17 January 2015

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST

SECONDARY SCHOOL READING LIST © Farouk Asvat  
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST © Farouk Asvat  

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[] RECOMMENDED:

● ROMEO & JULIET: William Shakespeare (britain)
● OLIVER TWIST: Charles Dickens (britain)
● PERSUASION: Jane Austen (britain)
● ANIMAL FARM: George Orwell (britain)
● BELOVED: Toni Morrison (usa)
● TWENTY POEMS OF LOVE AND A SONG OF DESPAIR: Pablo Neruda (chile)
● NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL: Gabriel García Márquez (colombia)
● THE GOOD EARTH: Pearl S Buck (china / usa)
● … A MANY SPLENDOURED THING: Han Su Yin (china)
● THIRST FOR LOVE: Yukio Mishima (japan)

[] LIST:

● THE TALES OF A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS: various unknown (middle east - china)
● FABLES: Aesop (libya)
● ROMEO & JULIET: William Shakespeare (britain)
● GULLIVER'S TRAVELS: Jonathan Swift (britain)
● OLIVER TWIST: Charles Dickens (britain)
● PERSUASION: Jane Austen (britain)
● FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD: Thomas Hardy (britain)
● THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE: Robert Louis Stevenson (britain)
● ALICE IN WONDERLAND: Lewis Caroll (britain)
● ROBINSON CRUSOE: Daniel Defoe (britain)
● KIM: Rudyard Kipling (britain)
● FRANKENSTEIN: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (britain)
● DRACULA: Bram Stoker (britain)
● THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES: Arthur Conan Doyle (britain)
● WAR OF THE WORLDS: H G Wells (britain)
● ANIMAL FARM: George Orwell (britain)
● BRAVE NEW WORLD: Aldous Huxley (britain)
● HEART OF DARKNESS: Joseph Conrad (britain / poland)
● THE POWER AND THE GLORY: Graham Greene (britain)
● OF HUMAN BONDAGE: W Somerset Maugham (britain)
● A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS: Robert Bolt (britain)
● 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA: Jules Verne (france)
● THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME: Victor Hugo (france)
● THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Alexandre Dumas (france)
● FAIRY TALES: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (germany)
● FAIRY TALES: Hans Christian Andersen (denmark)
● THE TRACK TO BRALGU: B Wongar (serbia / australia)
● ZORBA THE GREEK: Nikos Kazantzakis (greece)
● MEMED MY HAWK: Yashar Kemal (turkeye)
● THE COSSACKS, HADJI MURAD & other stories: Leo Tolstoi (russia)
● ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN IVANOVICH: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (russia)
● GITANJALI: Rabindranath Tagore (india)
● THE GUIDE: R K Narayan (india)
● A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS: V S Naipaul (trinidad)
● THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN: Mark Twain (usa)
● THE PEARL: John Steinbeck (usa)
● BELOVED: Toni Morrison (usa)
● LOVE MEDICINE: Louise Erdrich (usa)
● MIDAQ ALLEY: Naguib Mehfouz (egypt)
● THE CHEAPEST NIGHTS: Yusuf Idis (egypt)
● THE WEDDING OF ZEIN: Tayeb Saleh (sudan)
● A GRAIN OF WHEAT: Ngugi wa Thiong'o (kenya)
● DEAD ROOTS: Arthur Nortje (south africa)
● I WRITE WHAT I LIKE: Steve Biko (south africa)
● TWENTY POEMS OF LOVE AND A SONG OF DESPAIR: Pablo Neruda (chile)
● MEMOIRS: Pablo Neruda (chile)
● NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL: Gabriel García Márquez (colombia)
● THE GOOD EARTH: Pearl S Buck (china / usa)
● … A MANY SPLENDOURED THING: Han Su Yin (belgium / china)
● THIRST FOR LOVE: Yukio Mishima (japan)

© farouk asvat

composed: 2010 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid].

[] Acknowledgements:
Junior High School Reading List was previously published in:
     Weapons of Words (kindle, 2016);
     Weapons of Words (amazon paperback, p128, 2016).
[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:

● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)
● The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)
● In The House Of Love (novel)
● Weapons Of Words (comparative literature & literary criticism)

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