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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3
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Entertaining

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Martha Stewart

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4
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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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5
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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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9
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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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10
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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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11
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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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12
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Executive Orders

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Tom Clancy

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13
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The Exile

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Pearl Buck

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14
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Exedus

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Leon Uris

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15
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The exorcist

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William Blatty

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16
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Eye of the Needle

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Ken Follett

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17
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A Fable

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William Faulkner

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18
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The Faerie Queen

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Edmund SPenser

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19
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Fahrenheit 451

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Ray Bradbury

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20
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The Fall of the House of Usher

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Edgar Allan Poe

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21
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The Fallen Man

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Tony Hillerman

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22
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Familiar Quotations

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James Bartlett

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23
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Fanshawe

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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24
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Far From the Madding Crowd

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Thomas Hardy

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25
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A Farewell to Arms

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Ernest Hemingway

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26
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Farewell, My Lovely

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Raymond Chandler

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27
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Fatherhood

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Bill Cosby

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28
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Fathers and Sons

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Ivan Turgenev

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29
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Faust

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Johann Von Goethe

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30
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Fear of Flying

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Erica Jon

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31
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The Federalist Papers

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Alexander Hamilton, Madison

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32
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The Female Eunuch

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Germaine Greet

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33
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The Feminine Mystique

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Betty Frieden

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34
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Fighting Angel

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Pearl Buck

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35
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Fifty Shades of Grey

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E. L. Jaems

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36
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Finnegan’s Wake

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James Joyce

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37
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Firestarter

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Stephan King

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38
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The Firm

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John Grisham

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39
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The First Wive’s Club

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Olivia Goldsmith

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40
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The Fixer

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Bernard Malamud (Pulitzer)

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41
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Flappers and Philosophers

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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42
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Flowers for Algernon

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Daniel Keys

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43
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Foucault’s Pendulum

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Umberto Eco

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44
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For the Record

A

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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45
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Ernest Hemingway

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46
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Forest Gump

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Winston Groom

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47
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The Forsyte Sage

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John Galsworthy

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48
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Foundation’s Edge

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Isaac Asimov

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49
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The Fountainhead

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Ayn Rand

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50
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Four Past Midnight

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Stephen King

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51
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Frankenstein

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Mary Shelley

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52
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The French Lietenant’s Woman

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John Fowles

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53
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Frogs

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Aristophanes

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54
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From here to eterniy

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James Jones

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55
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The Gambler

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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56
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Game of Thrones

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George RR Martin

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57
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Gargantua

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Francois Rabelais

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58
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The Gentleman from Indiana

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Booth Tarkington

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59
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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Anita Loos

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60
Q

Getting Even

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Woody Allen

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61
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Ghosts

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Henrik Ibsen

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62
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Giant

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Edna Ferber

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63
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The Gift of the Magi

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O. Henry

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64
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Gigi

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Colette

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65
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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Stieg Larsson

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66
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Glory

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Herman Wouk

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67
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Go Tell it on the Mountain

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James Baldwin

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68
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The Godfather

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Mario Puzo

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69
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The God Delusion

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Richard Dawkins

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70
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God’s Little Acre

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Erskine Caldwell

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71
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Gone Girl

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Gillian Flynn

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72
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Gond with the Wind

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Margaret Mitchell (Pulitzer)

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73
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The Good Earth

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Pearl Buck (Pulitzer)

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74
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The Good Solider

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Ford Madox Ford

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75
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Goodbye Columbus

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Phillip Roth

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76
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Goodbye Mr. Chips

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James Hilton

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77
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Gorillas in the Mist

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Dian Fosse

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78
Q

Goosebumps Series

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RL Stein

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79
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The Grapes of Wrath

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John Steinbeck (Pulitzer)

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80
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The Grasshopper and the Ant

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Aesop

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81
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Gravity’s Rainbow

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Thomas Pynchon

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82
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Great Expectations

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Charles Dickens

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83
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The Great Gatsby

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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84
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Green Eggs and Ham

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Dr. Seuss

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85
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Green Hills of Africa

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Ernest Hemingway

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86
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The Green Mile

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Stephan King

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87
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The Gremlins

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Roald Dahl

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88
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A group of Noble Dames

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Thomas Hardy

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89
Q

Growing UP

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Russell Baker

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90
Q

The Gulag Archipelago

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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91
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Gulliver’s Travels

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Jonathan Swift

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92
Q

The Hajj

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Leon Uris

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93
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A Handmaid’s Tale

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Margaret Atwood

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94
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Hansel and Gretel

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Brothers Grimm

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95
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Hardy Boys Mysteries

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Franklin W. Dixon

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96
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Harriet the Spy

