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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Absurd Person Singular
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Aeneid
Agamemnon
The Age of Innocence
The Alchemist
Alias Grace
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
All American Boys
All My Sons
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Summer in a Day
All The King's Men
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Pretty Horses
All's Well that Ends Well
Always Running
An American Childhood
American Gods
American Psycho
American Sniper
Americanah
Amusing Ourselves to Death
And Then There Were None
And the Mountains Echoed
Angela’s Ashes
Angels in America
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
Anthem
Antigone
Antony and Cleopatra
Araby
Arcadia
Arms and the Man
The Art of Racing in the Rain
As I Lay Dying
As You Like It
Atonement
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Awakening
Babylon Revisited
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Barn Burning
Bartleby, the Scrivener
The Bean Trees
The Beautiful and Damned
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
The Bell Jar
Beloved
Beowulf
Between Shades of Gray
Between the World and Me
Billy Budd
The Birds
The Birthmark
Black Boy
Black Skin, White Masks
Bless Me, Ultima
The Blind Side
Blink
Blood Brothers
Blood Meridian
The Bloody Chamber
The Bluest Eye
The Book Thief
The Book of Unknown Americans
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boys in the Boat
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brave New World
Breaking Night
A Brief History of Seven Killings
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Brown Girl Dreaming
The Buddha of Suburbia
Burial Rites
Buried Child
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
By the Waters of Babylon
The Call of the Wild
Candide
The Canterbury Tales
Carmilla
The Castle of Otranto
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
Catching Fire
Cathedral
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Celia, a Slave
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Ceremony
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
A Child Called It
The Children of Men
The Chosen
A Christmas Carol
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
The Chrysalids
The Circle
City of Thieves
Civilization and Its Discontents
A Clockwork Orange
Clybourne Park
Cold Mountain
The Color Purple
The Color of Water
Columbine
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Crime and Punishment
The Crucible
Cry, the Beloved Country
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Cymbeline
Cyrano De Bergerac
Daisy Miller
Darkness at Noon
The Dead
Dead Poets Society
Death in Venice
Death of a Salesman
Democracy in America
The Destructors
The Devil and Tom Walker
The Devil in the White City
The Devil’s Highway
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Dispossessed
Divergent
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Doctor Faustus
A Doll's House
Don Quixote
Down and Out in Paris and London
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dracula
Drown
The Drowned World
The Duchess of Malfi
Désirée’s Baby
East of Eden
Emma
The Emperor Jones
Ender’s Game
Enduring Love
Enrique’s Journey
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Equus
Escape from Camp 14
Ethan Frome
The Eumenides
Eveline
Everyday Use
Everyman
Everything I Never Told You
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Fahrenheit 451
Far From the Madding Crowd
A Farewell to Arms
Fast Food Nation
Fasting, Feasting
The Fault in Our Stars
Faust
Feed
The Feminine Mystique
Fences
Fifth Business
The Fifth Child
Fight Club
The Fire Next Time
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Flatland
Flowers for Algernon
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Frankenstein
Freakonomics
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Friday Night Lights
Fun Home
Funny in Farsi
Gang Leader for a Day
The Garden Party
Gathering Blue
The Ghost Map
The Gift of the Magi
Girl
The Giver
The Glass Castle
The Glass Menagerie
Go Set a Watchman
The God of Small Things
Going After Cacciato
Good Country People
The Good Earth
A Good Man is Hard to Find
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grass is Singing
Greasy Lake
The Great Divorce
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
The Green Mile
Grendel
Gulliver's Travels
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half the Sky
Hamlet
The Handmaid’s Tale
Hard Times
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Harrison Bergeron
Hayavadana
Heart of Darkness
Hedda Gabler
The Help
Henry IV Part 1
Henry IV Part 2
Henry V
Heroes
Hidden Figures
Hillbilly Elegy
Hills Like White Elephants
Hippolytus
Hiroshima
The History Boys
A History of the World in Six Glasses
The Hobbit
Homage to Catalonia
The Hot Zone
The House on Mango Street
How the Other Half Lives
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
The Hunger Games
Hunger of Memory
I Am Legend
I Am Malala
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
An Ideal Husband
If I Stay
The Iliad
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Importance of Being Earnest
In Cold Blood
In the Lake of the Woods
In the Time of the Butterflies
Indian Horse
Inferno
Inherit the Wind
An Inspector Calls
The Interlopers
Into Thin Air
Into the Wild
The Invention of Wings
Invisible Man
Ishmael
I’m the King of the Castle
Jane Eyre
Jasper Jones
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
The Joy Luck Club
Jude the Obscure
Julius Caesar
The Jungle
A Jury of Her Peers
Just Mercy
Kindred
King Lear
King Leopold’s Ghost
The Kite Runner
The Lady or the Tiger?
