Jonah

Books Jonah completed during the gap year:

Related to the countries we visited:

• The Heaven Shop, by Deborah Ellis (Malawi)
• Half the Sky, by Nick Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn (Development, with focus on Africa)
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba (Malawi)
• Mandela’s Way, by Richard Stengel (South Africa)
• It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace, by Rye Bartlett (Development, focus on Kenya)
• Last Days of the Incas, by Kim Macquarrie (Ecuador and Peru)
• The Way of the Condor, by Nathan Kravetz (Peru)
• Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder (Peru)

Classics:

• Gilgamesh the Hero, retold by Geraldine McCraughrean
• Gilgamesh, Steven Mitchell translation
• Flatland, by Edwin Abbott
• Black Ships Before Troy, (the story of the Iliad) retold by Rosemary Sutcliffe
• The Odyssey, Book 12, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
• In Search of a Homeland: The Story of the Aeneid, retold by Penelope Lively
• The Aeneid – Book 3,  translated by Robert Fitzgerald
• Antigone, by Sophocles, translated by Robert Fagles
• Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
• A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift
• Arabian Nights, retold by Andrew Lang
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
• Canterbury Tales, retold by Geraldine McCaughrean
• Divine Comedy, retold by Joseph Tusiani
• Paradise Lost, retold by Nancy Willard
• The Prince, by Machiavelli

Others:

• Noob Warriors, by Scott Douglas
• Flores Girl: The Children God Forgot, by Erik John Bertel
• Leopold II: Butcher of the Congo, by Todd Olson
• Rebellion (Noob Warriors Book II), by Scott Douglas
• Medicus, by Ruth Downie
• The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of his Theory of Evolution, by David Quammen
• Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card
• Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card
• Ender’s Shadow, by Orson Scott Card
• Shadow of the Hegemon, by Orson Scott Card
• Shadow Puppets, by Orson Scott Card
• Shadow of the Giant, by Orson Scott Card