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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
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
All My Sons
All Quiet on the Western Front
All The King's Men
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Pretty Horses
All's Well that Ends Well
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
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Barn Burning
Bartleby, the Scrivener
The Bean Trees
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
The Bell Jar
Beloved
Beowulf
Between Shades of Gray
Between the World and Me
Billy Budd
The Birthmark
Black Boy
Bless Me, Ultima
The Blind Side
Blink
Blood Brothers
Blood Meridian
The Bloody Chamber
The Bluest Eye
The Book Thief
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boys in the Boat
Brave New World
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Brown Girl Dreaming
Burial Rites
Buried Child
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
By the Waters of Babylon
The Call of the Wild
Candide
The Canterbury Tales
The Castle of Otranto
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
Catching Fire
Celia, a Slave
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Ceremony
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
A Child Called It
The Chosen
A Christmas Carol
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
The Chrysalids
The Circle
City of Thieves
Civilization and Its Discontents
A Clockwork Orange
Cold Mountain
The Color Purple
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Crime and Punishment
The Crucible
Cry, the Beloved Country
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Cyrano De Bergerac
Daisy Miller
Darkness at Noon
The Dead
Dead Poets Society
Death in Venice
Death of a Salesman
The Destructors
The Devil and Tom Walker
The Devil in the White City
The Diary of Anne Frank
Divergent
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Doctor Faustus
A Doll's House
Don Quixote
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dracula
The Duchess of Malfi
Désirée’s Baby
East of Eden
Emma
Ender’s Game
Enrique’s Journey
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Equus
Escape from Camp 14
Ethan Frome
The Eumenides
Eveline
Everyday Use
Everything I Never Told You
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
Fences
Fifth Business
Fight Club
The Fire Next Time
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Flatland
Flowers for Algernon
Frankenstein
Freakonomics
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Friday Night Lights
Fun Home
Funny in Farsi
Gang Leader for a Day
Gathering Blue
The Ghost Map
The Gift of the Magi
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
The Great Divorce
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
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
Heart of Darkness
Hedda Gabler
The Help
Henry IV Part 1
Henry IV Part 2
Henry V
Heroes
Hillbilly Elegy
Hills Like White Elephants
Hippolytus
Hiroshima
The History Boys
A History of the World in Six Glasses
The Hobbit
The Hot Zone
The House on Mango Street
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
Jane Eyre
Jasper Jones
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 Lecture
The Last of the Mohicans
Le Morte d’Arthur
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Les Miserables
A Lesson Before Dying
Let the Great World Spin
The Libation Bearers
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Life as We Knew It
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
The Little Prince
Little Women
Lolita
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Lone Survivor
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
Madame Bovary
The Maltese Falcon
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
Miss Brill
Moby-Dick
Mockingjay
A Modest Proposal
Moneyball
Montana 1948
Mountains Beyond Mountains
A Moveable Feast
Mr. Pip
Mrs Dalloway
Much Ado About Nothing
Murder in the Cathedral
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
My Antonia
My Name is Red
Mythology
The Namesake
The Narrative of Frederick Douglass
Native Son
Never Let Me Go
The New Jim Crow
Nickel and Dimed
Night
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
No Country for Old Men
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
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
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
The Raven
The Reader
Rebecca
Recitatif
The Red Badge of Courage
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Remains of the Day
The Republic
Reservation Blues
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
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
The Scarlet Letter
The School for Scandal
The Screwtape Letters
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Sense and Sensibility
A Separate Peace
The Shallows
Shooting an Elephant
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Siddhartha
Silas Marner
Silent Spring
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
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Stasliand
Station Eleven
The Story of an Hour
The Stranger
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Study in Scarlet
Sula
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
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thank You for Arguing
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Thing Around Your Neck
Things Fall Apart
The Things They Carried
A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Till We Have Faces
The Time Machine
The Tipping Point
Titus Andronicus
To Build a Fire
To Kill a Mockingbird
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
The Trial
Trifles
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Turn of the Screw
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 Way of the World
The Way to Rainy Mountain
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
When the Emperor was Divine
Whistling Vivaldi
White Fang
White Noise
The White Tiger
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Wide Sargasso Sea
The Winter's Tale
Winter’s Bone
Wise Blood
A Worn Path
A Wrinkle in Time
Wuthering Heights
The Yellow Wallpaper
Young Goodman Brown
Your Inner Fish
Zeitoun
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Ramayana
A Man for All Seasons
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Hillbilly Elegy
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Mr. Pip
The Thing Around Your Neck
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The Round House
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Absurd Person Singular
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
The Life of Galileo
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Coriolanus
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Out of My Mind
White Noise
Celia, a Slave
The Lion and the Jewel
Up From Slavery