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High School Reading List
Fiction * Adult Fiction
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Adams, Douglas |
The Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Gal… |
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Adams, Richard |
Watership Down |
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Agee, James |
A Death in the
Family |
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Alcott, Louisa May |
Little Women |
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Allende, Isabel |
Paula |
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Allende, Isabel |
The House of the
Spirits |
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Alverez, Julia |
In the Time of
Butterflies |
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Anderson, Laurie Halse |
Speak |
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Anonymous |
Go Ask Alice |
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Anderson, Sherwood |
Winesburg, Ohio |
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Armstrong, William H. |
Sounder |
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Asimov, Issac |
Foundation |
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Atkins, Catherine |
When Jeff Comes
Home |
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Atwood, Margaret |
The Handmaids
Tale |
| Avi |
Nothing But the
Truth |
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Baldwin, James |
Go Tell it On
The Mountain |
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Baldwin, James |
Nobody Knows My
Name |
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Banks, Russell |
Rule of the Bone |
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Berendt, John |
Midnight in the
Garden of Good and Evil |
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Berger, Thomas |
Little Big Man |
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Boule, Pierre |
Bridge Over the
River Kwai |
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Bowles, Paul |
The Sheltering
Sky |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Martian
Chronicles |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Something Wicked
This Way Comes |
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Burgress, Anthony |
Clockwork Orange |
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Burgress, Melvin |
Smack |
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Burns, Olive Ann |
Cold Sassy Tree |
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Camus, Albert |
The Stranger |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Ender’s Game |
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Carr, Caleb |
The Alienist |
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Carroll, Lewis |
Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland |
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Carter, Forrest |
Education of
Little Tree |
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Casals, Pablo |
Joys and Sorrows |
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Cervantes |
Don Quixote |
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Chevalier, Tracy |
Girl with a
Pearl Earring |
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Christie, Agatha |
Any Title |
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Cisernos, Sandra |
The House on
Mango Street |
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Clark, Mary Higgins |
Let Me Call You
Sweetheart |
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Clark, Walter Van T. |
The Ox-Bow
Incident |
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
The 2001 Series |
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Cleaver, Vera and Bill |
Where the Lilies
Bloom |
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Conrad, Joseph |
Lord Jim |
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Conroy, Pat |
Beaches |
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Cook, Karin |
What Girls Learn |
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Cormier, Robert |
The Chocolate
War |
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Carane, Stephen |
Red Badge of
Courage |
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Craven, Margaret |
I Heard the Owl
Call My Name |
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Creswick, Paul |
Robin Hood |
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Crichton, Michael |
Andromeda Strain |
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Crichton, Michael |
Jurassic Park |
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Crutcher, Chris |
Stotan! |
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Crutcher, Chris |
Staying Fat for
Sarah Byrnes |
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Curie, Eve |
Madame Curie |
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Danziger, Paula |
This Place Has
No Atmosphere |
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Deaver, Jeffrey |
Bone Collector |
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DeFoe, Daniel |
Robinson Caruso |
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Deloria, Vine |
Custer Died for
Your Sins |
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Dickens, Charles |
A Tale of Two
Cities |
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Dickens, Charles |
Oliver Twist |
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Dillard, Annie |
Pilgrim at
Tinker Creek |
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Doctrow, E.L. |
Ragtime |
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Dorris, Michael |
A Yellow Raft in
Blue Water |
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor |
Crime and
Punishment |
