context: this is my summer homework for when i take english two honors next year 🙂 i'll be writing an analytical essay on the fiction one and doing a presentation on the nonfiction one when we get back. basically, i need to read one fiction book, and one nonfiction book
fiction options (world lit):
Black Rain — about the radioactive "black rain" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima
The Bone People — a story between an artist estranged from reality and a silent, mysterious visitor that interrupted her solitude
God's Bits of Wood — about the struggle of Senegalese train workers in their strike against French employers
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders — interconnected stories about feudal Pakistan
Obasan — the struggle of growing up as a third-generation Japanese-Canadian in WW2
The Robber Bride — A recast version of "The Robber Bridegroom"
Say You're One of Them — a collection of five long stories from war-torn Africa
Spring Snow — a love story between two protagonists from wealthy families that are adjusting to the changing sociopolitical climate of 1912 Japan
preferences: i'd like the themes to not be too vague and difficult to write an analytical essay on. otherwise, i'm open to anything 🙂
non fiction options:
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic — why the AIDS epidemic spread unchecked (I have some previous knowledge of this topic from "The Heart's Invisible Furies" and a different nonfiction book I cannot recall)
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup — a company built on secrets that turned Elizabeth Holmes into a very wealthy woman
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking — a book about the adaptive unconscious
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School — how we can use our senses and ability to focus on one thing at a time to our advantage
Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You — how statistics can be used persuasively in an incorrect direction and how statistics overlapped across each other can be confusing
Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel — how advertisements are so persuasive and convincing
preferences: something really interesting! nonfiction is usually a slog for me to read as an elementary school librarian of mine usually painted it in a bad light and somehow that got internalized lol
thanks for any recs/help <3
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