Title	Author	*() Contains Mature Content**
1984	Orwell, G.	*
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian	Alexie, S.	*
An Abundance of Katherines	Green, J.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Twain, M.	*
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors	Read, P.	*
All the Light We Cannot See	Doerr, A.
Althea & Oliver	Moracho, C.
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, The Woman Who Defied the Puritans	Laplante, E.
American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793	Murphy, J.
Americanah	Adichie, C.
As I Lay Dying	Faulkner, W.
Autobiography of Malcolm X	X, M.; Haley, A.
Awakening	Chopin, K.
Barracone: The Story of the Last Black Cargo	Hurston, Z.
Being Jazz: My Life As a Transgender Teen	Jennings, J.
Bend in the River	Naipual, V.S.
Beowulf	Gummere
Beowulf (Graphic Novel)	Hinds, G.
Title	Author	*() Contains Mature Content**
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation	Heaney, S.
Black Like Me	Griffin, J.
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People	Banaji,; Greenwald, A.
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches	Churchill, W.
The Bluest Eye (Suspended Spring of 2022)	Morrison, T.	*
The Bonesetter’s Daughter	Tan, A.
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition	Blumenthal, K.
Boys in the Boat	Brown, D.
Brave New World	Huxley, A.	*
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West	Brown, D.
Candide	Voltaire, F.
Canterbury Tales	Chaucer, G.
Crucible: A Four Act Play	Miller, A.; Bigsby, C.
Death and the King’s Horseman	Soyinka, W.
Death in Salem: The Private Lives Behind the 1692 Witch Hunt	Foulds, D.
Death of a Salesman	Miller, A.
Death of Ivan Ilyich	Tolstoy, L.
Doll’s House	Ibsen, H.
Title	Author	*() Contains Mature Content**
Don Quixote de la Mancha	De Cervantes, M.
Dracula	Stoker, B.
Fences	Wilson, A.
Firestarter	King, S.	*
Frankenstein	Shelley, M.
Glass Menagerie	Williams, T.
Go Tell It on the Mountain	Baldwin, J.
The Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, J.
Great Expectations	Dickens, C.
The Great Gatsby	Fitzgerald, F.
Hamlet	Shakespeare, W.
Heart of Darkness	Conrad, J.
Hidden Figures	Shetterly, M.
Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave	Hall, S.
Homeboyz	Sitomer, A.
House of the Spirits	Allende, I.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Angelou, M.
I, Robot	Isamov, I.
Title	Author	*() Contains Mature Content**
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Skloot, R.
The Importance of Being Earnest	Wilde, O.
Into the Wild	Krakauer, J.
Invisible Man	Ellison, R.
Jane Eyre	Bronte, C.
Joy Luck Club	Tan, A.	*
Just Mercy	Stevenson, B.
King Lear	Shakespeare, W.
Kite Runner	Hosseini, K.	*
The Life of Pi	Martel, Y.
Little Fires Everywhere	Ng, C.
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela	Mandela, N.
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier	Beah, I.
Looking for Alaska	Green, J.
Martian Chronicles	Bradbury, R.
Masque of the Red Death	Poe, E.
Metamorphosis	Kafka, F.
Namesake	Lahiri, J.
Title	Author	*() Contains Mature Content**
Nectar in a Sieve	Markandaya, K.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Kessey, K.
Othello	Shakespeare, W.	*
Perks of Being a Wallflower	Chbosky, S.	*
Poisonwood Bible	Kingsolver, B.
Pride and Prejudice	Austen, J.
Pygmalion	Shaw, G.
Raisin in the Sun	Hansberry, L.
Richard III	Shakespeare, W.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems of the Romantic	Coleridge
Road	McCarthy, G.	*
The Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, N.
Silent Spring	Carson, R.
Slaughterhouse-Five	Vonnegut, Jr., K.	*
Song of Myself	Walt Whitman
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience	Blake, W.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Stevenson, R.L.
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Hurston, Z.
Title	Author	*() Contains Mature Content**
Things Fall Apart	Achebe, C.
Unbroken	Hillenbrand, L.
Walden	Thoreau, H.
When Breath Becomes Air	Kalanthi, P.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Albee, S.
Wuthering Heights	Bronte, E.
Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales	Hawthorne, N.

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