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Monday, August 29, 2016

Top Ten Tuesday: Contemporary books paired with classics


Classic or required reads and recommended contemporary pairings.
Reposted from Sept 2. 2013 TTT with additional/new parings in red

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



Please give me more suggestions if you can think of any!