Fiction

A thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini. Gender oppression, role of women.

The kite runner / Khaled Hosseini. Class/ethnicity oppression.

The book thief / Markus Zusak

I am not Esther / Fleur Beale

Mister Pip / Lloyd Jones

Stoner & Spaz / Ron Koertge

Animal farm / George Orwell

Suite Francaise / Irene Nemirovski

Noughts & crosses / Malorie Blackman

The call / Peadar O’Guilin

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Sherman Alexie

Violence 101 / Denis Wright

Smashed / Mandy Hager

Thunder road / Ted Dawe

Refugee boy / Benjamin Zephaniah

Lester / Bernard Beckett

Just in case / Meg Rosoff

Walk in my shoes / Alwyn Evans

The road / Cormac McCarthy

Nonfiction

Desert flower / Waris Dirie

I am Malala / Malala Yousafzai

Film

Gattaca

Fahrenheit 451