The following comprises the reading list for Liberty Christian High School students. While, of course, we cannot endorse every concept of every book, we do believe that these are among the books to choose in order to be widely read. Many can be found in the school library.
Book Title Author Type
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A Death In The Family |
Agee, James |
American Literature |
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Windsor Castle |
Ainsworth, William
Harrison |
British Literature |
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A Lantern in Her Hand |
Aldrich, Bess Streeter |
American Literature |
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Spring Came on Forever
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Speak |
Anderson, Laurie Halse |
American Literature |
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Poor White |
Anderson, Sherwood |
American |
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Literature |
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The Heart of a Woman |
Angelou, Maya |
American |
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I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings |
Literature |
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Any |
Austen, Jane |
British Literature |
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Go Tell it on the
Mountain |
Baldwin, James |
American |
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Literature |
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Eugenie Grandet |
Balzac, Honore de |
World Literature |
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The Magic Skin |
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Pere Goriot |
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The Lilies of the
Field |
Barrett, William
Edmund |
American Literature |
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Waiting For Godot |
Beckett, Samuel |
World Literature |
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Devil's Dictionary |
Bierce, Ambrose |
American |
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The Monk and the
Hangman's Daughter |
Literature |
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Lorna Doone |
Blackmore, R.D. |
British Literature |
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A Man for All Seasons |
Bolt, Robert |
British Literature |
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When the Legends Die |
Borland, Hal |
American Literature |
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Bradbury, Ray |
American Literature |
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Fahrenheit 451 |
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The Mirror of Kong Ho |
Bramah, Ernest |
British Literature |
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The Wallet of Kai Lung
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Agnes Grey |
Bronte,Ann |
British |
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The Tenant of Wildfell
Hall |
Literature |
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Jane Eyre |
Bronte, Charlotte |
British |
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The Professor |
Literature |
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Shirley |
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Villette |
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The Good Earth |
Buck, Pearl S. |
American Literature |
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Mandala |
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This Proud Heart |
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The Fall |
Camus, Albert |
World Literature |
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The Plague |
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The Stranger |
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Alexander's Bridge |
Cather, Willa |
American |
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My Antonia |
Literature |
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One of Ours |
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O Pioneers! |
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Song of the Lark |
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Don Quixote de la
Mancha |
Cervantes, Miguel |
World Literature |
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The Canterbury Tales |
Chaucer, Geoffrey |
British |
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Literature |
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The Ball and The Cross |
Chesterton, G. K. |
British Literature |
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The Club of Queer
Trades |
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The Innocence of
Father Brown |
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Manalive |
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The Man Who Knew Too
Much |
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The Man Who Was
Thursday |
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The Trees of Pride |
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The Wisdom of Father
Brown |
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The Awakening |
Chopin, Kate |
American |
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Literature |
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Childhoods End The Other Side of the
Sky 2001: A Space Odyssey |
Clark, Sir Arthur C. |
British Literature |
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Heart of Darkness |
Conrad, Joseph |
British |
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Lord Jim |
Literature |
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The Secret Sharer |
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Victory |
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Captain Cook's
Explorations |
Cook, James |
British Literature |
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The Deerslayer |
Cooper, James Fenimore
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American Literature |
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Last of the Mohicans |
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The Pilot |
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The Red Badge of
Courage |
Crane, Stephen |
American |
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Literature |
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Two Years Before the Mast |
Dana, Richard Henry |
American |
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Literature |
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The Divine Comedy |
Dante |
World Literature |
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Inferno |
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Moll Flanders |
Defoe, Daniel |
British |
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Robinson Crusoe |
Literature |
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Any except Great
Expecta. |
Dickens, Charles |
British Literature |
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Out of Africa |
Isak Dinesen |
World Literature |
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The Brothers Karamazov |
Dostoevsky , Fyodor |
World Literature |
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Crime and Punishment |
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The Idiot |
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Notes from Underground
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Travels in Arabian
Deserts |
Doughty, Charles |
British Literature |
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An American Tragedy |
Dreiser, Theodore |
American |
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Sir Gawain and the
Green Night |
Literature |
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Sister Carrie |
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Count of Monte Cristo |
Dumas, Alexander |
World Literature |
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The Man in the Iron
Mask |
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The Queen's Necklace |
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Taking of the Bastille
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Adam Bede |
Eliot, George |
British Literature |
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Brother Jacob |
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The Lifted Veil |
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Invisible Man |
Ellison, Ralph |
American Literature |
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The Edge of Time |
Erdman, Loula Grace |
American Literature |
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Absolam! Absolam! |
Faulkner, William |
American |
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As I Lay Dying |
Literature |
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Light in August |
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The Sound of the Fury |
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Cimarron |
Ferber, Edna |
American Literature |
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Showboat |
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Fitzgerald , F. Scott |
American |
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The Last Tycoon |
Literature |
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Tender is the Night |
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Madame Bovary |
Flaubert, Gustave |
World Literature |
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A Passage to India |
Forster, E.M. |
Bristish Literature |
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Cold Comfort Farm |
