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Author	Title		AP Exam Years	RL	Pages
Achebe, Chinua	Things Fall Apart	1890s portraying the clash between Nigeria’s white colonial government and the traditional culture of the indigenous Igbo people	91,97,03	7.2	236
Aeschylus	Eumenides, The	Eumenides, the climactic play of the only surviving complete Greek tragic trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus.	96		320	PLAY
Aeschylus	Oresteia, The	The most famous series of ancient Greek plays, and the only surviving trilogy, is the Oresteia of Aeschylus, consisting of Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides.	90,94		232	PLAY
Albee, Edward	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf	This modern American play watches an evening with two couples and the lies they fabricate about themselves to keep on living. It is a vicious and haunting drama.	88,94,00, 04		242	PLAY
Albee, Edward	Zoo Story, The	The Zoo Story is a confrontation between middle-class America and the outcasts of society. Set in central park, Peter, an average American, is confronted by Jerry, a lonely man from the wrong side of the park.	82,01			PLAY
Albee, Edward	Sandbox, The	Deals with conflicts within a tense marriage.	71			PLAY
Anaya, Rudolfo	Bless Me, Ultima	Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a "curandera," one who cures with herbs and magic.	94, 96, 97, 99, 04	5.4	262
Aristophanes	Lysistrata	Aristophanes' great anti-war drama, with comedic overtones, glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction	87		64	PLAY
Arnow, Harriette	Dollmaker, The	Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevel's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills was devastated by the brutal winds of change.	91		606
Atwood, Margaret	Alias Grace	Grace has been convicted for her involvement in two vicious murders. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. Is Grace a female fiend?	00, 04	6.9	552
Atwood, Margaret	Cat's Eye	Painter Elaine Risley's return to Toronto, the city of her youth, evokes a flood of memories and allows her at long last to reconcile with her past.	94	6.1	445
Atwood, Margaret	Handmaid's Tale, The	In the futuristic Republic of Gilead, which is being ruled and policed by men, women are divided into classes based on their household functions.	92	5.4	395
Austen, Jane	Emma	This classic novel is about a self-assured young lady whose capricious behavior is dictated by romantic fancy.	96	9.3	353		Y
Austen, Jane	Mansfield Park	Fanny, a shy and sweet-tempered girl adopted by wealthy relations, is an outsider looking in on an unfamiliar and often inhospitable world. Fanny eventually wins the affection of her benefactors, endearing herself to the Bertram family.	91, 03	12	420
Austen, Jane	Persuasion	This is a tale of love lost and renewed amid England's complicated upper society.	83,88,90,92,94	12	204
Austen, Jane	Pride and Prejudice	This classic story about eighteenth-century England features a glamorous, proud heroine and a dashing, prejudiced hero, whose worth is slowly discovered.	83,88,92,94,97	12	332		Y
Baldwin, James	Go Tell it on the Mountain	Using as a frame the spiritual and moral awakening of 14-year-old John Grimes during a Saturday night service in a Harlem storefront church, Baldwin lays bare the secrets of a tormented black family during the depression.	88,90	6.5	224		Y
Beckett, Samuel	Waiting for Godot	This is Beckett's "theatre of the absurd" play of Vladimir and Estragon, who are waiting for the arrival of the mysterious Godot	77, 85, 86, 89, 94, 01	5.4	111	PLAY
Brecht, Bertolt	Mother Courage and Her Children	the work is a chronicle play of the Thirty Years' War	85,87		126	PLAY
Bronte, Charlotte	Jane Eyre	In this stormy, intense, introspective novel of the mid-nineteenth century. Jane Eyre is a plain, yet spirited, governess whose virtuous integrity, keen intellect, and perseverance break through class barriers to reach the man she loves.	76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 03, 04	7.9	488		Y
Bronte, Emily	Wuthering Heights	A tale of love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of passion between Catherine and Heathcliff	71,77,78,79,82,83,86,89,90,91,92,96,97,99,01	11.3	370		Y
Bulosan, Carlos	America is in the Heart	This autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.	95		327
Camus, Albert	Fall, The	In Amsterdam, the ex-lawyer Jean-Baptiste Clamence meets a fellow Frenchman in a seedy bar, and proceeds to give a account of his fall from social eminence.	81		160
Camus, Albert	Plague, The	Set in Algiers, in northern Africa, this is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it.	02	8.2	308
Camus, Albus	Stranger, The	Camus asks if there is a God or just a cold, indifferent universe in this story of the trial of a man who commits a pointless murder.	79,82,86,04	6.8	123		Y
Cao, Lan	Monkey Bridge	Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war.	00		260
Cather, Willa	My Antonia	In this portrait of a pioneer woman, the strengths and passions of America's early settlers are memorably rendered.	94,03	6.9	372		Y
Cervantes, Miguel de	Don Quixote	This book chronicles the adventures of Don Quixote, the errant Knight, and his faithful servant Sancho Panza. A humorous and thought-provoking parody of chivalry.	92,01, 04	13.2	1090		Y
Chekov, Anton	Cherry Orchard, The	Classic of world drama concerns the passing of the old semifeudal order in turn-of-the-century Russia, symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevskaya.	71, 77,83		64	PLAY
Chopin, Kate	Awakening, The	This book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threaten to consume her.	87,88,91,92,95,97,99,02, 04	8.5	218
Congreve, William	Way of the World, The	This knowing comedy of manners depicts the scheming of a nest of shallow, deceitful aristocrats to prevent two lovers from marrying.	71		80	PLAY
Conrad, Joseph	Heart of Darkness	A man travels up the Congo River by steamer, manages to survive an unforgiving land and persistent disease, and uncovers his own true nature.	76,91,94,96,99,00,01,02, 03, 04	9	146		Y
Conrad, Joseph	Lord Jim	A haunted sailor, driven from port to port, from island to island, Lord Jim is a man in search of identity.	78,82,83,86,00,03	9.1	317		Y
