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Little Women Alcott
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
BATTLEFIELD EARTH L. Ron Hubbard
THE LORD OF THE RINGS J.R.R. Tolkien
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Harper Lee
1984 George Orwell
ANTHEM Ayn Rand
MISSION EARTH L. Ron Hubbard
FEAR L. Ron Hubbard
ULYSSES James Joyce
CATCH-22 Joseph Heller
THE GREAT GATSBY F. Scott Fitzgerald
DUNE Frank Herbert
THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS Robert Heinlein
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND Robert Heinlein
A TOWN LIKE ALICE Nevil Shute
BRAVE NEW WORLD Aldous Huxley
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE J.D. Salinger
ANIMAL FARM George Orwell
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW Thomas Pynchon
THE GRAPES OF WRATH John Steinbeck
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE Kurt Vonnegut
GONE WITH THE WIND Margaret Mitchell
LORD OF THE FLIES William Golding
SHANE Jack Schaefer
TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM Nevil Shute
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY John Irving
THE STAND Stephen King
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN John Fowles
BELOVED Toni Morrison
THE WORM OUROBOROS E.R. Eddison
THE SOUND AND THE FURY William Faulkner
LOLITA Vladimir Nabokov
MOONHEART Charles de Lint
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! William Faulkner
OF HUMAN BONDAGE W. Somerset Maugham
WISE BLOOD Flannery O'Connor
UNDER THE VOLCANO Malcolm Lowry
FIFTH BUSINESS Robertson Davies
SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING Charles de Lint
ON THE ROAD Jack Kerouac
HEART OF DARKNESS Joseph Conrad
YARROW Charles de Lint
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS H.P. Lovecraft
ONE LONELY NIGHT Mickey Spillane
MEMORY AND DREAM Charles de Lint
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Virginia Woolf
THE MOVIEGOER Walker Percy
TRADER Charles de Lint
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY Douglas Adams
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER Carson McCullers
. THE HANDMAID'S TALE Margaret Atwood
BLOOD MERIDIAN Cormac McCarthy
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Anthony Burgess
ON THE BEACH Nevil Shute
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN James Joyce
GREENMANTLE Charles de Lint
ENDER'S GAME Orson Scott Card
THE LITTLE COUNTRY Charles de Lint
THE RECOGNITIONS William Gaddis
STARSHIP TROOPERS Robert Heinlein
THE SUN ALSO RISES Ernest Hemingway
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP John Irving
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES Ray Bradbury
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE Shirley Jackson
AS I LAY DYING William Faulkner
TROPIC OF CANCER Henry Miller
INVISIBLE MAN Ralph Ellison
THE WOOD WIFE Terri Windling
THE MAGUS John Fowles
THE DOOR INTO SUMMER Robert Heinlein
ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE Robert Pirsig
I, CLAUDIUS Robert Graves
THE CALL OF THE WILD Jack London
AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS Flann O'Brien
FARENHEIT 451 Ray Bradbury
ARROWSMITH Sinclair Lewis
WATERSHIP DOWN Richard Adams
NAKED LUNCH William S. Burroughs
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER Tom Clancy
GUILTY PLEASURES Laurell K. Hamilton
THE PUPPET MASTERS Robert Heinlein
IT Stephen King
V. Thomas Pynchon
DOUBLE STAR Robert Heinlein
CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY Robert Heinlein
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED Evelyn Waugh
LIGHT IN AUGUST William Faulkner
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST Ken Kesey
A FAREWELL TO ARMS Ernest Hemingway
THE SHELTERING SKY Paul Bowles
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION Ken Kesey
MY ANTONIA Willa Cather
MULENGRO Charles de Lint
SUTTREE Cormac McCarthy
MYTHAGO WOOD Robert Holdstock
ILLUSIONS Richard Bach
THE CUNNING MAN Robertson Davies
THE SATANIC VERSES Salman Rushdie
THE JUNGLE Upton Sinclair
Divine Comedy, The Dante Alighieri
Candide Voltaire
Canterbury Tales, The Chaucer, Geoffrey
Waste Land, The Eliot, T[homas] S[tearns]
Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
Odyssey, The Homer
Aeneid, The Virgil
One Hundred Years of Solitude Garcia Marquez
Sherlock Holmes series of stories Doyle, Arthur Conan
Paradise Lost Milton, John
Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe
Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan
Don Quixote de la Mancha Cervantes
Iliad, The Homer
Finnegans Wake Joyce, James
Things Fall Apart Achebe
Waiting for Godot Beckett
Faust Goethe
Faerie Queen, The Spenser
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero Thackeray
