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1 1001 Arabian Nights (social studies book) McCaughrean 9 The 47 Ronin (social studies book) Till 9 Animal Farm Orwell 9 Anthem Rand 9 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Gaines 9 Cold Sassy Tree Burns 9 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Haddon 9 Dance Hall of the Dead Hillerman 9 Death Be Not Proud Gunther 9 Ellen Foster Gibbons 9 Family Pa Chin 9 Fifth Chinese Daughter Wong 9 Girl with a Pearl Earring Chevalier 9 The Good Earth Buck 9 Great Expectations Dickens 9 Greek Gods and Heroes Graves 9 The Holocaust Years (social studies book) 9 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Greenberg 9 Jane Eyre Bronte 9 A Lesson Before Dying (9 West / 10 East) Gaines 9 The Martian Chronicles Bradbury 9 Master Harold and the Boys Fugard 9 The Member of the Wedding McCullers 9 The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare 9 My Children! My Africa! (social studies book) Fugard 9 My Darling, My Hamburger Zindel 9 Mythology Hamilton 9 The Odyssey Homer 9 The Pearl Steinbeck 9 The Prince (social studies book) Machiavelli 9 A Raisin in the Sun Hansberry 9 The Ramayana Valmiki 9 Re-told Classic Myths (two volumes) 9 Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare 9 Rumblefish Hinton 9 The Secret Life of Bees Kidd 9 A Separate Peace Knowles 9 Silas Marner Eliot 9 The Sound of Waves Mishima 9 Stranger Than Fiction Palahniuk 9 Sundiata 9 That Was Then, This Is Now Hinton 9 Three Comedies of American Life (I Remember Mama, Life with Father, You Can't Take It with You) Mersand (ed.) 9 To Kill a Mockingbird Lee 9 Tunnel in the Sky Heinlein 9 Waiting for the Rain Gordon 9 West Side Story Laurents 9 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Conan Doyle 10 The Aeneid Virgil 10 All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque 10 An Enemy of the People Ibsen 10 Antigone (see also Oedipus trilogy volume) Sophocles 10 Arrow of God Achebe 10 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Sijie 10 Childhood's End Clarke 10 The Chocolate War Cormier 10 The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas 10 Cry, the Beloved Country Paton 10 1

2 Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand 10 A Doll's House (see also Four Plays by Ibsen) Ibsen 10 Dove Graham 10 Early Autumn Parker 10 Epic of Gilgamesh Foster 10 Four Plays by Ibsen Ibsen 10 Friends Guy 10 The Garden and the Wilderness Lee 10 Harp of Burma Takeyama 10 Hiroshima Hersey 10 I Am the Cheese Cormier 10 I Heard the Owl Call My Name Craven 10 I Know What You Did Last Summer Duncan 10 The Iliad Homer 10 The Illustrated Man Bradbury 10 Inherit the Wind Lawrence and Lee 10 Jamaica Inn DuMaurier 10 The Joy Luck Club Tan 10 Julius Caesar Shakespeare 10 July's People Gordimer 10 The Jungle Sinclair 10 Les Miserables Hugo 10 A Lesson Before Dying (9 West / 10 East) Gaines 10 The Little World of Don Camillo Guareschi 10 Nectar in a Sieve Markandaya 10 No Longer at Ease Achebe 10 Obasan Kogawa 10 Oedipus at Colonus (see also Oedipus trilogy volume) Sophocles 10 Oedipus Rex (see also Oedipus trilogy volume) Sophocles 10 Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone Sophocles 10 Of Mice and Men (11 West / 10 East) Steinbeck 10 The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway 10 The Once and Future King White 10 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn 10 Ordinary People (10 West / 11 East) Guest 10 Othello Shakespeare 10 Player Piano Vonnegut 10 The Prisoner of Zenda Hope 10 Rebecca DuMaurier 10 The Scarlet Pimpernel Orczy 10 See Dave Run Everly 10 Shane Schaeffer 10 A Tale of Two Cities Dickens 10 The Temple and the Ruin Lee 10 The Bible 10 Things Fall Apart Achebe 10 Two Old Women (10 West / 11 East) Wallis 10 Wuthering Heights Bronte 10 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain 11 All My Sons Miller 11 The Andromeda Strain Crichton 11 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin 11 The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass Douglass 11 The Awakening and Other Stories Chopin 11 Babbitt Lewis 11 The Bean Trees (12 West/11 East) Kingsolver 11 Beloved (11 West/12 East) Morrison 11 Billy Budd Melville 11 Black Boy Wright 11 2

