci, Nino. The Origin of the Species Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach

German Experience \Germany (setting) Cont’d Edugyan, Esi. Half-Blood Blues Huston, Nancy. The Mark Angel Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief \Germany (setting) (WWII) Golding, William. Free Fall (German POW camp, WWII) Correa, Armando. The German Girl (Nazi Germany) Kanon, Joseph. The Good German (Allied occupation of Germany)

Seiffert, Rachel. The Dark Room (Germany, 1930's)

Ghanaian Experience in Canada Gold Rush Catton, Eleanor. The Luminaries Edugyan, Esi. The Second Life of (1886 Gold Rush in New Zealand) Samuel Tyne Gothic Literature The Great Depression or Dirty 30s Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights Hay, Elizabeth. A Student of Weather Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca Mitchell, W.O. Who Has Seen the Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Wind Seven Gables Ross, Sinclair. As For Me and My Leroux, Gaston. The Phantom of the House Opera Roy, Gabrielle. The Tin Flute Stoker, Bram. Dracula The Great Depression or Dirty 30s cont’d Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden

Garner, Hugh. Cabbagetown Grief Guilt Joyce, Rachel. The Unlikely Banks, Russell. The Sweethereafter Pilgrimage of Harold Frye

Mosionier, Beatrice. In the Shadow of Winter, Michael. Minister without Evil Portfolio

Winton, Tim. Dirt Music

Leganski, Rita. The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow.

Tartt, Donna. The Goldfinch Hiroshima Historical Fiction Angelou, Maya. Bock, Denis. The Ash Garden The Heart of a Woman (The Jazz age-1920's-30's)

Atwood, Margaret. The Blind Assassin (Canada in the 1930's)

Banks, Russell. Cloudsplitter (U.S. South, 1840's)

Wright, Richard. Clara Callan

Gregory, Phillippa. Red Queen.

Brickhill, Paul. The Great Escape (American POW’s in WWII)

Major, Ken. No Man’s Land (Newfoundland regiment in WWI)

Historical Figures as Characters in Historical Figures as Characters in Works of Fiction Works of Fiction cont’d

Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace Cunningham, Michael. The Hours (Lizzie Borden murder case) (Virginia Woolf)

Bock, Denis. The Communist’s Dugard, Marin. The Last Voyage of Daughter (Dr. Norman Bethune) Columbus

Carey, Peter. The True History of the Erickson, Carolly. The Last Wife of Kelly Gang (Ned Kelly) Henry VIII ( Catherine Parr)

Hanif, Mohammed. A Case of Exploding Martel, Hilary. Wolf Hall (Henry Mangoes (General Zia) VIII, Cromwell and Wolsey)

Findley, Timothy. Pilgrim (Jung) Moses, Kate. Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath Gregory, Phillipa. The Boleyn Inheritance (Anne of Cleaves) Vreeland, Susan. The Forest Lover

Johnston, Wayne. The Colony of Provoost, Anne. In the Shadow of Mydans, Shelley Smith. Thomas: A the Ark Novel of the Life, Passion and Miracles of Beckett Nasar, Sylvia. A Beautiful Mind (John Nash) Doyle, Roddy. Oh, Play that Thing (Louis Armstrong) Rackman, Jeff. The Rag and Bone Shop (Dickens and his mistress Edugyan, Esi. Half-blood Blues (Louis Ellen Ternan are main characters) Armstrong) Robinson, Kim S. Galileo's Dream Hawke, Simon. Much Ado About Murder (William Shakespeare) Van Alkemade, Kim. Bachelor Girl (Jacob Ruppert, owner of NY Berg, Elizabeth. The Dream Lover: A Yankees in 1920s and Helen Novel (fictional account of George Winthorpe Sand's life) Hoarding Jewell, Lisa. The House We Grew Up In

Hockey Homelessness

Quarrington, Paul. King Leary Koch, Herman. The Dinner

Zweig, Eric. Fever Season

Sedlack, Robert. The Horn of a Lamb

Holocaust Homosexuality Van Alkemade, Kim. Orphan #8 Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed Martel, Yann. Beatrice and Virgil Cohen, Leonard. Beautiful Losers.

De Rosnay, Tatiana. Sarah’s Key Chambers, Aiden. Dance on My Grave. Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Shyam, Selvadurai. Funny Boy.

Frank, Anne. Diary of Anne Frank Richler, Joshua Then and Now.

Styron, William. Sophie's Choice Van Alkemade, Kim. Bachelor Girl (attitude toward homosexuality, 1920 Hollywood and or Film Making Horses Findley, Timothy. The Butterfly Plague Gruen, Sara. Riding Lessons (1930's and 40's Hollywood) Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Love of the Last Wagamese, Richard. Dream Wheels Tycoon (Hollywood in the 1940's) Kyle, Aryn. The God of Animals Vanderhaeghe, Guy. The Englishman’s Boy (1920's) Gordon, Jaimy. Lord of Misrule

Toews, Miriam. Irma Voth (filming in Cdn Mennonite territory)

Human Rights (General) Human Trafficking / Sex Trade Cumyn, Alan. Burridge Unbound Addison, Corban. A Walk Across Orwell, George. 1984 the Sun (sex trade in India)

McKay, Ami. The Virgin Cure. Humour Hungary (Setting) Coupland, Douglas. Microserfs Phillips, Arthur. Prague (Budapest, Leacock, Stephen. Any of his works 1990's) Fry, Stephen. The Stars’ Tennis Balls.

Gibbons, Stella. Cold Comfort Farm.

