Student: "What Should I Read?" Me: "Sedaris." You?
Published May 05, 2009 @ 08:16AM PT
A student reader emailed this today, asking for reading suggestions (and giving us a good, sassy testimony of how high school English can be a book-lover's curse instead of blessing). Rather than give her one answer, I hope some of you will pitch in with your own suggestions. Here's Kayla:
Dear Clay,
I have recently become incredibly frustrated with the English department at my school. There is no opportunity to get into more advanced English classes once you have entered high school (only "outstanding" - a.k.a. your parents are on the school board - middle school students are allowed to go up to the high school to take freshmen courses) as there is a required order to the English curriculum. They go by the whole 'you must do English 9 then English 10 and then if you're on the honors track you do these courses and if you're on the CP path you do these courses'. We are discouraged from taking two English classes, as the administration feels that the work load would be too much for a student to handle. We do entire semesters on one of Shakespeare's works such as Romeo and Juliet. I have written four essays and more DED's then I can count on that one play and I'm currently wondering if I am able to put a restraining order on it. It's that bad.
Are there any books that you would recommend that I read in order to escape the endless monotony?
Kayla
So....
Dear Kayla,
It's a hard question to answer, since you don't tell us your age or your interests - do you want contemporary or classic? prefer comedy, drama, fantasy, sci-fi, historical, poetry? do you want an ambitious reading list that will improve your grasp of the history of literature? on and on. Feel free to give more info in comments, or another email.
Until then, I'm shooting blind here, but I'll shoot anyway. I'm going to assume you're in maybe tenth grade, and that you just want some enjoyable reading.
Short and sweet: find an author you love, and read that author's complete works. One of my biggest beefs about the way high schools and even colleges do literature is that they almost never provide students the opportunity to get to know one author so intimately that they feel they know him or her. I had to temporarily drop out of college more than once because I wanted to read the complete works of Plato, Homer, John Keats (letters and biography included), Friedrich Nietzsche, and Oscar Wilde. Read them I did - in chronological order - and I came out of it with a deeper literary love than I'd ever had from classes.
But I'm not suggesting you tackle any of those writers. Save them for college or later.
As a high school teacher, the one author I've found my students falling in love with over and over, and recommending to their friends once they finish, is David Sedaris. Three years ago, my ninth graders borrowed and circulated my copies of his works for the entire year, and didn't return them to me until the last week of school. Start with Me Talk Pretty One Day, then read maybe Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, then find everything else he wrote. His wit is laugh-out-loud, his style is polished, his humanity wonderful. You can't go wrong with him. (Google him to learn more, and see his reading of one memoir piece on David Letterman below for a taste. You'll wonder as you watch if Sedaris is gay. The answer is yes - beautifully so.)
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I'm going to stop here, and hope others will chime in too. Feel free to ask for more. There's nothing book-lovers love more than sharing those books they love.
Clay
P.S. I wrote about teaching Sedaris in A.P. Literature here.
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Clay is an American high school Humanities teacher, technology coach, and Apple Distinguished Educator who has taught for the last eight years in Asian international schools. According to law, he's married to his wife. According to his wife, he's married to his Mac.
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Empire Falls by Richard Russo- One of the best American novels I have read in years.
Posted by Josh Anderson on 05/05/2009 @ 08:31AM PT
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"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," David Foster Wallace. The best nonfiction from one of the best authors. Harper's put the title essay online after DFW's suicide.
Posted by Dan Meyer on 05/05/2009 @ 08:41AM PT
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I say -
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. What if you were at the wrong place at the wrong time when terrorists bomb the Golden Gate Bridge? http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. A simple famtasy adventure? Or a layered allegory about censorship....
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. One of my favorite fantasy stories from a gifted writer http://journal.neilgaiman.com/
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. If you read this in 5th grade, read it again for the textured indictment of orgainzed religion and a great heroine.
Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. Was Richard II of Englad really the monster that history paints him as? Great read.
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. My favorite Irving of all.
Posted by Kate Tabor on 05/05/2009 @ 09:10AM PT
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One Man's Meat or The Essays Of ... by E.B. White. Granted it is from another generation but his humor and style still work well (I'd recommend "Once More to the Lake," "Here is New York," "Afternoon of an American Boy," "Walden" and "Farewell, My Lovely")
Chuck Klosterman. While he requires some knowledge of GenX popular culture, he's hip without being hipster pretentious.