3 The Bluest Eye Morrison 11 Cannery Row Steinbeck 11 The Catcher in the Rye (11 West/12 East) Salinger 11 Classic Slave Narratives 11 Coming of Age in Mississippi Moody 11 The Crucible Miller 11 A Death in the Family Agee 11 Death of a Salesman Miller 11 The Edgar Allen Poe Reader Poe 11 Eighteen Best Stories by Poe Poe 11 Ethan Frome Wharton 11 Famous Plays of the 40's Hewes (ed.) 11 Fools Crow Welch 11 Four Classic American Novels 11 Giants in the Earth Rolvag 11 The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck 11 Great American Short Stories Demas (ed.) 11 The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald 11 Henderson, the Rain King Bellow 11 The House on Mango Street Cisneros 11 I Am the Darker Brother Adoff 11 In Dubious Battle Steinbeck 11 In Our Time Hemingway 11 In the Midst of Life Bierce 11 Invisible Man (11 West / 12 East) Ellison 11 Jurassic Park Crichton 11 The Long Valley Steinbeck 11 The Lost World Crichton 11 Love Medicine Erdrich 11 Maggie, Girl of the Streets Crane 11 Moby Dick Melville 11 Modern American Plays 11 My Antonia Cather 11 Native Son Wright 11 The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Lawrence 11 The O. Henry Reader Henry 11 Of Mice and Men (11 West / 10 East) Steinbeck 11 Ordinary People (10 West / 11 East) Guest 11 Our Town Wilder 11 The Piano Lesson Wilson 11 A Prayer for Owen Meany Irving 11 The Red Badge of Courage Crane 11 Representative Modern Plays 11 The Rise of Silas Lapham Howells 11 Running Loose Crutcher 11 The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne 11 Shoeless Joe Kinsella 11 Sister Carrie Dreiser 11 The Snows of Kilamanjaro and Other Stories Hemingway 11 A Streetcar Named Desire Williams 11 The Sun Also Rises Hemingway 11 Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston 11 Tracks Erdrich 11 Travels with Charley Steinbeck 11 Two Old Women (10 West / 11 East) Wallis 11 Typee Melville 11 Walden / Civil Disobedience Thoreau 11 Welcome to the Monkey House Vonnegut 11 White Fang London 11 3

4 Winesburg, Ohio Anderson Orwell 12 The Agony and the Ecstasy Stone 12 The Aleph (and other stories) Borges 12 Alice in Wonderland Carroll 12 The American Dream / The Zoo Story Albee 12 Anna Karenina Tolstoy 12 As You Like It Shakespeare 12 The Bean Trees Kingsolver 12 Becket Anouilh 12 Beloved (11 West/12 East) Morrison 12 Beowulf Wright 12 Brave New World Huxley 12 Break, Blow, Burn Paglia 12 The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky 12 Candide Voltaire 12 The Canterbury Tales Chaucer 12 Catch 22 Heller 12 The Catcher in the Rye (11 West/12 East) Salinger 12 Chronicle of a Death Foretold Marquez 12 The Cocktail Party Eliot 12 The Comedy of Errors Shakespeare 12 Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky 12 Daisy Miller James 12 The Death of Ivan Ilych Tolstoy 12 Demian Hesse 12 The Divine Comedy Alighieri 12 Doctor Zhivago Pasternak 12 Don Quixote Cervantes 12 Dr. Faustus Marlowe 12 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson 12 Dracula Stoker 12 Dubliners Joyce 12 The Elephant Man (novelization) Sparks 12 The Elephant Man (play) Pomerance 12 Elizabethan World Picture Tilliard 12 Everyman Roth 12 Farenheit 451 Bradbury 12 A Farewell to Arms Hemingway 12 The Fountainhead Rand 12 Four English Novels 12 Four European Plays 12 Frankenstein Shelley 12 Galileo Brecht 12 Go Down Moses (Used by some in 11) Faulkner 12 God Save the Child Parker 12 God's Bits of Wood Ousmane 12 The Great Train Robbery Crichton 12 Grendel Gardner 12 Gulliver's Travels Swift 12 Hamlet Shakespeare 12 Hard Times Dickens 12 Heart of Darkness Conrad 12 Heart of the Matter Greene 12 Henry IV Part I Shakespeare 12 Henry IV Part II Shakespeare 12 Henry V Shakespeare 12 How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Alvarez 12 Hunger of Memory Rodriguez 12 4