Hurricane Katrina Imprisonment Sakamto, Mark. Forgiveness Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the Bones Keith, Ellen. The Dutch Wife (Argentina) Immigration Immigration cont’d Bates, Judy Fong. Midnight at the Levy, Andrea. Small Island Dragon Café (China to Canada) (Jamaica to England, 1948)

Coburn, Judi. The Shacklands (to Moore, Brian. The Luck of Ginger Canada) Coffey (Ireland to Montreal)

Lee, Chang-rae. A Gesture Life (China Urquhart, Jane. Away (Ireland to to the U.S.) Ontario)

Wiebe, Rudy. The Blue Mountains of McCann, Colum. Let the Great China (Russia to Canada and South World Spin America) and Peace Shall Destroy Many (immigration from Russia to Sask.) Kelman, Stephen. Pigeon English. (to England from Ghana) Immigration cont’d Immigration cont’d

Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies Behrens, Peter. The Law of Dreams Vassanji, M.G. Amrika (East Africa to (emigrating from Ireland to Canada) America) Ward, Amanda. The Same Sky Kline, Christina. Orphan Train (Irish immigrant to American Midwest) Thuy, Kim. Ru (Vietnam to Quebec)

Thuy, Kim. Ru (Vietnam to Quebec) Toibin, Colm. Brooklyn (Ireland to America) Talese, Gay. Unto the Sons (Italy to America) Enright, Anne. The Gathering st (Ireland, 21 ​ century) ​ McCann, Colum. Dancer Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Dean, Louise. This Human Season Artist as a Young Man and The (Northern Ireland, 1979) Dubliners

Behrens, Peter. The Law of Dreams

India or Pakistan setting India or Pakistan setting contd Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance (1970's), Family Matters (1990's) and Badami, Anita Rau. The Hero’s Such a Long Journey (Bombay, 1971) Walk

Roy, Arundhait. The God of Small Irving, John. The Fourth Hand Things (India, 1970's) Ostlere, Cathy. Karma: A Novel in Vassanji, M.G. The Assassin’s Song Verse (assassination of Andira Ghandi) Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love Addison, Corban. A Walk Across Gowda, Shilpi. Secret Daughter and The the Sun Golden Son Baldwin, Shauna. What the Body Remembers India or Pakistan setting contd India or Pakistan setting contd Swarup, Vikas. Slumdog Millionaire Rusdhie, Salman. Midnight’s Children ((India’s transition from th ng Mangoes (Pakistan, late 20 ​ century) colonialism to independence) ​

Rushdie, Salman. The Ground Beneath Hanif, Mohammed. A Case of Her Feet (Bombay, 1950's) Explodi

Independence (Self) Indiana (setting)

Bronte, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Shields, Carol. The Stone Diaries Hall.

Dunant, Sarah. In the Company of the Courtesan

Wiseman, Adele. Crackpot

Pullinger, Kate. The Mistress of Nothing

Baldwin, Shauna. The Tiger Claw

O’Melveny, Regina. Madness and Cures Indonesia (Setting) Infertility

Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love Ward, Amanda. The Same Sky

Immorality Indochina (setting) Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones Texier, Catherine. Victorine th (beginning of the 20 ​ century) ​ Inheritance Immortality Edugyan, Esi. The Second Life of Benjamin, Chloe. The Immortalists Samuel Tyne Vasanji, M.G. Nostalgia Alexis, Andre. The Hidden Keys Haig, Matt. How to Stop Time

Iraq (War) Israel (setting)

Somerville, Pat. The Cradle Ravel, Robert. A Wall of Light

Hoffman, Alice. The Dove Keepers

Isolation and/or Alienation Isolation and/or Alienation, cont'd

Maugham, W. Sommerset. Of Human Buckler, Ernest. The Mountain and Bondage the Valley

Moore, Brian. The Lonely Passion of Callaghan, Morley. More Joy in Judith Hearne Heaven

Stevenson, Robert. Treasure Island Day, Parker. Rockbound

Strout, Elizabeth. Oliver Kitteridge Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe

Moses, Kate. Wintering: A Novel of Ellison, Ralph. The Invisible Man Sylvia Plath Findley, Timothy. The Wars Rosnau, Laisha. The Sudden Weight of Snow Punke, Michale. The Revenant

Mosher, Howard. A Stranger in the Beatty, Paul. The Sell Out Kingdom

Jewell, Lisa. I Found You

Italy (Setting) Italy (setting) cont’d Dunant, Sarah. In the Company of the Courtesan Park, Jacqueline. The Secret Book th (Italy, Renaissance, 16 ​ century) of Grazia Dei Rossi (Italian ​ Renaissance) Fante, John. Wait Until Spring, Bandini. (Italian immigrant experience) Ricci, Nino. Lives of the Saints

Forster, E.M. A Room with a View Slatton, Traci. Immortal (Florence, (Edwardian lady finds freedom in Italy) 1400's to 1500's)

Winawer, Melodie. The Scribe of Sienna Caldwell and Thomason. The Rule of Four Gibbon, Lewis G. Spartacus (Rome 73 B.C.) Sierra, Javier. The Secret Supper (Milan, 1747) Lytton, Edward B. Last Days of Pompei Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love Essex, Karen. Leonardo's Swan (Renaissance Italy) Quiviger, Pascale. The Perfect Circle Vanderbes, Jennifer. The Secret of Raven Point (WWII) O’Melveny, Regina. The Book of Madness (Venice 1590) Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms Essex, Karen. Leonardo's Swan (Renaissance Italy)

Jamaica (setting) Japanese Folklore and Figures

Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea Robbins, Tom. Villa Incognito

Levy, Andrea. The Long Song (slavery and uprising)

Japan (Setting) Japanese (Persecution of in America and Canada) Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha th (Japan, early 20 ​ century) Guterson, David. Snow Falling on ​ Cedars Murakami, Haruki. A Wild Sheep (treatment of Japanese Americans Chase; Dance,Dance,Dance; and during WWII) Hard-boiled Wonde Kogawa, Joy. Obasan (internment of Japanese Canadians during WWII)

Shimotakahara, Leslie. After the Bloom

Sakamoto, Mark. Forgiveness Crummey, Michael. The Wreckage Jesuits Kelman, Stephen. Pigeon English

Jewish Experience Jewish Experience, cont'd

Jacobson, Howar. The Finkler Question. Cohen, Leonard. The Favourite Game Tulchinsky, Karen X. The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky Jenoff, Pam. The Orphan’s Tale

Moorehead, Caroline. A Train in Winter Frank, Anne. Diary of Anne Frank (Auschwitz) (WWII treatment of Jewish population in Germany) Richler, Mordecai. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, St. Urbain’s Horseman Levi, Primo. If Not Now, When? and Joshua Then and Now (Jewish soldiers avenge Nazis)

