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| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart in The African Trilogy |
| Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | Purple Hibiscus |
| Aeschylus | The Oresteia |
| Aeschylus | The Eumenides |
| Albee, Edward | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf: A play |
| Allende, Isabel | The House of the Spirits |
| Allende, Isabel | La Casa de los Espiritus |
| Alvarez, Julia | In The Time of the Butterflies |
| Alvarez, Julia | En el tiempo de las mariposas: In The Time of the Butterflies |
| Anaya, Rudolfo A. | Bless Me, Ultima |
| Aristophanes | Lysistrata |
| Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson | The Dollmaker |
| Atwood, Margaret Eleanor | Alias Grace |
| Atwood, Margaret Eleanor | Cat's Eye |
| Atwood, Margaret Eleanor | Oryx And Crake |
| Atwood, Margaret Eleanor | Surfacing |
| Atwood, Margaret Eleanor | The Blind Assassin |
| Atwood, Margaret Eleanor | The Handmaid's Tale |
| Austen, Jane | Emma |
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park |
| Austen, Jane | Persuasion |
| Austen, Jane | Sense And Sensibility |
| Baldwin, James | The Fire Next Time |
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell It On The Mountain |
| Balzac, Honore de | Pere Goriot |
| Baraka, Amiri | Dutchman and the Slave |
| Bayard, Louis | Mr. Timothy: a novel |
| Beagle, Peter S. | The Last Unicorn |
| Beckett, Samuel | Waiting for Godot |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit cuatrocientos cincuenta y uno |
| Brecht, Berthold | Mother Courage and Her Children |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Bronte, Emily | Cumbres Borrascosas: Wuthering Heights |
| Camus, Albert | The Plague |
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger |
| Cao, Lan. | Monkey Bridge |
| Cather, Willa | Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia (Sound Recording) |
| Cather, Willa | O Pioneers |
| Cather, Willa | The Song Of The Lark |
| Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | Don Quixote |
| Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, the Seagull and Uncle Vanya |
| Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | El tio Vania / Jardin de los cerezos/ Uncle Vanya / The Cherry Orchard |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening and other stories |
| Clark, Walter Van Tilburg | The Ox-Bow Incident |
| Coelho, Paulo | The Alchemist |
| Coelho, Paulo | El Alquimista: Una Fabula Para Seguir Tus Suenos |
| Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim |
| Conrad, Joseph | The Secret Agent |
| Conrad, Joseph | Victory: an island tale |
| Cormier, Robert | The Chocolate War |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage, and Other Stories |
| Crane, Stephen | Maggie, a Girl of the Streets |
| Crane, Stephen | Large Print: The Red Badge Of Courage |
| Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy |
| Danticat, Edwidge | Breath, Eyes, Memory |
| Davidson, Robyn | Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback |
| Davies, Robertson | The Deptford Trilogy - Fifth Business |
| DeFoe, Daniel | Moll Flanders |
| DeFoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| DeFoe, Daniel | Aventuras De Robinson Crusoe |
| Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale Of Two Cities |
| Dickens, Charles | Bleak House |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations |
| Dickens, Charles | Hard Times in Three Complete Novels |
| Dickens, Charles | Our Mutual Friend |
| Didion, Joan | Salvador |
| Doctorow, E. L | Ragtime |
| Dorris, Michael | A Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Memorias del subsuelo |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Notes From the Underground |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | The Idiot |
| Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Three Short Novels Of Dostoevsky |
| Douglass, Frederick | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave |
| Dreiser, Theodore | An American Tragedy |
| Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie |
| Eliot, George | Middlemarch |
| Eliot, George | The Mill on the Floss |
| Eliot, George | Silas Marner: The Weaver Of Ravenloe |
| Eliot, T. S. | Murder In The Cathedral |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man |
| Emecheta, Buchi | The Joys of Motherhood |
| Erdrich, Louise | Love Medicine |
| Esquivel, Laura | Like Water for Chocolate |
