Fiction and Non-Fiction

Not all books fit neatly into predetermined catagories. Those books are listed here as either ficiton or Non-fiction.

Non Fiction
+Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, Sarah & Elizabeth Delany

+ A Death in the Family, James Agee
The novel is based on the events that occurred to Agee in 1915 when his father went out of town to see his own father, who had a heart attack, and was killed in a car accident during the return trip. The novel provides a portrait of life in Knoxville, Tennessee, showing how such a loss affects the young widow, her two children, her atheistic father and the dead man’s alcoholic brother.

Fictional Story/Play
- The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
The video below serves as a synopsis for a book about rape and murder from the unique perspective of the victim, watching from "heaven."


+ Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Emma wishes for romantic love, wealth, and social status that she can't have because she's married to a middle-class doctor.

+ Our Town, Thorton Wilder


- The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
The simplistic conflict of Jerry's refusal to sell chocolates at the school chocolate sale covers a range of themes including disturbing the universe; psychological warfare; the power of fear; manipulation; nonconformity; perversion; corruptness.

+ Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie tells the story of two characters: Carrie Meeber, an ordinary girl who rises from a low-paid wage earner to a high-paid actress, and George Hurstwood, a member of the upper middle class who falls from his comfortable lifestyle to a life on the streets. Neither Carrie nor Hurstwood earn their fates through virtue or vice, but rather through random circumstance. Their successes and failures have no moral value; this stance marks Sister Carrie as a departure from the conventional literature of the period.

+ Silas Marner, George Eliot

+ Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
+ The Red Pony, John Steinbeck
+ Billy Budd, Herman Melville