Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight froslavery, pilot their raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom.
The Bookseller of Kabul by Seierstad Asne
_After living for three months with the Kabul bookseller Sultan Khan in
the spring of 2002, Norwegian journalist Seierstad penned this
astounding portrait of a nation recovering from war, undergoing
political flux and mired in misogyny and poverty. As a Westerner, she
has the privilege of traveling between the worlds of men and women, and
though the book is ostensibly a portrait of Khan, its real strength is
the intimacy and brutal honesty with which it portrays the lives of
Afghani living under fundamentalist Islam. Seierstad also expertly
outlines Sultan's fight to preserve whatever he can of the literary life
of the capital during its numerous decades of warfare (he stashed some
10,000 books in attics around town). Seierstad, though only 31, is a
veteran war reporter and a skilled observer; as she hides behind her
burqa, the men in the Sultan's family become so comfortable with her
presence that she accompanies one of Sultan's sons on a religious
pilgrimage.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world in which babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The authors explore the economics of real-world issues often viewed as insignificant, such as the extent to which the Roe v. Wade decision affected violent crime, and examine hidden incentives behind all sorts of human behavior.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
An adolescent boy, knowing he is about to be dropped by his school, spends three days and nights in New York City.