Conrad, Joseph	Victory	Baron Axel Heyst and his lover, Lena, a woman he saved from a sordid life, share an idyllic existence on the island of Samburan, until three intruders from Lena's past threaten to destroy their happiness.	83		432
Davies, Robertson	Fifth Business	This first novel of the Deptford Trilogy centers around the mystery of the relationship of Dunstan, Boy Staunton, and the Dempsters.	00	7.5	266
de Crevecoeur	Letters from an American Farmer	Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the American, this new man?", as a new nation took shape before the eyes of the world.	76		288
DeBalzac, Honore	Pere Goriot	This fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his personal and financial ruin.	02		304
Defoe, Daniel	Moll Flanders	Defoe's eighteenth-century novel of a woman's eventual escape from the life of immorality and wickedness imposed on her by society since her birth.	76,86,87,95		368
Dickens, Charles	Bleak House	The mysteries of Esther Summerson's birth and Mr. Tulkinghorn's murder are worked out against the backdrop of the Jarndyce lawsuit in England's Chancery Court	94, 00, 04	8.8	990
Dickens, Charles	David Copperfield	Story of the comic delights, tender warmth, and tragic horror of childhood. [Judged by many to be Dickens' masterpiece because of unforgettable characters and incidents.	78,83	8.8	990		Y
Dickens, Charles	Great Expectations	A tiny orphan boy named Pip acquires a mysterious benefactor who sponsors him to become a gentleman. Years later, Pip confronts his past heartaches and illusions that his "great expectations" have brought upon him.	79,80,88,89,92,94,95,96,00,01,02, 03,04	9.2	528		Y
Dickens, Charles	Hard Times	The author creates the Victorian city of Coketown in Northern England to critique the industrialist economy he believes exploited the lives of the working class, destroying human creativity and joy in the process.	87,90	9.3	338
Dickens, Charles	Our Mutual Friend	The basic plot is vintage Dickens: an inheritance up for grabs, a murder, a rocky romance or two, plenty of skullduggery, and a host of unforgettable secondary characters.	90	8.8	884
Dickens, Charles	Tale of Two Cities, A	Life in Paris and London during the oppressive and turbulent years leading up to the French Revolution are revealed in Dickens's classic story.	82,91,04	9.7	367
Doctorow, E.L.	Ragtime	Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War	03		270
Dostoevsky, Fyodor	Brothers Karamazov, The	This classic Russian novel is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the wicked and sentimental.	90	10.4	796
Dostoevsky, Fyodor	Notes from Underground	this classic novel recounts the apology and confession of a minor nineteenth-century official, an almost comical account of the man's separation from society and his descent "underground."	89		160
Dostoevsky, Fyodor	Crime and Punishment	Nietzschean hero Raskolnikov has committed a murder. Will he confess? Will the authorities break him?	76,80,82,88,96,99,00,01,02,03	8.7	542		Y
Dreiser, Theodore	American Tragedy, An	This novel reveals the corruption and destruction of one man who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success.	81, 82,95,03	8.5	828		Y
Dreiser, Theodore	Sister Carrie	Young Caroline Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late-nineteenth-century Chicago and New York	87,84,02	6.4	489
Eliot, George	Middlemarch	This is a portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life.	95, 04	10.4	826
Eliot, George	Mill on The Floss, The	Maggie Tulliver is torn between a code of moral responsibility and her hunger for self-fulfillment. Rebellious by nature, she causes friction, both among the townspeople of St. Ogg's and in her own family, particularly with her brother, Tom.	90,92, 04	9.9	627
Eliot, George	Silas Marner	Disappointed in friendship and love and embittered by a false accusation, weaver Silas Marner retreats from the world with his loom, but soon finds his monastic existence disturbed by the arrival of a golden-haired child.	02	9.7	205
Eliot, T. S.	Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	Deals with spiritually exhausted people who exist in the impersonal modern city. Prufrock is a representative character who cannot reconcile his thoughts and understanding with his feelings and will.	85			POEM
Eliot, T. S.	Wasteland, The	The Waste Land expresses with great power the disillusionment and disgust of the period after World War I.	81		200	POEM
Eliot, T.S.	Murder in the Cathedral	A dramatization in verse of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury	76,80,85,95		96	PLAY
Ellison, Ralph	Invisible Man	A black man fervently searches for his identity.	76,78,82,83,85,86,87,88,89,91,94,95,96,97,01	7.2	581
Erdich, Louise	Love Medicine	multigenerational saga of two extended families who live on and around a Chippewa reservation in North Dakota	95		384
Euripides	Medea	Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one of the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage	82,92,95,01,03		64	PLAY
Faulkner, William	Absalom, Absalom	This is the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded pursuit of his grand design -- to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in 1830.	76,00	9.3	313
Faulkner, William	As I Lay Dying	This novel portrays the story of Addie Bundren of Mississippi, her sons, and the family trip to bury her.	78,89,90,94,01, 04	5.4	267
Faulkner, William	Light in August	This novel is about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality that features some of Faulkner's most memorable characters.	71,79,81,82,83,85,91,94,95,99,03	6.7	512
Faulkner, William	Sound and the Fury	This stream-of-consciousness tale of the Compson family of Jefferson is also the tale of the South.	77,86,97,01	4.4	326		Y
Faulkner, William	Bear, The	The story of a young man's development against a background of vanishing wilderness.	94		193
Fielding, Henry	Joesph Andrews	Footboy Joseph loses his place when he rejects Lady Booby's advances, commencing a comic odyssey of robbery, poverty, and sexual viciousness	91, 99		288