Houston, Nancy. The Mark Angel Cohen, Leonard. The Favourite Game De Rosnay, Tatiana. Sarah’s Key (treatment of Jews in France, WWII) Richler, Mary. The Imposter

Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love Correa, Armando. The German Girl

Keith, Ellen. The Dutch Wife Kline, Christina. Orphan Train (WWII) Journalism

Robson, Jennifer. Goodnight from London

Labour Issues Land Seizures

Bemrose, John. The Island Walkers Winawer, Melodie. The Scribe of Sienna

Law Las Angeles (setting) Byatt, A.S. Still Life Dexter, Peter. Train (1950s) Dickens, Charles. Bleak House Lebanon (Setting) Fielding, Henry. Amelia Hage, Rawi. Deniro’s Game

Liars Linguistics deWitt, Patrick. Under Majordomo Minor Glass, Suzanne. The Interpreter

Lighthouse Keepers\ Pendziwol, Jean E. The Light Keeper’s Daughters

Logging Louisiana (setting)

Richards, David. The Friends of Meager Leganski, Rita. The Silence of Fortune Bonaventure Arrow

Ferguson, Trevor. The River Burns (logging in a small Canadian town) Love and Loss Love Triangles Humphreys, Helen. The Lost Garden Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights

Williams, Tenessee. The Roman Spring Cohen, Leonard. Beautiful Losers of Mrs. Stone Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca Badami, Anita Rau. The Hero’s Walk (loss of parent) Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway Foreman, Amanda. The Duchess Moore, Lisa. February Tuck, Lily. The New from Paraguay

Irving, John. Cider House Rules Love Triangles cont’d Love Triangles cont'd Lawson, Mary. The Other Side of the Shanley, Tera. Brooklyn Bridge Stoker, Bram. Dracula Leroux, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera Hardy, Thomas. A Pair of Blue Eyes MacLennan, Hugh. The Watch That Ends the Night Verghese, A. Cutting for Stone

Lytton, Edward B. The Last Days of Baldwin, Shauna. What the Body Pompei Remembers

LeCraw, Holly. The Half Brother Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Magic and Magicians Manitoba (Setting)

Clarke, Susanna. Johnathan Strange Bergen, David. See The Child and Mr. Norrell Laurence, Margaret. The Stone Davies, Robertson. The Deptford Trilogy Angel and The Diviners

Moore, Brian. The Magician’s Wife

Priest, Christopher. The Prestige

Benjamin, Chloe. The Immortalists Male/Female Relationships Male/Female Relationships cont’d Oatley, Keith. A Natural History Gregory, Phillipa. The Boleyn Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient Inheritance

Pearson, T.R. Glad News of the Natural Gruen, Sara. Water for Elephants World and Riding Lessons

Male/Female Relationships Male/Female Relationships cont’d cont’d Saramango, Joes. Baltasar and Blimunda Hardy, Thomas. Far From the Marsden, John. Hamlet and Ophelia Madding Crowd Gross, Paul. Passchendaele Yann, Martel. The High Mountains of Portugal Hay, Elizabeth. A Student of Weather Fry, Stephen. The Stars’ Tennis Balls. Hearn, Miranda. A Life Everlasting Moore, Lorrie. A Gate at the Stairs Helm, Michael. The Projectionist Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love arol. The Republic of Love Humphreys, Helen. The Lost Garden Moore, Lisa. Alligator Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Quiviger, Pascale. The Perfect Circle Notre Dame and Les Miserables

Crummey, Michael. The Wreckage Irving, John. A Widow for One Year

Marquz, Gabriel. Love in the Time of Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of Cholera the Day

Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Le Guin, Ursula. Very Far Away Bondage from Anywhere Else

McEwan, Ian. Atonement and On Chesil Thorne, Matt. Child Star Beach Vanderbes, Jennifer. The Secret of Morrison, Toni. Jazz Raven Point

Oatley, Keith. A Natural History Urquhart, Jane. The Night Stages

Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient Saramango, Joes. Baltasar and Blimunda

Male/Female Relationships Male/Female Relationships cont’d cont’d

Pearson, T.R. Glad News of the Natural Raddall, Thomas.. The Nymph and World the Lamp

Marsden, John. Hamlet and Ophelia Redhill, Michael. Martin Sloane

Moore, Lorrie. A Gate at the Stairs Roy, Arundhait.. The God of Small Things Slatton, Traci.. Immortal Williams, Tennessee. The Roman Urquhart, Jane. The Stonecarvers Spring of Mrs. Stone

Wright, Richard. Clara Callan MacLeod, Alistair. Island: Collected Stories Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love Bauermesiter, Erica. The School of Shields, Carol. The Republic of Love Essential Ingredients

Moore, Lisa. Alligator Bemrose, John. The Last Woman

Quiviger, Pascale. The Perfect Circle Barnes, Julian. The Sense of An Ending Crummey, Michael. The Wreckage Clarke, Austin. The Question MacLeod, Janice. Paris Letters Robson, Jennifer. After the War Is McAdam, Colin. Some Great Thing Over

Banville, John. Shroud Palka, Kurt. The Piano Maker

Styron, William. Sophie's Choice Berner, Geoff. The Fiddler is a Good Woman Hunes, Joel Thomas. We’ll Be Burnt in Our Beds Someday Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go

Van Alkemade, Kim. Bachelor Girl Male Friendships Male Friendships, cont’d

Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Pajamas Meany

Callaghan, Morley. A Many Coloured Knowles, John. A Separate Peace Coat MacLennan, Hugh. The Watch Davies, Robertson. The Deptford Trilogy That Ends the Night

Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Mistry, Rohinton. Such a Long Muskateers Journey

Frayn, Michael. Spies Richler, Mordecai. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Glasser, Ronald J. Another War, Another Peace Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Hollinghurst, Alan. The Line of Beauty Kelman, Stephen. Pigeon English Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner McAdam, Colin. Some Great Thing

Jacobson, Howard. The Finkler O’Brian, Patrick. Master and Commander Coady, Lynn. Mean Boy Hage, Rawi. Deniro’s Game Chabon, Michael. Gentlemen of the Road (quest for adventure)

Barnes, Julian. The Sense of An Ending.