5 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou 12 I, Robot Asimov 12 The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde 12 In Cold Blood Capote 12 In the Penal Colony Kafka 12 The Inferno Dante 12 Interpreter of Maladies Lahiri 12 Invisible Man (11 West / 12 East) Ellison 12 Joseph Andrews Fielding 12 Jude the Obscure Hardy 12 King Lear Shakespeare 12 La Vita Nuova Dante 12 The Left Hand of Darkness LeGuin 12 Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Sillitoe 12 Look Back in Anger Osborne 12 Lord of the Flies Golding 12 Lost Horizon Hilton 12 Lucky Jim Amis 12 Macbeth Shakespeare 12 Madame Bovary Flaubert 12 Magic in the Web 12 A Man for All Seasons Bolt 12 The Mayor of Casterbridge Hardy 12 Measure for Measure Shakespeare 12 Memoirs Rodriguez 12 The Metamorphosis Kafka 12 Mortal Stakes Parker 12 Much Ado about Nothing Shakespeare 12 Murder in the Catherdral Eliot 12 My Fair Lady Lerner 12 The Natural Malamud 12 Nine Stories Salinger 12 On the Beach Chute 12 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kesey 12 Pebble in the Sky Asimov 12 The Physician in Spite of Himself Moliere 12 The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde 12 The Playboy of the Western World Synge 12 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce 12 Pride and Prejudice Austen 12 Pygmalion Shaw 12 The Razor's Edge Maugham 12 Richard II Shakespeare 12 Richard III Shakespeare 12 A Room of One's Own Woolf 12 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Stoppard 12 Saint Joan Shaw 12 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Townsend 12 Siddhartha Hesse 12 Sons and Lovers Lawrence 12 The Stranger Camus 12 Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein 12 The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare 12 The Tempest Shakespeare 12 Tess of the D'Ubervilles Hardy 12 To the Lighthouse Woolf 12 Turn of the Screw James 12 Twelfth Night Shakespeare 12 Waiting Jin 12 5

6 Waiting for Godot Beckett 12 Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys 12 The Woman Warrior Kingston 12 Youth Conrad 12 The Zoo Story Albee 12 Agee on Film Agee elective Ball Four Bouton elective Black Dog of Fate Balakian elective Giants of Baseball Gutman elective Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Kael elective Never to Forget Meltzer elective Night Weisel elective Out of Their League Meggyesy elective Pistol Pete Maravich elective Poetics Aristotle (trans. Cohen) elective A Season on the Brink Feinstein elective Arrowsmith Lewis unknown Bhagavad-gita Miller unknown Black Like Me Griffin unknown The Call of the Wild (and other stories) London unknown Collection of Essays Orwell unknown Dial M for Murder Knott unknown Fail Safe Burdick and Wheeler unknown Fathers and Sons Turgenev unknown The Glass Menagerie Williams unknown Gods, Demons, and Others Narayan unknown The Hobbit Tolkein unknown The Hundred Secret Senses Tan unknown Laura Caspary unknown Main Street Lewis unknown No Time for Sergeants Hyman unknown The Odd Couple Simon unknown A Passage to India Forster unknown Planet of the Apes Boulle unknown Religions of Man unknown Seven Famous Greek Plays Oates, O'Neill unknown Snow Country Kawabata unknown Something for Everyone Woods unknown Songs of India Subramanian unknown Stalag 17 Bevan unknown Three English Comedies unknown Three Plays by Wilder Wilder unknown Three Plays by O'Neill O'Neill unknown Through Indian Eyes Josephy (ed.) unknown The Time Machine Wells unknown The Ugly American Lederer and Burdick unknown Vintage Turgenev I Turgenev unknown Vintage Turgenev II Turgenev unknown The Visit Durrenmatt unknown Wanting Seed Burgess unknown War of the Worlds Wells unknown Wind, Sand, and Stars Saint-Exupery unknown Wisdom of the Serpent unknown 6

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