Books and Media to Share

Here are some books and media I think you should recommend to your students. Enjoy! [This list will be updated.]

General Fiction

• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• The Alchemist by Paolo Cuelho
• Boy Meets Boy by David Levitan (any of his novels!)
• The Realm of Possibility by David Levitan
• Are We There Yet? by David Levitan
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (trilogy)
• Soldier X by Don Wulffson
• The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch

"Classics"

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Graphic Novels

• American-Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• Maus and Maus II by Art Spiegelman

Non-Fiction

• You Can Get Arrested for That: 2 Guys, 25 Dumb Laws, and 1 Absurd American Crime Spree by Rich Smith
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Sloot
• The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
• Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins
• Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins
• Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
• Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
• Little Princes by Conor Grennan
• Join Me! by Danny Wallace - learn more about the movement here
• The History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Film & Media

• God Grew Tired of Us (National Geographic Films) - the story of the Lost Boys of Sudan