The following books CANNOT be chosen although they might be on the list:
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Green, Graham: Dr Fischer of Geneva
Green, John: Looking For Alaska
Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
Hornby, Nick: About a Boy
Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman
Moore, Brian: Lies of Silence
Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Prejean, Sister Helen: Dead Man Walking
Rhue, Morton: The Wave
Shaffer, Peter: Amadeus
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace (South Africa, 1999): A professor at a South African university is fired because he seduced a student, so he withdraws to his daughter's farm in the country, where he realises that he is not able to protect her. (Alessandro)

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (Nigeria, 1958): Story about life in African society and the changes when the white people arrive. (Sebastian, Christina)

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (UK, 1931): Life in a future world dominated by genetic engineering. (Samuel, Tobias, Florian)

J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (USA, 1951): The story of a boy who runs away from boarding school only to find out that there is no escaping: not from school, not from life and ultimately not from growing up either. (Rahel, Lotte, Tabea)

Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (UK, 1847): A young woman works as governess for a man, falls in love with him and discovers his secret. (NB: this book is almost 500 pages) (Vera, Nathalie)

T.C. Boyle: The Tortilla Curtain (USA, 1995): While an American couple enjoys a wealthy lifestyle, another couple is fighting to stay alive as illegal Mexican migrants. An accident brings their two worlds colliding together. (Michael, Leonie, Jan)

William Golding: Lord of the Flies (UK, 1954): A group of boys survives a plane crash on an island somewhere in the Pacific, no adult survives the crash, the boys are by themselves - and Golding shows what happens. (Romain, Nandor, Sandro, Kira)

Brian Moore: Lies of Silence (UK, 1990): The plot revolves around Michael Dillon, who is faced with a dilemma after being held hostage. The novel focuses on the personal effects of The Troubles, a period of ethnic, religious and political conflict in Northern Ireland. (Pablo, Remo, Salome, Daniel)