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A Passage to IndiaEdward Morgan Forster
A Prayer for Owen MeanyJohn Irving
A World Turned OverLorian Hemingway
Angela's AshesFrank McCourt
An Annotated AliceMartin Gardner
Breakfast Of ChampionsKurt Vonnegut
Child of GodCormac McCarthy
CityAlessandro Baricco
City at NightZachary Weiner
Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole
East of EdenJohn Steinbeck
EmmaJane Austen
Foucault's PendulumUmberto Eco
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop CafeFannie Flagg
Harvest HomeTom Tyron
Getting Mother's BodySusan-Lori Parks
Gone With the WindMargaret Mitchell
Green Dolphin StreetElizabeth Goudge
L.A. ConfidentialJames Ellroy
Letters To A Young PoetRainer Maria Rilke
MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot
Oldest Confederate Widow Tells AllAlan Gurganis
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel Garcia Marquez
Our Mutual FriendCharles Dickens
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaRoddy Doyle
ParadiseToni Morrison
PaulaIsabel Allende
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
SabrielGarth Nix
South, The Endurance Expedition Ernest Shackleton
Straight ManRichard Russo
Surviving Pieces Dana A. Matthews
The Annotated AliceLewis Carroll
The Dark TowerStephen King
The Go-BetweenL. P. Hartley
The Human StainPhilip Roth
The Mimic MenV.S Naipaul
The Queen of the Peace RoomMagie Dominic
The Spy Who Came in From the ColdJohn LeCarre
The Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera
The Vintners LuckElizabeth Knox
The WishlistEoin Colfer
The Woman Who Found GraceBett Reece Johnson
This Boy's LifeTobias Wolff
Time and AgainJack Finney
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
TriageScott Anderson

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