Fielding, Henry	Joseph Andrews	Joseph Andrews, and Joseph—in the company of his old tutor, Parson Adams sets out from London to visit his sweetheart, Fanny. Along the way, the two travelers meet with a series of adventures—some hilarious, some heartstopping—in which through their own innocence and honesty they expose the hypocrisy and affectation of others.	99		248
Fielding, Henry	Tom Jones	This is the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones.	90,00	13.8	856
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	Great Gatsby	This story deals with the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, set during 1925.	82,83,88,91,92,97,00,02, 04				Y
Flaubert, Gustave	Madame Bovary	His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair.	80,85, 04		320
Ford, Ford Madox	Good Soldier, The	Ford's novel revolves around two couples that are on display as they pass parts of a dozen pre-World War I summers together in Germany, conceals the fissures in each marriage.	00		352
Forster, E. M.	Room with a View, A	Lucy Honeychurch is an innocent abroad -- a conventional middle-class English girl doing the Grand Tour of the European continent. But the "improving" effects of Europe's great art and architecture are soon overshadowed by a startling encounter with violent death and the distractions of an awakening passion.	03		224
Forster, E.M.	Passage to India, A	This account captures the clash of two cultures, East and West, in British India after the turn of the century.	71, 77, 78, 83, 88, 91, 92	7.7	361
Friel, Brian	Dancing at Lughnasa	This is the story of the summer of 1936 and a family of a poor irish family making their way through it.	01		71	PLAY
Fugard, Athol	Master Harold...and the Boys	Beautifully executed one-act on the consequences of racism (in South Africa)-- not just for the victims of racism, but for everyone.	03		60	PLAY
Gaines, Ernest	Gathering of Old Men, A	This book depicts the racial tension that arises over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man, in Louisiana during the 1970s.	00	4.4	217
Gaines, Ernest	Lesson before Dying, A	Two black men--one a teacher, the other a death-row inmate--struggle to live and die with dignity.	99	4.4	256
Garcia, Cristina	Dreaming in Cuban	The story of four strong-willed women of the del Pino family of Havana and of Brooklyn who are divided by conflicting political loyalties.	03	6.5	245
Glaspell, Susan	Trifles	Develops a feminist critique of social role	00			PLAY
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von	Faust	The story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact, selling his soul for the devil's greater knowledge; he produced one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature.	02,03		240
Golding, Willaim	Lord of the Flies	Shipwrecked English schoolboys set up their own civilization, but savagery finally emerges.	85,92	5	187		Y
Greene, Graham	Brighton Rock	A masterpiece of psycho-realism, this fascinating study of evil, sin, and the "appalling strangeness of the mercy of God" withholds easy judgement as a narrative takes us through the moral question of what is simultaneously fascinating and repellent.	79		338
Greene, Graham	Power and the Glory, The	This is a suspenseful story about a hunted, driven desperate priest in Mexico.	95	5.9	240		Y
Greene, Graham	Heart of the Matter, The	Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so is forced to betray everything he believes in, with tragic consequences.	71		242
Guterson, David	Snow Falling on Cedars	Portrays the psychology of a community, the ambiguities of justice, the racism that continued to persist after World War II was long over.	00	7	345
Hamilton, Alexander	Federalist Papers, The	Considered one of the most authoritative explanations of the provisions of the Constitution in existence	76		648
Hansberry, Lorraine	Raisin in the Sun, A	This play is a drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class, black family living on the South Side of Chicago	87,90,92,94,96,99	5.5	135		Y
Hardy, Thomas	Jude the Obscure	Victorian novel of Jude Fawley, who dreams of life and knowledge beyond his birthright. Ultimately, his own family and ideals are destroyed from within.	76,80,85,87,91,95, 04	8.9	514		Y
Hardy, Thomas	Mayor Of Casterbridge, The	Set in Wessex, England, shortly before 1830, this story is about the blind energies and defiant acts that bring an ambitious man to power, but can also destroy him.	94,99,00,02	9.5	416		Y
Hardy, Thomas	Tess of D'ubervilles	Victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy, Tess is a woman whose intense vitality flares unforgettably against the bleak background of a dying rural society.	82,91,03	9.5	432
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	House of Seven Gables, The	This story is of four relatives who live in an evil house cursed through the centuries by a man hanged for witchcraft.	89,96	11	288		Y
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Scarlet Letter, The	A novel of shame, guilt, and pride as Hester Prynne is branded an adulteress and finds love only in her child, Pearl.	71,77,78,83,88,91,99,02,04	11.7	241		Y
Heller, Joseph	Catch-22	Vulgarly, bitterly, savagely funny. A powerful account of World War II bombing missions	82,85,87,98,94,01, 03,04	7.1	455
Hellman, Lillian	Little Foxes, The	Brilliant display of a family driven to disaster by overwhelming greed and desire.	85,90		81	PLAY
Hellman, Lillian	Watch on the Rhine	Tells the story of a man who, in attempting to return to the United States during World War II, is blackmailed by a Nazi sympathiser.	87			PLAY
Hemingway, Ernest	Farewell to Arms, A	Set in World War I Italy, this is one of the most poignant love stories ever written.	91,99	6	332		Y
Hemingway, Ernest	For Whom the Bell Tolls	This timeless epic of the Spanish Civil War portrays every facet of human emotions.	03	5.8	471		Y
Hemingway, Ernest	Sun Also Rises, The	A brilliant profile of the Lost Generation, Hemingway's first bestseller captures life among the expatriates on Paris's Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation.	85,91,95	4.4	222
Homer	Iliad, The	This story, filled with heroism and treachery, tells of the terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy.	80	11.3	454