Merry Wives of Windsor, The Shakespeare, William
Prince, The Machiavelli, Niccolo
Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky
Critique of Pure Reason Kant
Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan, John
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles
Leviathan Hobbes, Thomas
Anna Karenina Tolstoy
Rape of the Lock Pope
Frankenstein Shelley
Count of Monte Cristo, The Dumas, Alexandre
Tender is the Night Fitzgerald
Death in Venice Mann
Taming of the Shrew, The Shakespeare
Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte
Kubla Khan Coleridge
Madame Bovary Flaubert
Age of Innocence, The Wharton
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles
Republic, The Plato
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Carroll, Lewis
Robinson Crusoe Defoe
Study in Scarlet, A Doyle, Arthur Conan
Doll's House, A Ibsen
Jew of Malta, The Marlowe, Christopher
Strange Interlude O'Neill, Eugene
Bhagavad-Gita, The Vyasa
House of Mirth, The Wharton, Edith
Ode on a Grecian Urn Keats, John
Moby Dick, or, The Whale Melville, Herman
Leviathan Hobbes
The Republic Plato
Common Sense Paine
Principia Mathematica Newton
The Prince Machiavelli
The Social Contract Rosseau
An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Smith
J'Accuse Zola
The Elements Euclid
Coming of Age in Samoa Mead
The Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels
Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God Edwards
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money Keynes
Pragmatism James
Meditations Aurelius
On the Origin of Species Darwin
Ethics de Spinoza
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Weber
Apology Plato
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou
Utilitarianism Mill
Critique of Pure Reason Kant
Summa Theologica Aquinas
Cross of Gold (speech) Bryan
The American Crisis Paine
The Federalist Papers Hamilton, Madison, Jay
Novum Organum Bacon
Essay on Population Malthus
Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche
Phillipics Demosthenes
The Affluent Society Galbraith
Almagest Ptolemy
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Benedict
Crito Plato
Phaedo Plato
The Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn
The Myth of Sisyphus Camus
Reflections on the Revolution in France Burke
Patterns of Culture Benedict
Poetics Aristotle
A Dictionary of the English Language Johnson
The Spirit of the Laws Montesquieu
Walden Thoreau
The Interpretation of Dreams Freud
Symposium Plato
Discourse on Method Descartes
Profiles in Courage Kennedy
A Brief History of Time Hawking
The American Scholar Emerson
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Locke
The Tale of Genji Murasaki
The Decameron Boccaccio
The Canterbury Tales Chaucer
Le Morte D'Arthur Mallory
Utopia Moore
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Guanzhong
Gargantua and Pantagruel Rabelais
Don Quixote Cervantes
Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan
Robinson Crusoe Defoe
Gulliver's Travels Swift
Tom Jones Fielding
Candide Voltaire
The Sorrows of Young Werther Goethe
Sense and Sensibility Austen
Pride and Prejudice Austen
Emma Austen
Ivanhoe Scott
The Last of the Mohicans Cooper
The Red and the Black Stendhal
Eugene Onegin Pushkin
Oliver Twist Dickens
The Three Musketeers Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas
Agnes Gray Anne Bronte
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Vanity Fair Thackeray
The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne
Moby Dick Melville
Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe
Twelve Years A Slave Northup
Madame Bovary -Flaubert
A Tale of Two Cities Dickens
Great Expectations Dickens
Fathers and Sons Turgenev
Les Miserables Hugo
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll
Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky
War and Peace Tolstoy
Little Women Alcott
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Verne
Middlemarch Eliot
Black Beauty Sewell
Daisy Miller James
Anna Karenina Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky
Through the Looking Glass Carroll
Treasure Island Stevenson
The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde
Tess of the D'Ubervilles Hardy
Jude the Obscure Hardy
The Red Badge of Courage Crane
The Time Machine Wells
THE Invisible Man Wells
Dracula Stoker
The Turn of the Screw James
The Awakening Chopin
Heart of Darkness Conrad
The Ambassadors James
The Call of the Wild London
The Jungle Sinclair
The Devil's Dictionary Bierce
The Wind in the Willows Grahame
Anne of the Green Gables Montgomery
Ethan Frome Wharton
The Secret Garden Burnett
Peter Pan Barrie
Death in Venice Mann
In Search of Lost Time Proust
A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man Joyce
