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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck. Chronicles the friendship between George and Lennie, two migrant workers with dreams of owning their own land.
The Call of the Wild
Jack London. The transformation of a domesticated dog named Buck into a wild animal during the Klondike Gold Rush.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams. Examines the tragic life of Blanche DuBois and her clash with her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow. A picaresque novel about a young man's wide-ranging adventures in 20th century America.
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway. A story of an aging fisherman's struggle with a giant marlin and his quest for redemption.
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner. The journey of the Bundren family as they attempt to transport their mother's body to her requested burial place.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston. Janie Crawford's journey through three marriages and her quest for personal independence and spiritual fulfillment.
Native Son
Richard Wright. A young African American man's life in Chicago's South Side and the inevitability of his demise due to societal forces.
The Color of Water
James McBride. A memoir addressing the author's quest to understand his biracial identity and his white Jewish mother's life.
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury. A dystopian novel where books are banned and 'firemen' burn any that are found.
Catch-22
Joseph Heller. A satirical novel about the absurdity of war and bureaucracy through the experiences of Captain John Yossarian.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin. Chronicles a day in the life of a fourteen-year-old boy and the impact of religion and family history on his life.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut. Follows the story of Billy Pilgrim as he experiences World War II and time travels to various moments of his life.
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway. The love story between an American ambulance driver and a British nurse during World War I.
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath. Details the descent of a young woman into madness and her struggles with the suffocating norms of society.
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell. Set during the Civil War and Reconstruction era, it tells the romantic story of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson. The life story of a biracial man who chooses to 'pass' as white to gain social and economic advantages.
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger. A coming-of-age story that depicts a few days in the life of a troubled teenager named Holden Caulfield.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway. The saga of an American dynamiter fighting in the Spanish Civil War and his love affair with a partisan girl.
Beloved
Toni Morrison. Depicts the life of a former slave haunted by the horrors of her past and the ghost of her dead child.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote. The story of the young and charming Holly Golightly living in New York and her unnamed narrator friend.
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald. A novel about the mysterious Jay Gatsby and his obsession with the beautiful Daisy Buchanan during the Roaring Twenties.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee. A story of racial injustice and the destruction of innocence as told by a young girl named Scout in the Deep South.
The Color Purple
Alice Walker. A series of letters that illustrate the protagonist's struggle for identity and self-respect in the early 20th century South.
East of Eden
John Steinbeck. A multi-generational epic that retells the biblical story of Cain and Abel through two families in California.
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison. Explores the theme of identity in a racially segregated society through the experiences of an unnamed African American protagonist.
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway. Chronicles the travels and romances of American expatriates in Europe during the 1920s.
American Pastoral
Philip Roth. Tells the story of Seymour 'Swede' Levov and his ideal life falling apart during the turbulent 1960s.
Light in August
William Faulkner. Explores themes of race, identity, and the South as it tells several interwoven stories in a Mississippi town.
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller. Willy Loman's fall from grace in the face of the American Dream and the harsh reality of his life as a traveling salesman.
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates. The story of a young couple living in the suburbs in the 1950s who become disillusioned with their lives and society.
The Man with the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren. Narrates the life of a drug addict and card dealer in post-war Chicago and his struggles with addiction.
On the Road
Jack Kerouac. The tale of two friends' cross-country road trips as they seek freedom and meaning in postwar America.
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner. A novel that chronicles the decline of the Compson family through a series of stream-of-conscious narratives.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey. The power struggles within a mental institution between a rebellious patient and the oppressive Nurse Ratched.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon. Chronicles the lives of two Jewish cousins before, during, and after World War II as they create a popular comic book hero.
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck. Follows the Joad family's difficult journey west from Dust Bowl Oklahoma to California in search of a better life.
White Noise
Don DeLillo. Explores themes of media saturation, technology, and the complexity of family life in a postmodern world.
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow. Weaves together the lives of historical figures and fictional characters in early 20th-century America.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers. Focuses on the lives of a deaf-mute and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in Georgia.
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