• The Dispossessed

    The Dispossessed

    Le Guin, Ursula K.

    Shevek, a physicist and anarchist, travels from his home planet, Anarres, where collective endeavor is privileged, to Urras, where class structure, status and money reign. Can he change Urras or will it change him?

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  • The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

    The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

    McCullers, Carson

    John Singer, a deaf-mute living in a mill town in 1930s Georgia, just lost his best friend and roommate. What follows are his encounters with the rest of the town while he attempts to manage his grief.

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  • Lonesome Dove

    Lonesome Dove

    McMurtry, Larry

    Set in 1880s Texas, the town of Lonesome Dove contains an assortment of heroes, bandits, prostitutes and drunks.

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  • The Bluest Eye

    The Bluest Eye

    Morrison, Toni

    A young black girl growing up in Ohio in the 1940s yearns to be seen by the world by having a set of blue eyes.

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  • The Things They Carried

    The Things They Carried

    O'Brien, Tim

    Literally, the platoon men carry prosaic things: drugs, weapons, good-luck charms, toilet paper, photographs. But they also carry intangible things such as disease, confusion, hatred, love, regret, fear, perhaps even courage. All are explored in this collection of war stories about "things they carry.”

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  • The Bell Jar

    The Bell Jar

    Plath, Sylvia

    Esther Greenwood is a very talented writer and has difficulty with the world American society created. Her mother fits right in though, and makes it her business to fix Esther.

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  • True Grit

    True Grit

    Portis, Charles

    When Mattie witnesses her father's death at the hands of outlaw Tom Chaney, she sets out to avenge his death alongside a deadly U.S. Marshall.

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  • My Name Is Asher Lev

    My Name Is Asher Lev

    Potok, Chaim

    Aspiring young painter Asher Lev is stuck between the religious responsibilities and expectations of his family and his desire to pursue his passion for art.

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  • The Shipping News

    The Shipping News

    Proulx, Annie

    Quoyle moves with his two daughters to Killick-Claw- his native home- Newfoundland harbor town following the death of his abusive wife, finding a writing job in which he reports car crashes and the shipping news.

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  • American Pastoral

    American Pastoral

    Roth, Philip

    Book one of the American trilogy begins with the perfect life of Swede Levov, who grew up privileged and popular amongst his peers into early adulthood with a promising, rewarding career. This bliss is broken by his politically active teenager taking things too far.

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