My Antonia Cather
Main Street Lewis
The Age of Innocence Wharton
Ulysses Joyce
Siddhartha Hesse
A Passage to India Forster
An American Tragedy Dreiser
Mrs. Dalloway Woolf
The Trial Kafka
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway
Winnie the Pooh Milne
Steppenwolf Hesse
To the Lighthouse Woolf
Lady Chatterley's Lover Lawrence
The Maltese Falcon Hammett
The Sound and the Fury Faulkner
All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque
As I Lay Dying Faulkner
The Good Earth Buck
Brave New World Huxley
Tortilla Flat Steinbeck
Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner
Gone with the Wind Mitchell
Out of Africa Dinesen
Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston
Rebecca du Maurier
Nausea Sartre
Finnegan's Wake Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck
The Big Sleep Chandler
For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers
The Screwtape Letters Lewis
The Stranger Camus
The Little Prince Saint-Exupery
Brideshead Revisited Waugh
All the King's Men Warren
The Naked and the Dead Mailer
Snow Country Kawabata
Cry, the Beloved Country Paton
I, Robot Asimov
The Natural Malamud
Seven Years in Tibet Harrer
Charlotte's Web White
Go Tell It On A Mountain Baldwin
The Adventures of Augie March Bellow
Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury
Lord of the Flies Golding
Lolita Nabokov
The Cairo Trilogy Mahfouz
Atlas Shrugged Rand
Doctor Zhivago Pasternak
On the Road Kerouac
Breakfast at Tiffany's Capote
Things Fall Apart Achebe
The Once and Future Kings White
The Tin Drum Grass
Rabbit, Run Updike
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee
A House for Mr. Biswas Naipaul
Catch-22 Heller
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn
A Clockwork Orange Burgess
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kesey
Silent Spring Carson
A Wrinkle in Time L'Engle
Cat's Cradle Vonnegut
The Book of Three Alexander
The Crying Lot of 49 Pynchon
In Cold Blood Capote
Dune Herbert
The Outsiders Hinton
The Master and Margarita Bulgakov
One Hundred Years of Solitude Garcia Marquez
Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut
Watership Down Adams
The Princess Bride Goldman
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon
Humboldt's Gift Bellow
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Vargas Llosa
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler Calvino
The Executioner's Song Mailer
The Name of the Rose Eco
July's People Gordimer
Midnight's Children Rushdie
The House of the Spirits Allende
The Color Purple Walker
The Life and Times of Michael K Coetzee
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera
Love in the Time of Cholera Garcia Marquez
Lonesome Dove McMurty
Ender's Game Card
The Handmaid's Tale Atwood
Hatchet Paulsen
Beloved Morrison
The Satanic Verses Rushdie
The Joy Luck Club Tan
All the Pretty Horses McCarthy
The Giver Lowry
Walk Two Moons Creech
The Life of Pi Martel
Ready Player One Cline
The Kite Runner Hosseini
The Da Vinci Code Brown
The Book Thief Zusak
The Help Stockett
The Martian Weir
The Hunger Games Collins
The Goldfinch Tartt
Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe
Carrie Stephen King
The Gilded Age Mark Twain
Typee Herman Melville
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Babbit Sinclair Lewis
Hope is the Thing with Feathers Emily Dickinson
My Antonia Willa Cather
Dune Frank Herbert
The Firm John Grisham
The Golden Bowl Henry James
Long Day's Journey into Night Eugene O'Neill
Hyperion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
The Jungle Upton Sinclair
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
The Past through Tomorrow Robert Heinlein
Twice-told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Edgar Allen Poe
White Fang Jack London
Walden Two B.F. Skinner
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams
Ragtime E.L. Doctorow
The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin
The Devil and Daniel Webster Stephen Vincent Benet
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty
Timeline Michael Crichton
Is Sex Necessary? James Thurber
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
Jumanji Chris Van Allsburg
The Author To Her Book Anne Bradstreet
The Last Picture Show Larry McMurty
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Tales of the South Pacific James Michener
Patriot Games Tom Clancy
The Northstar Frederick Douglass
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Stephen Crane
Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
Mending Wall Robert Frost
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Rabbit Run John Updike
The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
O Captain, My Captain Walt Whitman
