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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

Second-Class Citizen

by Buchi Emecheta

The Necklace

by Guy de Maupassant

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

The Lottery

by Shirley Jackson

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

The Story of an Hour

by Kate Chopin

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