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Louise Fitzhugh

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97
Q

Harry Potter Series

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JK Rowling (Jacqueline Kathlene)

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98
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The Haunting of Hill House

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Shirley Jackson

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99
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Having our Say, the First 100 Years

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The Delaney Sisters

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100
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Hawaii

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James MIchener

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101
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Heart of Darkness

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Joseph Conrad

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102
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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Carson McCullers

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103
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The Heart of Midlothian

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Sir Walter Scott

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104
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Heaven and Hell

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John Jakes

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105
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Heidi

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Johanna Spyri

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106
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The Help

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Kathryn Stockett

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107
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Herzog

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Saul Bellow

108
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High on Arrival

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Makenzie Phillips

109
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Hiroshima

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John Hersey

110
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The History of the English Speaking Peoples

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WInston CHurchill

111
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The History of Tom Jones

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Henry Fielding

112
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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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Douglas Adams

113
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The Hobbit

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JRR Tolkien

114
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Hollywood Wives

A

Jackie Collins

115
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The Homecoming

A

Harold Pinter

116
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Hondo

A

Louis L’Amour

117
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The HOpe

A

James Michener

118
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Hope

A

Herman Wouk

119
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The Host

A

Stephanie Meyer

120
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The Hotel New Hampshire

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John Irving

121
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The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle

122
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House of Earth Trilogy

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Pearl Buck

123
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House of Mirth

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Edith Wharton

124
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The House of Seven Gables

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

125
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The House of the Spirits

A

Isabel Allende

126
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas

A

Dr Seuss

127
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How the West was won

A

Louis L’Amour

128
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How to win friends and influence people

A

Dale Carnagie

129
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Howard’s End

A

EM Forster

130
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Howl

A

Allen Ginsberg

131
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The Human Comedy

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William Saroyan

132
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The Human Comedy (French)

A

Honore De Balzac

133
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Human Sexual Response

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Masters and Johnson

134
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Humboldt’s Gift

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Saul Bellow (Pulitzer)

135
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The Hunch-Back of Notre Dame

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Victor Hugo

136
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The Hundred Secret Senses

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Amy Tan

137
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The Hunger Games

A

Suzanne Collins

138
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The Hunt for Red October

A

Tom Clancy

139
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The Hunting of the Snark

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Lewis Carroll

140
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The Hustler

A

Walter Tevis

141
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I am a camera

A

John Van Druten

142
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I, The Jury

A

Mickey Spillane

143
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I, Robot

A

Isaac Asimov

144
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Iberia

A

James Michener

145
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The Idiot

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

146
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Idylles of the King

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

147
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Iliad

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Homer

148
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The Illstrated Man

A

Ray Bradbury

149
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The Importance of Being Earnest

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Oscar Wilde

150
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In Cold Blood

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Trumann Capote

151
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Inca Gold

A

Cliver Cussler

152
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Infinite Jest

A

David Foster Wallace

153
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The Innocents Abroad

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Mark Twain

154
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Innocent, the Inside of the Third Reich

A

Albert Spreedavid Baldacci

155
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Insomnia

A

Stephen King

156
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The Interpretation of Dreams

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Sigmund Freud

157
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Interview with the Vampire

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Anne Rice

158
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Invasion

A

Robin Cook

159
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The Invisible Man

A

HG Wells

160
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Ironweed

A

William Kennedy (Pulitzer)

161
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The Island of the Day Before

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Umberto Eco

162
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Islands in the Stream

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Ernest Hemingway

163
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IT

A

Stephen King

164
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It’s Good to Be Alive

A

Roy Campenella

165
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It Takes a Village

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Hillary Clinton

166
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Ivanhoe

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Sir Walter Scott

167
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J’Accuse

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Emile Zola

168
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Jacob’s Room

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Virginia Woolf

169
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James Bond Novels

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Ian Fleming

170
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James and the Giant Peach

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Roald Dahl

171
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Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Bronte

172
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Jaws

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Peter Benchley

173
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The Jazz Age

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

174
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Jewels and Fine Things

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Danielle Steele

175
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Journey to the Center of the Earth

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Jules Verne

176
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The Joy Luck Club

A

Amy Tan

177
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Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy

178
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July’s People

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Nadine Gordimer

179
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The Jungle Book

A

Rudyard Kipling

180
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The Jungle

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Upton Sinclair

181
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Juneteenth

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Ralph Ellison

182
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Jurassic Park

A

Michael Crichton

183
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Just as I am

A

Billy Graham

184
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Just so Stories

A

Rudyard Kipling

185
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Kenilworth

A

Sir Walter Scott

186
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The Kent Family Chronicles

