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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

The Crucible

Arthur Miller

The Things They Carried

Tim O’Brien

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

A Separate Peace

John Knowles

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

Anthem

Ayn Rand

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Native Son (abridged)

Richard Wright

My Antonia

Willa Cather

Narrative of the Life of

Frederick Douglass,

an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Hiroshima

John Hersey

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ken Kesey

Black Boy

Richard Wright

Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a

Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

Truman Capote

A Lesson Before Dying

Ernest J. Gaines

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

The Chosen

Chaim Potok

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

Walden and Other Writings

Henry David Thoreau

The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver

Billy Budd

Herman Melville