Just finished I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Princess Bride. Both were really good books that I ended up teaching them with at-risk students. A lot of them got sucked in!
My Novel Recommendations
Sevenwaters series by Juliet Marillier (Celtic fantasy, love story... she is writing her fifth book at the moment)
The Art of War by Sun Tzu (mind blowing philosophical book)
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause (Werewolves)
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice (A really good vampire novel... cannot stand Twilight)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
Ender's Game and Speaker of the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Kare Kano by Masami Tsuda (It is Japanese Manga, but is the best story ever told for a manga series. Deals with adolescence issues such as domestic violence, social cliques, social pressure, and teen pregnancy while growing up in high school.)
"Macbeth" and "A Merchant in Venice" by Shakespeare
link removed by Agota Kristof (A Japanese video game developer was so inspired by this novel that he created a game based off of it. A great World War II fiction novel)
Indian Killer by Sherman Alexis (an interesting perspective about Native Americans dealing with racism in society)
Fool's Crow by James Welch
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (court murder mystery involving Japanese Canadians during WWII)
A book I'm reading now is link removed
It is absolutely mind blowing and I recommend everyone to read it. It's a very good insight of what Islamic women face.