Marriage Marriage cont’d

Calman, Claire. Lessons for a Sunday Bemrose, John. The Last Woman Father (marriage break-down) Warren, Dianne. Cool Water Harrison, Kathryn. The Binding Chair (inter-racial marriage) Haddon, Mark. A Spot of Bother

Lamb, Wally. The Hour I First Believed McAdam, Colin. Some Great Thing

Lawrence, David. Kangaroo Shields, Carol. The Box Garden and Larry’s Party Richards, David Adams. Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace Wright, Richard. In the Middle of a Life Bemrose, John. The Last Woman Birdsell, Sandra. Children of the Haddon, Mark. A Spot of Bother Day

McAdam, Colin. Some Great Thing Atkinson, Kate. Case Histories (failed marriage) Amend, Allison. A Nearly Perfect Copy Michaels, Anne. The Winter Vault

Meaning of Life, Search for Identity Mennonite Experience

Albon, Mitch. Birdsell, Sandra. Children of the The Five People You Meet in Heaven Day

Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon

Feldman, Joshua Max. The Book of Jonah

Hynes, Joel Thomas. We’ll Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night

Wing, Natasha. Munro vs the Coyote

Medicine Medicine cont'd Chevalier, Tracy. The Virgin Blue Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms (medics in Italy during WWII) Davies, Robertson. The Cunningham Irving, John. The Cider House Glasser, Ronald J. Another War, Another Peace (doctors in Vietnam) Irving, John. The Cider House Rules (midwifery) Hearn, Miranda. A Life Everlasting (male midwife in 1780's England) Lam, Vincent. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (emergency room Ross, Sinclair. Sawbones Memorial (Dr. doctor’s experiences in Toronto) In 1940's Sask.) McKay, Ami. The Birth House th Verghese, A. Cutting for Stone (midwifery, 20 ​ century) ​ Gowda, Shilpi Somaya. The Golden Son.

Medical Conditions Medical Conditions, cont’d

Marquez, Gabriel. Love in the Time of Edwards, Kim. The Memory Cholera Keeper’s Daughter (Down’s Syndrome) McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (narrator is deaf) Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury (mentally challenged narr) Moore, Brian. The Lonely Passion of Haddon, Mark. The Curious Judith Hearne (alcoholism) Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Autistic man as Oatley, Keith. A Natural History narrator) (Cholera in the 1850's) Kehoe, Stasia Ward. The Sound of Sacks, Oliver. Awakenings (sleeping Letting Go (autistic brother becomes sickness) violent)

Medical Conditions, cont’d Medical Conditions, cont’d

Thayer, Cynthia. Strong for Potatoes Hegi, Ursula. Stones from the River (deformity) (Dwarfism)

Stratton, Allan. Chanda’s Wars (AIDS) Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon (increasing IQ) Walker, Alice. Possessing the Secret of Joy (genital mutilation) Lamb, Wally. She’s Come Undone (eating disorders) Cameron, Anne. Sarah’s Garden (main character suffers stroke) Levy, Andrea. Small Island (Tourette’s syndrome) Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina Toews, Miriam. The Flying Willis, Sarah. Some Things That Stay Troutmans (T.B.) Pullinger, Kate. The Mistress of Wright, Richard. October (cancer) Nothing (T.B.)

Dasgupta, Rana. Solo (blindness) Itani, Frances. Deafening

Sedlack, Robert. The Horn of a Lamb Albom, Mitch. The Timekeeper (brain injury) (cancer)

DeWoskin, Rachel. Blind (teen) Scaramango, Jose. Blindness and Seeing (both deal with a society Robson, Jennifer. After the War is Over struck by blindness) (PTSD) Thuy, Kim. Ru (part of novel deals Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night with autism)

Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See (main character of one storyline is blind) Medical Experimentation

Van Alkemade, Kim. Orphan #8 Memory

Jewell, Linda. I’ll Find You O'Hagan, Andrew. The Illuminations

Vassanji, M.G. Nostalgia

Mexico (setting) Migrant Workers

Bojanowki, Marc. The Dog Fighter Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath

Irving, John. Avenue of Dreams

Mining McKay, Leo Jr. Twenty-Six

Currie, Sheldon. The Glace Bay Mariners’ Museum

Miracles Missing Persons Donoghue, Emma. The Wonder Jewell, Lisa. I Found You Urquhart, Jane. Sanctuary Line Nason, Riel. All the Things We Guterson, David. Our Lady of the Forest Leave Behind

Morality and Moral Dilemmas Morality and Moral Dilemmas Cooper, Fenmore. Last of the Mohicans cont’d Coetzee, J.M. Elizabeth Costello Glass, Suzanne. The Interpreter Barker, Pat. Border Crossing Golding, William. Lord of the Flies Jensen, Jane. Dante’s Equation Heller, Joseph. Catch 22 Spalding, Linda. The Purchase Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters and Morality and Moral Dilemmas Morality and Moral Dilemmas cont’d cont’d The Abolition of Man Marche, Stephen. The Hunger of the Wolf Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling Vassanji, M.G. Nostalgia Kelman, Stephen. Pigeon English MacLennan, Hugh. Each Man’s McEwan, Ian. Amsterdam Son

Koch, Herman. Summer House with Murder or Manslaughter Swimming Pool Brown, Sandra. Low Pressure deWitt, Patrick. Undermajordomo Palka, Kurt. The Piano Maker Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein Egan, Jennifer.. Manhattan Beach Steinbeck, John. The Winter of our Discontent Jewell, Linda. I’ll Find You

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Redhill, Michael. Bellevue Square Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Mutes Wells, H.G. The Island of Dr. Moreau Leganski, Rita. The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow Sebold, Alice. The Almost Moon

Shriver, Lionel. We Need to Talk About Kevin

Koch, Herman. Summer House with Swimming Pool

Melville, Herman. Moby Dick

Mistry, Rohinton. Such a Long Journey

Palka, Kurt. The Piano Maker

Music and Musicians Music and Musicians, cont'd Davies, Robertson. The Lyre of Orpheus Edugyan, Esi. Half-Blood Blues de Bernieres, Louis. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Rushdie, Salman. The Ground Beneath her Feet Doyle, Roddy. The Commitments Doyle, Roddy. Oh, Play That Thing Findley, Timothy. The Piano Man’s Daughter Huston, Nancy. Prodigy (piano)

