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Shakespeare
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
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Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
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Othello
by William Shakespeare
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
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The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
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The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
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Sonnet 18
by William Shakespeare
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
Drama
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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
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Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
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A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
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A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
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A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
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Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
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Trifles
by Susan Glaspell
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Antigone
by Sophocles
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Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
Novels
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
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1984
by George Orwell
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
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The Giver
by Lois Lowry
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Epics
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The Odyssey
by Homer
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
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Iliad
by Homer
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Beowulf
by Anonymous, Unknown
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Anonymous, Unknown, John Gardner, translator
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The Faerie Queene
by Edmund Spenser
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Aeneid
by Virgil
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The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
Poetry
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
by T. S. Eliot
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The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe
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My Last Duchess
by Robert Browning
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Ulysses
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
by Thomas Gray
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Dover Beach
by Matthew Arnold
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The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
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The Second Coming
by William Butler Yeats
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
Short Stories
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The Lottery
by Shirley Jackson
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The Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Lamb to the Slaughter
by Roald Dahl
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The Most Dangerous Game
by Richard Edward Connell
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The Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allan Poe
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A Rose for Emily
by William Faulkner
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The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
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The Story of an Hour
by Kate Chopin
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
Nonfiction Classics
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A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift
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Self-Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
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The Gettysburg Address
by Abraham Lincoln
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X, Alex Haley
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The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
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The Declaration of Independence
by Thomas Jefferson
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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
Literature of Developing Nations
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So Far From God
by Ana Castillo
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A Far Cry from Africa
by Derek Walcott
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Anowa
by Ama Ata Aidoo
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Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
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Dream on Monkey Mountain
by Derek Walcott
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Jasmine
by Bharati Mukherjee
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So Long a Letter
by Mariama Ba
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Petals of Blood
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Prayer to the Masks
by Leopold Sedar Senghor
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Anthills of the Savannah
by Chinua Achebe
Literary Movements
Literature for Young Adults
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Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
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The Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss, Johann Rudolf Wyss
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
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The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
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Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
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The Bronze Bow
by Elizabeth George Speare
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Because of Winn-Dixie
by Kate DiCamillo
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Monster
by Walter Dean Myers
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Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
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