Homer	Odyssey, The	The hero Odysseus encounters Poseidon the sea god, fights monsters, and loses his crew as he returns to Ithaca.	86,94	10.3	365		Y
Hurston, Zora Neale	Their Eyes Were Watching God	An American classic about a young black woman and her coming to an understanding about love and happiness.	88,90,91,94,96,04	5.6	195
Huxley, Aldous	Brave New World	This novel is a shocking look at a frightening tomorrow.	89	7.5	267		Y
Ibsen, Henrik	Doll's House, A	The story of Nora and her husband, Torvald, is told just as the secret Nora has been hiding for years is finally revealed. In the process, Nora discovers her importance as a person.	71,83,88,94,95,00	5.9	124		Y
Ibsen, Henrik	Enemy of the People, An	A medical officer is charged with inspecting the public baths on which the prosperity of his native town depends. He finds the water to be contaminated. When he refuses to be silenced, he is declared an enemy of the people.	76, 80, 87, 99, 01			PLAY
Ibsen, Henrik	Ghosts	Powerful psychological drama (1881) exposes hypocrisy of social conventions and society’s moral codes.	00, 04		64	PLAY
Ibsen, Henrik	Hedda Gabler	Readers will discover in the shocking events Hedda Gabler precipitates, a masterly exploration of the nature of evil and the potential for tragedy that lies in human frailty.	79,92,02,03		80	PLAY
Ibsen, Henry	Wild Duck, The	The idealistic son of a corrupt merchant exposes his father’s duplicity, but in the process destroys the very people he wishes to save.	78			PLAY
Ishigura, Kazuo	Remains of the Day, The	A story about an English butler who has spent his whole life serving anothers' needs who now faces old age and memories that rise up out of a deep self-deception.	00,03	7.9	245
James, Henry	Portrait of a Lady	Story of intense poignancy, Isabel's tale of love and betrayal still resonates with modern audiences.	88,92,96,03		656
James, Henry	Turn of the Screw, The	In this classic tale of terror and obsession, imagination weaves a fascinating tale of the lives of two children, a governess in love, and a country house.	92,94,00,02, 04	8.5	191		Y
James, Henry	Washington Square	An heiress favored by neither beauty nor brilliance, her proud and pitiless father, and her fortune-hunting suitor are portrayed through shifting relationships and a series of confrontations.	90	7.2	258
James, Henry	Daisy Miller	This book is about a captivating young American, Daisy Miller, whose behavior causes conflicting feelings in the mind of would-be suitor, Winterbourne.	97,03	8.6	126
Jen, Gish	Typical American	Three Chinese students in New York become trapped in the United States when the Communists assume control of China in 1948. Banding together, the three of them innocently plan to achieve the American dream, while retaining their Chinese values.	02,03		304
Johnson, James Weldon	Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The	Remarkable novel relates events in the life of an American of mixed ethnicity whose exceptional abilities allow him to move freely in society—from the rural South to the urban North and eventually, Europe.	02		192
Jones, Leroi (Amiri Baraka)	Dutchman	Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, literally a shocking play--in ideas, in language, in honest anger.	03			PLAY
Jonson, Ben	Volpone	The plot concerns a wealthy, lecherous old man who feigns a mortal illness in order to solicit bribes from greedy acquaintances who hope to inherit his fortune.	83		122
Joyce, James	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	This book portrays Stephen's Dublin childhood and youth and, in doing so, provides an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce.	76,80,81,83,86,88,96,99	8.7	329
Joyce, James	Dead, The	Presents the thoughts and actions of one man, Gabriel Conroy, on a night he and his wife attend a party given by his two aunts.	97
Kafka, Franz	Metamorphosis	This is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man.	78,89	10.5	201
Kafka, Franz	Trial, The	A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him.	88,89,00		312
Kesey, Ken	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	The story of a mental patient and his struggle not to conform, especially to the rules of the head nurse	01	6.2	272		Y
Kingston, Maxine Hong	Woman Warrior	This book distills the dire lessons of a mother's mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward.	91	5.7	209
Knowles, John	Separate Peace, A	Two adolescents come to understand each other and themselves after a tragic accident.	82	6.9	196		Y
Kogawa, Joy	Obasan	The story of what happened to a Japanese family in Canada during World War II.	94,95,97,04	6.6	300
Laurence, Margaret	Diviners, The	Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie, struggles to understand the loneliness of her eighteen-year-old daughter.	95		389
Laurence, Margaret	Stone Angel, The	At 90, Hagar Shipley looks back at her life--a girlhood dominated by her father, a bad marriage, and her relationship with her sons.	96, 04	4.8	316
Lawrence, D.H.	Sons and Lovers	The novel revolves around Paul Morel, a sensitive young artist whose love for his mother, Gertrude, overshadows his romances with two women	83,90		394
Lee, Chang-Rae	Gesture Life, A	First, as a native-born Korean, he bends over backwards to fit into Japanese culture, circa 1944. Then he attempts a similar bit of environmental adaptation in postwar America--more specifically, in the slumbering New York suburb of Bedley Run. But in neither case does he quite succeed, which gives the novel its peculiar, faltering sense of tragedy.	04		356
Lee, Chang-Rae	Native Speaker	Espionage acts as a metaphor for the uneasy relationship of Amerasians to American society in this eloquent, thought-provoking tale of a young Korean-American's struggle to conjoin the fragments of his personality in culturally diverse New York City.	99,03		349
Lewis,Sinclair	Main Street	Showcases the humdrum existence of a small American town and its inhabitants.	87	8.6	439
MacLeish, Archibald	J.B.	Modern poetic version of the biblical Book of Job which attempts to relate the concept of goodness to contemporary life.	81,94		160	PLAY