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Douglas, Frederick |
Narrative of the
Life of an American Slave |
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Doyle, Arthur Conan |
Sherlock Holmes
Series |
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Draper, Sharon |
Tears of a Tiger |
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Dreiser, Theodore |
An American
Tragedy |
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DuBois, W.E.B. |
Souls of Black
Folk |
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DuMaurier, Daphne |
Rebecca |
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Eliot, George |
Silas Mariner |
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Ellison, Ralph |
The Invisible
Man |
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Esquivel, Laura |
Like Water for
Chocolate |
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Eudora, Welty |
Ship of Fools |
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Evans, Nicholas |
The Horse
Whisperer |
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Feber, Edna |
Cimmaron |
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Fielding, Helen |
Bridget Jones’
Diary |
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Finney, Jack |
Time and Again |
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Flagg, Fannie |
Fried Green
Tomatoes |
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Forster, E.M. |
Passage to India |
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Frazier, Charles |
Cold Mountain |
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Gaines, Ernest |
A Lesson Before
Dying |
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Gibbons, Kaye |
Ellen Foster |
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Gibbons, Kaye |
Charms of an
Easier Life |
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Gillian, Maria Mazziotti |
Growing Up
Ethnic in America |
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Goodell, Jeff |
Sunnyvale |
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Grafton, Sue |
N is For Noose |
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Greene, Bette |
The Drowning of
Stephen Jones |
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Greene, Graham |
The Heart of the
Matter |
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Grisham, John |
The Client |
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Guest, Judith |
Ordinary People |
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Gutterson, David |
Snow Falling on
Cedars |
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Hamilton, Jane |
Map of the World |
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Hardy, Thomas |
The Mayor of
Casterbridge |
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Harris, Thomas |
Silence of the
Lambs |
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Haruf, Kent |
Plainsong |
| Hegi,
Ursula |
Stones Form the
River |
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Heller, Joseph |
Catch 22 |
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Hemingway, Ernest |
A Farewell to
Arms |
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Herbert, Frank |
Dune |
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Herriot, James |
All Creatures
Great and Small, etc. |
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Hersey, John |
Hiroshima |
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Hilton, James |
Lost Horizon |
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Hoffman, Alice |
Turtle Moon |
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Hornby, Nick |
High Fidelity |
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Hugo, Victor |
Les Miserables |
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Huxley, Aldous |
Brave New World |
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Hyde, Catherine Ryan |
Pay it Forward |
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Irving, John |
A Prayer for
Owen Meaney |
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Jackson, Shirley |
We Have Always
Lived in the Castle |
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James, Henry |
Portrait of a
Lady |
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Joyce, James |
Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man |
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Junger, Sebastian |
A Perfect Storm |
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Karon, Jan |
At Home in
Mitford |
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Katz, Jon |
Running to the
Mountain |
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Kaysen, Susanna |
Girl,
Interrupted |
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Keller, Helen |
Story of My Life |
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Keneally, Thomas |
Schindler’s List |
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Kennedy, William |
Ironweed |
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Kesey, Ken |
One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest |
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Keyes, Daniel |
Flowers for
Algernon |
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King, Laurie R. |
The Beekeeper’s
Apprentice |
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King, Stephen |
The Girl Who
Loved Tom Gordon |
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King, Stephen |
The Eyes of the
Dragon |
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Kingsolver, Barbara |
Animal Dreams |
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Klass, David |
California Blue |
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Klause, Annette |
Blood and
Chocolate |
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Kosinski, Jerzy |
Painted Bird |