The Harp Weaver and other Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay
Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allen Poe
Charlotte’s Web E.B. White
Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter
Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes
Rumblefish S.E. Hinton
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Judy Blume
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beloved Toni Morrison
Snowbound John Greenleaf Whittier
Howl Alan Ginsberg
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Jonathan Edwards
Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allen Poe
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry
A Scanner Darkly? Philip K. Dick
Common Sense Thomas Paine
Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris
The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
The Wreck of the Hesperus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our Town Thornton Wilder
A Street Car Named Desire Tennessee Williams
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordhoff
The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach
The Life You Save May Be Your Own Flannery O’Connor
Baby and Child Care Dr. Benjamin Spock
Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson
Looking Backward Edward Bellamy
Salem’s Lot Stephen King
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
The Night of the Iguana Tennessee Williams
Unsafe at Any Speed Ralph Nadar
Dragon Seed Pearl S. Buck
On the Road Jack Kerouac
Omoo Herman Melville
Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis
A Light in August William Faulkner
The Secret Garden Frances Burnett
The Virginian Owen Wister
A Separate Peace John Knowles
Sophie’s Choice William Styron
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
The Red Pony John Steinbeck
The Rights of Man Thomas Paine
Trees and Other Poems Joyce Kilmer
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
Ariel Sylvia Plath
The Iceman Cometh Eugene O’Neill
The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe
The Skin of our Teeth Thornton Wilder
The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe
The World According to Garp John Irving
Rappaccini’s Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Snows of Kilimanjaro Ernest Hemingway
The Lorax Dr. Seuss
A Day No Pigs Would Die Robert Peck
The Full Monty Terrance McNally
Main Street Sinclair Lewis
Song of Myself Walt Whitman
The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe
Hawaii James Michener
The Courtship of Miles Standish Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurty
Myra Breckinridge Gore Vidal
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Roots Alex Haley
The Winds of War Herman Wouk
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Profiles in Courage J.F.K.
The Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer
The Outcasts of Poker Flats . Bret Harte
The Gold Bug Edgar Allen Poe
Native Son Richard Wright
The Natural Bernard Malamud
Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Edward Albee
Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain
The Raven Edgar Allen Poe
The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
Coming of Age in Samoa Margaret Mead
A Death in the Family James Agee
The Hunt For Red October Tom Clancy
The Postman Always Rings Twice James Cain
The Birds of America John James Audubon
The Negro W.E.B. Du Bois
The Shining Stephen King
Prince of Tides Pat Conroy
The Long Good-Bye Raymond Chandler
The Deep Peter Benchley
Jo’s Boys Louisa May Alcott
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
Minority Report? Philip K. Dick
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway
Wineburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson
A Visit from St. Nicholas Clement Moore
The Village Blacksmith Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
A Bell for Adano John Hersey
A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes
The Purloined Letter Edgar Allen Poe
Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Burnett
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Frank L. Baum
Deliverance James Dickey
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
The Chambered Nautilus Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
I, Robot Isaac Asimov
A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O’Connor
Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain
Mourning Becomes Electra Eugene O’Neill
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
U.S.A. Trilogy John Dos Passos
The Sea Wolf Jack London
The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Player Piano Kurt Vonnegut
Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes
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