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 .