I was reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" these days and i really need a suggestion of a book a bit similar to this book,
Kashaf.
I was reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" these days and i really need a suggestion of a book a bit similar to this book,
Kashaf.
Thanks for book suggestions. I will try to read all of them soon and yeah wilhelmina i read it because you mentioned it in your previous comment. And i really love this book.
K
Hi, Kashaf!
I am SO glad to see that you´re reading To Kill A Mockingbird. Is it because of my comment on your "shared work"? If so, I´m doubly glad. To think that I might have steered you toward this wonderful book makes me happy.
There is a lot of controversy over Go Set a Watchman. Harper Lee wrote it BEFORE To Kill A Mockingbird, and no publisher was interested. Now that Lee is an old woman without anybody REALLY close to protect her interests, some people accuse the publishers of taking advantage of her weakness (possibly mental weakness) to get her to agree to the publication of a book that she never tried to get published after To Kill A Mockingbird became a best-seller.
Perhaps Lee recognised that it was an inferior book. (It´s got the same narrator, but Scout is now a young woman.)
Having said all that, in my opinion an inferior book by Lee would be worth dozens of "the best that they´ve ever written" of many of the best-selling authors popular today.
If - because of your own story - you´re interested in researching other books with child narrators, I´ve found the following list for you: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/child-narrator
I must admit that I haven´t read most of them; that some (for example Life Of Pi [which I didn´t like] and Catcher In The Rye [which I LOVE] have teenaged boys as the narrators, which wouldn´t suit your story); that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass are listed when Alice is NOT the narrator in either; and I´m rather alarmed that To Kill A Mockingbird (perhaps the best child-narrator novel of them all) isn´t even mentioned.
So, a rather sloppy list, I´m afraid. Another - http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/dec/19/ten-best-child-narrators - mentions 2 other obvious choices that didn´t make it into the first list: Huckleberry Finn (EXCELLENT, but also told by a boy... and that DOES make a difference) and Treasure Island (also told by a boy).
You should be warned that some of these books - although with child narrators - are definitely aimed at an adult readership. Hideous Kinky is an excellent example.
So, I changed my terms for searching on Google, and came up with this: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1315.books_with_compelling_young_narrators (159 books). At least it´s got To Kill A Mockingbird at #1.
You´d have to click on each title to find out if it´s suitable for your purpose.
And - before Adrian Sroka mentions her - I´m going to: Sharon Creech. I can´t understand why none of her books are on any of those lists. Her books are usually about older girls, but the narrative voice is excellent. I HIGHLY recommend Walk Two Moons and Chasing Redbird.
I highly recommend, Eudora Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) if your interested in stories about the American South
Welty was an author of short stories and novels. She won the Pulitzer prize in 1973 for her novel, Optimist's Daughter. She won numerous awards during her life.