The Kite Runner
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies. A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.
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- It was surprising to me just how many of the banned books have immense literary value. The Color Purple, The Handmaid's Tale, The Kite Runner, etc. aren't random books that may be a little obscene, they're literary classics. In my opinion this is what makes it obvious that these bans were made in bad faith.
- The Kite Runner
- And I thought it was by Khaled Hosseini.
(He wrote The Kite Runner (among others), which is a heartbreaking novel).
- Here's the complete list.
Maus by Art Spiegelman
1984 by George Orwell
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Melissa by Alex Gino (previously published as George)
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Jared Diamond - "Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed" (non-fiction)
Iván Repila - "The Boy Who Stole Attila’s Horse": short intense novel about 2 boys who are trapped in a well
Margaret Atwood - "The handmaid's tale"
Khaled Hosseini - "The kite runner"
Agatha Christie - "The murder of Roger Ackroyd" (very surprising plot)
Andy Weir - "The Martian"
Charles Dickens - "David Copperfield"
Clare Mackintosh - "I let you go"
Carlos Ruiz Zafón - "The Shadow of the Wind"
M.R. Carey - "The girl with all the gifts"
- This reminds of the book The Kite Runner. It describes a very different Afghanistan in the 70s before the Soviet intervention.
