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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 |