Personal response


 

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