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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café
by Miguel Algarin
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
The Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw
A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coehlo
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Power of One
by Bryce Courtenay
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
The Dictionary
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
Saturn Rukh
by Robert L. Forward
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Life In Hell/Love Is Hell/School Is Hell
by Matt Groening
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Roots
by Alex Haley
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neal Hurston
Simon Birch
or
The World According to Garp
by John Irving
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
Carrie
or
Firestarter
or
The Dead Zone
by Stephen King
Rich Dad Poor Dad
by Robert Kiyosaki
She's Come Undone
or
I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Moneyball
by Michael Lewis
Born to Run
by Christopher McDougall
Sula
by Toni Morrison
Survivor
or
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert M. Pirsig
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
Jitterbug Perfume
by Tom Robbins
The
Harry Potter
Series
by J.K. Rowling
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium
by Carl Sagan
Almost a Woman
or
When I Was Puerto Rican
by Esmeralda Santiago
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
or
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
by Ntozake Shange
Maus
by Art Spiegelman
Peace Is Every Step
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Exodus
by Leon Uris
Trinity
by Leon Uris
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
Naked Economics:Undressing the Dismal Science
by Charles Wheelan
The Book of Merlyn
by T.H. White
The Once and Future King
by T.H. White
Priceless
by Robert Wittman
You Can't Go Home Again
by Thomas Wolfe
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
Native Son
by Richard Wright
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Shadow of The Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon