E.M. Forster's The Longest Journey (1907) When I started reading The Longest Journey, I was reading Keith Oatley's novel, Therefore Choose, which also opens with a scene at Cambridge. He writes: "If one were to go back a hundred years, the clothing would no doubt be different but the young men would
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie "Birdsong" The New Yorker Fiction: 20 Under 40 September 20, 2010 issue "She was not merely resting her eyes on the car next to hers, as people often do in Lagos traffic; she was looking at me." It's this look which occasions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short story "Birdsong";
Anita Silvey's 500 Great Books for Teens Houghton Mifflin, 2006 M.T. Anderson's Burger Wuss (1999) 12-14 Joan Bauer's Rules of the Road (1998) 12-14 Joan Bauer's Squashed (1992) 12-14 * Ann Brashares' The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001) 12-14 Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods (1998) 14-18 *
Mary E. Lyons’ The Poison Place (1997) Aladdin, 1999 I've now read more than half of the book recommended in Shireen Dodson's Books for Girls to Grow On and have good reason to read on (as useful as I find the list itself, it's her discussions that have influenced my choices). Nonetheless, this
Heidi W. Durrow’s The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Algonquin Books - Workman Publishing, 2010 Initially I kept an eye on The Bellwether winners as an extension of my admiration of Barbara Kingsolver's writing. But after I read Hillary Jordan's novel, I kept an eye on the prize because Mudbound was one
