9 must-read school books like Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French) by Patrice Nganang

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Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

By: Patrice Nganang

3.66

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"I am a dog," the narrator of Patrice Nganang's novel plainly informs us. As such, he has learned n…

If you liked the school plot in Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French) by Patrice Nganang , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey

1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream book and Patrice Nganang's Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

  • fiction
  • school
"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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2. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

Similar categories in Unknown's Beowulf book and Patrice Nganang's Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

  • fiction
  • school
"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

Cover of Horses of God by Lulu Norman, Mahi Binebine

3. Horses of God

By: Lulu Norman , Mahi Binebine

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

On May 16, 2003, fourteen suicide bombers launched a series of attacks throughout Casablanca. It wa… read more

Similar categories in Lulu Norman's Horses of God book and Patrice Nganang's Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

  • africa
  • fiction
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4. American Born Chinese

By: Gene Luen Yang

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds tha… read more

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  • fiction
  • school
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5. Whereas

By: Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more

Similar categories in Layli Long Soldier's Whereas book and Patrice Nganang's Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

  • school
Cover of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Richard Andrews, Rex Gibson

6. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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  • fiction
  • school
"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

7. Timbuktu

By: Paul Auster

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's astonishing new book, is the sidekick and confidant of … read more

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8. The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

3.91

Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on Lo… read more

Similar categories in Jack London's The Call of the Wild book and Patrice Nganang's Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

  • fiction
  • school
"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck"

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"There is a patience of the wild – dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

9. Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2015 Nebula Award. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades… read more

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10. Othello

By: William Shakespeare

4.48

Format: None pages,

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more

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11. Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more

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  • fiction
  • school
"What, you egg?"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done, is done"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done cannot be undone."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"And nothing is, but what is not."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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12. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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  • fiction
  • school
"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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13. Slave Old Man

By: Patrick Chamoiseau

3.89

Format: 154 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most innovative and subversive novelists writing in French, a "writer of exceptiona… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French) by Patrice Nganang

14. Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

By: Patrice Nganang

3.66

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"I am a dog," the narrator of Patrice Nganang's novel plainly informs us. As such, he has learned n… read more

Similar categories in Patrice Nganang's Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French) book and Patrice Nganang's Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

  • africa
  • school
  • cameroon
  • fiction
  • african literature

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