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A Achebe, Chinua "Things Fall Apart" *
Adams, Douglas "Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The" *
Adams, Richard "Watership Down" *
Alcott, Louisa May "Little Women" *
Allende, Isabel "House of the Spirits, The" *
Angelou, Maya "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" *
Asimov, Isaac "Foundation Trilogy, The" *
Atwood, Margaret "Edible Woman, The" *
Atwood, Margaret "Handmaid’s Tale, The" *
Austen, Jane "Pride and Prejudice"
B Barrie, James Matthew "Admirable Crichton, The" *
Baum, L. Frank "Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The" *
Bierce, Ambrose "“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An”" *
Blackmore, R. D. "Lorna Doone" *
Bradbury, Ray "Fahrenheit 451" *
Bradbury, Ray "Martian Chronicles, The" *
Bradbury, Ray "Something Wicked This Way Comes" *
Brontë, Charlotte "Jane Eyre" *
Brontë, Emily "Wuthering Heights" *
Brown, Christy "My Left Foot" *
Bulgakov, Mikhail "Master and Margarita, The" *
Bunyan, John "Pilgrim’s Progress, The" *
Burgess, Melvin "Junk" *
Burnett, Frances Hodgson "Secret Garden, The" *
Burroughs, Edgar Rice "Land That Time Forgot, The" *
Burroughs, Edgar Rice "Tarzan of the Apes" *
C Camus, Albert "Outsider, The" *
Carroll, Lewis "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" *
Carroll, Lewis "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" *
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de "Don Quixote" *
Chekhov, Anton "“Gooseberries”" *
Christie, Agatha "And Then There Were None" *
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "“Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The”"
Colfer, Eoin "Artemis Fowl" *
Conrad, Joseph "Heart of Darkness" *
Cooper, James Fenimore "Last of the Mohicans, The" *
Cormier, Robert "Chocolate War, The" *
Crane, Stephen "Red Badge of Courage, The" *
D Dahl, Roald "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" *
Defoe, Daniel "Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The" *
Defoe, Daniel "Moll Flanders" *
Dick, Philip K. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" *
Dickens, Charles "Christmas Carol, A" *
Dickens, Charles "David Copperfield" *
Dickens, Charles "Great Expectations" *
Dickens, Charles "Oliver Twist" *
Dickens, Charles "Tale of Two Cities, A" *
Dinesen, Isak "Out of Africa" *
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor "Brothers Karamazov, The" *
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor "Crime and Punishment" *
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan "Hound of the Baskervilles, The" *
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan "Lost World, The" *
Dreiser, Theodore "American Tragedy, An" *
Dreiser, Theodore "Sister Carrie" *
Du Maurier, Daphne "Rebecca" *
Dumas, Alexandre "Three Musketeers, The" *
E Eliot, T. S. "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats" *
Ellison, Ralph "Invisible Man" *
Esquivel, Laura "Like Water for Chocolate" *
F Faulkner, William "Absalom, Absalom!" *
Faulkner, William "As I Lay Dying" *
Faulkner, William "Sound and the Fury, The" *
Fitzgerald, F. Scott "Great Gatsby, The" *
Forster, E. M. "Howards End" *
Forster, E. M. "Passage to India, A" *
Forster, E. M. "Room with a View, A" *
Frank, Anne "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" *
G Garcia Marquez, Gabriel "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" *
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel "Love in the Time of Cholera" *
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" *
Garfield, Leon "Black Jack" *
Garner, Alan "Owl Service, The" *
Garner, Alan "Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The" *
Gavin, Jamila "Coram Boy" *
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins "“Yellow Wallpaper, The”" *
Golding, William "Lord of the Flies" *
Grahame, Kenneth "Wind in the Willows, The" *
Graves, Robert "Siege and Fall of Troy, The" *
Greene, Graham "Power and the Glory, The" *
H Haggard, H. Rider "King Solomon’s Mines" *
Haley, Alex "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" *
Hardy, Thomas "Return of the Native, The" *
Hardy, Thomas "Tess of the D’Urbervilles" *
Hawthorne, Nathaniel "Scarlet Letter, The" *
Heller, Joseph "Catch-22" *
Hemingway, Ernest "Farewell to Arms, A" *
Hemingway, Ernest "“Killers, The”" *
Hemingway, Ernest "Old Man and the Sea, The" *
Hemingway, Ernest "“Snows of Kilimanjaro, The”" *
Hemingway, Ernest "Sun Also Rises, The" *
Herbert, Frank "Dune" *
Hinton, S. E. "Outsiders, The" *
Hudson, W. H. "Far Away and Long Ago" *
Hughes, Thomas "Tom Brown's Schooldays" *
Hugo, Victor "Les Misérables" *
Hurston, Zora Neale "Their Eyes Were Watching God" *
Huxley, Aldous "Brave New World" *
I Ishiguro, Kazuo "Remains of the Day, The" *
J James, Henry "Ambassadors, The" *
Joyce, James "Dubliners" *
