Summer Reading List : 1ère euro/ Term euro

• ADICHIE, Chimamanda Ngozi. Purple Hibiscus (coming-of-age novel/post-colonial Nigeria)
• ADICHIE, Chimamanda Ngozi. The Thing Around Your Neck (collection of short stories)
• ALEXIE, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Native Americans, humour, contemporary US)
• ANGELOU, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing (autobiographic novel/segregation/US)
• ATWOOD, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale (sequel, dystopia)
• ATWOOD, Margaret. The Testaments (sequel, dystopia)
• AUSTER, Paul. Moon Palace (Quest of identity/ New York)
• BARROWS, Annie / SHAFFER, Mary Ann. The Guernesey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (epistolary, 2nd world war, light-hearted)
• BURNS, Anna. The Milkman (Troubles in Northern Ireland)
• CASTELO, Maria. Academy Street (Immigration/ Ireland and US/1940s’)
• COE, Jonathan. Middle England (contemporary England, during and after Brexit)
• ENRIGHT, Anne. Actress (reflection on actors’ and actresses’ life)
• EVARISTO, Bernardine. Girl, Woman, Other (modern Britain and black womanhood)
• GAIMAN, Neil. American Gods (urban science fiction, fantasy)
• GALGUT, Damon. The Promise (South Africa)
• HADDON, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (humour/murder mystery/Asperger’s syndrome)
• ISHIGURO, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day (Nobel prize/Oxford/1950s’)
• KASISCHKE, Laura. Boy Heaven (provocative mystery book/love story)
• McEWAN, Ian. Machines Like Me (Artifical intelligence)
• McEWAN, Ian. On Chesil Beach (romance)
• McMANUS, Karen. One of Us Is Lying (Mystery/thriller/Young adult)
• McQUISTON, Casey. Red White and Royal Blue (Romance, LGBT, young adult)
• O’FARRELL, Maggie. Hamnet (England/16th century/ family, love and death)
• ORANGE, Tommy. There There (Native Americans, contemporary US)
• OTSUKA, Julie. The Swimmers (intimate and psychological novel about mothers and daughters and the sorrows of implacable loss)
• PICAULT, Jodi. Small Great Things (race issue in the US)
• RUSHDIE, Salman. Haroun and the Sea of Stories (tale/India)
• RUSHDIE, Salman. The Golden House (success in the US)
• SMITH, Zadie. Swing Time (story of a Black dancer in London)
• SWIFT, Graham. Mothering Sunday (love story)
• TYLER, Anne. Vinegar Girl (rewriting of The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare/humour/ love and marriage)
• WHITEHEAD, Colson. Nickel Boys (segregation/US)

During the holiday, you need to pick one book from the list and read it. You need to choose one from the whole list. Be ready to answer the following questions when you go back to school in September.

• Why did you choose this book at first ?
• Identify the genre, recap the main actions of the plot and draw a portrait of the main characters.
• What did you like about the book ? What didn’t you like ?
• If you really enjoyed this book, be ready to convince your classmates that it was an enriching and compelling experience. (3 arguments minimum)

Have fun !