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Classics are books that have been read and enjoyed by succeeding
generations of readers. Webster's Dictionary defines a classic as being "a literary
work of the first rank" or of "historical renown." The following
bibliography is by no means complete and absolute. Ask parents and teachers to recommend
their favorite classics, and they may well mention titles not included on this list. These
titles are available for checkout from Franklin's library.
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2004-2005 |
Traditional
Classics in the Franklin MS Library |
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Adams,
Douglas |
Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
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Adams, Richard |
Watership Down |
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Aesop |
Aesop's Fables |
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Alcott, Louisa May |
The Brownie and the Princess
Jo’s Boys
Little Men
Little Women
Short Stories (SC) |
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Anderson, Sherwood |
The Egg and Other Stories (SC)Winesburg, Ohio |
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Arabian Nights |
The Arabian Nights |
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Armer, Laura |
Waterless Mountain |
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Armstrong, William |
Sounder |
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Asimov, Isaac |
I, Robot
Foundation Triology |
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Austen, Jane |
The Illustrated Works of Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility |
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Bagnold, Enid |
National Velvet |
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Balzac, Honore de |
The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories (SC) |
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Barrett, William |
Lilies of the Field |
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Barrie, J. M. |
Peter Pan |
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Baum, L. Frank |
The Wizard of Oz - Series |
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Borland, Hal |
When the Legends Die |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Fahrenheit 451
The illustrated man
Something Wicked This Way Comes |
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Brink, Carol |
Caddie Woodlawn |
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Bronte, Charlotte |
Jane Eyre |
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Bronte, Emily |
Wuthering Heights |
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Buck, Pearl |
The Good Earth |
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Bulfinch, Thomas |
Bulfinch's Mythology |
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Burnett, Frances |
A Little Princess
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Secret Garden |
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Carroll, Lewis |
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass |
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Cather, Willa |
My Antonia
O Pioneers
Paul’s Case and Other Stories (SC) |
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Cervantes, Miguel de |
Don
Quixote (F Har) |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey |
The Canterbury Tales |
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Chekhov, Anton |
Uncle Vanya
Five Great Short Stories (SC) |
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Christie, Agatha |
And Then There Were None |
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Clark, Eleanor |
The Song of Roland |
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Clark, Walter |
The Ox-Bow Incident |
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Coleridge, Samuel |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Epic Poem |
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Conrad, Joseph |
Lord Jim |
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Cooper, James F. |
Last of the Mohicans
The Deerslayer |
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Crane, Stephen |
The Red Badge of Courage |
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Curtis, Alice |
Little Maid of Virginia |
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Daly, Maureen |
Seventeenth Summer |
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Dana, Richard |
Two Years Before the Mast |
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Davies, Valentine |
Miracle on 34th Street |
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Defoe, Daniel |
Robinson Crusoe |
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Dickens, Charles |
A Christmas Carol
Bagman’s Story
Bleak House
The Cricket on the Hearth and Other Christmas Stories (SC)
Great Expectations
Hard Times
The Old Curiosity Shop
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities |
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Dodge, Mary Mapes |
Hans Brinker and The Silver Skates |
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Dostoyevsky, Fydor |
The Gambler
The Double |
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Doyle, Arthur Conan |
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Lost World |
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DuMaurier, Daphne |
Rebecca |
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Dumas, Alexander |
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers |
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Durrell, Gerald |
My Family and Other Animals (92) |
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Eliot, George |
Silas Marner
The Mill on the Floss
Middlemarch |
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Farley, Walter |
The Black Stallion - Series |
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Ferber, Edna |
Show Boat |
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Field, Rachel |
Hitty – The first hundred years
Calico Bush |
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
Great Gatsby
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and other Stories (SC) |
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Forbes, Esther |
Johnny Tremain |
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Frank, Anne |
The Diary of a Young Girl |
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Franklin, Benjamin |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (92) |
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Gaines, Ernest |
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
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Gallico, Paul |
The Snow Goose |
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Gilbreth, Frank |
Cheaper by the Dozen |
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Giono, Jean |
The Man Who Planted Trees |
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Gipson, Fred |
Old Yeller |
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Gogol, Nikolai |
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories (SC) |
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Golding, William |
Lord of the Flies |
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Grahame, Kenneth |
The Wind in the Willows |
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Gray, Elizabeth |
Adam of the Road |
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Hale, Edward |
The Man Without a Country |
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Hamilton,
Edith |
Mythology
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Hammett, Dashiell |
The Maltese Falcon |
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Hansberry, Lorraine |
A Raisin in the Sun - Play |
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Harris,
Joel |
The
complete tales of Uncle Remus |
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Harte, Bret |
Bret
Harte's Gold Rush: Outcasts of Poker Flat, the Luck of Roaring Camp,
Tennessee's Partner, & Other Favorites |
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
The Scarlet Letter
House of Seven Gables |
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Heaney, Seamus - translated |
Beowulf – Epic Poem |
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Heinlein, Robert |
Citizen of the Galaxy
Stranger in a Strange Land |
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Hemingway, Ernest |
Farwell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
In Our Time
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises |
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Henry, Margaret |
Misty of Chincoteague |
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Henry, O. |
Gift of the Magi (E)
Heart of the West (SC) |
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Herbert, Frank |
Dune
Children of Dune |
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Herriot, James |
All Creatures Great and Small (92)
All Things Bright and Beautiful (92)
All Things Wise and Wonderful (92) |
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Hersey, John |
Bell for Adano |
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Hesse, Hermann |
Siddhartha |
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Hilton, James |
Good-bye Mr. Chips
Lost Horizon |
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Homer |
The Odyssey
The Iliad |
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Hope, Anthony |
The Prisoner of Zenda |
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Hudson, W.H. |
Green Mansions |