Gibbons, Stella |
British Literature |
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The Sorrows of Young
Werther |
Goethe, Johann |
World Literature |
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Wilheim Meister |
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Dead Souls |
Gogol, Nikolai |
World Literature |
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Taras Bulba |
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Don Juan |
Gordon, George Lord Byron |
British |
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Literature |
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The Flounder |
Gras, Gunter |
World Literature |
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The Tin Drum |
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Graves, Robert |
I, Claudius |
British Literature |
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Looking for Alaska |
Green, John |
American Literature |
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The Power and the Glory |
Greene, Graham |
British Literature |
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I Never Promised You a
Rose Garden |
Greene, Hannah |
American Literature |
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Black Like Me |
Griffin, John |
American Literature |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-time |
Haddon, Mark |
British Literature |
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Any |
Hardy, Thomas |
British Literature |
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The House of the Seven
Gables |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
American |
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Literature |
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Catch-22 |
Heller, Joseph |
American Literature |
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Any except Old Man and
the Sea |
Hemingway, Ernest |
American Literature |
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All Creatures Great
and Small |
Herriot, James |
British |
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All Things Bright and
Beautiful |
Literature |
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All Things Wise and
Wonderful |
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Two From Galilee |
Holmes, Marjorie |
American Literature |
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The Iliad |
Homer |
British |
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The Odyssey |
Literature |
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A Modern Instance |
Howells, William Dean |
American |
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The Rise of Silas
Lapham |
Literature |
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The Hunchback of Notre
Dame |
Hugo, Victor |
World Literature |
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Les Miserables |
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Ninety-Three |
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Toilers of the Sea |
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Up a Road Slowly |
Hunt, Irene |
American Literature |
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Brave New World |
Huxley, Aldous |
British Literature |
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Point Counter Point |
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The Flame Trees of
Thika |
Huxley, Elspeth |
World Literature |
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The Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse |
Ibanez, V.B |
World Literature |
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Ramona |
Jackson, Helen Hunt |
American Literature |
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The Altar of the Dead |
James, Henry |
American |
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The Ambassadors |
Literature |
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The American |
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The Aspern Papers |
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Daisy Miller |
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Pandora |
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Portrait of a Lady |
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The Turn of the Screw |
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Washington Square |
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What Maisie Knew |
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Wings of the Dove |
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Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man |
Joyce, James |
World Literature |
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Ulysses |
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Kira-Kira |
Kadohata, Cynthia |
American Literature |
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America |
Kafka, Franz |
World Literature |
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The Castle |
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Metamorphosis |
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The Trial |
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One Flew Over The
Cuckoo's Nest |
Kesey, Ken |
American |
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Literature |
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In the Hall of the
Dragon King |
Lawhead, Stephen R. |
American Literature |
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Lady Chatterley's
Lover |
Lawrence, David H. |
British Literature |
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The Rainbow |
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Sons and Lovers |
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Women in Love |
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Inherit the Wind |
Lawrence, Jerome |
American Literature |
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Russia House |
LeCarre, John |
British Literature |
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The Spy Who Came in
from the Cold |
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My Fair Lady |
Lerner, Alan Jay |
British |
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Literature |
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Phantom of the Opera |
Leroux, Gaston |
World Literature |
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The Monk |
Lewis, Matthew |
British Literature |
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Out of the Silent
Planet |
Lewis. C.S. |
World Literature |
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Perelandra |
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That Hideous Strength |
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Till We Have Faces 4
Loves Screwtape Letters |
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How Green Was My
Valley |
Llewellyn, Richard |
British Literature |
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The Great God Plan |
Machen, Arthur |
British Literature |
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At the Back of the
North Wind |
MacDonald, George |
Brititsh Literature |
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The Fixer |
Malamud, Bernard |
American |
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Literature |
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Joseph and His
Brothers |
Mann, Thomas |
World Literature |
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Doctor Faustus |
Marlowe, Christopher |
British Literature |
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Of Human Bondage |
Maugham, W. Somerset |
British Literature |
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The Razor's Edge |
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The Heart is a Lonely
Hunter |
McCullers, Carson |
American Literature |
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Casuals of the Sea |
McFee, William |
British Literature |
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Benito Cerino |
Melville, Herman |
American |
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Billy Budd |
Literature |
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Moby Dick |
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Omoo |
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Typee |
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White Jacket |
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Hawaii |
Michener, James |
American Literature |
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Miller, Arthur |
American |
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Death of a Salesman |
Literature |
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Paradise Lost |
Milton, John |
British |
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Literature |
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Hugh Wynne |
Mitchell, Silas |
American Literature |
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Utopia |
Moore, Sir Thomas |
British Literature |
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Beloved |
Morrison, Toni |
American |
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The Bluest Eye |
Literature |
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Never Cry Wolf |
Mowat, Farley |
World Literature |
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Mutiny on the Bounty |
Nordhoff, Charles |
British Literature |
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A Long Days' Journey
Into Night |
O'Neill, Eugene |
American Literature |
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Animal Farm |
Orwell, George |
British |
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1984 |
