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Author	Title	RL	Pts
Aasseng, Nathan	Navajo Code Talkers	9.5	4
Abelove, Joan	Go and Come Back	3.8	5
Adams, Douglas	Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	6.6	8
Adams, Douglas	Life the Universe and Everything	7.6	9
Adams, Douglas	Restaurant at the End of the Universe	6.1	8
Adams, Douglas	So Long and Thanks for the Fish	6.9	7
Adams, Richard	Watership Down	6.2	25
Adamson, Joy	Born Free	7.3	9
Agee, James	Death in the Family, A	6.1	16
Albom, Mitch	Tuesdays with Morrie	5.5	5
Alcott, Louisa May	Jo's Boys	8.8	18
Alcott, Louisa May	Little Men	8.1	19
Alcott, Louisa May	Little Women	7.9	33
Alexander, Caroline	Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition	8.6	11
Anderson, Laurie Halse	Speak	4.5	7
Angelou, Maya	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	6.7	13
Anonymous/Raffel	Beowulf	10	5
Aronson, Marc	Witch hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials	8.8	8
Atwood, Margaret	Handmaid's Tale, The	5.4	14
Auel, Jean	Clan of the Cave Bear, The	7	35
Auel, Jean	Mammoth Hunters, The	6.6	48
Auel, Jean	Plains of Passage, The	7	58
Auel, Jean	Shelters of Stone, The	6.8	53
Auel, Jean	Valley of the Horses	6.6	37
Austen, Jane	Emma	9.3	30
Austen, Jane	Pride and Prejudice	12	27
Austen, Jane	Sense and Sensibility	8.4	22
Bagnold, Enid	National Velvet	5.5	11
Baker, Russell	Growing Up	6.9	15
Baldwin, James	Go Tell it on the Mountain	6.5	13
Barrett, William	Lilies of the Field	5.4	3
Bissinger, H.G.	Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream	8	19
Borland, Hal	When the Legends Die	5.2	13
Boyd, James	Drums	7.9	25
Bradbury, Ray	Dandelion Wine	6	10
Bradbury, Ray	Fahrenheit 451	5.2	7
Bradbury, Ray	Halloween Tree, The	4.7	4
Bradbury, Ray	Martian Chronicles, The	6.2	9
Bradbury, Ray	Something Wicked This Way Comes	4.8	9
Bronte, Charlotte	Jane Eyre	7.9	33
Bronte, Emily	Wuthering Heights	11	23
Brown, Dan	Angels and Demons	5.6	23
Brown, Dan	Da Vinci Code	6.4	23
Brown, Dee	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	7.9	27
Buck, Pearl S.	Good Earth, The	6.8	19
Burroughs, Edgar Rice	Tarzan of the Apes	9	16
Camus, Albus	Stranger, The	6.8
Card, Orson Scott	Ender's Game	5.5	16
Card, Orson Scott	Ender's Shadow	5.9	22
Card, Orson Scott	Lost Boys	5.7	26
Card, Orson Scott	Seventh Son	5.9	13
Carroll, Lewis	Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass	7.8	10
Cather, Willa	Death Comes for the Archbishop	7.9	12
Cather, Willa	My Antonia	6.9	14
Cather, Willa	O Pioneers!	6.7	9
Cather, Willa	One of Ours	7.2	22
Chambers, Aidan	Postcards from No Man's Land	5.4	16
Chevalier, Tracy	Girl with a Pearl Earring	5.4	11
Chopin, Kate	Awakening, The	8.5	12
Cisneros, Sandra	House on Mango Street, The	4.5	3
Clancy, Tom	Clear and Present Danger	6.5	44
Clancy, Tom	Hunt for Red October, The	6.3	25
Clancy, Tom	Patriot Games	5.5	31
Clark, Arthur C.	2001: A Space Odyssey	9	12
Clark, Arthur C.	2010: Odyssey Two	7.8	13
Clark, Arthur C.	2061: Odyssey Three	8.3	11
Clark, Arthur C.	3001: The Final Odyssey	8.3	9
Clark, Walter	Ox-Bow Incident, The	5.4	12
Clavell, James	Shogun	5.1	64
Conrad, Joseph	Heart of Darkness	9	10
Conrad, Joseph	Lord Jim	9.1	24
Cooper, James	Deerslayer, The	11	44
Cooper, James	Last of the Mohicans, The	10	29
Cormier, Robert	Beyond the Chocolate War	5.4	10
Cormier, Robert	Chocolate War, The	5.4	8
Crane, Stephen	Red Badge of Courage, The	8	8
Crichton, Michael	Andromedia Strain, The	6.6	11
Crichton, Michael	Congo	7.5	15
Crichton, Michael	Jurassic Park	7.3	20
Crichton, Michael	Lost World	5	17
Crichton, Michael	Sphere	7.1	16
Crichton, Michael	Timeline	5.2	21
Dana, Richard Henry	Two Years before the Mast	7.7	26
deCervantes, Miguel	Don Quixote	13	91
Defoe, Daniel	Robinson Crusoe	12	27
Dickens, Charles	Christmas Carol, A	6.7	5
Dickens, Charles	David Copperfield	9.5	66
Dickens, Charles	Great Expectations	9.2	35
Dickens, Charles	Oliver Twist	11	33
Dickens, Charles	Pickwick Papers	12	60
Dickens, Charles	Tale of Two Cities, A	9.7	27
Dostoevsky, Fyodor	Brothers Karamazov, The	10	74
Dostoevsky, Fyodor	Crime and Punishment	8.7	40
Douglass, Frederick	Narrative of the Life of Fredreick Douglass, an American Slave	7.9	7
Doyle, Arthur Conan	Hound of the Baskervilles, The	8.3	11
Dreiser, Theodore	American Tragedy, An	8.5	65
Du Maurier, Daphne	Rebecca	6.8	26
Dumas, Alexandre	Count of Monte Cristo, The	8.8	34
Dumas, Alexandre	Three Musketeers, The	11	42
Eckert, Allan	Incident at Hawk's Hill	7.2	9
Edmonds, Walter	Drums Along the Mohawk	6.2	31
Eliot, George	Silas Marner	9.7	14
Ellison, Ralph	Invisible Man	7.2	30
Fast, Howard	April Morning	6.1	9
Faulkner, William	As I Lay Dying	5.4	9
Faulkner, William	Reivers, The	6.1	16
Faulkner, William	Sound and the Fury	4.4	14
Ferber, Edna	So Big	5.8	14
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	Great Gatsby	7.3	8
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	Tender is the Night	8.8	20
Flagg, Fannie	Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café	5.6	15
Forster, E.M.	Passage to India, A	7.7	18
Frank, Anne	Diary of a Young Girl, The	6.5	14
Frank, E.R.	Life is Funny	4.7	8
Franklin, Benjamin	Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The	12	15
Frazier, Charles	Cold Mountain	6.9	27
Gaines, Ernest	Lesson before Dying	4.4	11
Gaines, Ernest	Authobiography of Miss Jane Pitman	4.6	13
Gaines, Ernest	Gathering of Old Men, A	4.4	9
Geras, Adele	Troy	4.9	13
Gibson, William	Miracle Worker, The	5.2	4
Golden, Arthur	Memiors of a Geisha	6.5	31
Golding, Willaim	Lord of the Flies	5	9
Greene, Graham	Power and the Glory, The	5.9	12
Griffin, John Howard	Black Like Me	7	11
Grisham, John	Partner, The	5.6	17
Grisham, John	Street Lawyer, The	5.7	15
Grisham, John	Testament, The	5.6	20
Grisham, John	Time to Kill, A	5.2	23
Grisham, John	Broker, The	5.9	16
Gunther, John	Death Be Not Proud	8	8
Guterson, David	East of the Mountains	6.7	14
Guterson, David	Our Lady of the Forest	5.9	18
Guterson, David	Snow Falling on Cedars	7	23
Haddon, Mark	Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time	5.4	10
Haggard, Rider	King Solomon's Mines	8.9	15
Haley, Alex	Roots	7.4	48
