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1984
George Orwell
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Animal's People
Indra Sinha
Beowulf
John McNamara (Translator)
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Biased
Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Binti
Nnedi Okorafor
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
Circe
Madeline Miller
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
Evicted
Matthew Desmond
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
Father Comes Home from the Wars
Suzan-Lori Parks
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
The Giver
Lois Lowry
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grendel
John Gardner
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Half the Sky
Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
The Line Becomes a River
Francisco Cantú
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
The Master Plan
Chris Wilson, with Bret Witter
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
Native Speaker
Chang-rae Lee
Night
Elie Wiesel
The Odyssey
Homer
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Othello
William Shakespeare
The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton
Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
The Sum of Us
Heather McGhee
The Sun Does Shine
Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin
Swing Time
Zadie Smith
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow
That Was Then, This Is Now
S. E. Hinton
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
There There
Tommy Orange
They Called Us Enemy
George Takei
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Under a White Sky
Elizabeth Kolbert
A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks
We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O’Neil
What the Eyes Don’t See
Mona Hanna-Attisha
When They Call You a Terrorist
Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
The Yellow House
Sarah Monique Broom

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