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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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Second-Class Citizen

by Buchi Emecheta

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The Lottery

by Shirley Jackson

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Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

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Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"I Have a Dream" Speech

by Martin Luther King Jr.

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There There

by Tommy Orange

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro

by Ernest Hemingway

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Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

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The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

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The Eagle

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Salvage the Bones

by Jesmyn Ward

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Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

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Braiding Sweetgrass

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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The Way We Live Now

by Susan Sontag

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Test

by Theodore Thomas

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The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

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Lob's Girl

by Joan Aiken

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The Lottery

by Shirley Jackson

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