A Separate Peace
By: John Knowles
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peaceis timeless in its …
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1. 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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- high school
- classics
- school
- fiction
- historical fiction
2. 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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- fiction
- classics
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3. A Separate Peace
By: John Knowles
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
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- high school
- classics
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- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
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4. 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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- fiction
- classics
- young adult
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5. 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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- high school
- classics
- school
- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
"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
6. Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more
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- fiction
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7. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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- high school
- classics
- school
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
8. Night (The Night Trilogy #1)
By: Elie Wiesel , Marion Wiesel
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
An autobiographical narrative in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration c… read more
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- classics
- school
9. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
By: Sara Pascoe
4.30
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"What’s “ague?"-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
10. Where the Red Fern Grows
By: Wilson Rawls
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Billy, Old Dan, and Little Ann—a boy and his two dogs... A loving threesome, they ranged the dar… read more
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- classics
- school
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
"I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too."-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
"I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it woukdn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too"."-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
"What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back…"-Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
11. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
By: Betty Smith
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty S… read more
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12. Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
3.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more
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- high school
- fiction
- classics
- school
"I’m tired to the death."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"LINDA [with infinite patience]"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"Be liked and you will never want."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
13. The Things They Carried
By: Tim O'Brien
4.10
Format: None pages,
They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated bibles, each… read more
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14. A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more
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15. 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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- classics
- school
- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
16. 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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17. 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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18. The Pearl
By: John Steinbeck
3.54
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf be… read more
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- fiction
- classics
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"What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"In the surface of the great pearl he could see dream forms."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
19. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.73
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more
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- classics
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"Let us not reason like cowards,"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"There is no story that is not true."-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
20. Burned Out
By: Dean Mafako
4.30
Format: 526 pages, Paperback
Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive… read more
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- fiction
"The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
"The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
"When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
"One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them…"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
21. Victor's Blessing
By: Barbara Sontheimer
4.34
Format: 582 pages, Paperback
Victor Gant, a 6'5" half-Osage blacksmith is an unusual hero for a Civil War love story. But Victor… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Then wake up my sweet, wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid. Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"He turned and smiled resolvedly at her. He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with wha…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace. But this time, he refused to let her go. "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me! What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you b…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
