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