Speaking of GenX, I found myself pretty attached to Douglas Coupland when I was in my twenties, especially Microserfs, Generation X, and Girlfriend in a Coma.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. I'm not a war novel guy. This, and All Quiet on the Western Front are the only war novels I've ever enjoyed.
I'd also recommend seeking out and finding some great blogs. http://damnhellasskings is a good portal for several excellent writers, some of whom have memoirs and other books of their own published (I've personally been reading Sarah Bunting's Tomato Nation since 2001).
Posted by Tom Panarese on 05/05/2009 @ 09:25AM PT
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Tom, you make me want to add another old-timer I discovered at about 20, though he wrote decades before I was born: James Thurber - best known for "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," but I like "The Catbird Seat" and several other essays better. The guy's hilarious.
And maybe it's the spring, or maybe it's just that I'm older now, and have gone through my serious stage - or is it that schools have a perverse aversion to assigning reads that make us laugh? - but whatever the reason, I dunno, I want to recommend reading that is smart, yes, but also funny.
(Though your recommendation of The Things They Carried is a very unfunny book that I can get behind. I read it last summer, and it shook me to the core. Brilliant structure, beautiful heart.)
I'll go ahead and add, for mature readers only, The Sotweed Factor by John Barth. Another genius of form and intellect, but also of heart and wit. It may be my favorite novel of all. At around 700 pages, it takes patience. Barth is another writer whose complete works I've read.
And Cormac McCarthy is another.
Hm. Don DeLillo's White Noise. Fun and smart, again. Great teen characters, great weird family, great portrait of twisted American life.
Posted by Clay Burell on 05/05/2009 @ 10:14AM PT
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I think you're right on some level -- there does seem to be some sort of aversion to assigning humorous works in school. At a glance, it's three-fold.
First, in the interest of rushing to "cover" everything, teachers have decided that humorous works of even noted authors aren't as important as the heavy-symbolic, smack-you-in-the-face tragedies/major works. For instance, Romeo and Juliet instead of something like Twelfth Night or A Midsummer Night's Dream or The Taming of the Shrew (Taming, btw, worked really well in my sophomore English); or some of Twain's humor instead of bludgeoning students with Huck Finn.
Second, maybe they don't think that students "Get it"? I know that some of the baudy humor in Midsummer went over my students' heads (except for the fact that Bottom being an ass meant they could say "ass" and not get in trouble. Uh ... settle down, Beavis), and while my seniors understood Swift's "A Modest Proposal," they didn't really laugh all that much. And some will say that if you have to explain it it ceases being funny.
Finally, there's the content issue. Good humor is smart but can also be bawdy. One book I left off was Paul Feig's Kick Me, a REALLY hilarious look at growing up as a dork. A lot of students I have had have read it on their own but the students I have this year, for instance, lack the maturity to handle some of the cursing in the book.
But I think that humor needs to be taught, especially because it's where the essay as a genre really shines.
Oh, and I did a few of the stories from The Things They Carried last year in my 11th grade class. It was one of my best units of the year.
Posted by Tom Panarese on 05/05/2009 @ 05:17PM PT
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Ah, Tom, let's fantasize: one English class for kids who can handle the well-turned curse word, the other for the unlucky remainder. (Or maybe an "Introduction to Literary Cursing" unit for all of them.)
Interesting points about humor and readiness. The same is true to a pretty large degree about much of our mature serious lit though, too, no?
Posted by Clay Burell on 05/05/2009 @ 06:58PM PT
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Here's a link to an online copy of James Thurber's "What Do You Mean It was Brillig?"
If it's not available in heaven, I don't want to go.
Posted by Clay Burell on 05/05/2009 @ 08:40PM PT
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(Not to condescend, but to get the story, you need to be familiar with Lewis Carroll's "Twas brillig and the slithy toves" bit from Alice in Wonderland (or was it Through the Lookingglass?)
Posted by Clay Burell on 05/05/2009 @ 08:42PM PT
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@Clay: Interesting points about humor and readiness. The same is true to a pretty large degree about much of our mature serious lit though, too, no?
It is ... and I'm trying to come up with a good answer to your question (Do I know what a rhetorical question is?) and the best I can come up with is a little snarky ...
It's easy to drive home the seriousness of a piece, and when those students who are immature act that way, it's easy to chide them for not taking the work seriously. But when it's humor ... that's a little hard because you are supposed to laugh, and what do I sound like if I tell a student that he is not laughing correctly?