| Esquivel, Laura | Como agua para chocolate: Like Water for Chocolate |
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying |
| Faulkner, William | Absalom, Absalom! |
| Faulkner, William | Light in August |
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and The Fury: The Corrected Text |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Tender Is the Night |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | El Gran Gatsby |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby (Sound Recording) |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close |
| Ford, Ford Madox | The Good Soldier |
| Forster, E. M. | Howards End, A Room With A View, Where Angels Fear To Tread |
| Forster, E. M. | A Passage to India |
| Fossey, Dian | Gorillas in the Mist |
| Fowles, John | The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| Frazier, Charles | Cold Mountain |
| Fuentes, Carlos | The Death of Artemio Cruz |
| Fuentes, Carlos | La muerte de Artemio Cruz |
| Gaines, Ernest J. | A Gathering Of Old Men |
| Gaines, Ernest J. | A Lesson Before Dying |
| Gaines, Ernest J. | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | One Hundred Years Of Solitude |
| Garcia, Cristina | Sonar En Cubano |
| Garcia, Cristina | Dreaming In Cuban |
| Gardner, John | Grendel |
| Glaspell, Susan | Trifles in Fifteen American One-Act Plays |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy |
| Golding, William | Lord Of The Flies |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies (Sound Recording) |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | The Mismeasure of Man |
| Grass, Gunter | The Tin Drum |
| Grass, Gunter | El Tambor de hojalata: The Tin Drum |
| Greene, Graham | Power and the Glory |
| Greene, Graham | The End of the Affair |
| Greene, Graham | The Quiet American |
| Guterson, David | Snow Falling On Cedars |
| Hansberry, Lorraine | A Raisin In The Sun |
| Hardy, Thomas | Jude the Obsure |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess Of The D'urbervilles |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The House Of The Seven Gables |
| Hegi, Ursula | Stones From The River |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 |
| Hellman, Lillian | The Little Foxes: Play in Three Acts |
| Hellman, Lillian | Scoundrel Time |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell To Arms (Sound Recording) |
| Hemingway, Ernest | For Whom The Bell Tolls |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Old Man And The Sea |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Sun Also Rises |
| Hesse, Hermann | Siddhartha |
| Homer | The Iliad |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Hwang, David Henry | M. Butterfly |
| Ibsen, Henrik | A Doll's House |
| Ibsen, Henrik | Hedda Gabler |
| Ibsen, Henrik | The Wild Duck |
| Irving, John | A Prayer for Owen Meany |
| Irving, John | Cider House Rules |
| Irving, John | The World According to Garp: a Novel |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | The Remains of the Day |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | Never Let Me Go |
| James, Henry | Daisy Miller in The Turn of the Screw and Other Plays |
| James, Henry | The Portrait of a lady |
| James, Henry | The Turn Of The Screw And Other Short Fiction |
| James, Henry | Washington Square |
| Jen, Gish | Typical American |
| Johnson, Angela | A Certain October |
| Johnson, James Weldon | The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man |
| Jonson, Ben | Volpone |
| Joyce, James | The Dead |
| Joyce, James | A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man |
| Kafka, Franz | The Trial |
| Kafka, Franz | The Metamorphosis |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | The Secret Life Of Bees |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Bean Trees |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Poisonwood Bible |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Animal Dreams |
| Kingston, Maxine Hong | The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Kogawa, Joy | Obasan |
| Krakauer, Jon | Into the Wild |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | The Namesake |
| Lee, Chang-Rae | A Gesture Life |
| Lee, Chang-Rae | Native Speaker |
| MacLeish, Archibald | J.B. |
| Margulies, Donald | Collected Stories |
| Marlowe, Christopher | Dr. Faustus |
| Marshall, Paule | Brown Girl, Brownstones |
| McCarthy, Cormac | All The Pretty Horses |