Galloway, Steven. The Cellist of DeLillo, Dan. Great Jones Street Sarajevo (rock band)

Hamilton, Jane. Disobedience Toews, Miriam. All My Puny Sorrows Huston, Nancy. The Mark of the Angel Berner, Geoff. The Fiddler is a Le Guin, Ursula. Very Far Away from Good Woman Anywhere Else

Mason, Daniel. The Piano Tuner

Marson, Bonnie. Sleeping with Schubert

Dasgupta, Rana. SoloMichaels, Sean. Us Conductors

Delillo, Don. Great Jones Street

Newfoundland (Setting) New Brunswick, Setting Johnston, Wayne. The Colony of Richards, David Adams. Mercy Among Unrequited Dreams and The the Children, Evening Snow Will Bring Custodian of Paradise Such Peace, River of the Brokenhearted, Nights Below Station Street, The Friends Morrissey, Donna. Downhill of Meager Fortune Chance and Sylvanus Now

Proulx, E. Annie. The Shipping News

Moore, Lisa. Alligator

Crummey, Michael. The Wreckage

Moore, Lisa. February

Urquhart, Jane. The Night Stages New Zealand (setting) Nannies Catton, Eleanor. The Luminaries (19th Slimani, Leda. The Perfect Nanny ​ century)

New York (Setting) New York (Setting) cont'd Wright, Richard. Clara Callan Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby (the roaring 20's) DeLillo, Don. Great James Street MacDonald, Anne. Fall on Your McCann, Colum. Let the Great World Knees Spin McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes Bellow, Saul. A Theft and ‘Tis

Tartt, Donna. The Goldfinch Millhauser, Steven. Martin Dressler

Van Alkemade, Kim. Bachelor Girl (1920s and 30s)

New York (Setting) cont'd North Carolina, Setting-General

Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Allen, Sarah. The Girl Who Chased the Moon Toibin, Colm. Brooklyn

Egan, Linda. Manhattan Beach

Pearson, T.R. Glad News of the Natural World

Nova Scotia (Setting) Nova Scotia (Setting) cont’d McKay, Ami. The Birth House McKay, Leo Jr. Twenty-Six Raddall, Thomas. The Nymph and the Lamp Coady, Lynn. Saints of Big Harbour Buckler, Ernest. The Mountain and the Valley (Annapolis Valley) MacDonald, Anne. Fall on Your Knees (Cape Breton) Day, Parker. Rockbound (Coast)

MacLeod, Alistair. No Great Mischief (Cape Breton)

MacLennan, Hugh. Barometer Rising (details the Halifax Explosion) and The Watch That Ends the Night

Ohio (Setting) Oppression Chevalier, Tracy. At the Edge of the Orchard Bronte, Charlotte. Shirley (Oppression of women in 1800's)

Highway, Tomson. Kiss of the Fur Queen

Orchards Organ Transplants Chevalier, Tracy. At The Edge of the Irving, John. The Fourth Hand Orchard Taylor, Drew Hayden. In a World Created by a Drunken God Orphans or Foundlings Orphans or Foundlings cont'd Irani, Anosh. The Song of Kahnusha Jocelyn, Marthe. Folly Irving, John. The Cider House Rules Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed Johnston, Wayne. The Navigator of New York Kline, Christina. Orphan Train

Lethem, Johnathon. Motherless Van Alkemade, Kim. Orphan #8 Brooklyn Morton, Kate. The Forgotten Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Garden Bondage Obreht, Tea. The Tiger’s Wife

Parallel Universes Paraguay (setting) Pullman, Philip. Golden Compass Series Tuck, Lily. The News from Parent/Child Relationships Paraguay Ondaatje, Michael. Divisadero

Proulx, E. Annie. The Shipping News

Rushdie, Salman. Haroun and the

Vassanji, M.G. The Assassin’s Song (father and son)

Wagamese, Richard. Dream Wheels

Willis, Sarah. Some Things That Stay

Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones Parent/Child Relationships cont’d Parent/Child Relationships cont’d

Shields, Carol. The Box Garden Bissoondath, N. The Worlds Within and Unless (mothers and daughters) Her

Vanderhaeghe, Guy. Homesick (father Moses, Kate. Wintering: A Novel of and daughter) Sylvia Plath

Huston, Nancy. Prodigy Aquin, Herbert. Next Episode Shields, Carol. Unless Doerr, Anthony. About Grace Edugyan, Esi. The Second Life of Edugyan, Esi. The Second Life of Samuel Tyne Samuel Tyne Egan, Linda. Manhattan Beach Meyer, Phillipp. The Son Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied Dead

Penitentiary System and Prison Philippines (Setting) Atwood, Margaret. Hagseed Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied Dead Brainard, Cecilia. When the Rainbow Goddess Wept (1939-1945) Philosophy Pianos and Piano Making Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie’s World: A Novel About Philosophy Palka, Kurt. The Piano Maker

Albom, Mitch. The Timekeeper Photos, Photography or Photojournalism Govier, Katherine. Angel Walk

Wiggins, Marianne. The Shadow catcher

Round, Jeffrey. The Honey Locust

O'Hagan, Andrew. The Illuminations Portugal (setting) Post Apocalyptic Worlds Saramago, Jose. Baltasar and Blimunda Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake, (Portugal, 1711) The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam

Frank, Pat. Alas Babylon

McCarthy, Cormac. The Road Wyndham, John. The Chrysalids Poverty Prairie Life Clarke, Austin. More Mitchell, W.O. How I Spent My Summer Holidays, Roses are Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist Difficult Here and Who Has Seen the Wind McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes Most novels by Margaret Laurence Steinbeck, John. Cannery Road and Grapes of Wrath Warren, Dianne. Cool Water.