Posted by Tom Panarese on 05/06/2009 @ 09:36AM PT
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Kate,
"Neverwhere" and the His Dark Materials trilogy are two of my all time favorites, along with Jane Austen's "Emma."
Posted by Diane Cordell on 05/05/2009 @ 09:56AM PT
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Kayla,
I would add Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book," China Mieville's "Un Lun Dun," and "Sorcery and Cecilia" by Patricia Wrede. Nancy Farmer (YA) and Robertson Davies are also favorite authors of mine.
Posted by Diane Cordell on 05/05/2009 @ 10:00AM PT
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I agree about Sorcery and Cecilia (or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot)! And I thought of the books of John Green (Looking For Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines)
Posted by Kate Tabor on 05/05/2009 @ 10:07AM PT
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Everything by George Saunders, start with the Pastoralia or In Persuasion Nation short story collections. He's a sardonic genius perfect for any teenager (especially if you love Vonnegut)
Also, the obvious: Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by the one and only Dave Eggers
Posted by gary pollack on 05/05/2009 @ 10:06AM PT
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Amen to David Sedaris, I love him! I don't have a particular book suggestion, but the ones on here are interesting. I was just wondering if Kayla, who is obviously bright and articulate, could approach her superintendent about this issue, and maybe even challenge a class, or take it to the school board.
It seems pretty unfair to me that an institution that is supposed to be about learning would make it hard for someone who is invested in her education.
Sometimes it's possible to find a sensible adult (and sometimes not), like a teacher, who might be willing to help advocate.
Posted by Romy Carver on 05/05/2009 @ 11:02AM PT
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A good suggestion.
Posted by Clay Burell on 05/05/2009 @ 07:53PM PT
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Thank you so much Clay!
I should have been more specific in my email (you are spot on with the age guess) but I tend to read just about anything I can get my hands on. My book shelf is home to everything from [I]Neverwhere[/I] (One of my favorite books) to [I]The Company; A Novel of the CIA[/I] to [I]The Devil in the White City; Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America[/I] and even some graphic novels such as [I]The Watchmen[/I] and [I]Persepolis[/I]. The only genre that I shy away from is romance. I found Twilight repulsive.
I'm currently trying to round up the rest of Gaimans works, including his Sandman Trilogy (which I can only describe as epic in size and in content).
I've never heard of Sedaris but after watching the youtube video I will definitely have to check him out. I have read [I]His Dark Materials[/I] but I developed an extreme dislike for the main character early on, so I never enjoyed them that much.
[I]Empire Falls[/I] is on the required reading list for summer reading next year meaning I'll be required to start reading it next month.
All the other sugestions I do not recognize, I'll have to check them out.
Posted by Kayla Parker on 05/05/2009 @ 12:58PM PT
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Thank you for asking a great question, Kayla. Look at all the fun you started.
Posted by Clay Burell on 05/06/2009 @ 08:37AM PT
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If you like David Sedaris, try Bill Bryson (good place to start: A Walk in the Woods or The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid). Equally hilarious and easier to carry around in your backpack and flash at school.
For fiction, try Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams or Pigs in Heaven are good starters)--or Kate Atkinson. If you liked Devil in the White City, try The Alienist by Caleb Carr. Two more: The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffeneger) and Middlesex or The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.
Posted by Nancy Flanagan on 05/05/2009 @ 04:29PM PT
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How could I forget about Bill Bryson? And Kingsolver is excellent. As is Lorrie Moore.
Posted by Tom Panarese on 05/05/2009 @ 05:19PM PT
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Seconding Eggers.
Also, recommending that she choose a celebrated author *that is still alive*, which increases chances of getting to see that person live, having a chance to communicate with them IRL or through e-mail or on their weblog, knowing them before they are mythologized, looking forward to their future works, and seeing their writings from a historical context that you've lived through yourself. Many of the authors mentioned in previous comments fit this condition.
Posted by Micah Sittig on 05/05/2009 @ 05:27PM PT
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How could I forget John Steinbeck? Cannery Row is one of the sweetest, wisest, most hilarious reads you'll ever love. Also Of Mice and Men, Travels with Charley, Grapes of Wrath.
Posted by Clay Burell on 05/05/2009 @ 07:55PM PT
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Thirding Barbara Kingsolver, but don't forget "The Left Hand of Darkness," Ursula Le Guin.
