National Endowment for the Arts "The Big Read"

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From the official Web site:

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.

(Books are in alphabetical order by author last name.)

  1. 1.
    Bless Me, Ultima
    by Rudolfo Anaya

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    Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
    by Ray Bradbury

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  3. 3.
    My Antonia (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Willa Cather

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  4. 4.
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    by Emily Dickinson

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  5. 5.
    Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Louise Erdrich

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  6. 6.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  7. 7.
    A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Ernest J. Gaines

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  8. 8.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  9. 9.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  10. 11.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  11. 12.
    Washington Square (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  12. 13.
    Selected Poems (Vintage)
    by Robinson Jeffers

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  13. 14.
    A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  15. 16.
    The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics)
    by Jack London

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  16. 17.
    The Complete Poetical Works Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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  17. 18.
    THIEF AND THE DOGS, THE
    by NAGUIB MAHFOUZ

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  18. 19.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

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  19. 20.
    The Things They Carried
    by Tim O'Brien

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  20. 21.
    The Shawl
    by Cynthia Ozick

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  21. 23.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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  22. 24.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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  23. 25.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

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  24. 26.
    The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  25. 27.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  26. 28.
    The Age of Innocence (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Edith Wharton

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  27. 29.
    Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder

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  28. 30.
    Our Town : A Play in Three Acts
    by Thornton Wilder

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  29. 31.
    Old School
    by Tobias Wolff

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Created by brunswickian on Apr 06, 2007.
 

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brunswickian
Brooklyn

Updated — 1 year ago

Added six books that are listed as “coming soon!” on the Big Read Web site.