Second Book Ideas

Many people seem to be struggling with book choices in regards to secondary books.
One person asked if I had any recommendations. God, I wish I did. Sadly, as a teacher most of my leisure reading is tied up in whatever someone shuffles into my hand and demands I read it or whatever I read by the end of Sunday night. So some of these are just "level ups" of YA books--(books that are more sophisticated in their address of subjects) or are "Similar books"(books that are similar to your summer reading). For "level up" books please e-mail specifically because it's a little easier that way. By no stretch of the imagination have I read all of these books.

Similar Books:
Atonement/Ethan Frome/The Glass Menagerie
--The Thirteenth Tale by
--A Room with a View
--Anything by Jane Austen
-- House of Spirits
--Love in the time of Cholera
--Age of Innocence
--Water for elephants

A Lesson Before Dying/The Color Purple/I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings/ The Bluest Eyes
--The Help
--Beloved
--Native Son
--Song of Solomon
--Independent People

The Handmaid's Tale/The Plauge
--Point Counter Point
--The Power and the Glory
--Rabbit, Run
--The Golden Notebook
--The French Lieutenant's Woman

The Chosen/Love Medicine/Woman Warrior/Joy Luck Club/The Bonesetter's Daughter
--How the Garcia Girl's Lost their Accents
--Tales of the Genji
--Dreams of the Red Chamber
--Snow Country

The Catcher in the Rye
--One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest
--Clockwork Orange
--Lolita
--Slaughter House Five
--Confessions of Zeno

The Memory Keeper's Daughter/The Kite Runner
--Call It Sleep
--Blindness

Life of Pi
--An Artist of the Floating World


Things They Carried
--The Sun Also Rises
--All's Quiet on the Western Front
--A Separate Peace
--The Secret Agent

Okay this is officially an unfinished post which will be edited and added to tomorrow because I'm exhausted. I hope this helps. Also if you choose a book that I haven't specifically cleared, you run the risk of having to do double work.