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Emma
by Jane Austen
Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Bronte's most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester.
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact she has married
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Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
A young girl's journal records her family's struggles during two years of hiding from the Nazis in war-torn Holland.
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
The classical study of human nature depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys, aged 6 to 12, who are marooned on a tropical island after a plane crash.
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
In 17th-century Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne, a young woman who bears an illegitimate child, is subsequently condemned by her community to wear a scarlet letter "A" on her chest as a symbol of her adultery.
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
In the midst of World War I, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver in the Italian army, finds solace and passion in his romance with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse.
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The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
A young governess is tasked with caring for two children in a remote country estate. As she begins to suspect the presence of malevolent spirits haunting the house and its inhabitants, the governess struggles
to protect her charges from a seemingly unseen evil.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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The Giver
by Lois Lowery
At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.
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1984
by George Orwell
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches
over all citizens and directs all activities.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
A young German soldier enlists in World War I with idealistic fervor,
only to find himself disillusioned by the brutal realities of trench warfare.
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerIn an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City.
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face;" Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.
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The Hobbit
by J.R.R Tolkien
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'.
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
by Jules Verne
A nineteenth-century science fiction tale in which a French professor and his companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine with a mad sea captain, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager set by his friends .
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Slaughterhouse Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
In Wold War II Germany, an American POW becomes "unstuck in time," jumping through his life, including his abduction by aliens from Tralfamadore, as a way to cope with the trauma of the Dresden bombing.
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The Invisible Man
by H G Wells
A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder.
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