High School Summer Reading List
High School Summer Reading
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Parental |
Science |
Social Studies |
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Adams |
Watership Down |
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Asimov |
Fantastic Voyage |
X |
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X |
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Blinn |
Brian's Song |
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Borland |
When the Legends Die |
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X |
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Bradbury |
The Martian Chronicles |
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Buck |
The Big Wave |
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X |
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Canfield |
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul |
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Carter/Strickland |
The Education of Little Tree |
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X |
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Cormier |
The Chocolate War |
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X |
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Covey, Sean |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens |
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Crichton |
Jurassic Park |
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X |
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Daly |
Seventeenth Summer |
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Defoe |
Robinson Crusoe |
X |
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X |
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Dickens |
A Christmas Carol |
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Doyle |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Doyle |
Hound of the Baskervilles |
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Golding |
Lord of the Flies |
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X |
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Hamilton |
Mythology |
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Hinton |
That Was Then, This is Now |
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Houston |
Farewell to Manzanar |
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X |
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Keller |
My Story |
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Keyes |
Flowers for Algernon |
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Lipsyte |
The Contender |
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X |
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London |
Call of the Wild |
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Montgomery |
Anne of Green Gables |
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Mowat |
Never Cry Wolf |
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X |
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Myers |
Monster |
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Orczy |
The Scarlet Pimpernel |
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Poe |
Tales of Terror: Ten Short Stories |
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Rawlings |
The Yearling |
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Rawlings |
Cross Creek |
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X |
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Sagan |
Broca's Brain |
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X |
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Stevenson |
Kidnapped |
X |
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Twain |
The Prince and the Pauper |
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X |
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Verne |
Around the World in Eighty Days |
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X |
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Voight |
A Solitary Blue |
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Wells |
The Time Machine |
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X |
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Wolfe |
The Right Stuff |
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X |
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Yeager |
Chuck Yeager. An Autobiography |
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X |
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Yep |
Dragonwings |
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Yep |
Starfisher |
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Zindel |
The Pigman |
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X |
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Author |
Title |
Challenging |
Parental |
Science |
Social Studies |
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Achebe |
Things Fall Apart |
X |
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Adler |
Aristotle for Everybody |
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X |
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Anaya |
Bless Me, Ultima |
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Bradbury |
Fahrenheit 451 |
X |
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X |
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Buck |
The Good Earth |
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Christie |
And Then There Were None |
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Cisneros |
The House on Mango Street |
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Cook |
Outbreak |
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X |
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Crichton |
Andromeda Strain |
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X |
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Du Maurier |
Rebecca |
X |
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Follet |
Pillars of the Earth |
X |
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Gibbons |
Ellen Foster |
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X |
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Gilbreath/Carey |
Cheaper by the Dozen (Play) |
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Hegi |
Stones from the River |
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X |
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Hemingway |
A Farewell to Arms |
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X |
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Hugo |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
X |
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Lawrence and Lee |
Inherit the Wind |
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X |
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X |
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Quinn |
Ishmael |
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Rand |
Anthem |
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X |
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Remarque |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
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X |
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Simpson |
The Lusitania |
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X |
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Smith |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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Steinbeck |
The Pearl |
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Stevenson |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
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Stuart |
The Crystal Cave |
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Thomas. |
Lives of a Cell |
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X |
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Tolkien |
*Lord of the Rings |
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Uris |
Exodus |
X |
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White |
The Once and Future King |
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Wiesel |
Night |
X |
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* It is recommended you read "The Hobbit" first |
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Title |
Challenging |
Parental |
Science |
Social Studies |
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Ambrose |
Undaunted Courage |
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X |
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Baldwin |
Go Tell It On The Mountain |
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X |
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Bradbury |
Something Wicked This Way Comes |
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Capote |
In Cold Blood |
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X |
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Cather |
My Antonia |
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X |
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Crane |
The Red Badge of Courage |
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X |
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Craven |
I Heard the Owl Call My Name |
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Edgerton |
