Austen, Jane.
Pride
and prejudice.
Love and marriage loom large in this witty social commentary on the English
country gentry of Austen's day.
Bronte, Emily.
Wuthering
Heights.
A brooding, romantic tale of passion and revenge, which is set in nineteenth
century Yorkshire, England.
Buck, Pearl S.
The
good earth.
An honest farmer and his wife struggle to gain land and impart values to their
sons during the reign of China's last Emperor.
Card, Orson Scott.
Ender's
game.
Under alien attack, the world government has taken to breeding and training
military geniuses. Is Ender Wiggin smart enough to save the planet?
Cather, Willa.
My
Antonia.
Jim Burden relates the story of his lifelong friend Antonia Shimerda - a free
spirited immigrant pioneer on the Nebraska plains.
Crane, Stephen.
The
red badge of courage.
Defoe, Daniel.
Robinson
Crusoe.
Eighteenth century adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor's adventures marooned
on a desert island for 24 years.
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Dickens, Charles.
David
Copperfield.
The adventures of a young Victorian boy who runs away from his cruel stepfather
to live with his eccentric aunt in London.
Dostoyevsky, Fedor.
Crime
and punishment.
Feynman, Richard P.
"Surely
you're joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a curious character.
Nobel Prize winning physicist's anecdotal account of his quirky yet engrossing
experiences.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott.
The
Great Gatsby.
The mysterious past of wealthy party-thrower Jay Gatsby is the subject of
interest to the friends gathered at his home one 1920's summer.
Franklin, Benjamin.
Autobiography
of Benjamin Franklin.
An autobiographical account of Franklin's life.
Golding, William.
The
lord of the flies.
English schoolboys marooned on an uninhabited island test the values of
civilization when they attempt to set up their own society.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
The
scarlet letter.
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Homer.
The
odyssey.
Hughes, Langston.
Selected
poems of Langston Hughes.
Collection of poems chosen by the revolutionary black poet including works from
his entire career.
Joyce, James.
Dubliners.
A collection of stories about the lives of Dublin's poorer classes which reflect
moments of revelation common to all people.
Kingsolver, Barbara.
The
poisonwood Bible.
Epic tale beginning in 1959 when Nathan Price uproots his wife and four
daughters to become a missionary in Africa's politically turbulent Congo.
Lee, Harper.
To
kill a mockingbird.
Depicts life in Depression era small town Alabama as seen through the eyes of
eight year old "Scout" Finch. Scout's father, lawyer Atticus defends a black man
accused of raping a white woman.
Lewis, Sinclair.
Main
Street.
A young doctor's wife attempts to change the ugliness and ignorance which exist
in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.
London, Jack.
Call
of the wild.
Buck is a loyal pet dog until cruel men make him a pawn in their quest for
Klondike gold.
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Rand, Ayn.
Atlas
shrugged.
The story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did.
Salinger, J.D.
The
catcher in the rye.
A teenager drops out of private school to search for his identity and his
brother.
Sinclair, Upton.
The
jungle.
Explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the century within the meat packing
industry.
Steinbeck, John.
The
grapes of wrath.
A family of itinerant farmers travels to California during the Dust Bowl to seek
a more prosperous life.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle
Tom's cabin.
A story of slavery in the Old South, which awakened the nation to the realities
behind the slavery system.
Twain, Mark.
The
adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
A boy and a freed slave travel the Mississippi River trying to elude capture.
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