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1 Novels for Students, Tables of Contents Volume 1 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Black Boy Richard Wright The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Frankenstein Mary Shelley The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Ordinary People Judith Guest Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Volume 2 The Chocolate War Robert Cormier Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Lord of the Flies William Golding My Antonia Willa Cather One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey A Separate Peace John Knowles Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Volume 3 Animal Farm George Orwell Annie John Jamaica Kincaid The Awakening Kate Chopin Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyesvky Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton Democracy Joan Didion Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons The Giver Lois Lowry Grendel John Gardner Obasan Joy Kogawa A Passage to India E. M. Forster Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Tess of the d'ubervilles Thomas Hardy

2 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris Volume 4 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko The Chosen Chaim Potok Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin Great Expectations Charles Dickens The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood In Country Bobbie Ann Mason Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte July's People Nadine Gordimer The Natural Bernard Malamud Night Eliezer Wiesel The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane Seize the Day Saul Bellow The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson The Women of Brewster Place Gloria Naylor Volume 5 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman Ernest J. Gaines The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver The Color Purple Alice Walker Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick Ender's Game Orson Scott Card Ethan Frome Edith Wharton Giants in the Earth O. E. Rölvaag How the García GirlsLost Their Accents Julia Alvarez Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel Love Medicine Louise Erdrich Les Misérables Victor Hugo One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez The Outsiders S. E. Hinton The Pearl John Steinbeck The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Volume 6 Beloved Toni Morrison Brave New World Aldous Huxley Gulliver s Travels Jonathan Swift The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers House of the Spirits Isabel Allende The Jungle Upton Sinclair

3 The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. LeGuin The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway One Day in the Live of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn Ragtime E. L. Doctorow Siddhartha Hermann Hesse The Stranger Albert Camus Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Uncle Tom s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston Volume 7 The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler Alice s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk Candide Voltaire Fried Green Tomatoes At the Whistlestop Cafe Fannie Flagg The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines Mama Day Gloria Naylor Moby-Dick Herman Melville Native Son Richard Wright Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce The Trial Franz Kafka Volume 8 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Call of the Wild Jack London Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Empire of the Sun J. G. Ballard The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien Kindred Octavia Butler Master and Marguerita Bulgakov The Old Gringo Fuentes On the Road Jack Kerouac Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser Song of Solomon Toni Morrison Ten Little Indians Agatha Christie Them Joyce Carol Oates To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

4 Volume 9 Always Coming Home Ursula Le Guin Billy Budd Herman Melville Deliverance James Dickey Fixer, The Bernard Malamud Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez Last of the Mohicans James FenimoreCooper Lolita Vladimir Nabokov On the Beach Nevil Shute Out of Africa Isak Dinesen Prince, The Niccolo Machiavelli Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Roots Alex Haley Ruby Fruit Jungle Rita Mae Brown Tex S. E. Hinton Volume 10 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Dead of the House Hannah Greene House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday Howard's End E. M. Forster Less than Zero Bret Easton Ellis The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver Return of the Native, The Thomas Hardy Shogun James Clavell Summer of My German Soldier Bette Green War and Peace Tolstoy Volume 11 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison Betsey Brown Ntozake Shange Body and Soul Frank Conroy Cane Jean Toomer The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel Crazy Horse Electric Game Chris Crutcher Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson The Grass Dancer Susan Power Less than Zero Bret Easton Ellis The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy A Room with a View E. M. Forster Stone Angel Margaret Laurence Watership Down Richard Adams

5 Volume 12 The Ambassadors Henry James Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya Bride Price Buchi Emecheta Edible Woman Margaret Atwood Little Women Louisa May Alcott Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf The Octopus Frank Norris Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski Peregrinos de Aztlan Miguel Mendez Rabbit, Run John Updike Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier The Slave Dancer Paula Fox Too Late the Phalarope Alan Paton The World According to Garp John Irving Volume 13 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Markandaya The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson Surfacing Margaret Eleanor Atwood The Sweet Hereafter Russell Banks Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum

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