Hammett, Dashiell	Maltese Falcon, The	6	11
Hansberry, Lorraine	Raisin in the Sun, A	5.5	6
Hardy, Thomas	Far from the Madding Crowd	9.7	25
Hardy, Thomas	Jude the Obscure	8.9	27
Hardy, Thomas	Mayor Of Casterbridge, The	9.5	22
Hardy, Thomas	Return of the Native, The	10	42
Hardy, Thomas	Tess of D'ubervilles	9.5	23
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	House of Seven Gables, The	11	22
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Scarlet Letter, The	12	14
Heinlein, Robert	Stranger in a Strange Land	5.6	25
Heinlein, Robert	Glory Road	6	13
Heller, Joseph	Catch-22	7.1	30
Hemingway, Ernest	Farewell to Arms, A	6	13
Hemingway, Ernest	For Whom the Bell Tolls	5.8	28
Hemingway, Ernest	Old Man and the Sea, The	5.1	4
Herbert, Frank	Dune	5.7	28
Herriot, James	All Creatures Great and Small	6.8	26
Herriot, James	All Things Bright and Beautiful	6.7	23
Herriot, James	All Things Wise and Wonderful	6.7	26
Hersey, John	Bell for Adano, A	5.9	13
Hersey, John	Hiroshima	8.4	9
Hesse, Hermann	Siddhartha	7.1	6
Heyerdahl, Thor	Kon-Tiki	8	14
Hilton, James	Good-bye, Mr. Chips	6.5	3
Hilton, James	Lost Horizon	9.5	12
Homer	Iliad, The	11	25
Homer	Odyssey, The	10	24
Hugo, Victor	Hunchback of Notre-Dame	12	38
Hugo, Victor	Les Miserables	9.8	105
Huxley, Aldous	Brave New World Revisited	11	7
Huxley, Aldous	Brave New World	7.5	11
Hyde, Catharine Ryan	Pay It Forward	5.1	12
Ibsen, Henrik	Doll's House, A	5.9	4
Irving, Washington	Legend of Sleepy Hollow	11	3
James, Henry	Turn of the Screw, The	8.5	10
Jenkins, Peter	Walk Across America, A	6.4	14
Junger, Sebastian	Perfect Storm, The	7.4	13
Katz, Jon	Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho	8.3	10
Kaufman, Bel	Up the Downstaircase	5.9	9
Keller, Helen	Story of my Life, The	6.8	12
Keneally, Thomas	Schindler's List	8.6	25
Kennedy, John F.	Profiles in Courage	11	13
Kesey, Ken	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	6.2	18
Keyes, Daniel	Flowers for Algernon	5.8	13
King, Laurie	Beekeeper's Apprentice, The	7	19
King, Stephen	Christine	6.6	30
King, Stephen	Cujo	6.3	19
King, Stephen	It	6	70
King, Stephen	Misery	6.2	18
King, Stephen	Salem's Lot	5.4	23
King, Stephen	Shining, The	5.8	25
King, Stephen	Stand, The	5.7	72
Kipling, Rudyard	Captains Courageous	8	9
Kipling, Rudyard	Kim	7.7	18
Knowles, John	Separate Peace, A	6.9	10
Krakauer, Jon	Into Thin Air	8.9	17
LaFarge, Oliver	Laughing Boy	5.7	10
Lederer/Burdick	Ugly American, The	8.2	13
Lee, Harper	To Kill a Mockingbird	5.6	15
Leroux, Gaston	Phantom of the Opera, The	7.1	12
Lewis,Sinclair	Main Street	8.6	30
London, Jack	Sea-Wolf, The	8.1	18
London, Jack	White Fang	8.4	19
Lord, Walter	Night to Remember, A	7	8
Lowry, Lois	Gathering Blue	5	7
Lowry, Lois	Giver, The	5.7	7
Lurie, Alison	Foreign Affairs	7.8	19
Maclean, Norman	River Runs Through It, A	6.1	13
Mah, Adeline	Chinese Cinderella: the True story of an Unwanted Daughter	5.7	8
Malamud, Bernard	Fixer, The	7	17
Malcolm/Haley	Autobiography of Malcolm X, The	7.5	32
Markandaya, Kamala	Nectar In a Sieve	6.2	10
Mathabane, Mark	Kaffir Boy	7.1	24
Maugham, Somerset	Of Human Bondage	8.3	48
