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The Aeneid / Virgil
The Age of Innocence / Edith Wharton

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll
All Creatures Great and Small / James  Herriot
Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables / L.M. Montgomery
The Arabian Nights / Anonymous
Are You There, God?  It’s Me, Margaret / Judy Blume
Around the World in 80 Days / Jules Verne
The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Alex Haley
A Bear Called Paddington / Michael Bond
Because of Winn-Dixie / Kate DiCamillo
Beloved / Toni Morrison
Beowulf / Anonymous
Black Beauty / Anna Sewell
The Black Stallion / Walter Farley
The Book of Three / Lloyd Alexander
The Boxcar Children / Gertrude Chandler Warner
Brave New World / Aldous Huxley
A Brief History of Time / Stephen Hawking
The Brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Bud, Not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis
The Call of the Wild / Jack London
Candide / Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web / E.B. White
A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens
The Color Purple / Alice Walker
The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter / Beatrix Potter
The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh / A.A. Milne
A Confederacy of Dunces / John Kennedy Toole
Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Crucible / Arthur Miller
D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths / Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
David Copperfield / Charles Dickens
Death of a Salesman / Arthur Miller
The Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio
The Diary of a Young Girl / Anne Frank
The Divine Comedy / Dante Alighieri
Don Quixote de la Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes
Dracula / Bram Stoker
Dune / Frank Herbert
East of Eden / John Steinbeck
Ender’s Game / Orson Scott Card
The Epic of Gilgamesh / Anonymous
Essays / Michel de Montaigne
Fables / Aesop
Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury
Faust / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / Hunter S. Thompson
Finnegan’s Wake / James Joyce
Flatland:  A Romance of Many Dimensions / Edwin Abbott
Foundation / Isaac Asimov
Frankenstein / Mary Shelley
The Giver / Lois Lowry
The Godfather / Mario Puzo
The Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck
Gravity’s Rainbow / Thomas Pynchon
Great Expectations / Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver’s Travels / Jonathan Swift
Hamlet / William Shakespeare
The Handmaid’s Tale / Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone / J.K. Rowling
Hatchet / Gary Paulsen
Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad
Heidi / Johanna Spyri
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas
    Adams
The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien
Howl / Allen Ginsberg
The Iliad / Homer
Infinite Jest / David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison
Island of the Blue Dolphins / Scott O’Dell
Ivanhoe / Walter Scott
Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte
Journey to the West / Wu Cheng’en
The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan

Julie of the Wolves / Jean Craighead George
Julius Caesar / William Shakespeare
The Jungle Book / Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories / Rudyard Kipling
Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman
Les Miserables / Victor Hugo
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy / Laurence Sterne    
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe / C.S. Lewis    
Little House in the Big Woods / Laura Ingalls Wilder    
The Little Prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Little Women / Louisa May Alcott
Lonesome Dove / Larry McMurtry
The Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkien
Macbeth / William Shakespeare
Main Street / Sinclair Lewis
The Martian Chronicles / Ray Bradbury
Mary Poppins / P.L. Travers
Matilda / Roald Dahl
Maus / Art Spiegelman
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood / Howard Pyle
Middlemarch / George Eliot
A Midsummer Night’s Dream / William Shakespeare        
Misty of Chincoteague / Marguerite Henry
Moby-Dick / Herman Melville
Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf
My Antonia / Willa Cather
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass    
Neuromancer / William Gibson
The Neverending Story / Michael Ende
Night / Elie Wiesel
Nineteen Eighty-Four / George Orwell
The Odyssey / Homer
Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea / Ernest Hemingway    
On the Origin of Species / Charles Darwin
On the Road / Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez    
The Outsiders / S.E. Hinton
Paradise Lost / John Milton
Peter Pan / J.M. Barrie
The Phantom Tollbooth / Norton Juster
The Pilgrim’s Progress / John Bunyan
The Pillars of the Earth / Ken Follett
Pippi Longstocking / Astrid Lindgren
Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
Redwall / Brian Jacques
The Remains of the Day / Kazuo Ishiguro
The Republic / Plato
Romance of the Three Kingdoms / Luo Guanzhong    
Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Secret Garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett    
The Secret of the Old Clock / Carolyn Keene
Sense and Sensibility / Jane Austen
Silent Spring / Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse-Five / Kurt Vonnegut
The Stand / Stephen King
Swann’s Way / Marcel Proust
Tao Te Ching / Lao Tzu
The Tempest / William Shakespeare
Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe
Thomas the Tank Engine:  The Complete Collection / Rev. W. Awdry
The Three Musketeers / Alexandre Dumas
Titus Groan / Mervyn Peake
To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee
Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson
The Trial / Franz Kafka
Tuck Everlasting / Natalie Babbitt
The Turn of the Screw / Henry James
Ulysses / James Joyce
USA / John Dos Passos
Walden: or, Life in the Woods / Henry David Thoreau        
War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down / Richard Adams
Where the Sidewalk Ends / Shel Silverstein
The Wind in the Willows / Kenneth Grahame
A Wizard of Earthsea / Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum
A Wrinkle in Time / Madeline L’Engle
Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte

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