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- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
- Wonder by R. J. Palacio
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Trifles by Susan Glaspell
- The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
- Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
- A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
- The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
- Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
- To Build a Fire by Jack London
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Two Kinds by Amy Tan
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare
- Everyday Use by Alice Walker
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
- "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
- The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
- The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- The Lady or the Tiger? by Francis Richard Stockton
- Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
- Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
- The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
- Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers
- The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- Thank You, M'am by Langston Hughes
- Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
- Rules of the Game by Amy Tan
- The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
- Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Open Window by Saki
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Désirée's Baby by Kate Chopin
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
- The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
- The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- How It Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
- My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Araby by James Joyce
- Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
- The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty
- Fences by August Wilson
- The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
- Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- All My Sons by Arthur Miller
- This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman Alexie
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
- Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Guest by Albert Camus
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- A&P by John Updike
- She Walks in Beauty by Lord George Gordon Byron
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Eveline by James Joyce
- The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
- Because I could not stop for Death— by Emily Dickinson
- A Worn Path by Eudora Welty
- The Bet by Anton Chekhov
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Charles by Shirley Jackson
- Antigone by Sophocles
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen
- Raymond's Run by Toni Cade Bambara
- By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benét
- The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
- Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- Hard Times by Charles Dickens
- The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
- The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte
- Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Emil Frankl
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
- Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor
- Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Edward Connell
- She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
- A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- On His Blindness by John Milton
- M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
- The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Interlopers by Saki
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- London by William Blake
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson
- Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- Suicide in the Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
- To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Riders to the Sea by J. M. Synge
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- As You Like It by William Shakespeare
- To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
- Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Mending Wall by Robert Frost
- The Cay by Theodore Taylor
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison