Peruse this list and begin looking into each selection. We will have a book tasting on Thursday and you will need to make a decision by Friday.

 

Independent Novel Unit Choices:

• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

• Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

• Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

 

The following require purchase and approval:

 

      Fiction

• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

• The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho

• The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

• Little Bee by Chris Cleave

 

      Nonfiction

• First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

• Longitude by Dava Sobel

• Evicted by Matthew Desmond

• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

• Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar