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A Confederacy of Dunces
1980 novel by John Kennedy Toole
Looking Backward
novel by Edward Bellamy
When Nietzsche Wept
1992 novel by Irvin D. Yalom
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
1974 novel by Philip K. Dick
Wicked (Maguire novel)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is a 1995 dark fantasy novel by American writer Gregory Maguire, with illustrations by Douglas Smith. It is the first novel in The Wicked Years series, and was followed by Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz.
Johnny Got His Gun
1939 novel by Dalton Trumbo
The Outsiders
novel by S. E. Hinton
The Forever War
1974 novel by Joe Haldeman
We the Living
1936 novel by Ayn Rand
A Wrinkle in Time
1962 science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle
The Bluest Eye
novel by Toni Morrison
The Last Unicorn
1968 fantasy novel by Peter S. Beagle
Ozma of Oz
novel by L. Frank Baum
It Can't Happen Here
1935 dystopian novel by Sinclair Lewis
The Lathe of Heaven
1971 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin
All the King's Men
1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren
Flowers in the Attic
novel by V. C. Andrews
A Time to Kill
1989 novel by John Grisham
Giovanni's Room
1956 novella by James Baldwin
Cannery Row
novel by John Steinbeck
Mother Night
novel by Kurt Vonnegut
The Love of the Last Tycoon
1941 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Babel-17
Babel-17 is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (that language influences thought and perception) plays an important part. It was joint winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967 (with Flowers for Algernon) and was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1967.
The Moon Is Down
1942 novella by John Steinbeck
Anna and the King of Siam
1944 semi-fictionalized biographical novel by Margaret Landon
Washington Square
1880 romantic bildungsroman by Henry James
My Ántonia
novel by Willa Cather
The Haunting of Hill House
1959 novel by Shirley Jackson
A Prayer for Owen Meany
1989 novel by John Irving
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1925 comic novel by Anita Loos
From Here to Eternity
1951 novel by James Jones
A Monster Calls
novel by Patrick Ness
U.S.A.
series of novels written by John Dos Passos
The Phantom Tollbooth
1989 edition
The Exorcist
novel by William P. Blatty
Strangers on a Train
novel by Patricia Highsmith
The House of Mirth
novel by Edith Wharton
Go ask Alice
1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks
Ramona
Ramona is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and annexation of the territory by the United States, Ramona explores the life of a mixed-race Scottish–Native American orphan girl. The story was inspired by the marriage of Hugo Reid and Victoria Reid.
The Manchurian Candidate
novel by Richard Condon
The Yearling
1938 novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Pudd'nhead Wilson
novel by the American author Mark Twain
Something Wicked This Way Comes
1962 novel by Ray Bradbury
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston
Elmer Gantry
1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis
The Grass Harp
novel by Truman Capote, 1951
Simulacron-3
Simulacron-3 (also published as Counterfeit World) is a 1964 science fiction novel by American author Daniel F. Galouye featuring an early literary description of a simulated reality.
Number the Stars
novel by Lois Lowry
Jailbird
1979 novel by Kurt Vonnegut
The House on Mango Street
1984 novel by Sandra Cisneros
The Wings of the Dove
1902 novel by Henry James
Tobacco Road
1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell
Double Indemnity
novel by James M. Cain
Address Unknown
novel by Kathrine Taylor
Ragtime
1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow
Enemies, a Love Story
novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Freaky Friday
novel by Mary Rodgers
Tuck Everlasting
1975 novel by Natalie Babbitt
Birdy
novel by William Wharton
The March
2005 novel by E. L. Doctorow