Books and Authors #2 Flashcards

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Emma

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Jane Austen

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The English Patient

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Michael Anadajie

The novel won the 1992 Booker Prize
The book was adapted into a 1996 film starring Ralph Fiennes. The film received nine Academy Awards—including Best Picture and Director—Anthony Minghella- at the 69th Academy Awards

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Entertaining

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Martha Stewart

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Equus

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Peter Schaefer

1975 Tony Award Best Play
2009 Revival with Daniel Radcliff

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Erewhon

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Samuel Butler (1872)

Satire of Victorian era

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Essays

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ethan Frome

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Edith Wharton

a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930

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Eugene Onegin

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Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian Lit Classic
Almost the entire work is made up of 389 stanzas of iambic tetrameter with the unusual rhyme scheme “AbAbCCddEffEgg”

Also is an opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Even Cowgirls get the Blues

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Tom Robbins

made into a movie in 1993 by Gus Van Sant and stars Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Keanu Reeves

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All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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Robert Fulghum

a book of short essays first published in 1988.

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The Executioners Song

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Norman Mailer (1979)

depicts the events surrounding the execution of Gary Gilmore by the state of Utah for murder. It was also a finalist for the 1980 National Book Award

The book was turned into a television film starring Tommy Lee Jones, (a role for which he won an Emmy Award

Gilmore was the first person in the United States executed since the re-instatement of the death penalty in 1976

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Executive Orders

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Tom Clancy

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The Exile

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Pearl Buck

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Exedus

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Leon Uris

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The exorcist

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William Blatty

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Eye of the Needle

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Ken Follett

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A Fable

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William Faulkner

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The Faerie Queen

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Edmund SPenser

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Fahrenheit 451

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Ray Bradbury

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The Fall of the House of Usher

