Politics and Social Conscience
Readers gain a lot of insight into how the world works through books that grapple with the politics of a locale or a certain time in history.
The Adventures of the Blue Avenger by Norma Howe
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian
Hoot by Carl Hiassen
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
Many Stones by Carolyn Coman
Nothing but the Truth by Avi
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher
St. Ursula’s Girls Against the Atomic Bomb by Valerie Hurley