MacLennan, Hugh	Watch that Ends the Night, The	Describes the political climate amongst the intelligentsia in the 1930's and it also offers a glimpse of what Montreal was like during the great depression.	92		372
Mailer, Norman	Armies of the Night	The book, subtitled History as a Novel, The first part is Mailer's first-hand account of the 1967 March on the Pentagon.The second part is compiled from other accounts of the events leading up to the March.	76		282
Marlowe, Christopher	Doctor Faustus	Marlowe's classic treatment of the myth of man's greed and ambition has contemporary reverberations that make it compelling drama.	79,86,99,04		64	PLAY
Marquez, Gabriel García	One Hundred Years of Solitude	This is the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo as told through the history of the Buendia family.	89,94,04	8.7	416
Marshall, Paule	Praisesong for the Widow	Recently widowed Avey (Avatara) Johnson, a wealthy, middle-aged African-American woman, undergoes a spiritual rebirth and finds a vital connection to her past while visiting an island in the Caribbean.	96		256
McCarthy, Cormac	All the Pretty Horses	John Grady Cole is too young to be given charge of the family ranch and is cut off from the only life he has ever imagined wanting.	95, 96	4.9	301
McCullers, Carson	Member of the Wedding, The	Frankie Addams is a bored twelve-year-old madly jealous of her brother's impending marriage. Frankie is transformed into F. Jasmine and as F. Jasmine, she looks sixteen and accepts a date with a red-haired soldier.	97	6.3	153		Y
Melville, Herman	Benito Cereno	A harrowing tale of slavery and revolt aboard a Spanish ship.	89		112	PLAY
Melville, Herman	Billy Budd	This book is a legal parable in which reason and intellect prove incapable of preserving innocence in the face of evil.	79,81,82,83,85,99,02, 04	10.6	265
Melville, Herman	Moby Dick	This American epic tells a tale about a captain of a whaleship and his obsession to catch the whale named Moby Dick.	76,78,79,80,83,89,94,96,01,03,04	10.3	822		Y
Melville, Herman	Redburn, His First Voyage	The hardships of life at sea and the realities of distant cities provide young Redburn with a startling introduction to the world.	87		443
Miller, Arthur	All My Sons	Joe Keller and Herbert Deever, partners in a machine shop during the war, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men.	85,90		84	PLAY
Miller, Arthur	Crucible, The	A dramatization of the events in the seventeenth-century witchcraft trials in Salem, and the furor caused by witchcraft accusations.	71, 83, 86, 89, 04	4.9	152	PLAY	Y
Miller, Arthur	Death of a Salesman	A not-too-successful traveling salesman rears his sons on platitudes to his and their undoing.	86,88,94,03, 04	6.2	139	PLAY	Y
Miller, Arthur	View from the Bridge, A	Inspired by the true story of a Brooklyn dockworker who informed on two illegal immigrant.	94		86	PLAY
Milton, John	Paradise Lost	poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man.	85,86		512
Mistry, Rohinton	Fine Balance	In India in 1975, the government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.	03	5.8	603
Moliere	Tartuffe	Molière's satirical examination of religious hypocricy: a controversial classic	87		180	PLAY
Moliere	Misanthrope, The	sophisticated comic drama which elicited enormous controversy with its religious irreverence	92			PLAY
Momaday, N. Scott	House Made of Dawn	In this fictional story based on the lives of the author's Indian ancestors, a young American Indian is torn between two worlds--his ancestors' and the modern world.	95	6.2	212		Y
Morrison, Toni	Beloved	In post-Civil War Ohio, the past continues to haunt the ex-slave Sethe and the surviving members of her family.	90,94,99,01,03	6	275		Y
Morrison, Toni	Bluest Eye, The	This is a story of a young black girl, abused by her drunken father, who wishes to have blue eyes so she can be beautiful	95	5.2	215
Morrison, Toni	Song of Solomon	A literary masterpiece about four generations of black life in America.	81,88,96,00,04	5	337
Morrison, Toni	Sula	This is a sorrowful, touching, sometimes funny tale of two women who share everything as childhood friends in their small, segregated Ohio town, but are later torn apart by the radically different paths they choose to follow.	92,97,02,04	6.4	174
Murkerjee, Bharati	Jasmine	This novel relates both the odyssey and the metamorphosis of a young immigrant from rural India.	99		256
Nabokov, Vladimir	Pale Fire	A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.	01		321
Nabokov, Vladimir	Pnin	Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master.	97		208
Naipaul, V. S.	Bend in the River, A	This book explores an isolated African town caught between the modern worlds, as seen through the eyes of an uprooted Indian who comes to live there.	03	6.7	439
Ng, Fae M.	Bone: A Novel	Explores the aspirations, struggles and emotional scars of a family living in San Francisco's Chinatown	03		208
O'Brien, Tim	Going after Cacciato	This novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris.	01	4.6	352
O'Brien, Tim	In the Lake of the Woods	John Wade finds his political future derailed by revelations about his past as a soldier in Vietnam. The election lost, John and his wife, Kathy, retreat to a small cabin on the shores of a Minnesota lake, from which Kathy mysteriously disappears.	00	5.2	303
O'Brien, Tim	Things They Carried, The	Neither a novel nor a short story collection, it is an arc of fictional episodes, taking place in the childhoods of its characters, in the jungles of Vietnam and back home in America two decades later.	04	5.8	272
O'Connor, Flannery	Wise Blood	Savage satire of America's secular, commercial culture, as well as the humanism it holds so dear	82,89,95		232
Odaatjie, Michael	Coming through Slaughter	This book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great cornet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place.	01	5.8	160
Okada, John	No-No Boy	This isn't simply a Japanese-American internment story, but a rich analysis of what it means to be non-white in the United States, and all the pain and joy that accompanies such an identity.	95		260