| McCarthy, Cormac | Cities Of The Plain |
| McCarthy, Cormac | The Crossing |
| McCourt, Frank | Angela's Ashes |
| McCullers, Carson | The Member Of The Wedding |
| McDowell, Robert | The Diviners |
| McEwan, Ian | Atonement: A Novel |
| Mead, Margaret | Blackberry Winter; My Earlier Years |
| Melville, Herman | Bartleby the Scrivener; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd |
| Melville, Herman | Moby-Dick |
| Miller, Arthur | Death Of A Salesman |
| Miller, Arthur | All My Sons |
| Millhauser, Steven | Martin Dressler |
| Milton, John | Paradise Lost |
| Mistry, Rohinton | A Fine Balance |
| Moliere, Jean-Baptiste | Tartuffe And Other Plays |
| Moliere, Jean-Baptiste | The Misanthrone |
| Momaday, N. Scott | House Made of Dawn |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved |
| Morrison, Toni | Song Of Solomon |
| Morrison, Toni | Sula |
| Morrison, Toni | The Bluest Eye |
| Mukherjee, Bharati | Jasmine |
| Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich | Pale Fire |
| Naylor, Gloria | Linden Hills |
| Naylor, Gloria | The Women of Brewster Street |
| Ng, Fae Myenne, | Bone |
| O'Brien, Tim | Going After Cacciato |
| O'Brien, Tim | In the Lake of the Woods |
| O'Brien, Tim | The Things They Carried |
| O'Connor, Flannery | Wise Blood |
| Okada, John | No-no Boy |
| O'Neill, Eugene | Ah, Wilderness! |
| O'Neill, Eugene | Desire Under the Elms |
| O'Neill, Eugene | Long Day's Journey into Night |
| Orwell, George | 1984 |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm |
| Orwell, George | Rebelion en la granja / Animal Farm |
| Orwell, George | Down and Out in Paris and London |
| Otsuka, Julie | When the Emperor Was Divine: |
| Ovid | Ovid's Metamorphoses |
| Pamuk, Orhan | Snow |
| Patchett, Ann | Bel Canto |
| Paton, Alan | Cry, The Beloved Country |
| Pielmeier, John | Agnes of God |
| Pinter, Harold | The Birthday Party |
| Pinter, Harold | The Caretaker |
| Pinter, Harold | The Homecoming |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar |
| Potok, Chaim | My Name Is Asher Lev |
| Potok, Chaim | The Chosen |
| Racine, Jean | Phedre |
| Rand, Ayn | Anthem |
| Rand, Ayn | Atlas Shrugged |
| Rand, Ayn | The Fountainhead |
| Ratner, Vaddey | In the Shadow of the Banyan |
| Rhys, Jean | Wide Sargasso Sea |
| Rodriguez, Richard | Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father |
| Roy, Arundhati | The God of Small Things |
| Salinger, Jerome David | The Catcher In The Rye |
| Saramago, Jose | Blindness |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul | No Exit And Three Other Plays |
| Scott, Sir Walter | Rob Roy |
| Scott, Sir Walter | Kenilworth |
| Scott, Walter | Ivanhoe: A Romance |
| See, Lisa | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
| Shaara, Michael | The Killer Angels (Large Print) |
| Shaffer, Peter, | Equus: a play |
| Shakespeare, William | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Shakespeare, William | Antony And Cleopatra |
| Shakespeare, William | As You Like It |
| Shakespeare, William | Henry VI Part I: William Shakespeare Collection |
| Shakespeare, William | Henry VI Part II: William Shakespeare Collection |
| Shakespeare, William | Henry VI Part III: William Shakespeare Collection |
| Shakespeare, William | Julius Caesar |
| Shakespeare, William | Merchant of Venice |
| Shakespeare, William | Othello |
| Shakespeare, William | The Tempest |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Major Barbara |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Man and Superman in Nine Plays |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Mrs. Warren's Profession |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Pygmalion |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Saint Joan |
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | Ceremony |
| Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle |
| Smiley, Jane | A Thousand Acres |
| Solzhenitsyn, Alexander | One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich |
| Sophocles | Oedpius |
| Sophocles | Antigone |
| Spark, Muriel | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| Steinbeck, John | East Of Eden |
| Steinbeck, John | Las Uvas De La Ira |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice And Men |
| Steinbeck, John | The Grapes Of Wrath |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula |
| Stoppard, Tom | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead |
| Strout, Elizabeth | The Burgess Boys |
