What are some good book suggestions for a high school book club?
They don’t have to be classic books, just good books for high school level. Our teacher gave us the guidelines that there can’t be too much cursing or explicit content that it distracts from the reading, but there can be a little. Do you have any suggestions? I’m at a loss right now.
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Day After Night an interesting look at little known aspects of post WW2 problems that most of us never heard of. I found it well written, thought provoking and character driven. The main characters are women, but the focus is that they are people who happen to be women and the attendant issues therein. It’s definitely not “chick lit”.
The Federalist Papers. IMO, should be a must read to graduate HS. They will blow your mind.
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- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safan Foer is a good, swift read.
– An Abundance of Katherines by John Green is a book we read in my Adolescent Literature course. It’s a fun story about a guy who keeps getting dumped by girls named Katherine. His friend decides they need to go on a road trip. Hilarity ensues.
– Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi are great graphic novels to read in a book club. They can raise questions about culture, adolescence, war, and intertexuality as a modus in literature.
It’s long and entirely in verse, but if your group is up for the challenge then I highly recommend reading Allen Mandelbaum’s translation of The Metamorphoses by Ovid. If your group is interested in Roman mythology, this is the work to read. It’s beautifully written. It has drama and comedy. It’s as close to perfection as you can get.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
Cat’s Eye Margaret Atwood
Go Ask Alice Anon
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde!!!! It’s the best!
A Separate Peace
The Fountainhead
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Looking for Alaska
@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard I absolutely loved “A Separate Peace” and have read it many times.
How about “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe” by Fannie Flagg
“Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
“The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
Contact by Carl Sagan
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Watership Down by Richard Adams
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The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
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