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Acito, Marc – How I Paid for College

Adams, Richard – Watership Down

Aeschylus – The Oresteia

Albee, Edward – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Albom, Mitch – The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Alexie, Sherman – The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Alexie, Sherman – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Alighieri, Dante – Inferno

Allende, Isabel – The House of the Spirits

Alsaid, Adi – Somewhere Over the Sun

Anderson, Sherwood – Winesburg, Ohio

Anonymous – Egil’s Saga

Anonymous – Go Ask Alice

Appignanesi, Richard – Freud for Beginners

Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid’s Tale

Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice

Austen, Jane – Northanger Abbey

Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility

Austen, Jane – Lady Susan

Austen, Jane – The Watsons

Austen, Jane – Sanditon

Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park

Austen, Jane – Persuasion

Austen, Jane – Emma

Auster, Paul – Oracle Night

Axline, Virgina – Dibs In Search of Self

Baldwin, James – Giovanni’s Room

Banks, Ian – The Wasp Factory

Barnes, Julian – England, England

Barron, T.A. – The Lost Years of Merlin

Barron, T.A. – The Seven Songs of Merlin

Barron, T.A. – The Fires of Merlin

Barron, T.A. – The Wings of Merlin

Barth, John – Lost in the Funhouse

Baum, L. Frank – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot

Behrman, Andy – Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania

Bellow, Saul – The Adventures of Augie March

Bennet, Alan – The History Boys

Berman, Steve – Vintage: A Ghost Story

Birkegaard, Mikkel – The Library of Shadows

Bock, Charles – Beautiful Children

Bowen, Elizabeth – The House in Paris

Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451

Braff, Joshua – The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green

Bram, Christopher – Gods and Monsters (Father of Frankenstein)

Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights

Bronte, Anne – Agnes Grey

Brown, Dan – The Lost Symbol

Brown, Dan – Angels and Demons

Brown, Dan – The Da Vinci Code

Brown, Dan – Inferno

Boyle, T.C. – The Tortilla Curtain

Bukowski, Charles – Ham on Rye

Bukowski, Charles – Hot Water Music

Burd, Nick – The Vast Fields of Ordinary

Burgess, Anthony – Nothing Like the Sun

Burgess, Anthony – A Clockwork Orange

Burgess, Melvin – Nicholas Dane

Burroughs, Augusten – Running With Scissors

Burroughs, William S. – The Soft Machine

Burroughs, William S. – The Wild Boys

Burroughs, William S. – Naked Lunch

Burroughs, William S. – Junky

Burroughs, William S. – Queer

Burroughs, William S. – The Cat Inside

Burroughs, William S. – Nova Express

Burroughs, William S. – Exterminator!

Byatt, A.S. – Possession

Card, Orson Scott – Seventh Son

Card, Orson Scott – Shadow of the Hegemon

Card, Orson Scott – Shadow Puppets

Card, Orson Scott – Shadow of the Giant

Card, Orson Scott – Songmaster

Card, Orson Scott – Ender’s Shadow

Card, Orson Scott – Ender’s Game

Carey, Peter – Jack Maggs

Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Cather, Willa – A Lost Lady

Cather, Willa – O Pioneers!

Cervantes, Miguel – The Adventures of Don Quixote

Chbosky, Stephen – The Perks of Being Wallflower

Child, Lydia Maria Francis – Hobomok

Christie, Agatha – And Then There Were None

Chopin, Kate – The Awakening

Clare, Cassandra – City of Bones

Clare, Cassandra – City of Ashes

Clare, Cassandra – City of Glass

Cocteau, Jean – Le Livre Blanc

Collier, James Lincoln – My Brother Sam is Dead

Collins, Suzanne – The Hunger Games

Collins, Suzanne – Catching Fire

Collins, Suzanne – Mockingjay

Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness

Cooper, Dennis – Closer

Cooper, Dennis – The Dream Police

Cooper, Dennis – God Jr.

Cooper, Dennis – Guide

Cooper, Dennis – Idols

Cooper, Dennis – Jerk

Cooper, Dennis – My Loose Thread

Cooper, Dennis – Period

Cooper, Dennis – The Sluts

Cooper, Dennis – The Tenderness of the Wolves

Cooper, Dennis – Try

Cooper, Dennis – Ugly Man

Cooper, Dennis – Wrong

Cooper, Dennis – The Marbled Swarm

Cooper, Susan – Over Sea, Under Stone

Coover, Robert – Briar Rose

Cormier, Robert – I Am the Cheese

Cox, Daniel Allen – Krakow Melt

Cox, Michael – The Meaning of Night

Coyle, Cleo – On What Grounds

Culler, Johnathan – Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

DeFoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe

DeLillo, Don – White Noise

Diaz, Junot – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations*

Dickens, Charles – A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities

Dickens, Charles – The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist

Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield

Dickens, Charles – The Haunted House

Dickey, James – Deliverance

Didion, Joan –  Play It As It Lays

Dixon, K.B. – The Ingram Interview

Doctorow, E.L. – Homer & Langley

Doctorow, E.L. – Ragtime

Donahue, Keith – The Stolen Child

Donovan, John – I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip

Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Idiot

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – A Study in Scarlet

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – The Sign of Four

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Dreiser, Theodore – Sister Carrie