Swarup, Vikas. Slumdog Millionaire Garner, Hugh. Cabbagetown (Depression on the Prairies) Gibbons, Kaye. Ellen Foster Ostenso, Martha. Wild Geese Prince Edward Island Privacy (Invasion of) Coady, Lynn. Mean Boy Kafka, Franz. The Trial Orwell, George. 1984 Vassanji, M.G. Nostalgia Psychology Ohlin, Alix. Inside

Quebec (incl. Montreal) Setting .

Blais, Marie-Claire. Dumlurer’s Angel and A Season in the Life of Emmanuel

Moore, Brian. The Luck of Ginger Coffey Richler, Nancy. The Imposter Bride.

Richler, Mordecai. St. Urbain’s Horsemen and Joshua Then and Now Cohen, Leonard. The Favourite Game

Quests Quests. cont'd Cornwell, Bernard. The Last Kingdom Adams, Richard. Watership Down.

Joyce, Rachel. The Unlikely Pilgrimage Tolkien, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings of Harold Fry trilogy

Feldman, Joshua Max. The Book of Foer, Jonathan. Extremely Loud Jonah and Incredibly Close

Gruen, Sarah. At the Water's Edge O’Melveny, Regina. Madness and Cures Morton, Kate. The Forgotten Garden Chabon, Michael. Gentlemen of the Zentner, Alexi. The Lobster Kings Road (quest for adventure)

Doerr, Anthony. About Grace Urquhart, Jane. The Night Stages

Irving, John. Avenue of Dreams Patrick, Phaedra. The Curious Charms of Arthur P epper Morton, Kate. The Forgotten Garden Spalding, Linda. A Reckoning Hynes, Joel Thomas. We’ll Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night

Racism and/or Intolerance Racism and/or Intolerance cont’d Baldacci, David. Wish You Well Sarsfield, Mairuth. No Crystal Stair

Workman, P.D. Questing for a Dream Updike, John. Rabbit Redux (Cree) Walker, Alice. The Colour Purple Clarke, Austin. More Mosher, Howard. A Stranger in the Courtenay, Bryce. The Power of One Kingdom

Kay, Terry. The Runaway Stockett, Kathryn. The Help

Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Pullinger, Kate. The Mistress of Bible Nothing

Beatty, Paul. The Sell Out Edugyan, Esi. Half-Blood Blues Morrison, Toni. God Help the Child Spalding, Linda. The Purchase Lessing, Dorothy. The Grass is Singing Beatty, Paul. The Sell Out Paton, Alan. Cry the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope (S. Africa 40s) Radio Oh, Play that Thing Hay, Elizabeth. Late Nights on Air Baldwin, Shauna. The Tiger Claw Banks, Iain. Dead Air Neilson, Melany. The Persia Cafe Baldwin, Shauna. The Tiger Claw Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied Dead (main character is radio operator during WWII) Whitehead, Colson. Underground Railroad Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See (radio use during WWII Ranchers (Texas) McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses

Reconciliation Reincarnation Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas Harris, Joanne. Blackberry Wine Redemption or Forgiveness Retellings of Classic Tales Callaghan, Morley. More Joy in Heaven Atwood, Margaret. The Penelopiad Edwards, Kim. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Jones, Lloyd. Mister Pip (main part of story is the reading of Great Elliott, George. Silas Marner Expectations)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner

Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables

Knowles, John. A Separate Peace

MacDonald, Anne. Fall on Your Knees

Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach Refugees Retribution or Revenge Hill, Lawrence. The Illegal Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge Eggers, Dave. What is the What Harris, Joanne. Gentlemen and Players

Priest, Christopher. The Prestige Atwood, Margaret. Hagseed Punke, Michael. The Revenant Religion Religion, cont’d th Blackmore, R.D. Lorna Doone (17 ​ c) Richards, David Adams. Mercy ​ Among the Children Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Irish Catholicism) Scrimger, Richard. Mystical Rose

Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters Toews, Miriam. A Complicated (satire); The Pilgrim’s Regress (allegory) Kindness

Martel, Yan. Life of Pi Vassanji, M.G. The Assassin’s Song

Pamuk, Orhan. Snow Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited (Catholicism) Drew, Alan. Gardens of Water (Muslim) Wiebe, Rudy. The Blue Mountains Toews, Miriam. Irma Voth of China (Mennonite faith)

Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling Young, William Paul. The Shack

Spalding, Linda. The Purchase (Quaker) Sierra, Javier. The Secret Supper

Uppal, Priscilla. The Divine Economy of Drew, Alan. Gardens of Water Salvation Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina Robinson, Kim. Galileo's Dream Baldwin, Shauna. What the Body Birdsell, Sandra. The Russlander Remembers (Hindu, Muslim, Sikh) Michaels, Sean. Us Conductors

Ancient Rome, setting Running Smale, Clash of Eagles Hill, Lawrence. The Illegal

Russia (Setting)

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment Saskatchewan (Setting) San Francisco, Setting (1876)

Helm, Michael. The Projectionist Donoghue, Emma. Frog Music

Ross, Sinclair. Sawbones Memorial (Dr. In 1940's Sask.) and As For Me and My House

Vanderhaeghe, Guy. Homesick (1960's)

Wiebe, Rudy. Peace Shall Destroy Many Satire Satire cont'd Galsworthy, John. Forsythe Saga Amis, Kingsley. The Alteration

Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters Birney, Earle.. Down the Long Table (Communism in the 1950's) McEwan, Ian. Amsterdam and Turvey, A Military Picaresque

Richler, Mordecai. The Incomparable Conrad, Joseph. Secret Agent Atuk Beatty, Paul. The Sell Out Dickens, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and The Prince and Saramago, Jose. Seeing (govt') the Pauper MacIntyre, Linden. The Bishop’s Man

Secrets Secrets cont’d Miller, Donna. The Promise of Rain deWitt, Patrick. Under Majordomo Minor Booth, Stephen. Lost River

Styron, William. Sophie's Choice Setterfield, Diane. The Thirteenth Tale Morrissey, Donna. Downhill Chance Brown, Sandra. Low Pressure Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach Ng. Celeste. Little Fires Everywhere Winter, Michael. Minister without Portfolio Burns, Catherine. The Visitors