| Styron, William | The Confessions Of Nat Turner |
| Styron, William | Sophie's Choice |
| Styron, William | Set the House on Fire |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels |
| Tan, Amy | The Bonesetter's Daughter |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace | Vanity Fair |
| Tolstoy, Leo | Anna Karenina |
| Tolstoy, Leo | The Death Of Ivan Ilyich |
| Tolstoy, Leo | War And Peace |
| Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim | March of Folly |
| Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim | The Guns Of August |
| Turgenev, Ivan | Fathers and Sons |
| Tyler, Anne | Noah's Compass |
| Tyler, Anne | Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant |
| Updike, John | The Centaur |
| Valdez, Luis. | Zoot Suit |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse-five: Five of the Children's Crusade |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Matadero cinco o La cruzada de los ninos / Slaughterhouse - Five of the Children's Crusade |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple |
| Warren, Robert Penn | All the King's Men |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Brideshead Revisited |
| Welch, James, | Winter in the Blood |
| Welty, Eudora | Complete novels: The Robber Bridegroom ; Delta Wedding ; The Ponder Heart ; Losing Battles ; The Optimist's Daughter |
| Wharton, Edith | Age of Innocence |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome |
| Wharton, Edith | The House Of Mirth |
| Whyte, David | American is in the Heart |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Wilder, Thornton | Our Town: A Play In Three Acts |
| Williams, Tennessee | A Streetcar Names Desire |
| Williams, Tennessee | The Glass Menagerie: a play |
| Wilson, Augusta Evans | Fences |
| Wilson, Augusta Evans | The Piano Lesson |
| Woolf, Virginia | Orlando |
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway |
| Woolf, Virginia | To the lighthouse |
| Wright, Richard | Black Boy |
| X, Malcolm | The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
| Zusak, Markus | The Book Thief |
| A Heart in a Body in the World | Caletti, Deb |
| Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot | Conkling, Winifred |
| I Have Lost My Way | Foreman, Gayle |
| How We Roll | Friend, Natasha |
| Everless | Holland, Sara |
| Darius the Great is Not Okay | Khorram, Adib |
| Hey, Kiddo | Krosoczka, Jarrett |
| Isle of Blood and Stone | Lucier, Makiia |
| A Very Large Expanse of Sea | Mafi, Tahereh |
| Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 | Marrin, Albert |
| Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam | Partridge, Elizabeth |
| After the Shot Drops | Ribay, Randy |
| Dry | Shusterman, Neal and Jarrod Shusterman |
| What the Night Sings | Stamper, Vesper |
| The Beauty That Remains | Woodfolk, Ashely |
| 2019 | The Hate U Give | Thomas, Angie |
| 2018 | The Female of the Species | McGinnis, Mindy |
| 2017 | Wolf by Wolf: Book 1 | Graudin, Ryan |
| 2016 | The 5th Wave | Yancy, Rick |
| 2015 | The Fault In Our Stars | Green, John C. |
| 2014 | Divergent: Book 1 | Roth, Veronica |
| 2013 | Clockwork Angel: The Infernal Devices | Clare, Cassandra |
| 2012 | Hate List | Brown, Jennifer |
| 2011 | The Hunger Games: Book 1 | Collins, Suzanne |
| 2010 | 13 Reasons Why | Asher, Jay. |
| 2009 | Runaway | Van Draanen, Wendelin |
| 2008 | The Lightning Thief | Riordan, Rick |
| 2007 | Red Kayak | Cummings, Priscilla |
| 2006 | Eragon | Paolini, Christopher |
| 2005 | The House Of The Scorpion | Farmer, Nancy |
| 2004 | The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants: Book 1 | Brashares, Ann |
| 2003 | Define "Normal" | Peters, Julie Anne |
| 2002 | Speak | Anderson, Laurie Halse |
| 2001 | Holes | Sachar, Louis |
| 2000 | I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust | Jackson, Livia Bitton |
| 1999 | Danger Zone | Klass, David |
| 1998 | Running Out Of Time | Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
| 1997 | Walk Two Moons | Creech, Sharon |
| 1996 | The Giver: Giver Quartet Book 1 | Lowry, Lois |
| 1995 | Flight 116 is Down | Cooney, Caroline B. |
| 1994 | What Daddy Did | Shusterman, Neal |
| 1993 | The Silver Kiss | Klause, Annette Curtis |
| 1992 | Appointment With A Stranger | Thesman, Jean |
| 1991 | A Sudden Silence | Bunting, Eve |
| 1990 | Hatchet | Paulsen, Gary |
| 1989 | The Other Side Of Dark | Smith, Sarah K. |
| 1988 | Abby My Love | Irwin, Hadley |