April Goodreads Book Group: Verse Novels

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For April, the DC Public Library's Goodreads group is featuring Verse Novels. Choose from one of the titles below, or check out the Goodreads group for more suggestions.  We look forward to hearing from you in our discussion!

Young Adult/Middle School:

Crank Realm of Possibility Sold
Crank
by Ellen Hopkins
The Realm of Possibility
by David Levithan
Sold
by Patricia McCormick
Out of the Dust Street Love Make Lemonade
Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
Street Love
by Walter Dean Myers
Make Lemonade
by Virginia Euwer Wolff



























 

Adult:

Sharp Teeth Pale Fire Golden Gate
Sharp Teeth
by Toby Barlow
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
The Golden Gate
by Vikram Seth
Omeros Triangles The Same Sea
Omeros
by Derek Walcott
Triangles
by Ellen Hopkins
The Same Sea
by Amos Oz


























 

Classics:

Beowulf Eugene Onegin Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Beowulf
(Seamus Haney Translation)
Eugene Onegin
by Alexander Pushkin
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Epic of Gilgamesh The Odyssey Metomorphoses
The Epic of Gilgamesh The Odyssey
by Homer
The Metamorphoses
by Ovid
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