books

Books I recommend ...

• fiction
• non-fiction
• poetry 
• devotional 
• teaching 

Fiction: 

The Pearl (Steinbeck) 

The Secret Life of Bees (Kidd) 

The Help 

... almost anything by Margaret Laurence ... 

Jane Eyre (Bronte) 

Cry, the Beloved Country (Paton) 

Green Grass, Running Water (King) 

Pride and Prejudice (Austen) 

Great Expectations (Dickens) 

Tess of the D'Ubervilles (Hardy) 

The Poisonwood Bible (Kingfisher) 

Anne of Green Gables 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou) 

The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns (Houseini - spelling?) 

The Glass Castle (Wells) 

A Doll's House (Ibsen) 

Heart of Darkness (Conrad) 

The Story of an Hour (Chopin) 

Trifles (Glaspell)
The Book Thief (Zusak)
The Hunger Games (Collins)
No Great Mischief (MacLeod)
The Book of Negroes (Hill)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) 

Non-Fiction: 

Curse of the Narrows (Halifax Explosion) 

Odd Girl Out (Girl Socialization/Bullying) 

Cinderella Ate My Daughter (Marketing/Girl Culture) 

A Chance to Die (Biography of Amy Carmichael by Elisabeth Elliott) 

The Rape of Nanking (by Iris Chang) 

Guns, Germs and Steel (by Jared Diamond) 

Shake Hands with the Devil (by Romeo Dallaire, about the Rwandan genocide) 

The Education of a British-Protected Child (Colonialism, by Chinua Achebe) 

Night (about the Holocaust, by Eli Wiesel) 

Maus (graphic novel about Spiegleman's father's experience of Auschwitz)
Reading Lolita in Tehran 

Poetry: 

Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poetry of Amy Carmichael 

Langston Hughes 

Emily Dickinson  

John Donne

George Herbert
Shel Silverstein
Dr. Seuss

Devotional: 

Passion and Purity (Elliott) 

Desiring God (Piper) 

One Thousand Gifts (Voskamp) 

The Screwtape Letters (Lewis) 

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire (Cymbala) 

... I love Beth Moore and have enjoyed several of her Bible studies ... 

Teaching: 

Odd Girl Out (Simmons) -- book about socialization and hidden aggression in girls. A MUST READ for any teacher!