So for school we have to read a book from a provided list due in a month. I like reading but as English is not my mother tongue I would prefer the book not to be longer than +-300 pages. I have experience in reading in English and the level of English should not be too big of a problem (I recently read American Prometheus + I like a challenge).
I wanted to ask your advice on what to read as I have never heard of any of these books and I have no clue what they are about. I have a slight preference to sci-fi and thriller (no horror) or anything else suspensefull.
Here‘s the list:
READING LIST
* *an excellent level of English is required for these books
FICTION
– Keith Gray: Warehouse
– David Almond: The fire eaters
– David Almond: Skellig
– Gillian Cross: Pictures in the dark
– Peter Dickinson: The kin
– Melvin Burgess: Junk
– David Klass: You don’t know me
– David Belbin: Dead guilty
– Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl
– Kenneth Oppel: Firewing
– Meg Rosoff: How I live now
– Philip Reeve: Mortal engines
– Kevin Crossley-Holland: The Seeing stone
– Tim Bowler: Frozen fire
– Tim Bowler: Starseeker
– Jenny Downham: Before I die
– Philip Pullman: Northern lights
– Sherry Ashworth: Close-up
– Celia Rees: Witch Child
– Diana Wynne Jones: Witch week
– Simone Elkeles: Perfect chemistry
– Malorie Blackman: Noughts and crosses
– Malorie Blackman: Knife edge
– Malorie Blackman: Checkmate
– P.C. Cast + Kristin Cast: Marked
– Marcus Sedgwick: The foreshadowing
– Julie Kagawa: The iron king
– Yaa Gyasi: Transcendent Kingdom
ADULT FICTION
Racism
– Gloria Naylor: The women of Brewster place
– Ernest J. Gaines: A lesson before dying
– Harper Lee: To kill a mockingbird
Refugee crisis
– Melissa Fleming: A hope more powerful than the sea
– Khaled Hosseini: Sea prayer
– Abdi Nor Iftin: Call me American
Thrillers
– John Fowles: The collector
– Ken Follett: The third twin
– Michel Faber: Under the skin
– Mary Higgins Clark: All around the town
– Mary Higgins Clark: Loves music, loves to dance
Spiritual
– Marlo Morgan: Mutant message Down Under (travel story)
– Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen
– Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist
– JM Coetzee: Waiting for the barbarians*
– Barbara Kingsolver: The poisonwood Bible*
– Dan Brown: The lost symbol
– Grace McLeen: The land of decoration
Social topics
– Bernard MacLaverty: Cal
– Frank Mc Court: Angela’s ashes
– Ken Follett: A place called freedom
– Esther Freud: Wild
– Betty Mahmoody with William Hoffer: Not without my daughter
– Brian Keenan: An evil cradling
– Stef Penny: The tenderness of wolves*
– Jonathan Tropper: How to talk to a widower
– John Boyne: The thief of time
– John Boyne: the house of special purpose
– Jean Kwok: Girl in translation
– Mark Oliver Everett: Things the grandchildren should know
– Kristin Hannah: The great alone
– Nancy Houston: Fault lines
Fantasy and science-fiction
– Kazuo Ishiguro: Never let me go
– Julie Hearn: Follow me down
– Jeanette Winterson: The daylight gate
– Orson Scott Card: Ender’s game
– Deborah Harkness : a discovery of witches*
GRAPHIC NOVELS
– Craig Thompson: Blankets
– Art Spiegelman: Maus
– Scott Cawthon/Kira Breed-Wrisley: The silver eyes from the creator of the bestselling
horror video game series Five Nights at Freddy’s)
NON-FICTION
– Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens
– Yuval Noah Harari: Homo Deus
– Yuval Noah Harari: 21 lesson for the 21st century
– Eckhart Tolle: The power of now
– David Wallace-Wells: The uninhabitable earth
– Ta-Nehisi Coats: Between the world and me
– Kenneth M. Adams: Silently seduced-when parents make their children partners
– Irvin D. Yalom: Love’s Executioner and other tales of psychotherapy
– Bill Bryson: A short history of nearly everything Thorwald Dethlefsen: The healing power of illness
– Bruce Lipton: the biology of belief
– Bruce Lipton: Spontaneous evolution*
– Willian McDonough and Michael Braungart: Cradle to cradle*
by MagicMonkey1317