College-Bound FictionLiterature for college-bound students…a list of 42 titles. |
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A Death in the Family
by James Agee
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Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
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In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
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Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya
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The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
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Ender's Game (The Ender Saga)
by Orson S. Card
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The Awakening and Selected Stories (Penguin Classics)
by Kate Chopin
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The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
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Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Invisible Man (Modern Library)
by Ralph Ellison
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The Bride Price
by Buchi Emecheta
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Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses Old Man The Bear
by William Faulkner
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Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
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A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
by Ernest J. Gaines
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Grendel
by John Gardner
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Ellen Foster (Virago Modern Classics)
by Kaye Gibbons
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Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
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A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
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Siddhartha: An Indian Tale (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Hermann Hesse
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Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
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Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice
by Laurie King
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The Painted Bird
by Jerzy N. Kosinski
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
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The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Member of the Wedding
by Carson McCullers
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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
by Robin McKinley
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The Fixer: A Novel
by Bernard Malamud
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Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics)
by Kamala Markandaya
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In Country (P.S.)
by Bobbie Ann Mason
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Shizuko's Daughter
by Kyoko Mori
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Beloved (Everyman's Library)
by Toni Morrison
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
by Flannery O'Connor
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The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
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Grass Dancer
by Susan Power
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The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Modern Library)
by Michael Shaara
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The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics)
by John Steinbeck
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Picture Bride: A Novel
by Yoshiko Uchida
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Montana 1948
by Larry Watson
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Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
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