USA; Post Second World War; Male Author
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Dystopian USA; Female Author
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
USA; World War Two; Male Author
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 Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
USA; 1965; Female Author – She wrote and had the book published between the ages of 15 and 18.
Set in a small town in Oklahoma, where the teenagers belong to one of two gangs depending upon money, tastes and attitudes. Both groups understand how to handle situations, until one night things go too far.
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
USA; 1900s; Female Author
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
England; 1800s; Male Author
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf,
England; 1920s and 1930s; Female Author – Best known work.
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Spain; 1600s; Male Author – Translation
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Uninhabited Island on the coast of America; Early 1700s; Male Author
