Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten books you'd pair with required reading...

This is not a perfect list, but off the top of my head I think it matches pretty well. Mostly I think we need to be teaching newer stuff anyways. I haven't read all of these, but I bought them in hope that teachers would expand their teachings. There's also the larger issue of not having read (or at least not recently) these originals, so some of these are based on my impressions of the books and my not quite hit the mark. 

If you're teaching... Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Try teaching... Nothing by Janne Teller

Try teaching... The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

If you’re teaching... Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Try teaching... Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay

Try teaching... Caleb + Kate by Cindy Martinusen-Coloma

Try teaching... Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles

If you’re teaching... Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Try teaching... Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

Try teaching... Prom & Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg

If you’re teaching... Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Try teaching... Jane by April Linder

If you're teaching... The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Try teaching... Looking for Alaska by John Green

Try teaching... The Beast by Walter Dean Myers

If you’re teaching...To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Try teaching... The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney

Try teaching... Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood

If you’re teaching...1984 by George Orwell

Try teaching... Matched by Ally Condie

Try teaching... XVI by Julia Karr

If you're teaching...The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Try teaching... Monster by Walter Dean Meyers

Try teaching... Prep by Jake Coburn

Other books you should try fitting in:

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.