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Ayers & Crawford: Great Books for High School Kids

Book list from Great Books for High School Kids, ed. Rick Ayers & Amy Crawford (Beacon Press, 2004).

Pages: Pages: 1 3 4 5 6
1.
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 A Natural History of the Senses
by Diane Ackerman
  
2. It Begins with Tears (Caribbean Writers Series)
by Opal Palmer Adisa
  
3. The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)
by Aeschylus
  
4.
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 A Death in the Family
by James Agee
  
5. Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?
by Edward Albee
  
6. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
  
7. Reservation Blues
by Sherman Alexie
  
8. Ten Little Indians
by Sherman Alexie
  
9. The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie
  
10. Bastard Out of Carolina (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition)
by Dorothy Allison
  
11. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
by Dorothy Allison
  
12. Genesis: Translation and Commentary  
13. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition)
by Julia Alvarez
  
14. In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
  
15. Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya
  
16.
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 Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
  
17. Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)
by Sherwood Anderson
  
18. West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story
by Tamim Ansary
  
19. Concrete Candy: Stories
by Apollo
  
20. The Battle for God
by Karen Armstrong
  
21. The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
  
22. The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
  
23. To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America
by Tara Bahrampour
  
24. Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
  
25.
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 The Fire Next Time (Hrw Library)
by James Baldwin
  
26. Where I'm Bound : A Novel
by Allen B Ballard
  
27. Gorilla, My Love
by Toni Cade Bambara
  
28. Cloudsplitter: A Novel
by Russell Banks
  
29. Continental Drift (P.S.)
by Russell Banks
  
30. Rule of the Bone
by Russell Banks
  
31. Regeneration
by Pat Barker
  
32. Plain Brown Wrapper: An Alex Powell Novel
by Karen G. Bates
  
33. Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
by Wendell Berry
  
34. The Song of Songs: The World's First Great Love Poem (Modern Library Classics)  
35. Weetzie Bat
by Francesca Lia Block
  
36. The Tortilla Curtain
by T.Coraghessan Boyle
  
37. Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)
by Ray Bradbury
  
38. Jane Eyre.
by Charlotte Bronte
  
39. Wuthering Heights (Courage Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
40. Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (Joshua Odell Editions)
by Jose Antonio Burciaga
  
41.
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 A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
  
42. Naked Lunch (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
by William S. Burroughs
  
43. Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler
  
44.
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 The Stranger
by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)
  
45. Fist Stick Knife Gun
by Geoffrey Canada
  
46. The Basketball Diaries: Movie Tie-In Edition
by Jim Carroll
  
47.
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 The Nine Guardians: A Novel
by Rosario Castellanos
  
48. So Far from God: A Novel
by Ana Castillo
  
49. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
  
50. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
  
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