Great books  for advanced readers

Here I am sharing my project schedule and tasks for the topic “Big Names in Literature”. The aim of this project is to give advanced learners (year 7 or 8) a wide choice of contemporary writers. In this project they read shortstories or extracts of each of these writers to get a first idea of their themes and styles. In addition to the short texts, each student chooses one auther and reads one of their novels. Then the learners work in “author groups” and share their findings. In the group presentations, they present all the different novels the group members have read and what they have found out about their writer’s themes and style.

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Ian Mc Ewan	The Cement Garden	Comfort of Strangers
	Enduring Love	Amsterdam
	Atonement	The Innocent
	On Chesil Beach
T.C. Boyle	The Tortilla Curtain	A Friend of the Earth
	Talk Talk	Drop City
Paul Auster	Mr. Vertigo	The Music of Chance
	The New York Trilogy	The Book of Illusions
	Leviathan	Augie Wren’s Christmas Story shortstory
John Irving	The World According to Garp	A Prayer For Owen Meany
Kurt Vonnegut	Cat’s Cradle	Slaughterhouse Five
Tracy Chevalier	The Girl with a Pearl Earring	The Virgin Blue
	Falling Angels	The Lady and the Unicorn
	Burning Bright	Remarkable Creatures
Barbara Kingsolver	The Bean Trees	Pigs in Heaven
	The Poisonwood Bible	The Lacuna
	Animal Dreams	Homeland
	High Tide in Tucson	Small Wonder
J.S. Foer	Incredibly Loud and Incredibly Close	Everything is Illuminated
	Eating Animals
Nick Hornby	About a boy	Slam
	A long way down

 

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