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Foucault's Works
Books:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: This is one of the first books that I read that actually played with my emotions as a reader. The reason for this is due to the beautiful innocence of Huckleberry Finn. This character is always morally doing the right thing according to his own standards. This idea teaches that although society may confine prejudices as being coined as "right," it does not conclude that it is thus. Mark Twain writes with honesty and from his heart. Its an excellent piece of American literature that is a great part of our history.
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: This charming book is a series of 7 but surprisingly much different then the movie. The story is seemingly more simplistic in the way that it is told with less moral decisions that Anne makes as opposed to the movies. The exciting thing about the book is that Anne's character is never crossing her own moral code of right and wrong. The movies are nothing like the book, especially the last set of books about the war. There was a war in the book, but Anne never left her native land of Canada as the movie suggests.
Beauty A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin Mckinely
Billy Budd by Herman Melville: If you like manly books where the details about ships and tieing a knot would excite you, then you can read Billy Budd. However I would suggest you stay away from it if you enjoy literature. I hated this book and would only read it again if I was stuck on an island and there were no sea shells to go look for and if I had to be on the island forever.
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton: What a beautiful book! I think this is a must read that should be on everybody's list.
Dante's Inferno compiled by Marcus Sanders
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman
Life of Pi A Novel by Yann Martel
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean Dominique Bauby
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Good Earth by Stephanie Reents
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
The Jungle by Upton Beall Sinclair
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Screwtape Letters by C S Lewis
The Tortilla Curtain by T C Boyle
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tuesdays With Morrie An Old Man, a Young Man, And Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls