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A Death in the Family by James Agee
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Emma by Jane Austen
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
A Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sandra Benitez
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
On the Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Neanderthal by John Darnton
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years by Sarah Louise Delany
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
For the Win by Cory Doctorow
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Good Poems by Garrison Keillor
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Sons of Liberty by Alexander Lagos
The Color of Water by James McBride
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
In My Father’s House by Ann Rinaldi
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda by Jean-Philippe Stassen
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Skim by Mariko Tamaki
Extreme Sports by Joe Tomlinson
Pride of Baghdad by Brian Vaughan
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
Fences by August Wilson
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
What It Is by Lynda Barry
All Souls’ Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
When the Legends Die by Hal Borland
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg by Rick Bragg
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Woman Hollering Creek, and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Juno Diaz
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
A Cup of Tea, A Novel of 1917 by Amy Ephron
Cover-up by John Feinstein
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Grendel by John Gardner
Two Parties, One Tux and a Very Short Film About the Grapes of Wrath by Steven Goldman
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Photographer: Into War Torn Afghanistan with Doctors without Borders by Emmanuel
Guibert
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Fiction Haddon
Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
The Big Sea: An Autobiography by Langston Hughes
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson
Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Madapple by Christina Meldrum
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
DC Noir by George Pelecanos
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
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The Wedding by Dorothy West
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade T. Bambara
Frida: Viva La Vida! Long Live Life! by Carmen Bernier-Grand
Kendra by Coe Booth
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Light in August by William Faulkner
When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography edited by Andrew Helfer
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood by June Jordan
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Color of Earth by Tong-hwa Kim
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Luna: A Novel by Julie Anne Peters
My Jim by Nancy Rawles
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
What I Was by Meg Rosoff
The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
The Good Negress by A.J. Verdelle
The Aeneid by Virgil
Black and White by Paul Volponi
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence by Geoffrey Canada
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
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Demo by Brian Wood
Monstrumologist by Richard Yancey
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Native Son by Richard Wright
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Push by Sapphire
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Passing by Nella Larsen
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
Drown by Junot Diaz
How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dreaming in Cuban Christina Garcia