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Multigenre and Mulitvoice Books List

Novels

 YA lit

Holes – Louis Sacher

Nothing But the Truth – Avi

The Complete Mas – Spiegelman

Monster – Walter Dean Myers

Fax From Sarajevo – Joe Kubert

How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci – Michael Gelb

The Pigman – Paul Zindel

Miriam’s Well – Lois Ruby

Violet & Claire – Francesca Lia Block

Bat 6 – Virginia Euwer Wolff

The Chocolate War, We All Fall Down, I am the Cheese – Robert Cormier

Up the Down Staircase – Bel Kaufman

Give a Boy a Gun – Todd Strasser

Out of Control – Norma Fox Mazer

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexei

Tears of a Tiger – Sharon Mills Draper

Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems – Mel Glenn

Summerland – Michael Chabon

House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer

Double Identity – Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci – Diana Wynne Jones

Fifteen Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and Other Quinceanera

Stories - Adriana Lopez

Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones

Petropolis - Anna Ulinich

The God of Animals - Aryn Kyle

Midnighters Trilogy - Scott Westerfeld

Bartimaeus trilogy - Jonathan Stroud

13 Reasons Why - Jay Asher

Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick

Adult Lit – as you can see this list is shorter than the YA lit, if you come up with any other titles could you let me know by email cbobee@emich.edu - thanks

Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison

Reservation Blues, Lone Ranger and Tonto, Fistfight in Heaven – Sherman Alexei

The Sound and The Fury – William Faulkner

House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski

My Sister’s Keeper, Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult

Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

Baltimore: or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire - Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden

Mary Modern - Camille DeAngelis

The Amnesia Clinic - James Scudamore

The Beautiful Miscellaneous - Dominic Smith

The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam - Ann Marie Fleming

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring - Richard Preston

PEOP – Fly

Graphic Novels

The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman

The Fables series by Bill Willingham

Y: The Last Man series by Brian K. Vaughan

The Watchmen by Alan Moore

Maus – Art Spiegelman

Manga

Deathnote

Fruits Basket

Non-fiction

Chihuahua: Pictures from the Edge - Charles Bowden

Dwelling: The Vernacular House Worldwide – Paul Oliver

A Little House of My Own: 47 Grand Designs for 47 Tiny Houses – Lester Walker

Zeropolis: The Experience of Las Vegas – Bruce Begout

Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West – Patricia Limerick

Desert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts – Patricia Limerick

Shoes: A Celebration of Pumps, Sandals, Slippers, and More – Linda O’Keefe

One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screw and Screwdriver – Witold Rybczynski

Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelation son the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things - Leah Hager Cohen

Collected Works of Billy the Kid – Michael Ondaatje

Girl Culture – Lauren Greenfield

The Siege of a Shangri-La: The Quest for Tibet’s Sacred Hidden Paradise – Michael McCrae

The Art of Travel – Alain De Botton

The Path: A One-Walk Through the Universe – Chet Raymo

Traveling at Home – Wendell Berry

The Way of Tea – Linnea Simon

Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi – Salam Pax

Fires in the Mirror – Anna Devere Smith

More “theory” based books

The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People – Susan Orlean

Borderlands/La Frontera – Gloria Anzaldua

The Eros of Everyday Life – Susan Griffin

The Body for Beginners – Dani Cavallaro

Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color - Victor Villanueva

Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence (African American Life Series) by Keith Gilyard

Movies

Memento

Vanilla Sky

The Matrix

Stranger Than Fiction

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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