Classic or required reads and recommended contemporary pairings.
Reposted from Sept 2. 2013 TTT with additional/new parings in red
Reposted from Sept 2. 2013 TTT with additional/new parings in red
Required reads/classics
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Contemporary pairing
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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Nothing by Janne Teller or
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
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Don Quixote by Cervantes
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Going Bovine by Libba Bray
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad or
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Dodger by Terry Pratchett
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller
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Wicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill
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Hamlet by Shakespeare
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David
Wroblewski
or Ophelia by Lisa Klein or A Steep and Thorny
Way by Cat Winters
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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Jane by April Lindner or
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Bridgette Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
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1984 by George Orwell
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
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Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman or Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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Paper Towns by John Green or
Dr. Bird’s Advice to Sad Poets by Evan Roskos
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The Island of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells
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The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
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Night by Ellie Wiesel
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak or Between
Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys or Maus by Art
Spiegelman
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Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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His Dark Endeavors by Kenneth Oppel
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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Railsea by China Mieville
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
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When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Revolutions by Jennifer Donnelly
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The Complete Poems of Emily
Dickinson
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And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard
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A Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear by EK Johnston
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork
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1001 Arabian Nights
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The Wrath and the Dawn by Becky Ahdieh
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Please give me more suggestions if you can think of any!