Joyce, James "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A" *
K Kafka, Franz "Trial, The" *
Keller, Helen "Story of My Life, The" *
Kerouac, Jack "On the Road" *
Kesey, Ken "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" *
Kipling, Rudyard "Jungle Book, The" *
Kipling, Rudyard "Kim" *
L Le Guin, Ursula K. "Farthest Shore, The" *
Le Guin, Ursula K. "Wizard of Earthsea, A" *
Lee, Harper "To Kill a Mockingbird" *
Lewis, C. S. "Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The" *
Lindgren, Astrid Ericsson "Pippi Longstocking" *
Lofting, Hugh "Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The" *
London, Jack "Call of the Wild, The" *
London, Jack "White Fang" *
Lovecraft, H. P. "Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The" *
M Machiavelli, Niccolò "Prince, The" *
Magorian, Michelle "Goodnight Mister Tom" *
Malamud, Bernard "Assistant, The" *
Marlowe, Christopher "Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, The" *
Maupassant, Guy de "“Necklace, The”" *
McCullers, Carson "Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The" *
Melville, Herman "Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative" *
Melville, Herman "Moby-Dick" *
Mitchell, Margaret "Gone with the Wind" *
Montgomery, Lucy Maud "Anne of Green Gables" *
Morrison, Toni "Beloved" *
Morrison, Toni "Song of Solomon" *
O O'Connor, Flannery "“Good Man Is Hard to Find, A”" *
Oates, Joyce Carol "“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”" *
Orwell, George "Animal Farm"
Orwell, George "Nineteen Eighty-Four" *
P Paton, Alan "Cry, the Beloved Country" *
Paulsen, Gary "My Life in Dog Years" *
Perrault, Charles "Tales of Mother Goose" *
Pierce, Phillipa "Tom’s Midnight Garden" *
Plath, Sylvia "Bell Jar, The" *
Poe, Edgar Allan "“Fall of the House of Usher, The”" *
Poe, Edgar Allan "“Pit and the Pendulum, The”" *
Poe, Edgar Allan "“Raven, The”" *
Pullman, Philip "Northern Lights" *
Pullman, Philip "Ruby in the Smoke, The" *
R Remarque, Erich Maria "All Quiet on the Western Front" *
Rossetti, Christina "“Goblin Market”" *
Rowling, J. K. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone" *
S Saint-Exupery, Antoine de "Wind, Sand and Stars" *
Saki "“Open Window, The”" *
Salinger, J. D. "Catcher in the Rye, The"
Scott, Sir Walter "Ivanhoe" *
Serraillier, Ian "Silver Sword, The" *
Sewell, Anna "Black Beauty" *
Shelley, Mary "Frankenstein" *
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley "School for Scandal, The" *
Sherriff, R(obert) C(edric) "Journey’s End" *
Sinclair, Upton "Jungle, The" *
Singer, Isaac Bashevis "A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw" *
Snicket, Lemony (Pseudonym for Daniel Handler) "“Series of Unfortunate Events, A”" *
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" *
Spyri, Johanna "Heidi" *
Steinbeck, John "Grapes of Wrath, The" *
Steinbeck, John "Of Mice and Men" *
Steinbeck, John "The Pearl" *
Stevenson, Robert Louis "Kidnapped" *
Stevenson, Robert Louis "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The" *
Stevenson, Robert Louis "Treasure Island" *
Stoker, Bram "Dracula" *
Stowe, Harriet Beecher "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" *
Swift, Jonathan "Gulliver’s Travels" *
T Tan, Amy "Joy Luck Club, The" *
Thackeray, William "Vanity Fair" *
Thoreau, Henry David "Walden" *
Thurber, James "Thirteen Clocks, The" *
Tolkien, J. R. R. "Farmer Giles of Ham" *
Tolkien, J. R. R. "Hobbit, The" *
Tolkien, J. R. R. "Lord of the Rings, The"
Tolstoy, Leo "War and Peace" *
Twain, Mark "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The" *
Twain, Mark "Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The" *
Tyler, Anne "Breathing Lessons" *
U Updike, John "“A & P”" *
Updike, John "Rabbit, Run" *
V Verne, Jules "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" *
Virgil "Aeneid" *
Voltaire "Candide" *
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. "Slaughterhouse-Five" *
W Walker, Alice "Color Purple, The" *
Walsh, Jill Paton "Crossing to Salamis, The Walls of Athens, Persian Gold" *
Warren, Robert Penn "All the King’s Men" *
Waugh, Evelyn "Brideshead Revisited" *
Webster, John "Duchess of Malfi, The" *
Webster, John "White Devil, The" *
Wells, H. G. "Invisible Man, The" *
Wells, H. G. "Time Machine, The" *
Wells, H. G. "War of the Worlds, The" *
Westall, Robert (Atkinson) "“Aunt Florrie”" *
Westall, Robert (Atkinson) "Machine-Gunners, The" *
Wharton, Edith "Age of Innocence, The" *
Wharton, Edith "Ethan Frome" *
White, E. B. "Charlotte's Web" *
White, T. H. "Once and Future King, The" *
Wiesel, Elie "Night" *
Wilde, Oscar "“Canterville Ghost, The”" *
Wilde, Oscar "Picture of Dorian Gray, The" *
Woolf, Virginia "Mrs Dalloway" *
Woolf, Virginia "To the Lighthouse" *
Wright, Richard "Black Boy" *
Wright, Richard "Native Son" *
Wyss, Johann Rudolph "Swiss Family Robinson, The" *
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