The Scarlet Letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nina Baym , Thomas E. Connolly
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entang…
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1. Jane Eyre
By: Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason
4.15
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Alternate editions can be found here and here. A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and … read more
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"Never,"-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"You are human and fallible."-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"Conventionality is not morality."-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"Beauty is in the eye of the gazer."-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
2. Wuthering Heights
By: Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn
3.89
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE. At the centre of this novel is the passi… read more
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"He’s more myself than I am"-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
"Terror made me cruel . . ."-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
"She burned too bright for this world."-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
"Honest people don't hide their deeds."-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
3. The Scarlet Letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nina Baym , Thomas E. Connolly
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entang… read more
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4. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
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6. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
7. Lord of the Flies
By: William Golding
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of schoolboys are the sole survivors. From t… read more
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8. The Catcher in the Rye
By: J.D. Salinger
3.80
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school... Fleei… read more
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"Sleep tight, ya morons!"-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"People never notice anything."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"Mothers are all slightly insane."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
9. Animal Farm
By: George Orwell , Russell Baker , C.M. Woodhouse
3.99
Format: 141 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here. A farm… read more
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"Four legs good, two legs bad."-George Orwell, Animal Farm
"The only good human being is a dead one."-George Orwell, Animal Farm
"Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?"-George Orwell, Animal Farm
"Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers."-George Orwell, Animal Farm
10. A Tale of Two Cities
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell
3.87
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more
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"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
11. The Great Gatsby
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career… read more
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12. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By: Mark Twain , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell
3.92
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy prota… read more
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"Tom!"-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
"Company would be a palpable improvement"-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
"But old fools is the biggest fools there is."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
"Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
13. The Old Man and the Sea
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.80
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here This short novel, already a moder… read more
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"My big fish must be somewhere."-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,"-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish."-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
14. Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson
4.02
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more
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"Therein lies the rub."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Brevity is the soul of wit."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
15. Fahrenheit 451
By: Ray Bradbury
3.96
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenhe… read more
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"Are you happy?"-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"It was a pleasure to burn."-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"Those who don't build must burn."-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"The sun burnt every day. It burnt time."-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
16. To Kill a Mockingbird
By: Harper Lee
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that … read more
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17. The Outsiders
By: S.E. Hinton
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Pon… read more
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"We saw the same sunset."-S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
"Nothing sparkly can stay."-S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
"Things are rough all over."-S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
"Okay greasers, you've had it."-S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
18. Of Mice and Men
By: John Steinbeck
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifter… read more
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19. Romeo and Juliet
By: William Shakespeare , None
3.74
Format: 281 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. I… read more
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"thus with a kiss I die"-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"Oh, I am fortune's fool!"-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"Ay me! sad hours seem long."-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"Educated men are so impressive!"-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
20. The Crucible
By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby
3.60
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more
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21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell
3.83
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more
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"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"He had a dream and it shot him."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
22. Little Women
By: Louisa May Alcott
4.16
Format: 449 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305. Generations of readers young and old, … read more
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"I hate ordinary people!"-Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
"Let us be elegant or die!"-Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
"Love covers a multitude of sins…"-Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
"Conceit spoils the finest genius."-Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
23. The Awakening
By: Kate Chopin
3.68
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more
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"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She had resolved to never take another step backward."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
24. The Grapes of Wrath
By: John Steinbeck
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles… read more
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25. Great Expectations
By: Charles Dickens
3.79
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to a… read more
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"We need never be ashamed of our tears."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"You are in every line I have ever read."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
26. The Odyssey
By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None
3.53
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more
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27. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
28. Sense and Sensibility
By: Jane Austen , Tony Tanner , Ros Ballaster
4.08
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662 'The more I know of the world, the more am I convi… read more
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"to hope was to expect"-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
"She was stronger alone…"-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
"Sense will always have attractions for me."-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
"I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself."-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
29. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
3.87
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of t… read more
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"I am malicious because I am miserable"-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
"One wondering thought pollutes the day"-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave"-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
30. Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more
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"What, you egg?"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done, is done"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done cannot be undone."-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"And nothing is, but what is not."-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
31. Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
By: Coles Editorial Board
3.84
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
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