Daniel Alarcon's Reading List

The author of “At Night We Walk in Circles” and “City of Clowns” taught Toni Morrison to 10th graders: “Teaching a book, talking about it with young people, is the best way to fall in love with it.”

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By the Book: Daniel Alarcon (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-01-21).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin · Buy on Amazon

"It's a book I remember loving as a kid, and I'm looking forward to reading it again."

Los Rendidos

Jose Carlos Aguero · Buy on Amazon

"It's a stunning hybrid of memoir and philosophy. I read it in a couple of days, and haven't stopped thinking about it since."

Flight Without End

Joseph Roth · Buy on Amazon

"I've read five or six times. It's one of my all-time favorite books."

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie · Buy on Amazon

"I was in fifth grade when my teacher read us The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. No spoilers, but the entire classroom gasped at the end. I thought it was the greatest trick ever invented."

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison · 1970 · Buy on Amazon

"I really enjoyed diving back into it. As often happens, teaching a book, talking about it with young people, is the best way to fall in love with it."

Notes From Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Buy on Amazon

"The mood and the atmosphere of Notes From Underground have stayed with me, even now, more than 20 years later, when I barely remember the details of the plot."

The Beast

Oscar Martinez · Buy on Amazon

"Oscar Martínez's extraordinary account of Central American migration to the U.S."

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