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Hugo, Victor |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserables |
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Huxley, Aldous |
Brave New World |
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Irving, Washington |
Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
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Jackson, Helen |
Ramona |
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James, Will |
Smokey the Cowhorse |
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Johnson, Nora |
The World of Henry Orient |
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Kafka, Franz |
Metamorphosis and Other Stories (SC) |
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Keller, Helen |
The Story of My Life (92) |
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Kelley, Eric |
Trumpeter of Krakow |
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Kennedy, John F. |
Profiles in Courage (92) |
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Kipling, Rudyard |
Captains Courageous
The Jungle Book
Just So Stories
Kim |
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Kjelgaard, Jim |
Big Red |
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Knowles, John |
A Separate Peace |
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Lagerlof, Selma |
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils |
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LaFarge, Oliver |
Laughing Boy |
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Lee, Harper |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Llewelyn, Richard |
How Green Was My Valley |
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Lewis, Sinclair |
Mainstreet |
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Lofting, Hugh |
The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle |
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London, Jack |
Call of the Wild
White Fang
Seawolf |
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Longfellow, Henry |
The Song of Hiawatha – Epic Poem |
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Maupassant, Guy de |
The Necklace
The Necklace and Other Short Stories (SC) |
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McCulley, Johnston |
The Mark of Zorro |
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McCullers, Carson |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
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McDonald, George |
At the Back of the North Wind |
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McLean, Alistair |
The Guns of Navarrone |
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Melville, Herman |
Billy Budd
Moby Dick or The White Whale |
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Miller, Arthur |
The Crucible - Play |
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Milne, A.A. |
Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh
The Red House Mystery |
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Mitchell, Margaret |
Gone With the Wind |
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Montgomery, L.M. |
Anne of Green Gables Series |
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Nesbit, Edith |
Five Children and IT |
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O’Brien, Patrick |
Master and Commander |
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O'Hara, Mary |
My Friend Flicka |
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Orczy, Baroness (Emma) |
The Scarlet Pimpernel |
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Orwell, George |
Animal Farm
1984 |
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Paine, Thomas |
Common Sense |
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Poe, Edgar Allen |
Pit and the Pendulum
The Gold-Bug and Other Tales (SC)
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (SC) |
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Pope, Elizabeth |
The Perilous Gard |
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Porter, Eleanor |
Pollyanna |
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Pyle, Howard |
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Otto of the Silver Hand |
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Ransome, Arthur |
The Big Six
Swallows and Amazons |
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Rawlings, Marjorie |
The Yearling |
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Remarque, Erich |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
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Richter, Conrad |
The Light in the Forest |
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Rohmer, Sax |
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu |
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Rostand, Edmund |
Cyrano de Bergerac - Play |
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Saint-Exupery, Antoine |
The Little Prince |
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Salinger, J.D. |
Catcher in the Rye |
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Sandburg, Carl |
The Rootabaga Stories |
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Saroyan, William |
The Human Comedy |
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Schaefer, Jack |
Shane |
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Scott, Sir Walter |
Ivanhoe |
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Sewell, Anna |
Black Beauty |
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Shakespeare |
All’s Well that Ends Well - Plays
Comedy of Errors
Macbeth
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest |
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Shannon, Monica |
Dorby |
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Shaara, Michael |
The Killer Angels |
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Shaw, George |
Pygmalion - Play |
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Shelley, Mary |
Frankenstein |
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Simon, Neil |
Brighton Beach Memoirs - Play |
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Sinclair, Upton |
The Jungle |
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Smith, Betty |
Joy in the Morning
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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Smith, Dodie |
I Capture the Castle |
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Spyri, Johanna |
Heidi |
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Steinbeck, John |
Cannery Row
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
The Pearl
The Red Pony
Sweet Thursday
Travel’s with Charley |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis |
The Body Snatcher and Other Tales (SC)
A Child's Garden of Verses
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Kidnapped
Treasure Island |
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Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
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Stowe, Harriet B. |
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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Swift, Jonathan |
Gulliver's Travels |
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Tarkington, Booth |
Alice Adams
Magnificent Ambersons
Penrod: His Complete Story
Penrod and Sam |
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Tolkien, J.R.R. |
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Ring Series |
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Thoreau,
Henry |
Walden |
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Travers, P.L. |
Mary Poppins |
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Twain, Mark |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage
Pudd’nhead Wilson
The Prince and the Pauper
Roughing It |
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Verne, Jules |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Mysterious Island |
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Voltaire |
Candide |
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Vonnegut, Kurt |
Cat’s Cradle |
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Webster, Jean |
Daddy Long Legs |
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Wells, H.G. |
The Invisible Man
Strange Island of Dr. Moreau
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds |
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White, E.B. |
Charlotte’s Web |
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White, T.H. |
The Once and Future King
The Sword in the Stone |
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Wiggin, Kate |
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm |
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Wilde, Oscar |
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Importance of Being Ernest - Play |
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Wilder, Laura |
Little House on the Prairie Series |
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Wilder, Thornton |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
3 Plays – Skin of our Teeth, Our Town and the Matchmaker |
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Wister, Owen |
The Virginian |
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Wodehouse,
P. G. |
Enter
Jeeves : 15 early stories |
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Wolf, Virginia |
Jacob’s Room |
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Wouk, Herman |
The Caine Mutiny |
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Wyss, Johann |
The Swiss Family Robinson |
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