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National Endowment for the Arts "The Big Read"

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.)

(found at: http://neabigread.org/)
1. Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya
  
2.
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 Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by Ray Bradbury
  
3. My Antonia (Oxford World's Classics)
by Willa Cather
  
4. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
  
5. Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.)
by Louise Erdrich
  
6. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
7. A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)
by Ernest J. Gaines
  
8. The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
  
9. A Farewell To Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
  
10. Sun, Stone, and Shadows 20 Great Mexican Short Stories (Tezontle) (Tezontle)
by Jorge F. Hernandez
  
11. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
12. Washington Square (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
  
13. Selected Poems (Vintage)
by Robinson Jeffers
  
14. A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
  
15. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
  
16. The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics)
by Jack London
  
17. The Complete Poetical Works Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  
18. THIEF AND THE DOGS, THE
by NAGUIB MAHFOUZ
  
19. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
  
20. The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
  
21. The Shawl
by Cynthia Ozick
  
22. Enriched Classics: Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Enriched Classics)  
23. Housekeeping: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
  
24. The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
by John Steinbeck
  
25. The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
  
26. The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
  
27. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
28. The Age of Innocence (Norton Critical Editions)
by Edith Wharton
  
29. Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
by Thornton Wilder
  
30. Our Town : A Play in Three Acts
by Thornton Wilder
  
31. Old School
by Tobias Wolff
  
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Created by brunswickian on Apr 06, 2007.