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We don’t know about you, but we here at WCCLS are ready to Read MORE in 2016! If you’d like to join us, we’ll be concentrating on a particular focus each month in order to expand our reading horizons. In honor of the new year, our focus for January is on debut novels. Below you’ll find a list of some of our favorite suggestions, or choose your own and let us know what you’re reading on Facebook or Twitter - and be sure to tag your posts with #wcclsreadsMORE. You can also find and contribute reviews at reads.wccls.org/more. Or if you prefer, simply read along at home. Happy reading!
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The Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonA new edition of the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results because of her longing to be accepted.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazLiving with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. A first novel by the author of the collection, Drown.
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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPart of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this new edition of Frankenstein contains pictures and an extensive section on Shelley's life and works.
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Ghostwritten by David MitchellThe lives of nine total strangers from nine different countries--including a terrorist in Okinawa, a British financier in Hong Kong, a female physicist in Ireland, and a radio DJ in New York--become intertwined in a strange series of circumstances. A first novel.
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Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonAn African-American man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.
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The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanEncompassing two generations and a rich blend of Chinese and American history, the story of four struggling, strong women also reveals their daughter's memories and feelings.
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The Known World by Edward P. JonesWhen a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonDescribes the humorous adventures during the childhood of an eccentric girl, whose mother unsuccessfully tries to protect her from temptations.
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Revolutionary Road by Richard YatesThe devastating effects of work, adultery, rebellion, and self deception slowly destroy the once successful marriage of Frank and April Wheeler, a suburban American couple.
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The Secret History by Donna TarttRichard Papen, a relatively impoverished student at a New England college, falls in with an exclusive clique of rich, worldly Greek scholars and soon learns the dreadful secret that keeps them together.
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Washington County Cooperative Library Services Washington County Hillsboro, Oregon 97124 503-846-3222 www.wccls.orgFind your next great book at reads.wccls.org. |
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