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go Van Alkemade, Kim. Bachelor Girl

Obreht, Tea. The Tiger’s Wife Ondaatje, Michael. Warlight Scotland, Setting Sri Lanka (setting) MacLeod, Alistair. No Great Mischief Ondaatje, Michael. Anil’s Ghost and Running in the Family (late Stevensen, Robert Louis. Kidnapped 1900's)

Glass, Julia. Three Junes Selvadurai, Shyam. Funny Boy ​ (1970's to 1980's) Welsh, Irvine. Trainspotting

Gruen, Sarah. At the Water's Edge Self Discovery Self Discovery Cont’d Coupland, Douglas. Microserfs Wright, Richard. The Age of Longing Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield Richards, David Adam. The River of Tolkien, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings trilogy the Brokenhearted

Vassanji, M.G. The In-between World of Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Vikram Lall Maladies Dasgupta, Rana. Solo Ondaatje, Michael. The Cat’s Table Banville, John. Shroud Sibling Relations Sibling Relations cont’d

Bowering, Miarlyn. Visble Worlds Lawson, Mary. The Other Side of the Bridge Eliot, George.. The Mill on the Floss Lawrence, D.H. The Rainbow and Hay, Elizabeth. A Student of Weather Women in Love

Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees Burns, Catherine. The Visitors.

Schwarz, Christina. Drowning Ruth MacLeod, Alistair.. No Great Mischief Wright, Richard. Clara Callan MacDonald, Anne. Fall on Your Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the Bones Knees

LeCraw, Holly. The Half Brother

Hannah, Kristin. The Nightingale Sea Adventures and/or Shipwrecks Sexual Identity of Discovery

Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex

Glover, Douglas. Elle Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary

Melville, Herman. Moby Dick Munro, Alice. Lives of Girls and Women O’Brian, Patrick. Master and Commander Wiseman, Adele. Crackpot

Stevensen, Robert. Treasure Island

Larsson, Bjorn. Long John Silver

Ondaatje, Michael. The Cat’s Table

Morton, Andrew. The New World

Slavery Slavery, cont’d Banks, Russell. Cloudsplitter Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Beatty, Paul. The Sell Out Levy, Andrea. The Long Song Clarke, Austin. The Polished Hoe Karlin, Wayne. The Wished-for Faulkner. William. Absalom, Absalom! Country

Gibbon, Lewis G.. Spartacus Kidd, Sue Monk. The Invention of Wings. Jones, Edward P. The Known World Grissom, Kathleen. Glory Over Martin, Lewis. Valer. Property Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House Morrison, Toni. Beloved Whitehead, Colin. The Underground Railroad

Space Exploration and Travel Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey Spain (setting) Robinson, Kim S. Galileo's Dream Schoenfeld, Bruce. The Last Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles Serious Thing.

Spanish Civil War

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls

Small Towns Spies

Ferguson, Trevor. The River Burns Hannah, Kristin. The Nightingale Ondaatje, Michael. Warlight The South (United States) The South (United States) cont'd

Stockett, Kathryn. The Help Baldacci, David. Wish You Well Lee, Sky. Disappearing Moon Cafe Adams, Alice. A Southern Exposure Gibbons, Kaye. Sights Unseen Coleman, Carter. Cage’s Bend Neilson, Melany. The Persia Cafe Faulkner, William. Absalom, McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Absalom!, The Sound and the Fury Lonely Hunter (Georgia, 1930's) and Light in August

Karlin, Wayne. The Wished-for Country Kay, Terry. The Runaway

Groom, Winston. Forrest Gump Morton, Andrew. The New World

Hurston, Zora. Their Eyes Were Martin, Valer. Property (1828 Watching God Plantation life)

Whitehead, Colin. The Underground Railroad Spirituality or Spiritualism Spirituality or Spiritualism, cont’d

Kipling, Richard. Kim Angelou, Maya. Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now Maughan, W. Somerset. The Razor’s Edge Courtenay, Bryce. The Four Fires

Tolkein, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings trilogy Fowler, Connie. Before Women Had Wings McKay, Ami. The Wtiches of New York Irving, John.. A Prayer for Owen Meany State of Emergency Street Life

Saramago, Jose. Seeing Shields, Carol. Unless

Stowaways

Pullinger, Kate. Landing Gear Sudan (setting) Summer Resorts Eggers, Dave. What is the What Texier, Catherine. Victorine

Survival Survival cont'd Mowat, Farley. A Whale for the Killing Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe

Stevensen, Robert. Treasure Island and Galloway, Steven. The Cellist of Kidnapped Sarajevo

Sebold, Alice. Lucky (surviving rape) Golding, William. Lord of the Flies

Huxley, Aldous. Island Irani, Anosh. The Song of Kahnusha Ward, Amanda. The Same Sky Martel, Yan. Life of Pi Morton, Andrew. The New World Punke, Michael. The Revenant

The Tempest Teaching /Teacher Student Atwood, Margaret. Hagseed McCourt, Frank. ‘Tis

Hay, Elizabeth. Alone in the Classroom

Lam, Vincent. The Headmaster’s Wager

LeCraw, Holly. The Half Brother

Technology

Gibson, William. Recognition Thieves Alexis, Andre. The Hidden Keys Terrorism Time and Time Travel Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto Gin, Phillip. Fierce Kingdom Albon, Mitch. The Timekeeper

Robinson, Kim S. Galileo's Dream Gibson, William. Recognition Haig, Matt. How to Stop Time Haldeman, Joe. The Forever War. Lim, Thea. An Ocean of Minutes Toronto (setting) Treasure Hunts Gibson, Graeme. Gentlemen Death Morton, Andrew. Silver: Return to Lam, Vincent. Blood Letting and Treasure Island Miraculous Cures

Michaels, Anne. Fugitive Pieces Turkey (setting)

Ondaatje, Michael. In the Skin of the Pamuk, Orhan. Snow Lion (the building of Toronto, including bridges, plus factory life) Drew, Alan. Gardens of Water

Rotenberg, Robert. Old City Hall Titanic st (Toronto, 21 ​ century) Alcott, Kate. The Dressmaker ​

Clarke, Austin. The Question

Aubert, Rosemary. The Ferryman Will Be There

Redhill, Michael. Bellevue Square

Underground Railroad Vancouver (setting) Ozeki, Ruth L. A Tale for the Time Grissom, Kathleen. Glory Over Being Everything.