O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone	Desire under the Elms	In this play Ephraim Cabot abandons his farm and his three sons, who hate him.	81			PLAY
O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone	Hairy Ape, The	Tells of an animalistic stoker, who, spurned by a society woman, breaks out of the engine room and goes in search of himself in the "real" world.	89			PLAY
O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone	Long Days Journey into Night	This was the environment, respectably middle class on the surface, obsessed and tortured inside, out of which our most gigantic writer of tragedy emerged	90,03		192
Orwell, George	1984	Eternal warfare is the price of bleak prosperity in this satire of totalitarian barbarism.	87,97	8.9	268		Y
Paine, Thomas	Crisis, The	A plain spoken commentary outlining obstacles the colonies faced in the struggle with Britain	76			ESSAY
Paton, Alan	Cry the Beloved Country	This book is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s.	85,87,91,95,96	6.2	283		Y
Pielmeier, John	Agnes of God	Agnes, 21, a deranged nun accused of murdering her newborn. A court-appointed psychiatrist, an atheist, and the Mother Superior spar ineffectively on theology and miracles and discuss their lives.	00		109	PLAY
Pinter, Harold	Caretaker, The	The story of three men - Mick is the proprietor of a shabby house in the countryside. Aston, his brother, is always busy with something but never accomplishes anything. Finally there is Davies, some kind of a hobo, adopted by Aston who gives him a place to sleep and - after a while - asks him if he wants a job as the caretaker.	85			PLAY
Pinter, Harold	Homecoming, The	Sexual deviance, abuse, name calling, assault and torture: these are the norm. The play is twisted and as much a psychological journey as anything else.	78,90			PLAY
Pinter, Harold	Birthday Party, The	A young man lives with his mother at a run-down boarding house near the beach. Two visitors come and shake things up. They don't do anything wild or unusual, but they question and intimidate the young man, until the reader becomes unsure what sinister plans the two men have in mind.	89,97			PLAY
Pope, Alexander	Rape of the Lock, The	Mock-epic poem in heroic couplets recounts the story of a young woman who has a lock of hair stolen by an ardent young man.	81			POEM
Potok, Chaim	My Name is Asher Lev	Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy.	03		384
Proulx, Annie	Shipping News, The	Family life and domestic turmoil in a Newfoundland harbor town.	97	4.8	337		Y
Racine, Jean	Phaedre	A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy. The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology.	92,03		88	PLAY
Rhys, Jean	Wide Sargasso Sea	Details the life of Antoinette Mason (known in Jane Eyre as Bertha). Locked in a loveless marriage and settled in an inhospitable climate, Antoinette goes mad and is frequently violent.	89,92		190
Richardson, Samuel	Pamela	As its heroine became an icon of feminine virtue, so she also became the subject of vicious parody.	86		592
Richler, Mordecai	Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The	Duddy, the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family, is combative, amoral, scheming, and a liar. From his street days tormenting teachers to his time hustling four jobs at once in a grand plan to "be somebody," Duddy learns about living.	94	4.2	384
Rolvaag, Ole Edvart	Giants in the Earth	This powerful novel depicts the challenges of pioneer life in America	94	8.4	560		Y
Salinger, J.D.	Catcher in the Rye, The	A cynical teenager explains the events following his expulsion from prep school and subsequent nervous breakdown.	01	4.7	277		Y
Saroyan, William	Human Comedy, The	This captivating novel tells the story of a gentle California community during World War II.	94	5.8	192
Sartre, Jean Paul	No Exit	Kimo is caught stealing and is taken to Dieous, the owner of the store.	86	3.6	32	PLAY
Shaffer, Peter	Equus	Along Dysart's (the psychiatrist who must discover why Alan has cruelly blinded six horses) and the reader's journey through Alan's tortured life and mind, the reader comes to partially understand and all but accept Alan's deed as a man's faith betraying him.	92,94,99,00,01			PLAY
Shakespeare, William	Antony and Cleopatra	The legendary romance between an irresistible siren and great general comes to dramatic life in one of Shakespeare’s most powerful tragedies.	80,91		288	PLAY
Shakespeare, William	As You Like it	This play has two principal settings: the court that Frederick has usurped from his brother, the rightful Duke, and the Forest of Arden, where the Duke and his followers (including the disgruntled Lord Jaques and the jester Touchstone) are living.	92	9.2	263	PLAY
Shakespeare, William	Hamlet	In this classic play about royal murder, Hamlet is caught in a web of family intrigue.	88, 92,94,97,99,00	10.5	287	PLAY	Y
Shakespeare, William	Henry IV, Parts I and II	King Henry IV realizes political gratitude is short lived, and Richard's prediction of Henry IV's trials comes true.	80,90	9.6	612	PLAY
Shakespeare, William	Henry V	Shakespeare's most famous "war play" describes the life of Henry V.	02	11.9	294	PLAY
Shakespeare, William	Julius Caesar	In Shakespeare's tale of political conflict and intrigue set in ancient Rome, Brutus and others conspire to assassinate Julius Caesar	82,97	10.8	138	PLAY	Y
Shakespeare, William	King Lear	The aging King Lear decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, allotting each a portion in proportion to the eloquence of her declaration of love.	77,78,82,83,88,89,90,94,96,01,03, 04	10.8	316	PLAY
Shakespeare, William	Macbeth	Beguiled by the prophesies of the "weird sisters," and urged on by his wife, Macbeth acts on his intense political ambition, with tragic consequences.	83,99,03	10.9	135	PLAY	Y
Shakespeare, William	Merchant of Venice, The	This is the story of a young merchant, Antonio, who cannot repay a debt to vindictive money lender, Shylock.	85,91,95,02,03	10.5	233	PLAY
Shakespeare, William	Midsummer Night's Dream, A	This is a play about love and that love is a dream or perhaps a vision that is irrational. Love is not a feeling that can necessarily be defined.	91	10.9	204	PLAY
