Recommended Literature

Reading great literature is one of the best ways to get a feel for a place or a culture when you cant actually get there yourself.  Below is a list of literature titles for the various regions we study in this course. I hope you will take the time to read one or two that you find interesting.  Read the books just for fun, or partner with your parent to create your own high school World Literature course using the downloadable literature guide availbale at www.litcharts.com. This website also has research "how to's"and clear explinations for literary terms and devices.  Check it out! Even if you are just reading for fun, these guides will help you get much more out of the experience.

*LitChart guide available

UNIT 1- CENTRAL AND EASTERN ASIA 
Korea: A Single Shard (176p) 
Korea: When my Name was Keoko (208p)

China: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (288p) *

South Korea: Please Look After Mom (272p)

Cambodia: First They Killed My Father (238p)*

Indonesia: The Rainbow Troops (304p)

Azerbaijan: Ali and Nino (240p)

UNIT 2- CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

Ecuador: The Queen of Water (370p)

Honduras: Enrique’s Journey (426p)*

El Salvador: The Weight of All Things (239p)

Chile: House of Spirits (448p)

UNIT 3- SOUTH WEST ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

India: Interpreter of Maladies (198p) *

India: The Namesake (291p) *

India: White Tiger (304p) *

India: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (291p) *

India: Cracking India (296p)

Bangladesh: A Golden Age (274p)

Iran: Rooftops of Tehran (368p)  

Pakistan: In Other Rooms (256p)

Afghanistan: The Swallows of Kabul (195p)

Afghanistan: The Kite Runner (400p)*

Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns (432p)*

Sri Lanka- Island of a Thousand Mirrors (255p)

Iraq: The Gardener of Baghdad (226p)

UNIT 4- EUROPE

Albania: Chronicle in Stone (320p)

France: War and Turpentine (290p)

Bosnia & Herzegovina: The Cellist of Sarajevo (235p)*  

Czech Republic: The Trial (304p)*

Romania: The Land of Green Plums (272p)

Bosnia/Serbia: The Bridge on the Drina (314p)

Russia: Notes From the Underground (160p) *

UNIT 5- NORTH AMERICA

United States: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (304p) *

US/Puerto Rico: When I Was Puerto Rican (278p) *

US/Burundi: Strength in What Remains (284p) *

US/India: Trail of Broken Wings (377p)

US/Mexico: Bless Me Ultima (290p)*

Dominican Republic: In the Time of the Butterflies (352p)*

Cuba: Dreaming in Cuban (245p)

Mexico: The Power and the Glory (222p)

UNIT 6- NORTH, CENTRAL AND WEST AFRICA

Angola: A General Theory of Oblivion (250p)

Ivory Coast: The Bitter Side of Sweet (306p)

Liberia: She Would be King (312p)

Mali: Monique and the Mango Rains (215p)

Nigeria: Purple Hibiscus (320p) *

Egypt: The Alchemist (209p) *

Ethiopia: Beneath the Lion’s Gaze (320p)

Ghana: Homegoing (320p) *

Sudan: A Long Walk to Water (133p) *

UNIT 7- EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA

Malawi: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (320p) *

Zimbabwe: We Need New Names (320p)

South Africa: July’s People (176p)

South Africa: Kaffir Boy (354p)

Ethiopia: Notes from the Hyena's Belly (368p)

Kenya: A Grain of Wheat (247p)*