Open Option
Unsettled Ground (Claire Fuller)
Unsettled Ground Author: Claire Fuller List: Recent Prize Winner [Costa Book Awards – Winner 2021] Year of publication: 2021 Pages: 289 Goodreads: Unsettled Ground
survival
Orpheus
Orpheus Girl (Brynne Rebele-Henry)
Orpheus Girl Author: Brynne Rebele-Henry Project: Orpheus – love and trust Year of publication: 2019 Pages: 176 Goodreads: Orpheus Girl “Two teenage girls are sent to a conversion camp to ‘cure’ them from their lesbian feelings. […]
Orpheus
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Steven Galloway)
The Cellist of Sarajevo Author: Steven Galloway Project: Orpheus – power of music Year of publication: 2008 Pages: 235 Goodreads: The Cellist of Sarajevo “A survival novel about the power of music during […]
War
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Memoirs of a Geisha Author: Arthur Golden Project: war – World War II Year of publication: 1997 Pages: 434 Goodreads: Memoirs of a Geisha “Set in World War II this novel tells the […]
War
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls Author: Ernest Hemingway List: Open Option Project: war Year of publication: 1940 Pages: 471 Goodreads: For Whom the Bell Tolls “Set in the Spanish Civil War this novel […]
War
The Yellow Birds (Kevin Powers)
The Yellow Birds Author: Kevin Powers List: Open Option Category: war Year of publication: 2012 Pages: 241 Goodreads: The Yellow Birds
Dystopia
The Year of the Flood (Margaret Atwood)
The Year of the Flood Author: Margaret Atwood List: Open Option Project: dystopia – environmental / corporate rule Year of publication: 2009 Pages: 434 Goodreads: The Year of the Flood “In a post-apocalyptic, […]
Identity
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Life of Pi Author: Yann Martel Project: Identity – Religious Identity Year of publication: 2001 Pages: 460 Goodreads: Life of Pi
Open Option
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe Author: Daniel Defoe List : Pre-Modern Year of publication: 1719 Pages: 286 Goodreads: Robinson Crusoe
Dystopia
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies Stranded on an uninhabited island, a group of boys grapples with survival and the unraveling of their civilized society. Their struggle for power and the erosion of morality exposes the primal […]