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Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
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The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
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Collected Poems – e. e. cummings
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Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
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Animal Farm – George Orwell
This novel provides a scathing critique of pre-World War II society.
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Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
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Ariel – Sylvia Plath
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The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
This novel is the ultimate American saga, following the Joad family out of the Great Dust Bowl and toward the promises of California.
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Dubliners – James Joyce
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Desire Under the Elms – Eugene O’Neill
O’Neill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.
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The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
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Tender Buttons – Gertrude Stein
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The Color Purple – Alice Walker
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15.
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
This is a classic coming of age narrative which continues to influence young adults today.
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Collected Poems – William Carlos Williams
Williams’ poems provide outstanding examples of modernism and Imagism.
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Four Quartets – T. S. Eliot
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18.
Live or Die – Anne Sexton
This collection won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967.
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My Antonia – Willa Cather
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Collected Poems – Robert Frost
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