Lamb to the Slaughter
The Laramie Project
The Last Leaf
The Last Lecture
The Last of the Mohicans
Le Morte d’Arthur
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Les Miserables
A Lesson Before Dying
Let the Great World Spin
The Libation Bearers
Lies My Teacher Told Me
The Lieutenant
Life as We Knew It
Life in the Iron Mills
The Life of Galileo
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
The Life of Olaudah Equiano
Life of Pi
Like Water for Chocolate
The Lion and the Jewel
Little Fires Everywhere
The Little Prince
Little Women
Lolita
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Lone Survivor
The Lonely Londoners
A Long Walk to Water
A Long Way Gone
Look Back in Anger
Looking for Alaska
Lord of the Flies
The Lottery
Love's Labor's Lost
Lysistrata
M. Butterfly
Macbeth
Machinal
Madame Bovary
The Maltese Falcon
A Man Called Ove
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
A Man for All Seasons
Mansfield Park
Man’s Search for Meaning
The Martian
"Master Harold" … and the Boys
Maus
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Maze Runner
Me Before You
Measure for Measure
Medea
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Merchant of Venice
A Mercy
Mere Christianity
The Metamorphosis
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Minister’s Black Veil
The Miracle Worker
Miss Brill
Moby-Dick
Mockingjay
A Modest Proposal
Moneyball
Montana 1948
The Moon is Down
The Most Dangerous Game
The Motorcycle Diaries
Mountains Beyond Mountains
A Moveable Feast
Mr. Pip
Mrs Dalloway
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Much Ado About Nothing
Murder in the Cathedral
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
My Antonia
My Name is Red
Mythology
The Name of the Rose
The Namesake
The Narrative of Frederick Douglass
Native Son
The Necklace
Never Let Me Go
The New Jim Crow
Nickel and Dimed
Night
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
The Nightingale and the Rose
No Country for Old Men
Noli Me Tangere
Northanger Abbey
Notes from Underground
Notes of a Native Son
O Pioneers!
Odour of Chrysanthemums
The Odyssey
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonus
Of Mice and Men
Of Plymouth Plantation
The Old Man and the Sea
Oliver Twist
On the Road
The Once and Future King
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
The Open Boat
The Open Window
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Ordinary People
Oroonoko
Orphan Train
Oryx and Crake
Othello
The Other Wes Moore
Our Town
Out of My Mind
Out of the Silent Planet
Outliers
The Outsiders
The Overcoat
The Painted Door
Paper Towns
Parable of the Sower
Paradise Lost
A Passage to India
Passing
Peace Like a River
The Pearl
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The Penelopiad
A People’s History of the United States
Perfume
Persepolis
Persuasion
Peter Pan
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Plague
Poe's Stories
The Poisonwood Bible
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prince
Purple Hibiscus
Pygmalion
The Quiet American
A Raisin in the Sun
The Ramayana
Ransom
The Raven
The Reader
Rebecca
Recitatif
The Red Badge of Courage
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Remains of the Day
The Republic
Reservation Blues
Revolutionary Road
Richard II
Richard III
Riders to the Sea
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Rip Van Winkle
The Rivals
A River Runs Through It
The Road
Robinson Crusoe
Rocket Boys
The Rocking-Horse Winner
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Roman Fever
Romeo and Juliet
A Room of One's Own
A Room with a View
A Rose for Emily
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Round House
The Rover
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Salt to the Sea
A Sand County Almanac
Sarah’s Key
The Scarlet Ibis
The Scarlet Letter
The School for Scandal
The Screwtape Letters
The Second Shepherd’s Play
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Secret River
Self-Reliance
Sense and Sensibility
A Separate Peace
The Shallows
She Stoops to Conquer
Shooting an Elephant
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Should Wizard Hit Mommy?
Siddhartha
Silas Marner
Silent Spring
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Sixth Extinction
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Sniper
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
So Long a Letter
Song of Solomon
Sonny’s Blues
Sophie’s World
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Souls of Black Folk
The Sound and the Fury
Speak
Spies
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Stasiland
Station Eleven
The Story of an Hour
The Stranger
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Study in Scarlet
Sula
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
The Sun Also Rises
Sundiata
A Tale of Two Cities
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Taming of the Shrew
Tartuffe
Tattoos on the Heart
The Tempest
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thank You for Arguing
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Thing Around Your Neck
The Thing in the Forest
Things Fall Apart
The Things They Carried
A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Through the Tunnel
Till We Have Faces
The Time Machine
The Tipping Point
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Titus Andronicus
To Build a Fire
To Kill a Mockingbird
To the Lighthouse
Topdog/Underdog
Tracks
Treasure Island
The Trial
Trifles
The Trojan Women
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Turn of the Screw
Turtles All the Way Down
Twelfth Night
Twelve Angry Men
Unbroken
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Underground Railroad
Up From Slavery
Utopia
V for Vendetta
The Veldt
A View from the Bridge
The Visit
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Volpone
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for the Barbarians
Walden
The Wanderer
The War of the Worlds
The Way of the World
The Way to Rainy Mountain
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
When I Was Puerto Rican
When the Emperor was Divine
Whistling Vivaldi
White Fang
White Noise
The White Tiger
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Wide Sargasso Sea
Winter Dreams
The Winter's Tale
Winter’s Bone
Wise Blood
Wit
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
A Worn Path
A Wrinkle in Time
Wuthering Heights
Year of Wonders
The Yellow Wallpaper
Yellow Woman
Young Goodman Brown
Your Inner Fish
Zeitoun
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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