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Of Mice and Men

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John Steinbeck. Chronicles the friendship between George and Lennie, two migrant workers with dreams of owning their own land.

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The Call of the Wild

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Jack London. The transformation of a domesticated dog named Buck into a wild animal during the Klondike Gold Rush.

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A Streetcar Named Desire

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Tennessee Williams. Examines the tragic life of Blanche DuBois and her clash with her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.

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The Adventures of Augie March

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Saul Bellow. A picaresque novel about a young man's wide-ranging adventures in 20th century America.

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The Old Man and the Sea

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Ernest Hemingway. A story of an aging fisherman's struggle with a giant marlin and his quest for redemption.

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As I Lay Dying

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William Faulkner. The journey of the Bundren family as they attempt to transport their mother's body to her requested burial place.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Zora Neale Hurston. Janie Crawford's journey through three marriages and her quest for personal independence and spiritual fulfillment.

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Native Son

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Richard Wright. A young African American man's life in Chicago's South Side and the inevitability of his demise due to societal forces.

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The Color of Water

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James McBride. A memoir addressing the author's quest to understand his biracial identity and his white Jewish mother's life.

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Fahrenheit 451

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Ray Bradbury. A dystopian novel where books are banned and 'firemen' burn any that are found.

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Catch-22

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Joseph Heller. A satirical novel about the absurdity of war and bureaucracy through the experiences of Captain John Yossarian.

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

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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.

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Slaughterhouse-Five

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Kurt Vonnegut. Follows the story of Billy Pilgrim as he experiences World War II and time travels to various moments of his life.

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A Farewell to Arms

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Ernest Hemingway. The love story between an American ambulance driver and a British nurse during World War I.

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The Bell Jar

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Sylvia Plath. Details the descent of a young woman into madness and her struggles with the suffocating norms of society.

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Gone with the Wind

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Margaret Mitchell. Set during the Civil War and Reconstruction era, it tells the romantic story of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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James Weldon Johnson. The life story of a biracial man who chooses to 'pass' as white to gain social and economic advantages.

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The Catcher in the Rye

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J.D. Salinger. A coming-of-age story that depicts a few days in the life of a troubled teenager named Holden Caulfield.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Ernest Hemingway. The saga of an American dynamiter fighting in the Spanish Civil War and his love affair with a partisan girl.

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Beloved

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Toni Morrison. Depicts the life of a former slave haunted by the horrors of her past and the ghost of her dead child.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

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Truman Capote. The story of the young and charming Holly Golightly living in New York and her unnamed narrator friend.

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The Great Gatsby

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F. Scott Fitzgerald. A novel about the mysterious Jay Gatsby and his obsession with the beautiful Daisy Buchanan during the Roaring Twenties.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Harper Lee. A story of racial injustice and the destruction of innocence as told by a young girl named Scout in the Deep South.

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The Color Purple

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Alice Walker. A series of letters that illustrate the protagonist's struggle for identity and self-respect in the early 20th century South.

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East of Eden

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John Steinbeck. A multi-generational epic that retells the biblical story of Cain and Abel through two families in California.

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Invisible Man

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Ralph Ellison. Explores the theme of identity in a racially segregated society through the experiences of an unnamed African American protagonist.

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The Sun Also Rises

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Ernest Hemingway. Chronicles the travels and romances of American expatriates in Europe during the 1920s.

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American Pastoral

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Philip Roth. Tells the story of Seymour 'Swede' Levov and his ideal life falling apart during the turbulent 1960s.

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Light in August

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William Faulkner. Explores themes of race, identity, and the South as it tells several interwoven stories in a Mississippi town.

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Death of a Salesman

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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.

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Revolutionary Road

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Richard Yates. The story of a young couple living in the suburbs in the 1950s who become disillusioned with their lives and society.

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The Man with the Golden Arm

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Nelson Algren. Narrates the life of a drug addict and card dealer in post-war Chicago and his struggles with addiction.

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On the Road

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Jack Kerouac. The tale of two friends' cross-country road trips as they seek freedom and meaning in postwar America.

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The Sound and the Fury

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William Faulkner. A novel that chronicles the decline of the Compson family through a series of stream-of-conscious narratives.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Ken Kesey. The power struggles within a mental institution between a rebellious patient and the oppressive Nurse Ratched.

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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Michael Chabon. Chronicles the lives of two Jewish cousins before, during, and after World War II as they create a popular comic book hero.

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The Grapes of Wrath

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John Steinbeck. Follows the Joad family's difficult journey west from Dust Bowl Oklahoma to California in search of a better life.

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White Noise

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Don DeLillo. Explores themes of media saturation, technology, and the complexity of family life in a postmodern world.

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Ragtime

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E.L. Doctorow. Weaves together the lives of historical figures and fictional characters in early 20th-century America.

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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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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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