Walking Across Egypt |
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Frank |
Alas, Babylon |
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X |
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Frazier |
Cold Mountain |
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X |
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Gaines |
A Lesson Before Dying |
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X |
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Hansberry |
A Raisin in the Sun |
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Hemingway |
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
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X |
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Kingston |
Woman Warrior |
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Lord |
A Night to Remember |
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X |
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Mason |
In Country |
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X |
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Mazer |
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats |
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McCullers |
Member of the Wedding |
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Michener |
Centennial |
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Middlekauff |
The Glorious Cause (The American Revolution 1763-1789) |
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X |
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Mitchell |
Gone With the Wind |
X |
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X |
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Myers |
Fallen Angels |
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X |
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X |
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Neihardt |
Black Elk Speaks |
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X |
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Preston |
The Hot Zone |
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X |
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Sams |
When the World was Young |
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X |
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Shaara, Jeff |
The Last Full Measure |
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X |
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Shaara, Michael |
Killer Angels |
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X |
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Shaara, Jeff |
Gods & Generals |
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X |
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Sinclair |
The Jungle |
X |
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X |
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Steinbeck |
Grapes of Wrath |
X |
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X |
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Steinbeck |
Cannery Row |
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Taylor |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
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X |
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Theroux |
The Mosquito Coast |
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X |
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Twain |
Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
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Twain |
Life on the Mississippi |
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X |
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Walker |
Jubilee |
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X |
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X |
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Warren |
All the King's Men |
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X |
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Wilder |
Our Town |
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Williams |
A Streetcar Named Desire |
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Wright |
Rite of Passage |
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X |
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Wright |
Black Boy |
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X |
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X |
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Author |
Title |
Challenging |
Parental |
Science |
Social Studies |
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Albom |
Tuesdays With Morrie |
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Austen |
Pride & Prejudice |
X |
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Austen |
Emma |
X |
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Braithwaite |
To Sir, With Love |
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X |
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Bronte |
Jane Eyre |
X |
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Brokaw |
The Greatest Generation |
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Brokaw |
The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections |
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X |
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Clarke |
2001, A Space Odyssey |
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X |
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Delaney, Sarah and Elizabeth |
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters First 100 Years |
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Dickens |
David Copperfield |
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Dickens |
Oliver Twist |
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Erdich |
Love Medicine |
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Fowler |
Before Women Had Wings |
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X |
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Gibran |
The Prophet |
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Goldsmith |
She Stoops to Conquer (Play) |
X |
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Halberstam |
The Fifties |
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X |
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Hardy |
The Return of the Native |
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Heller |
Catch 22 |
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Huxley |
Brave New World |
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Ibsen |
Hedda Gabler (Play) |
X |
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Irving |
A Prayer for Owen Meany |
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X |
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Kata |
A Patch of Blue |
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X |
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Kesey |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
X |
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Lester |
Othello: A Novel |
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X |
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McBride |
The Color of Water |
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X |
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McCall |
Makes Me Wanna Holler |
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X |
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McCullers |
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe |
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McCullough |
Truman |
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X |
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Naylor |
Mama Day |
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X |
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Orwell |
1984 |
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X |
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Parks |
The Learning Tree |
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X |
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Paton |
Cry the Beloved Country |
X |
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Shakespeare |
The Taming of the Shrew (Play) |
X |
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Shaw |
Pygmalion (Play) |
X |
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Solzhenitsyn |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
X |
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Stoppard |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern |
X |
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Tan |
The Joy Luck Club |
X |
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Vonnegut |
Slaughterhouse Five |
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Walker |
The Color Purple |
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X |
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Watson |
The Double Helix |
X |
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X |
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Weiner |
The Beak of the Finch: The Story of Evolution in Our Time |
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Wilde |
The Importance of Being Earnest |
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X |
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