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Lamb, Wally |
She’s Come
Undone |
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L’Amour, Louis |
Any Title |
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Lawrence, Jerome |
Inherit the Wind |
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LeGuin, Ursula |
The Earthsea
Trilogy |
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Lent, Jeffrey |
In the Fall |
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Letts, Billie |
Where the Hear
Is |
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Lewis, Sinclair |
Main Street |
| Lia
Block, Francesca |
Weetzie Bat |
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Lott, Brett |
Jewel |
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Maclean, Norman |
A River Runs
Through It |
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Marshall, James Vance |
Walkabout |
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Martinez, Victor |
Parrot in the
Oven: Mi Vida |
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McCaffrey, Anne |
The Dragon
Riders of Pern (trilogy) |
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McCarthy, Cormac |
All the Pretty
Horses |
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McCormick, Patricia |
Cut |
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McCullers, Carson |
A Member of the
Wedding |
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McMurtry, Larry |
Lonesome Dove |
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Melville, Herman |
Moby Dick |
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Michener, James |
Centennial |
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Miller, Arthur |
Death of a
Salesman |
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Michard, Jacqueline |
The Deep End of
the Ocean |
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Mitchell, Margaret |
Gone With the
Wind |
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Moon, Elizabeth |
Rules of
Engagement |
| Morgan, Marlo |
Mutant Message Down Under |
| Morrison, Toni |
The
Bluest Eye |
| Mowat, Farley |
Never Cry Wolf |
| Mowat, Farley |
The
Dog Who Wouldn’t Be |
| Mowry, Jess |
Babylon Boyz |
| Nathan, Robert |
Portrait of Jennie |
| Neufeld, John |
Lisa
Bright and Dark |
| Norman, Howard |
The
Bird Artist |
| O’Brien, Tim |
The
Thing They Carried: A Work |
| Ondaatje,
Michael |
The
English Patient |
| O’Neil, Eugene |
The
Iceman Cometh |
| Orczy, Baroness |
The
Scarlet Pimpernel |
| Orwell, George |
1984 |
| Pasternak, Boris |
Doctor Zhivago |
| Paton, Alan |
Cry,
the Beloved Country |
| Paulsen, Gary |
The
Beet Fields |
| Plath, Sylvia |
The
Bell Jar |
| Plum-Ucci, Carol |
The
Body of Christopher Creed |
| Potok, Chaim |
The
Chosen |
| Pullman, Philip |
The
Golden Compass (trilogy) |
| Quindlen, Anna |
One
True Thing |
| Rapp, Adam |
The
Buffalo Tree |
| Rawlings,
Marjorie |
The
Yearling |
| Remargue, Erich
Marie |
All
Quiet on the Western Front |
| Rhys, Jean |
Wide
Sargasso Sea |
| Richter, Conrad |
Sea
of Grass |
| Robbins, Harold |
A
Stone For Danny |
| Rolvaag, O.E. |
Giants in the Earth |
| Roth, Philip |
Goodbye, Columbus |
| Rowling, J.K. |
Harry Potter (series) |
| Rubio, Gwenn
Hymen |
Icy
Sparks |
| Salinger, J.D. |
The
Catcher in the Rye |
| Salzman, Mark |
Iron
and Silk |
| Saroyan, William |
The
Human Comedy |
| Schlink, Bernard |
The
Reader |
| Scott, Sir
Walter |
Ivanhoe |
| Segal, Eric |
Love
Story |
| Shaara, Michael |
Killer Angels |
| Shakespeare,
William |
King
Lear |
| Shakespeare,
William |
Othello |
| Shakespeare,
William |
As
You Like It |
| Shakespeare,
William |
The
Tempest |
| Shaw, George
Bernard |
Pygmalion |
| Shaw, George
Bernard |
St.
Joan |
| Shelley, Mary |
Frankenstein |
| Shreve, Anita |
Weight of Water |
| Shute, Neville |
On
the Beach |
| Shute, Neville |
A
Town Like Alice |
| Sillitoe, Alan |
Loneliness of the Long Distance Run |
| Smith, Betty |
A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Smith, Dodie |
I
Capture the Castle |
| Solzhenitsyn,
Alexander |
One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisov |
| Spark, Muriel |
The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| Sparks, Nicholas |
The
Notebook |
| Stein, Gertrude |
The
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
| Steinbeck, John |
The
Red Pony |
| Stevenson,
Robert Louis |
Treasure Island |
| Stewart, Mary |
The
Crystal Cave |
| Stone, Irving |
The
Agony and the Ectasy |
| Styron, William |
Sophie’s Choice |
| Suleri, Sara |
Meatless Days |
| Tan, Amy |
The
Joy Luck Club |
| Thackery,
William H. |
Vanity Fair |
| Thomas, Dylan |
A
Child’s Christmas in Wales |
| Thomas, Rob |
Rats
Saw God |
| Thoreau, Henry
D. |
Walden |
| Turow, Scott |
Burden of Proof |
| Twain, Mark |
Huckleberry Finn |
| Twain, Mark |
Tom
Sawyer |
| Uris, Leon |
Exodus |
| Voight, Cynthia |
The
Kingdom Series (Elske, The Wings of the Falcon) |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Player Piano |
| Walker, Alice |
The
Color Purple |
| Watson, Larry |
Montana 1948 |
| Wells, H.G. |
The
Time Machine |
| Wells, H.G. |
The
War of the Worlds |
| Wells, Rebecca |
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood |
| Wharton, Edith |
The
Age of Innocence |
| Wharton, Edith |
Ethan Frome |
| White, T.H. |
The
One and Future King |
| Wiesel, Elie |
Night |
| Wilde, Oscar |
The
Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Wilder, Thornton |
The
Bridge of San Luis Ray |
| Williams,
Tennessee |
The
Glass Menagerie |
| Wittlinger,
Ellen |
Hard
Love |
| Woolfe, Virginia |
To
the Lighthouse |
| Wouk, Herman |
The
Caine Mutiny |
| Wright, Richard |
Native Son |
| Yolen, Jane |
Briar Rose |
| Zindel, Paul |
The
Pigman |
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