Literature |
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Crisis |
Paine, Thomas |
American Literature |
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Doctor Zhivago |
Pasternak, Boris |
World Literature |
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Cry, the Beloved
Country |
Patan, Alan |
World Literature |
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The Oath |
Peretti, Frank |
American Literature |
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Piercing the Darkness |
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Prophet |
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This Present Darkness |
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The Visitation |
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Stonewyke Legacy |
Phillips, Michael
& Pella, Judith |
American Literature |
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The Boy Who Could Make
Himself Disappear |
Plait |
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The Promise |
Potok, Chaim |
American Literature |
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Beloved Invader |
Price, Eugenia |
American Literature |
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Lighthouse |
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Maria |
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New Moon Risign |
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Anthem |
Rand, Ayn |
American Literature |
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Atlas Shrugged |
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The Fountainhead |
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We, the Living |
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All's Quiet on the
Western Front |
Remarque, Erich Maria |
World Literature |
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Shadows in Paradise |
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The Sea of Grass |
Richter, Conrad |
American Literature |
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Cyrano de Bergerac |
Rostand, Edmond |
World Literature |
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Ivanhoe |
Scott, Sir Walter |
British |
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Rob Roy |
Literature |
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The Talisman |
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Any except Romeo &
Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet |
Shakespeare, William |
British Literature |
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Pygmalion |
Shaw, George Bernard |
British |
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Literature |
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In His Steps |
Sheldon, Charles |
American Literature |
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Light on Snow |
Shreve, Anita |
American Literature |
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On the Beach |
Shute, Nevile |
British Literature |
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Quo Vadis |
Sienkiewicz, Henry |
World Literature |
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The Jungle |
Sinclair, Upton |
American Literature |
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Enemies, A Love Story |
Singer, Issac B. |
American Literature |
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The Family Moskat |
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A Tree Grows in
Brooklyn |
Smith, Betty |
American Literature |
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I Capture the Castle |
Smith, Dodie |
British Literature |
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Cancer Ward |
Solzhenitsyn,
Alexander |
World Literature |
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One Day in the Life of
Ivan Denisovich |
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Miriam |
Somerfelt, Aimee |
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Sophocles |
World Literature |
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Oedipus the King |
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Fiddler on the Roof |
Stein, Joseph |
American |
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Literature |
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Any except Red Pony
& Pearl |
Steinbeck, John |
American Literature |
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The Red and the Black |
Stendhal, Marie-Henri
Beyle |
World Literature |
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The Great War
Syndicate |
Stockton, Frank |
American Literature |
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Dracula |
Stoker, Bram |
World Literature |
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The Jewel of Seven
Stars |
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The Lady of the Shroud |
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The Lair of the White
Worm |
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The Man |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
American Literature |
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Joy Luck Club |
Tan, Amy |
American Literature |
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Kitchen God's Wife |
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Idylls of the King |
Tennyson, Alfred Lord |
British |
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Literature |
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The Daughter of Time |
Tey, Josephine |
British Literature |
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The Franchise Affair |
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Vanity Fair |
Thackeray, William W. |
British Literature |
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On Walden Pond |
Thoreau, Henry David |
American |
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Literature |
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The Hobbit Fellowship of the Ring |
Tolkien, J.R.R. |
British |
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The Two Towers |
Literature |
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The Return of the King
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Anna Karenina |
Tolstoy, Leo |
World Literature |
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Death of Ivan Ilyitch |
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My Confessions |
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Resurrection |
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Sevastopol Sketches |
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War and Peace |
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Any except Prince and
Pauper or Huck Finn |
Twain, Mark |
American Literature |
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Fathers and Sons |
Turgenev, Ivan |
World Literature |
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Brazil |
Updike, John |
American |
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The Centaur |
Literature |
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Couples |
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Gertrude and Claudius |
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A Month of Sundays |
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The Poorhouse Fair |
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Exodus |
Uris, Leon |
American Literature |
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Trinity |
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Candide |
Voltaire |
World Literature |
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The Color Purple |
Walker, Alice |
American |
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Literature |
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Ben Hur |
Wallace, Lew |
American |
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Literature |
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Day of Infamy |
Walter |
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All the King's Men |
Warren, Robert Penn |
American Literature |
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Up From Slavery |
Washington, Booker T. |
American Literature |
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War of the Worlds |
Wells, H. G. (George) |
British Literature |
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Delta Wedding |
Welty, Eudora |
American |
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Literature |
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Friendly Persuasion |
West, Jessamyn |
American Literature |
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The Age of Innocence |
Wharton, Edith |
American Literature |
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House of Mirth |
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The Old Maid |
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The Once and Future
king |
White, T.H. |
British Literature |
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The Importance of
Being Ernest |
Wilde, Oscar |
American |
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The Picture of Dorian
Gray |
Literature |
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The Glass Menagerie |
Williams, Tennessee |
American |
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Literature |
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Any |
Woolf, Virginia |
British Literature |
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The Book Thief |
Zusak, Markus |
American Literature |
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Getting the Girl |
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I Am the Messenger |