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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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Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

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"I Have a Dream" Speech

by Martin Luther King Jr.

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Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

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Wonder

by R. J. Palacio

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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

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A Theory of Justice

by John Rawls

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The Dominion of War

by Andrew Cayton

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The Odyssey

by Homer

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Animal Farm

by George Orwell

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Homeland Elegies

by Ayad Akhtar

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"I've Been to the Mountaintop" Speech

by Martin Luther King Jr.

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Disgraced

by Ayad Akhtar

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Swing Time

by Zadie Smith

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The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel

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One of Us Is Lying

by Karen M. McManus

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A Promised Land

by Barack Obama

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Speech to the Convention

by Benjamin Franklin

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