Posted by Zeus Yiamouyiannis on 05/05/2009 @ 09:52PM PT
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I'm loving this. I'm going to pull my un-read Poisonwood Bible off the shelf. I hear great things about Kingsolver.
Posted by Clay Burell on 05/05/2009 @ 09:58PM PT
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Forget Poisonwood Bible until you've read one of her other works. It's the most, umm, famous, but it's also Kingsolver at her most didactic. Kingsolver's fiction writing is very supple and wry--accessible. But in Poisonwood, she's on a mission and her politics come through her writing and dampen the fun. She also writes non-fiction (Animal, Vegetable, Mineral) and makes those fun, but she's best when spinning a tale. Or so I think.
Posted by Nancy Flanagan on 05/06/2009 @ 06:22AM PT
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Noted, Nancy, thanks. Do you second Tom's Kingsolver titles, then?
Posted by Clay Burell on 05/06/2009 @ 08:36AM PT
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Actually, Prodigal Summer, Animal Dreams and Pigs in Heaven were my picks--but I was thinking about Kayla. Kingsolver's earliest novel, The Bean Trees, is sometimes seen as more lightweight, but I'm all about reading for pleasure. Even in HS and college (laughing). You can learn a lot about beautiful writing and structure while enjoying yourself and following an absorbing storyline.
Posted by Nancy Flanagan on 05/07/2009 @ 05:28AM PT
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Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz is perhaps one of the best books I've ever read. It is non-fiction, so that might not fit into an english class. Horwitz's journey through a still torn America, he wrote in the 90s, is amazing. What people will tell you behind closed doors is shocking. Here is a link to reading discussions on the book though: http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_C/confederates_in_the_attic1.asp
Someone mentioned David Foster Wallace. I'll give a nod to that. No one can jam that much discription and fact into a story or essay and make it work. Somehow he does.
Caleb Carr's novel The Alienist is a great historical novel. Carr really does teach you while he entertains. I was actually able to compare what I grabbed from The Alienist with what I learned from a Gilded Age history class. Carr nails it. I almost could have read his book instead of taking the class...almost.
When it comes to thrillers, I have been a fan of Dennis Lehane for a long time. Even though a student of writer John Connolly call Lehane a bit of a hack, I enjoy his writing. His most famous work is most likely Mystic River, but the Kenzie/Gennaro serries should not be missed. That series breaths fresh life into the noir genre.
I could go on and on, but that is probably enough to chew on for now.
Posted by Derek Viger on 05/06/2009 @ 04:48AM PT
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How about some poetry? Richard Wilbur (The Reader, The Writer), Mary Oliver, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Posted by Diane Cordell on 05/06/2009 @ 12:36PM PT
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Yes, poetry! Yes, Mary Oliver! - Billy Collins, Robert Hass, David Waggoner too -
Posted by Kate Tabor on 05/06/2009 @ 01:05PM PT
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And William Blake and John Keats and (seconding Diane) Gerard Manley Hopkins. But I'm not sure I had the ear for that music or the lungs for those heights when I was 16....
Posted by Clay Burell on 05/07/2009 @ 05:49AM PT
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Hey Kayla,
I'm another blogger on this site and not too far out of school myself. I quit reading from 7th -11th grades because the books sucked so badly. So here is my unapproved reading list:
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Jane Austen classic, but with blood-thirsty zombies to break up the schmoopiness.
- Outlander by Diane Gabaldon: By no means literature, but super hot- especially if you have a thing for young Scottish men
- Ender's Game: Sci-fi in the best possible, least nerdy way
- Boys Life: One of the few assigned books I ever enjoyed reading.
The point is this: read what you love, and worry about wether it's "literary" later.
Posted by Amanda Kloer on 05/06/2009 @ 10:30PM PT
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I just skimmed this thread and noticed a tendency for male posters to suggest male authors, while women were more eclectic. (And I sincerely hope this remark causes the stand-up guys reading this to quickly think of their favorite female authors --Joyce Carol Oates? Margaret Atwood? --and add them.) Not trying to start a skirmish of any kind, but perhaps part of the problem in suggesting great, engaging literature for a girl who has outrun the traditional 11th grade canon is who's doing the choosing--our own preferences and subconcious desire to value "worthy" over "just read it."
Which is why Amanda's suggestions are spot-on (even with male authors). My very first thought, in recommending a book to Kayla, was the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon--books so rich and layered that Borders has been totally schizophrenic about where to shelve them for the past 15 years. First, they were in romance (totally wrong), then in science fiction (there's a touch of time travel, although the plots aren't TT-driven), then in historical fiction (also not correct). They're now in the "fiction" section. And I would gently disagree with Amanda--they're literature, as much as Sue Miller or Elizabeth Berg are literature, and men like them, too.
If you loathe the "Twilight" books (and they're emminently loatheable, because the writing is so thin and cliche-ridden), that doesn't mean you can't enjoy fantastic plots and juicy characters.
Posted by Nancy Flanagan on 05/07/2009 @ 05:49AM PT
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Joyce Carol Oates' "Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?" is one of the most terrifying short stories I've ever read. Good call, Nancy.
I love Virginia Woolf's essay, Death of a Moth and Annie Dillard's "The Death of a Moth" (which I can't find online, boo). I mean I really, really love them both.
I'll see you and raise you one by throwing the lyrics of Joni Mitchell into the mix. Just because she sings her poetry doesn't mean it ain't immortal. I wrote (don't tell, under the influece of a bit of wine, which is rare for me) on her here on my old blog.
Ian McEwan's novel, Atonement, feels like Jane Austen meets Stephen King to me. I know he's a guy, but he seems to channel Austen.
Posted by Clay Burell on 05/07/2009 @ 06:16AM PT
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If you want to talk about great female authors you can't leave out Shirely Jackson. Her work is frightening on so many levels. You'll get the jumpy scares, but you'll be chilled as well. The Lottery still gets me to this day.
Posted by Derek Viger on 05/07/2009 @ 06:44AM PT
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Stephen King claims Shirley Jackson was one of his first and most indelible inspirations...
Annie Dillard? Yes. And Ian McEwan? Yes, also. I sometimes think McEwan writes like a woman (in a nice way, of course). "Amsterdam," for example. Lucious.
Now, about Joni Mitchell, and song lyrics in general--as a music teacher, I spend huge amounts of instructional time thinking about lyrics (and considering the vast reserves of poetry that students have effortlessly memorized, simply because someone was singing the poem). And Joni Mitchell is certainly in the pantheon of modern music poets. "Night Ride Home," for example--a perfect poem for sending students off for the hot summer. Or the contrasting the Yeats original and "Slouching Toward Bethlehem."
Clay, too bad your "7 music things" meme ended after Mitchell, Mahler and Cave. That's three.
Posted by Nancy Flanagan on 05/08/2009 @ 12:35PM PT
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I love many of the authors already suggested (especially Kingsolver, Gaiman, Bryson, and O'Brien), but would like to add several graphic novels: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, and anything by Craig Thompson (but especially Blankets) or Jeffrey Brown.
Other suggestions (these sometimes make it onto to reading lists, but perhaps not at Kayla's school...): Maya Angelou, Sandra Cisneros, Zora Neale Hurston, Ray Bradbury, Alexander McCall Smith.
For non-fiction, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. I was an 11th grader when I read it, and it turned my world upside down.
Posted by Becca Chambers on 05/07/2009 @ 07:40AM PT
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Former American Lit/AP English teacher here, so I am probably pretty skewed toward Canon literature.
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Sula - Toni Morrison
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb (the first 50 pages suck, but keep going. It's worth it.)
Fight Club - Chuck Palachuck
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
Poppy Z. Brite started out her career writing amazing -- and at times incredibly intense -- horror (and has since moved on to the culinary mystery genre, which she also does well).
Posted by Miz Lit on 05/07/2009 @ 07:48AM PT
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As a librarian, my best suggestion is explore and read for fun. Find out what YOU like to read, and read it all. Once you make reading part of your daily routine, you will never go a day without it. But it sounds like maybe you already know that! You will be a better reader, writer, and thinker as a result.
Some of the best contemporary fiction I've read in the last few years includes:
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
What is the What, by Dave Eggers
The Book of Lost Things, by John Connelly
I loved Poisonwood Bible!
For graphic novels, try
American Born Chinese
Fun Home
Blankets
Beyond that, try David Foster Wallace's essays (they had me laughing and thinking), Sedaris, and Bryson. They are all great.
I would also sign up for GoodReads. A great place to keep track of reading and connect with other readers.
Good luck!!
Posted by Katie Voss on 05/15/2009 @ 08:27AM PT
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Lots of wonderful suggestions here! I also recommend you give this a read-through:
http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
And then start considering high school your "day job". :-)
Posted by Kate Nowak on 05/18/2009 @ 12:47PM PT
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