Shakespeare, William	Much Ado About Nothing	Claudio is deceived by his jealous cousin into believing that his lover, Hero, is unfaithful--a plot unveiled by the bumbling constables Dogberry and Verges.	97	10.9	246	PLAY
Shakespeare, William	Othello	This is a tale of love and betrayal, secrets, passions, and intrigue. Psychology and wit pit strength and virtue against jealousy and evil agendas. The results leave no winners, only tragedy.	79,85,88,92,95,03,04	8.4	314	PLAY
Shakespeare, William	Richard III	Richard of Gloucester crosses and double-crosses friends and foes alike in a no-holds-barred effort to solidify control of the throne once occupied by his brother, Edward IV. His antics prove fruitful until one final battle with Henry, Earl of Richmond.	79	9.5	368
Shakespeare, William	Romeo and Juliet	This a tragic play where two star-crossed teenagers take their lives for the name of love.	90,92,97	12.5	281	PLAY	Y
Shakespeare, William	Tempest, The	Set on an enchanted island where humans, monsters, and fairies meet, William Shakespeare's most magical play will delight readers in this spirited retelling.	71,78, 96, 03	10.9	218	PLAY
Shakespeare, William	Twelfth Night	This comedy devises a romantic plot around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken identity.	85,94,96	10.5	222	PLAY
Shakespeare, William	Winter's Tale	Shakespeare's tale of jealousy and repentance	82,86,89,95	8.5	292	PLAY
Shaw, Bernard	Mrs. Warren's Profession	Shaw pits a clever heroine against a memorable gallery of rogues in this superbly intelligent and still shocking comedy, banned for eight years from the English stage	87,90,95,02		112	PLAY
Shaw, George Bernard	Candida	Candida's husband and a young poet both adore her, in quite different ways and for quite different reasons, and she is attracted to them for their very different qualities. They both forget she is her own woman.	80		59	PLAY
Shaw, George Bernard	Major Barbara	Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, however, is a devout major in the Salvation Army.	79,96, 04		156	PLAY
Shaw, George Bernard	Pygmalion	A Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady has a lot to say about class, money, freedom, and women's independence.	92,03	7	133	PLAY	Y
Shaw, George Bernard	Saint Joan	Modern classic drama portraying conflict between personal virtue and political expediency.	95	7.3	163	PLAY
Shaw, George Bernard	Man and Superman	In this caustic satire of romantic conventions, Shaw provides a wonderfully original twist on the Don Juan myth.	81		264
Shelley, Mary	Frankenstein	This novel tells the classic tale of a terrible monster, eight feet tall, capable of deeds guaranteed to make the blood run cold.	89,00,03	12.4	265		Y
Silko, Leslie Marmon	Ceremony	A young Native American fights to defeat the demons that have followed him since his return from WWII.	94,96,97,99,01, 03		262
Sinclair, Upton	Jungle, The	Poverty, disease, and despair are depicted in this story of the barbarous working conditions in the slaughter houses of Chicago in 1900.	77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96	8.0	352
Sophocles	Antigone	Antigone concerns that part of the Oedipus story that occurs after Eteocles and Polyneices have killed each other over the succession to the throne of Thebes. Antigone's uncle Kreon succeeds to the throne.	79,80,90,94,99,03	5.2	101	PLAY
Sophocles	Oedipus Rex	Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother.	77,83,88,00,03,04		65	PLAY
Spark, Muriel	Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The	The elegantly styled classic story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special--and ultimately dangerous--relationship with six of her students.	90		160
Steinbeck	Grapes of Wrath, The	This powerful social document exemplifies the plight of "Okies" during the 1930s.	81,85,87,95, 03	4.9	555		Y
Steinbeck, John	Of Mice and Men	Rough-tongued, ribald men yearn for land of their own while working on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley.	01	4.5	107		Y
Sterne, Laurence	Tristram Shandy	Narrated by Shandy, the story begins at the moment of his conception and diverts into endless digressions, interruptions, stories-within-stories, and other narrative devices.	86		752
Stoppard, Tom	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead	A beautiful play giving ta totally different perspective of Hamlet from two side characters, friends of Hamlet, Rosencratz and Guildenstern.	81,94,00,04		126	PLAY
Stowe, Harriet Beecher	Uncle Tom's Cabin	The story that awakened the conscience of the nation to life under the slave system.	87	9.3	637		Y
Strindberg, August	Father, The	The Father is a feverish nightmare of the struggle he saw between defiant masculinity and the "treacherous weakness" of women.	01		73	PLAY
Swift, Jonathan	Gulliver's Travels	Gulliver travels to fantastic lands to discover very different cultures and their peculiarities.	87,88,01, 04	13.5	318		Y
Tan, Amy	Joy Luck Club, The	This book chronicles the lives of four Chinese women, their forty-year friendship, and how the death of one brings her daughter into the fold and creates a new understanding for each.	97, 03	5.7	332		Y
Thoreau, Henry David	Civil Disobedience	Many world leaders, including Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., drew inspiration from this classic treatise on passive, nonviolent resistance.	76			ESSAY
Tolstoy, Leo	Anna Karenina	A great realistic novel of modern social criticism with two plots set in nineteenth- century Russia.	80,91,99,02,03,04	9.6	873		Y
Tolstoy, Leo	Death of Ivan Ilyic, The	The story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality.	86		128
Trollope, Anthony	Warden, The	It tells of a dispute that arises between the Church of England and reformers over the rights of the warden of a hospital to the excess proceeds of the land which funds the hospital	96		336
Turgenev, Ivan	Fathers and Sons	When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith."	90		296
Twain, Mark	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The	Huck and Jim encounter life on the Mississippi in one of the great works of American Literature.	80,82,85,91,92,9495,96,99	6.6	366		Y