Chevalier, Tracy. The Last Runaway

Whitehead, Colin. The Underground Railroad Vietnam

Victimization of Women Skibsrud, Johanna. The Sentimentalists Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge (wife is sold by husband) Herr, Michael. Dispatches and Tess of the d’Ubervilles (woman is raped, then abandoned) Lam, Vincent. The Headmaster’s Wager

O’Brien, Tim. In the Lake of the Woods Violence Virginia (Setting)

Coupland, Douglas. Hey Nostradamus! Spalding, Linda. The Purchase (School shootings)

Lamb, Wally. The Hour I First Believed (Colombine school shooting)

Uppal, Priscila. The Divine Economy of Salvation

Neilson, Melany. The Persia Cafe

Visions

Feldman, Joshua Max. The Book of Jonah

War War, cont’d Adams, Alice. A Southern Exposure (the American South, 1939) Pazira, Nelofer. A Bed of Red Flowers Jenoff, Pam. The Orphan’s Tale (Afghanistan-1970's to present day)

Barker, Pat. The Ghost Road (WWII) Jensen, Jane. Dante’s Equation and The Eye in the Door (WWI) (WWII)

Bowering, Marilyn. Visible Worlds Appignanesi, Lisa. The Memory (WWII) Man

Boyden, Joseph. Three Day Road Itani, Frances. Deafening

Ryan, Jennifer. The Chilbury Ladies’ Kline, Christina. Orphan Train Choir (WWII) (WWII Jewish persecution)

Brainard, Cecilia. When the Rainbow Baldwin, Shauna. The Tiger Claw Goddess Wept (WWII) Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon Brickhill, Paul. The Great Escape (Soviet revolutionary's (WWII, American perspective) imprisonment, WWII)

Brooks, Geraldine. March (Civil War) Lam, Vincent. The Headmaster’s Wager Buchan, John. The Thirty-Nine Steps. Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse (WWI) Five

Byatt, A.S. The Children’s Book-WWI Robson, Jennifer. Goodnight from London

War, cont’d War, cont’d

Graham, Genevieve. Promises to Keep Moorhead, Caroline. A Train in (Acadia 1755) Winter (WWII)

Ryan, Jennifer. The Chilbury Ladies' McCabe, Erin Lindsay. I Shall Be Choir (Homefront WWII) Near to You (woman disguises herself as a male soldier in the Bernieres, Louis. Captain Corelli’s American Civil War) Mandolin Vanderbes, Jennifer. The Secret of Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities Raven Point (WWI, Italy) (One Hundred Years War) Gaynor, Hazel. The Girl From the Faulkner, William. A Fable (WWI) Savoy (consequences of WWI)

Faulks, Sebastian. Birdsong ( Somme) Robson, Jennifer. Somewhere in France and After the War Is Over ​ ​ Smale, Clash of Eagles (war in a world (WWI) where the Roman Empire never fell) Haldeman, Joe. The Forever War Gruen, Sarah. At the Water's Edge (war in the future) (WWII in Scotland) Larson, Erik. Dead Wake: The Last Findley, Timothy. The Piano Man’s Crossing of the Lusitania Daughter (WWII) and The Wars (WWI) Robson, Jennifer. Somewhere in MacDonald, Lyn. They Called It France and After the War Is Over ​ ​ Passcnendaele (Battle of Ypres) (female roles in WWI)

MacDonald, Ann-Marie. The Way the Hannah, Kirstin. The Nightingale Crow Flies (Cold War) (WWII female perspective)

Major, Ken. No Man’s Land McEwan, Ian. Atonement (WWII) (Newfoundland regiment during WWI) and Saturday (Iraq war)

Huston, Nancy. The Mark Angel (post Michaels, Anne. Fugitive Pieces World War II) (WWII) War, cont’d War, cont’d

Mowat, Farley. The Regiment De Rosnay, Tatiana. Sarah’s Key (world (Hasty P’s in WWII) War II) Busfield, Andrea. Born Under a Million Nathansan, E.M. The Dirty Dozen (American G.I.’s in WWII) Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See (radio use during WWII) Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach (ship building, American war effort) Harrison, Charles. Generals Die in Bed War, Underground Movement Parkinson, Curtis. Domenic’s War: A Story of the Battle of Mone Cassino Baldwin, Shauna. The Tiger Claw

Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient

Westerns Widows Meyers, Phillipp. The Son Mosionier, Beatrice. In the Shadow of Evil West Indies (Setting) West Virginia (Setting) Clarke, Austin. The Polished Hoe Gordon, Jaimy. Lord of Misrule Women’s Rights, General Women’s Rights, General, cont'd Allende, Isabel. Portrait in Sepia. Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a (women’s rights in 1800's Chile) and Geisha Daughters of Fortune (right to independence) (freedom for Chilean women) Hurston, Zora. Their Eyes Were Atwood, Margaret.. The Handmaid’s Watching God (African American Tale (reproductive rights) women’s rights)

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea

Women’s Rights, General, cont'd Wine Making Mah, Ann. The Lost Vintage Birdsell, Sandra. The Russlander

Thackeray, William. Vanity Fair

Wrestling Wrongfully Accused Tulchinsky, Karen X. The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky. Elliott, George. Silas Marner Yellowknife (setting) Hay, Elizabeth. Late Nights on Air

Yugoslavia (setting)

Round, Jeffrey. The Honey Locust

Mental Illness Mental Illness cont’d

Benjamin, Chloe. Munro Vs. the Coyote Findlay, Timothy. The Wars (PTSD) Slimani, Leda. The Perfect Nanny Atwood, Margaret. Alia Grace Jewell, Lisa. The House We Grew Up In Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar Toews, Miriam. The Flying Troutman Lawson, Mary. Crow Lake Blais, Marie Claire. Mad Shadows Kesey, Ken. One Flew over the Findley, Timothy Pilgrim Cuckoo’s Nest