Ethical Fiction

Ethical fiction takes the issues of right and wrong and applies them in real life situations. Realistic characters are forced to confront a moral dilemma - either by choice or by circumstances that are forced upon them. Read one and decide - Is the character ‘in the right’ or, ‘in the wrong’?

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
• Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
• Syndrome: A Thriller by John Case
• Disgrace by Jim Coetzee
• Ready to Fall by Claire Cook
• Chocolate Wars by Robert Cormier
• Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
• The Language of Good-Bye by Maribeth Fisher
• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Hanna’s Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
• Wild Life by Molly Gloss

Booklist created by K. Hahn, March 2003