Duane, Diane – So You Want to be a Wizard

du Maurier, Daphne – Rebecca

DuPrau, Jeanne – The City of Ember

Eagleton, Terry – How to Read Literature

Ellis, Bret Easton – Glamorama

Ellis, Bret Easton – The Informers

Ellis, Bret Easton – The Rules of Attraction

Epstein, Alex – The Circle Cast

Erdrich, Louise – Tracks

Esquival, Laura – Like Water for Chocolate

Eugenides, Jeffery – Middlesex

Fante, John – Ask the Dust

Faulkner, William – Light in August

Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury

Faulkner, William – As I Lay Dying

Ferguson, Drew – The Screwed Up Life of Charlie the Second

Fern, Fanny – Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time

Fforde, Jasper – The Eyre Affair

Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Tender is the Night

Fitzgerald, F. Scott – This Side of Paradise

Fitzgerald, Zelda – Save Me the Waltz

Foer, Jonathan Safran – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Forbes, Esther – Johnny Tremain

Forster, E.M. – Maurice

Forster, E.M. – Aspects of the Novel

Frank, Anne – The Diary of A Young Girl

Frey, James – A Million Little Pieces

Fuller, Margaret – Woman in the 19th Century

Gaiman, Neil – Stardust

Gaskell, Elizabeth – Cranford

Genette, Gerard – Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method

Glaspell, Susan – Trifles

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang – The Sorrows of Young Werther

Golding, William – Lord of the Flies

Green, John – Looking for Alaska

Green, John – Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Green, John – The Fault in Our Stars

Greene, Graham – The Power and the Glory

Greene, Graham – The End of the Affair

Grimsley, Jim – Dream Boy

Grossman, Lev – The Magicians

Grossman, Lev – The Magician King

Gutting, Gary – Foucault: A Very Short Introduction

Haddon, Mark – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Hardy, Thomas – The Mayor of Casterbridge

Hardy, Thomas – Far from the Madding Crowd

Hartinger, Brent – Order of the Poison Oak

Hartinger, Brent – Geography Club

Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Blithedale Romance

Heim, Scott – Mysterious Skin

Heinlein, Robert A. – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Hemingway, Ernest – Old Man and the Sea

Hemingway, Ernest – Islands in the Stream

Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms

Hemingway, Ernest – For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hemingway, Ernest – The Sun Also Rises

Herman, Luc – Handbook of Narrative Analysis

Hesse, Hermann – Narcissus and Goldmund

Hesse, Hermann – Demian

Hesse, Hermann – Siddhartha

Hollinghurst, Alan – The Swimming-Pool Library

Hopkins, Ellen – Tricks

Howe, James – Totally Joe

Hughes, Langston – The Ways of White Folk

Hugo, Victor – Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor – Notre-Dame de Paris

Hurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God

Hyde, Catherine Ryan – Jumpstart the World

Islas, Arturo – Rain God

Irving, John – The World According to Garp

Irving, John – In One Person

Isherwood, Christopher – A Single Man

Jackson, Shirley – The Haunting of Hill House

James, Henry – The Bostonians

James, Henry – Daisy Miller

Jones, Diana Wynne – Howl’s Moving Castle

Jones, Shane – Light Boxes

Joyce, James – Ulysses

Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis

Kaplan, Morris B. – Sodom on the Thames

Kerouac, Jack – On the Road

Kesey, Ken – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

King, A.S. – Reality Boy

King, Stephen – The Gunslinger (Dark Tower #1)

King, Stephen – Joyland

King, Stephen – Doctor Sleep

King, Stephen – Salem’s Lot

Kladstrup, Kristin – The Book of Story Beginnings

Knowles, John – A Separate Peace

Koja, Kathe – Under the Poppy

Kramer, Richard – These Things Happen

Kundera, Milan – The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Lamott, Anne – Bird by Bird

Lawrence, Jerome – Inherit the Wind

L’Engle, Madeleine – A Wrinkle in Time

Land, Brad – Goat: A Memoir

Lee, Harper – To Kill A Mockingbird

Lee, Harper – Go Set a Watchman

Leitch, Vincent – Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

Leroy, J.T. – The Heart is Deceitful Above all Things

Leroy, J.T. – Sarah: A Novel

Leroy, J.T. – Harold’s End

Levithan, David – Boy Meets Boy

Levithan, David – Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Levithan, David – Every You, Every Me

Levithan, David – The Realm of Possibility

Levithan, David – Every Day

Levithan, David – Two Boys Kissing

Lin, Tao – Eeeee Eee Eeee

London, Jack – The Call of the Wild

Lovecraft, H.P. – At the Mountains of Madness

Lowell, Robert – Life Studies

Lowry, Lois – The Giver

Lyon, Annabel – The Golden Mean