McCourt, Frank	Angela's Ashes	5.9	23
McCullers, Carson	Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The	6.3	19
McCullers, Carson	Member of the Wedding, The	6.3	9
McKinley, Robin	Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast	6.2	11
Melville, Herman	Moby Dick	10	42
Miller, Arthur	Crucible, The	4.9	5
Miller, Arthur	Death of a Salesman	6.2	5
Mitchell, Margaret	Gone with the Wind	7.1	71
Momaday, N. Scott	House Made of Dawn	6.2	11
Mori, Kyoko	One Bird	5.4	12
Mori, Kyoko	Shizuko's Daughter	5.2	9
Morrison, Toni	Beloved	6	15
Morrison, Toni	Paradise	5.8	17
Morrison, Toni	Song of Solomon	5	14
Mowatt, Farley	Never Cry Wolf	8.9	9
Myers, Walter Dean	Fallen Angels	4.2	11
Myers, Walter Dean	Monster	5.1	5
Myers, Walter Dean	Now is Your Time!	8.3	9
Myers, Walter Dean	Somewhere in the Darkness	4.4	6
Nordoff/Hall	Muntiny on the Bounty	8.4	22
O'Brien, Tim	Going after Cacciato	4.6	14
Orczy, B. Emma	Scarlet Pimpernel, The	8	15
Orwell, George	1984	8.9	17
Orwell, George	Animal Farm	7.3	5
Paton, Alan	Cry the Beloved Country	6.2	14
Plath, Sylvia	Bell Jar, The	7.2	11
Poe, Edgar Allen	Pit and the Pendulum	10	1
Potok, Chaim	Chosen, The	6.6	15
Preston, Richard	Hot Zone	7.3	16
Proulx, Annie	Shipping News, The	4.8	16
Pullman, Philip	Amber Spyglass, The	6.7	26
Pullman, Philip	Golden Compass, The	7.1	19
Pullman, Philip	Subtle Knife, The	6.2	16
Pullman, Philip	Tiger In the Well, The	5.9	20
Pyle, Howard	Book of King Arthur	9.4	21
Pyle, Howard	Men of Iron	9	14
Pyle, Howard	Merry Adventures of Robin Hood	8.6	21
Rand, Ayn	Fountainhead, The	7	53
Read, Piers Paul	Alive	7.7	19
Remarque, Erich	All Quiet on the Western Front	6	10
Roach, Mary	Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers	9.4	16
Rogasky, Barbara	Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust	7.9	10
Rolvaag, Ole Edvart	Giants in the Earth	8.4	28
Rostand, Edmond	Cyrano de Bergerac	7.6	7
Rubio, Gwyn Hyman	Icy Sparks	4.7	15
Sagan, Carl	Contact	9.4	23
Salinger, J.D.	Catcher in the Rye, The	4.7	11
Sandoz, Mari	Cheyenne Autumn	6.9	20
Saroyan, William	Human Comedy, The	5.8	8
Schaefer, Jack	Shane	5.5	7
Schlosser, Eric	Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal	10	22
Scott, Walter	Ivanhoe	13	40
Shaara, Michael	Killer Angels, The	4.7	15
Shakespeare, William	Hamlet	11	7
Shakespeare, William	Julius Caesar	11	6
Shakespeare, William	Macbeth	11	4
Shakespeare, William	Midsummer Night's Dream, A	11	3
Shakespeare, William	Othello	8.4	5
Shakespeare, William	Romeo and Juliet	13	10
Shaw, George Bernard	Pygmalion	7	6
Shelley, Mary	Frankenstein	12	17
Shields, Carol Diggory	Stone Diaries, The	7.6	17
Shute, Nevil	On the Beach	6.3	14
Sinclair, Upton	Jungle, The	8.0	22
Smiley, Jane	Thousand Acres	6	20
Smith, Betty	Joy in the Morning	4.9	13
Smith, Betty	Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A	5.8	23
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	5.5	8
Sparks, Nicholas	Walk to Remember, A	5.8	8
Steinbeck, John	Cannery Row	6	8
Steinbeck, John	Grapes of Wrath, The	4.9	25
Steinbeck, John	Of Mice and Men	4.5	4