Tyler, Anne	Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant	With her grown children gathered around her, the dying Pearl Tull recalls the difficult years she spent raising them after their father's abrupt departure.	97		320
Updike, John	Centaur, The	In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lost touch with his life.	81		320
Valdez, Luis	Zoot Suit	Focuses on the Sleepy Lagoon case and the Zoot Suit/Servicemen Riots and a bad memory of the virulent racism against Mexicans.	95			PLAY
Villarreal, Jose Antonio	Poncho	Set in Depression-era California, the novel focuses on Richard, a young pocho who experiences the intense conflict between loyalty to the traditions of his family's past and attraction to new ideas.	02		192
Voltaire	Candide	A gentle man is pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, but clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds."	80, 86, 87, 91, 95, 96, 04	7.3	122
Vonnegut, Kurt	Slaughterhouse Five	From the World War Two firebombing of Dresden to the distant planet called Tralfamadore, the reader follows Billy Pilgrim in his attempt to understand the natures of time and existence.	91,04	6	215
Walker, Alice	Color Purple, The	Life was not easy for Celie. But she knew how to survive, needing little to get by. Finally, she gains the courage to ask for more out of her life	91,92,94,86,97	4	251		Y
Wang, David Henry	M. Butterfly	Looks at the life and loves of Rene Gallimard, who learns that his Chinese mistress of twenty years is actually a man and a Communist spy.	95		112	PLAY
Warren, Robert Penn	All the Kings Men	Horrifying expose of corruption, power, and privilege on the American political scene	00,02	6.8	438		Y
Waugh, Evelyn	Brideshead Revisited	Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead.	94,96		351
Waugh, Evelyn	Loved One, The	The setting is the L.A. funeral industry, where Whispering Glades provides deluxe service to deceased stars and their families, and the Happier Hunting Ground does the same for dead pets.	89		176
Welch, James	Winter in the Blood	An extraordinary, evocative novel about a young Native American coming to terms with his heritage--and his dreams.	95		192
Welty, Eudora	Delta Wedding	Young Laura spends an exciting week with her cousins, the Fairchilds, at their estate on the Mississippi Delta in the early 1920s.	97		336
Welty, Eudora	Optimist's Daughter, The	Character study of a middle-aged woman who returns from Chicago to Mississippi to care for her dying father.	94	5.6	180		Y
West, Nathanael	Miss Lonelyhearts	It concerns a male advice columnist (Miss Lonleyhearts) whose attempts to give advice to the lovelorn end in tragedy.	89		141
Wharton, Edith	Age of Innocence, The	New York society in the 1870s is portrayed, where money counted for less than manners and morals.	97,02, 03	8.8	369		Y
Wharton, Edith	Ethan Frome	This tragic love story, with its setting in remote New England, has become one of the classics of twentieth-century American literature.	80,95,03	7.6	158		Y
Wharton, Edith	House of Mirth, The	Lily knows that she must marry, her expensive tastes and mounting debts demand it, and, at twenty-nine, she has every wile at her disposal to secure that end.	04	9.7	324
Wideman, John Edgar	Sent for You Yesterday	Reimagining the black neighborhood of his youth Homewood, Pittsburgh -Wideman creates a dazzling and evocative milieu.	03		208
Wilde, Oscar	Picture of Dorian Gray, The	Dorian's outward innocence conceals corruption deep enough to charm those about him into a life of wanton sensuality.	02	7.7	221		Y
Wilder, Thornton	Our Town	Illuminating that which is extraordinary about the ordinary aspects of daily life, this play has become one of the most unforgettable of this century.	86,97	3.9	121	PLAY	Y
Williams, Tennesse	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	The play exposes the emotional lies governing relationships in the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins.	00		158	PLAY
Williams, Tennesse	Glass Menagerie, The	This play is a tender, despairing portrait of two women, one lost in the past, the other in herself.	90,94,97,99,02	5.3	70	PLAY	Y
Williams, Tennesse	Streetcar Named Desire, A	This Pulitzer Prize-winning play shows a woman's descent into oblivion following her inability to deal with desire and death	91,92,01,04	5.7	142	PLAY	Y
Wilson, August	Fences	Troy Maxson, a strong, hard man who has learned how to be black and proud in the 1950s, finds the changing spirit of the 1960s hard to deal with.	02,03	3.5	101
Wilson, August	Joe Turner's Come and Gone	Wilson's play is set in the early 1920's in Pittsburgh. The play is about African Americans migrating North and away from slave states towards better, or different opportunity.	00, 04		94	PLAY
Wilson, August	Piano Lesson, The	This book dramatizes the struggles of an African-American family as they consider selling a prized possession, an ornate upright piano, in order to buy the tract of land upon which they were once enslaved.	96,99	3.6	108
Wolfe, Thomas	You Can't Go Home Again	George Webber, a writer, Wolfe sees and captures America and the world in an dramatic time in history. The time is the period just before the great stock market crash and it stretches through the Depression and into Germany during the rise of Nazis.	94		720
Woolf, Virginia	Mrs. Dalloway	This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life.	94,97,04		216
Woolf, Virginia	Room of One's Own	Speculating on the imaginary life of Shakespeare's equally talented sister, she posits the necessity of "a room of one's own" (and a fixed income) for the writer to pursue her craft.	76		114
Woolf, Virginia	To the Lighthouse	This story describes a family gathered at a house on the Scottish coast, where in later years only caretakers live. Then, the house is again filled with surviving family members.	77,83,86,88	7.2	228
Woolf, Virginia	Orlando: A Biography	Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s.	04		333
Wright, Richard	Native Son	Bigger, a young black man in Chicago, kills his first victim in a moment of panic. He then goes on to kill again. The book describes the feelings of freedom and identity Bigger gains from these acts.	79,82,85,87,89,01,04	6.2	398		Y