Let's start off easy. Here are a few suggestions for books with orange covers:
Fiction
Stranded
on Mars by a dust storm that compromised his space suit and forced his
crew to leave him behind, astronaut Watney struggles to survive in spite
of minimal supplies and harsh environmental challenges that test his
ingenuity in unique ways.
Aloysious and
Lillian Binewski, proprietors of a traveling carnival, attempt to reduce
overhead by breeding their own freak show, with tragic results.
A
novel that grapples with the complex history and identity of Native
Americans follows twelve characters, each of whom has private reasons
for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow.
Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family, is given ownership of Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, on her eleventh birthday. The novel follows the next thirty-five
years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah
Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist).
Living
with his grandparents and sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates
the challenges of his mother's addictions and his grandmother's cancer
before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of
danger and hope.
One
morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named
Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his
mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him.
He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him
from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the
Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything
he's loved has been taken away--and how a mother learns to live with the
mistakes of her past.
Caught in the
crossfire of a megacorporation rivalry in 2575, Kady and Ezra, who have
just broken up, flee their home planet on an evacuation ship that is
quickly overwhelmed by a fast-spreading plague.
Nonfiction
The critically acclaimed author and poet recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.
Documents
the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant
of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive
indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in
vitro fertilization and gene mapping.
The author
describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his
mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a
fake suicide attempt and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.
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