What’s a well-written, gripping, yet breezy novel (something that will engage students who would otherwise be distracted by late April weather)?

A colleague has chosen The Virgin Suicides.

What about The Secret Life of
Bees? The Hunger Games? Little Brother? (Yes, I know Cory Doctorow is Canadian)

I’ll likely need to trim some of these works, but so far..

• Frost, poems (assorted)
• Fitzgerald, short stories (assorted)
• Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
• London, “To Build a Fire”
• Glaspell, “Trifles”
• O’Neill, The Great God Brown
• Treadwell, Machinal
• modernist poems (assorted)
• Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Harlem Renaissance (assorted)
• Wiliams, A Streetcar Named Desire
• O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
• Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
• Heller, Catch-22
• Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay
• Miller, Resurrection Blues
• [TBA final novel]

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