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Suggested reading
2013-14 3rd term
Try reading the first pages to see if you can understand and
enjoy reading a book.
If you don’t, try another one. Write down your name and your
choice on the list before March 13th
· Sparks, Nicholas, The Notebook. Drama. Romantic.
The Notebook tells a story of young love. In 1932, two North
Carolina Noah and Allie fall for each other one summer, but they
come from different worlds where their love is forbidden.After a
14-year separation, Allie sees the newspaper ad of a young man with
a house for sale. She decides to visit him, not knowing why he
returned. Noah is shocked but pleased by her visit and welcomes her
into his house. After they spend a couple days together, their
feelings emerge and they must make some difficult decisions.
· Isaac Asimov, I, Robot. Sci-fi.
Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he
formulated the laws governing their behavior. In I, Robot,
Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of
interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to
its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in
which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.
· Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn. Drama.
Set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, this is a story
of love, immigration and about making personal choices.It is
Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey opportunities are
rare. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York,
Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for
the first time. At first she feels homesick but when she starts to
adapt and fall in love. Eilis receives news which sends her back to
Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a
devastating choice between duty and one great love.
· Robin Sharma , The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari.
Non-fiction. Spirituality
A fable about fulfilling your dreams and reaching your destiny.
It tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced
to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. The
book presents a step-by-step approach to living with greater
courage, balance, abundance, and joy.
· Ambjornsen Ingvar, Beyond the Great Indoors. Comedy
This is the comic story of two outsiders struggling to come to
terms with the real world. Recently released from a mental
hospital, Elling (shy, neurotic, with a wildly overactive
imagination) and his best friend Kjell Barnes (big, quiet, not very
happy to change his underwear) share an apartment in Oslo.
(This book is out of print; you can get a copy in the library or
buy a second-hand copy on the internet)
· Nick Hornby, Slam. Novel, comedy.
For 16-year-old Sam, life is about to get extremely complicated.
He and his girlfriend—his ex-girlfriend, really— Alicia have got
themselves into a bit of trouble. Sam is suddenly forced to grow up
and struggle with the familiar fears and inclinations that haunt us
all. (NEW)
THRILLERS and CRIME NOVELS
· Homeland: Carrie’s run. A novel based on Showtime's hit
series Homeland. Beirut, 2006. CIA operations officer Carrie
Mathison barely escapes an ambush while attempting a clandestine
meeting with a new contact, code-name Nightingale. Suspicious that
security has been compromised, she challenges the station chief in
a heated confrontation that gets her booted back to Langley.
(NEW)
· Camilla Lackberg, The Ice Princess. Crime novel
Originally written in Swedish. Returning to her hometown after
the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on
the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex is
just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an
ice-cold bath and it seems like she's taken her own life.Meanwhile,
local detective Patrik Hedström is following his own suspicions
about the case. It's only when they start working together that the
truth begins to emerge about a small town with a deeply disturbing
pas
· Benjamin Black, The Lemur. A thriller.
A story of deep and dangerous family secrets so deep set in New
York. John Glass’s life in New York should be very comfortable.
He’s given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized
biography of his father-in-law, communications magnate and former
CIA agent Big Bill Mullholand. He works in a big office in
Mulholland Tower, rentfree, and goes home to his wealthy and
well-preserverd wife. He misses his old life sometimes...
· Dona Leon, Death at la Fenice . Crime novel.
The first in the series of crime novels set
in Venice and featuring the fictional
hero Commissario Guido Brunetti. World-famous conductor,
Maestro Helmut Wellauer is poisoned during a performance of La
Traviata. Even Commissario of Police, Guido Brunetti, used to the
corruptions of the city of Venice, is shocked at the number of
enemies Wellauer has made on his way to the top - but just how many
have motive enough for murder?
MORE CHALLENGING
· George Orwell, 1984
UNADAPTED SHORT STORIES
