Dystopian Science Fiction; Male Author – Nobel Prize Winner
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
An engaging story which starts in colonial India and moves to England, following a young girl Mary, who loses her family to cholera and now has to live in Yorkshire, England with her uncle. Both uncle and niece have their personalities and issues to deal with in this wholesome novel.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
France and Italy; 1815-1839; Male Author – Translation
Love in he Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Columbia (?); 1880-1930; Male Author – Nobel Prize Winner – Translation
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
England; Early 1800s; Female Author
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
England; 1800s; Male Author
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
New Hampshire – USA;1950s and 1960s ;Male Author
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
On an uninhabited island; Mid 1900s; Male Author – A staple high school literature text in which Golding investigates humans’ innate savagery.
Catch – 22 by J. Heller
USA; World War Two; Male Author
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
USA; Migrant farmers early 1900s during the Great Depression; Male Author – A staple high school literature text.