A

John Jakes

187
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Kidnapped

A

Robert Louis Stevenson

188
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Kim

A

Rudyard Kipling

189
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King Rat

A

James Clavell

190
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King Solomon’s Mines

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H. Rider Haggard

191
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Kiss the Girls

A

James Patterson

192
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The Kite Runner

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Khaled Hosseini

193
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LA COnfidential

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James Elroy

194
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The Labyrinth

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Jorge Luis Borges

195
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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DH Lawrence

196
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Lair of the White Worm

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Bram Stoker

197
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Lake Wobegon Days

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Garrison Keillor

198
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Lassie Come Home

A

Eric Knight

199
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The Last Don

A

Mario Puzo

200
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The Last Days of Pompeii

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

201
Q

The Last of the Mohicans

A

James Fennimore Cooper

202
Q

The Last Picture Show

A

Larry McMurtry

203
Q

The Last Tycoon

A

F. Scott Fitzgerald

204
Q

The Late George Apley

A

John Marquand (Pulitzer)

205
Q

Lays of Ancient Rome

A

Thomas Macaulay

206
Q

Leaving Cheyenne

A

Larry McMurtry

207
Q

Legend of Sleepy Hollow

A

Washington Irving

208
Q

Leviathan

A

Thomas Hobbs

209
Q

The Life of Johnson

A

James Boswell

210
Q

Life of PIe

A

Yann Martel

211
Q

Like water for Chocolate

A

Laura Esquaval

212
Q

A Little Yellow Dog

A

PD James

213
Q

Little House Series

A

Laura Ingalls (Wilder)

214
Q

Little Lord Fauntleroy

A

Frances Hodgson Burnett

215
Q

Little men

A

Louisa May Alcott

216
Q

The little Prince

A

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

217
Q

The Little Red Book

A

Mao Tse-Tung

218
Q

Little Woman

A

Louisa May Alcott

219
Q

Lonesome Dove

A

Larry McMurtry (Pulitzer)

220
Q

The Long, Hot Summer

A

William Faulkner

221
Q

The Long Goodbye

A

Raymond Chandler

222
Q

Look Back in Anger

A

John Osborne

223
Q

Look HOmeward Angel

A

Thomas Wolfe

224
Q

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

A

Judish Rossner

225
Q

The Lorax

A

Dr. Seuss

226
Q

The Lord of the Rings

A

JRR Toklien

227
Q

Lorna Doone

A

RD Blackmore

228
Q

LordJim

A

Joseph COnrad

229
Q

Lord of the Flies

A

William Golding

230
Q

Lost Horizon

A

James Hilton

231
Q

The Lost Symbol

A

Dan Brown

232
Q

The Lottery

A

Shirley Jackson

233
Q

The Loved One

A

Evelyn Waugh

234
Q

The Love Machine

A

Jacqueline Susann

235
Q

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

A

TS Eliot

236
Q

Love Story

A

Erich Segal

237
Q

The Lovely Bones

A

Alice Sebold

238
Q

The Luck of Roaring Camp

A

Bret Harte

239
Q

Lucky Jim

A

Kingsley Amis

240
Q

Lust for Life

A

Irving Stone

241
Q

Lysistrate

A

Aristophanes

242
Q

L’Education Sentimental

A

Gustave Flaubert

243
Q

The Stranger

A

Albert Camus

244
Q

Madame Bovary

A

Gustave Flaubert

245
Q

Made in America

A

Sam Walton

246
Q

The Magnificent Ambersons

A

Booth Tarkington (Pulitzer)

247
Q

Main Street

A

Sinclair Lewis

248
Q

The Main Woods

A

Henry David Thoreau

249
Q

The magic Mountain

A

Thomas Mann

250
Q

The Making of the President, 1960

A

Theodore White (Pulitzer)

251
Q

The Maltese Falcon

A

Dashiell Hammett

252
Q

The Mammoth Hunters

A

Jean Auel

253
Q

The man in the Iron Mask

A

Alexandre Dumas

254
Q

The Man without a country

A

Edward Everett Hale

255
Q

The Mansion

A

William Faulkner

256
Q

The Manchurian Candidate

A

Richard Condon

257
Q

Manuscript Found ina Bottle

A

Edgar Allen Pie

258
Q

The Martian Chronicles

A

Ray Bradbury

259
Q

Martin Chuzzlewit

A

Charles Dickens

260
Q

Mary Poppins

A

PL Travers

261
Q

Masque of the Red Death

A

Edgar Allan Poe

262
Q

The Mayor of Casterbridge

A

Thomas Hardy

263
Q

Mein Kampf

A

Adolf Hitler

264
Q

The Mermaid Chair

A

Sue Monk Kidd

265
Q

Metamorphosis (Ancient0

A

Ovid

266
Q

The Metamorphosis (Modern)

A

Franz Kafka