Genre: Fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This novel by Mark Twain is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.
Foxfire
Book that deals with the subject of teenage gangs.
L’été des baleines
Award-winning book.
A Clockwork Orange
A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange by English writer Anthony Burgess, is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters.
A Little Piece of Ground
Novel about a 12-year-old Palestinian boy living in an Israeli-occupied area.
Snow White in New York
Retelling of the famous fairy tale, set in New York in the 1920s.
Of Mice and Men
A classic American novella that describes the hardships of migrant workers in California during the Great Depression.
A Jest of God
A Jest of God — which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 1966 — depicts the unhappy life of an elementary schoolteacher in small-town Manitoba.
Barometer Rising
Barometer Rising is a romantic-realist novel by Canadian author Hugh MacLennan. The work explores life in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during World War I, and its interruption by the Halifax explosion.