Steinbeck, John	Pearl, The	7.1	4
Steinbeck, John	Red, Pony, The	6.1	6
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Black Arrow, The	9	14
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	9.5	5
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Kidnapped	7.6	14
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Treasure Island	8.3	12
Stoker, Bram	Dracula	6.6	25
Stowe, Harriet Beecher	Uncle Tom's Cabin	9.3	32
Stuart, Jesse	Thread that Runs So True, The	6	16
Styron, William	Confessions of Nat Turner, The	8.5	28
Swift, Jonathan	Gulliver's Travels	14	25
Tan, Amy	Joy Luck Club, The	5.7	14
Taylor, Peter	Summons to Memphis, A	7.5	12
TenBoom, Corrie	Hiding Place, The	6.4	13
Thackeray, William	Vanity Fair	12	66
Thoreau, Henry David	Walden	8.7	21
Toffler, Alvin	Future Shock	12	30
Tolkien, J.R.R.	Fellowship of the Ring, The	6.1	29
Tolkien, J.R.R.	Hobbit, The	6.6	16
Tolkien, J.R.R.	Return of the King, The	6.2	22
Tolkien, J.R.R.	Simarillion, The	7.9	21
Tolkien, J.R.R.	Two Towers, The	6.3	23
Tolstoy, Leo	Anna Karenina	9.6	69
Tolstoy, Leo	War and Peace	10	118
Toole, John Kennedy	Confederacy of Dunces, A	5.5	20
Trumbo, Dalton	Johnny Got His Gun	5.9	11
Twain, Mark	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	6.6	18
Twain, Mark	Adventures of Tom Sawyer	8.1	12
Twain, Mark	Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	9.2	21
Twain, Mark	Life on the Mississippi	9.1	24
Twain, Mark	Prince and the Pauper	9.3	12
Twain, Mark	Pudd'nhead Wilson	8.3	9
Tyler, Anne	Breathing Lessons	6.5	15
Updike, John	Rabbit at Best	6.8	31
Uris, Leon	Exodus	6.7	41
Uris, Leon	QB VII	8.4	22
Verne, Jules	Around the World in Eighty Days	9.6	12
Verne, Jules	Journey to the Centere of the Earth*	9.9	17
Verne, Jules	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under theSea	10	28
Vonnegut, Kurt	Slaughterhouse Five	6	8
Walker, Alice	Color Purple, The	4	9
Walker, Alice	Temple of My Familiar	7.5	23
Warren, Robert Penn	All the Kings Men	6.8	36
Washington, Booker	Up from Slavery	8.2	13
Webster, Jean	Daddy-Long-Legs	6.1	6
Wells, H.G.	Invisible Man, The	7.7	9
Wells, H.G.	Time Machine, The	7.4	6
Wells, H.G.	War of the Worlds, The	9.1	11
Wells, Rebecca	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	5.7	20
Welty, Eudora	Optimist's Daughter, The	5.6	6
West, Jessamyn	Friendly Persuasion, The	6.1	12
Wharton, Edith	Age of Innocence, The	8.8	19
Wharton, Edith	Ethan Frome	7.6	6
White, T.H.	Once and Future King, The	7.4	41
Wiesel, Elie	Dawn	5.4	4
Wiesel, Elie	Night	4.8	4
Wilde, Oscar	Picture of Dorian Gray, The	7.7	14
Wilder, Thornton	Bridge of San Luis Rey, The	7.1	5
Wilder, Thornton	Our Town	3.9	3
Wilkerson, David	Cross and the Switchblade, The	6.2	11
Williams, Tennesse	Glass Menagerie, The	5.3	3
Williams, Tennesse	Streetcar Named Desire, A	5.7	4
Wister, Owen	Virginian, The	6.3	21
Wouk, Herman	Caine Mutiny, The	6.4	34
Wouk, Herman	War and Remembrance	8.4	71
Wouk, Herman	Winds of War, The	6.6	61
Wright, Richard	Black Boy	7.4	22
Wright, Richard	Native Son	6.1	24
Wyss, Johann	Swiss Family Robinson	9.7	23
Yolen, Jane	Briar Rose	5	8