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Edgar Allan Poe

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The Fallen Man

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Tony Hillerman

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Familiar Quotations

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James Bartlett

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Fanshawe

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Far From the Madding Crowd

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Thomas Hardy

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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
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Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler
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Fatherhood
Bill Cosby
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Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
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Faust
Johann Von Goethe
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Fear of Flying
Erica Jon
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The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, Madison
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The Female Eunuch
Germaine Greet
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The Feminine Mystique
Betty Frieden
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Fighting Angel
Pearl Buck
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Fifty Shades of Grey
E. L. Jaems
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Finnegan's Wake
James Joyce
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Firestarter
Stephan King
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The Firm
John Grisham
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The First Wive's Club
Olivia Goldsmith
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The Fixer
Bernard Malamud (Pulitzer)
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Flappers and Philosophers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keys
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Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
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For the Record
Donald Regon was the 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury, from 1981 to 1985, and Chief of Staff from 1985 to 1987 in the Ronald Reagan Administration, where he advocated "Reaganomics" and tax cuts to create jobs and stimulate production
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
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Forest Gump
Winston Groom
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The Forsyte Sage
John Galsworthy
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Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov
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The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
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Four Past Midnight
Stephen King
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
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The French Lietenant's Woman
John Fowles
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Frogs
Aristophanes
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From here to eterniy
James Jones
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The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Game of Thrones
George RR Martin
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Gargantua
Francois Rabelais
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The Gentleman from Indiana
Booth Tarkington
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Anita Loos
60
Getting Even
Woody Allen
61
Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen
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Giant
Edna Ferber
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The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
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Gigi
Colette
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
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Glory
Herman Wouk
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Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
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The Godfather
Mario Puzo
69
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
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God's Little Acre
Erskine Caldwell
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Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
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Gond with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell (Pulitzer)
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The Good Earth
Pearl Buck (Pulitzer)
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The Good Solider
Ford Madox Ford
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Goodbye Columbus
Phillip Roth
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Goodbye Mr. Chips
James Hilton
77
Gorillas in the Mist
Dian Fosse
78
Goosebumps Series
RL Stein
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck (Pulitzer)
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The Grasshopper and the Ant
Aesop
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Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss
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Green Hills of Africa
Ernest Hemingway
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The Green Mile
Stephan King
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The Gremlins
Roald Dahl
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A group of Noble Dames
Thomas Hardy
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Growing UP
Russell Baker
90
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
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The Hajj
Leon Uris
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A Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
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Hansel and Gretel
Brothers Grimm
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Hardy Boys Mysteries
Franklin W. Dixon
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Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh
97
Harry Potter Series
JK Rowling (Jacqueline Kathlene)
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
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Having our Say, the First 100 Years
The Delaney Sisters
100
Hawaii
James MIchener
101
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
102
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
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The Heart of Midlothian
Sir Walter Scott
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Heaven and Hell
John Jakes
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Heidi
Johanna Spyri
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett
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Herzog
Saul Bellow
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High on Arrival
Makenzie Phillips
109
Hiroshima
John Hersey
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The History of the English Speaking Peoples
WInston CHurchill
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The History of Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
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The Hobbit
JRR Tolkien
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Hollywood Wives
Jackie Collins
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The Homecoming
Harold Pinter
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Hondo
Louis L'Amour
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The HOpe
James Michener
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Hope
Herman Wouk
119
The Host
Stephanie Meyer
120
The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving
121
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle
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House of Earth Trilogy
Pearl Buck
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House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
124
The House of Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
125
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
126
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dr Seuss
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How the West was won
Louis L'Amour
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How to win friends and influence people
Dale Carnagie
129
Howard's End
EM Forster
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Howl
Allen Ginsberg
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The Human Comedy
William Saroyan
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The Human Comedy (French)
Honore De Balzac
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Human Sexual Response
Masters and Johnson
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Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow (Pulitzer)
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The Hunch-Back of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
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The Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
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The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy
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The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll
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The Hustler
Walter Tevis
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I am a camera
John Van Druten
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I, The Jury
Mickey Spillane
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I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
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Iberia
James Michener
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Idylles of the King
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Iliad
Homer
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The Illstrated Man
Ray Bradbury
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
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In Cold Blood
Trumann Capote
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Inca Gold
Cliver Cussler
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Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
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The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain
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Innocent, the Inside of the Third Reich
Albert Spreedavid Baldacci
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Insomnia
Stephen King
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The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
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Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice
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Invasion
Robin Cook
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The Invisible Man
HG Wells
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Ironweed
William Kennedy (Pulitzer)
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The Island of the Day Before
Umberto Eco
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Islands in the Stream
Ernest Hemingway
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IT
Stephen King
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It's Good to Be Alive
Roy Campenella
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It Takes a Village
Hillary Clinton
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Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
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J'Accuse
Emile Zola
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Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf
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James Bond Novels
Ian Fleming
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James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
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Jaws
Peter Benchley
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The Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Jewels and Fine Things
Danielle Steele
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
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The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
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July's People
Nadine Gordimer
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The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
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The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
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Juneteenth
Ralph Ellison
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Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
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Just as I am
Billy Graham
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Just so Stories
Rudyard Kipling
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Kenilworth
Sir Walter Scott
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The Kent Family Chronicles
John Jakes
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Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Kim
Rudyard Kipling
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King Rat
James Clavell
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King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard
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Kiss the Girls
James Patterson
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
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LA COnfidential
James Elroy
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The Labyrinth
Jorge Luis Borges
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
DH Lawrence
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Lair of the White Worm
Bram Stoker
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Lake Wobegon Days
Garrison Keillor
198
Lassie Come Home
Eric Knight
199
The Last Don
Mario Puzo
200
The Last Days of Pompeii
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
201
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fennimore Cooper
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The Last Picture Show
Larry McMurtry
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The Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Late George Apley
John Marquand (Pulitzer)
205
Lays of Ancient Rome
Thomas Macaulay
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Leaving Cheyenne
Larry McMurtry
207
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
208
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbs
209
The Life of Johnson
James Boswell
210
Life of PIe
Yann Martel
211
Like water for Chocolate
Laura Esquaval
212
A Little Yellow Dog
PD James
213
Little House Series
Laura Ingalls (Wilder)
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson Burnett
215
Little men
Louisa May Alcott
216
The little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
217
The Little Red Book
Mao Tse-Tung
218
Little Woman
Louisa May Alcott
219
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry (Pulitzer)
220
The Long, Hot Summer
William Faulkner
221
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler
222
Look Back in Anger
John Osborne
223
Look HOmeward Angel
Thomas Wolfe
224
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Judish Rossner
225
The Lorax
Dr. Seuss
226
The Lord of the Rings
JRR Toklien
227
Lorna Doone
RD Blackmore
228
LordJim
Joseph COnrad
229
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
230
Lost Horizon
James Hilton
231
The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown
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The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
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The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh
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The Love Machine
Jacqueline Susann
235
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
TS Eliot
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Love Story
Erich Segal
237
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
238
The Luck of Roaring Camp
Bret Harte
239
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
240
Lust for Life
Irving Stone
241
Lysistrate
Aristophanes
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L'Education Sentimental
Gustave Flaubert
243
The Stranger
Albert Camus
244
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
245
Made in America
Sam Walton
246
The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington (Pulitzer)
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Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
248
The Main Woods
Henry David Thoreau
249
The magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
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The Making of the President, 1960
Theodore White (Pulitzer)
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The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
252
The Mammoth Hunters
Jean Auel
253
The man in the Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas
254
The Man without a country
Edward Everett Hale
255
The Mansion
William Faulkner
256
The Manchurian Candidate
Richard Condon
257
Manuscript Found ina Bottle
Edgar Allen Pie
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The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
259
Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens
260
Mary Poppins
PL Travers
261
Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
263
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
264
The Mermaid Chair
Sue Monk Kidd
265
Metamorphosis (Ancient0
Ovid
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The Metamorphosis (Modern)
Franz Kafka