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The Great American Read list is done by PBS to showcase the most beloved books in America.
You can find the complete list at this site.
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1984
George Orwell - Signet Classic
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...* Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The... |
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole - Grove Weidenfeld
Format: Paperback
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A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans'... |
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A Separate Peace
John Knowles - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World... |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith Betty - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern... |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid.... |
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The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired.Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian... |
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Alex Cross, Run
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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If Alex Cross stops running, he will die. . . three serial killers are on the loose, and they want revenge.Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will... |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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Lewis Carroll's timeless classic brought to life by one of the most revered children's book illustrators of our time!Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit... |
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the YearLONGLISTED 2015 - International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman... |
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And Then There Were None - The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection
Agatha Christie - Bantam Books, Inc.
Format: Leather Bound
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Agatha Christie's world-famous mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious... |
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Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand - NAL
Format: Paperback
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Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller - nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American... |
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. Nominated as one of America's... |
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of:The Pulitzer PrizeThe National Book Critics Circle AwardThe Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardThe Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel PrizeA Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the YearOne of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York... |
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The Call of the Wild
Jack London - Dalmatian Press
Format: Hardcover
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Handsome classic edition of this great tale of adventure. |
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive... |
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme--With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children.... |
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
C. S. Lewis - HarperCollins Narnia
Format: Hardcover
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A beautiful hardcover edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia.The full-color jacket features art by three-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator David Wiesner. The interior includes gorgeous black-and-white... |
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The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
Alice Walker - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that tells the story of two sisters through their correspondence. With a new Preface by the author. |
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadA desperate young man plans the perfect crime - the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime,... |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel
Mark Haddon - Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic.... |
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The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition
Dan Brown - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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One of the bestselling novels of all time, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has intrigued and thrilled millions of readers around the world. Now all the artwork, symbols, architecture, and historic locations - over 160 images - are beautifully compiled in this full-color collector's... |
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Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition
Frank Herbert - Ace
Format: Paperback
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Frank Herbert's classic masterpiece - a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides - who would become known as Muad'Dib - and of a great family's ambition to bring... |
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Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
E L James - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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MORE THAN 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREWhen literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants... |
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A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin - Bantam
Format: Paperback
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NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONESNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadFrom a master of contemporary fantasy comes the first novel of a landmark series unlike any you've ever read before. With A Game of Thrones, George... |
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Ghost
Jason Reynolds - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying... |
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Gilead: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson - Picador
Format: Paperback
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The 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning novelA New York Times Top-Ten Book of 2004Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionNearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century:... |
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Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadMarriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable... |
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Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell - Scribner
Format: Print Length
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Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind - winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time - has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel.Widely considered The Great American Novel, and often remembered for its epic... |
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The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained... |
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author.Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes... |
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J K Rowling - Scholastic
Format: Paperback
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Harry Potter has no idea how famous he is. That's because he's being raised by his miserable aunt and uncle who are terrified Harry will learn that he's really a wizard, just as his parents were. But everything changes when Harry is summoned to attend an infamous school for wizards, and he begins... |
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD
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ALONEThirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present - and the dreadful... |
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover
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Following his massive--and massively successful--Moby Dick in Pictures, artist Matt Kish has set himself upon an equally impressive, and no less harrowing, task: illustrating each page of Joseph Conrad's masterpiece, Heart of Darkness. Kish's rich, imaginative drawings and paintings mirror... |
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film - a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't - nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.Aibileen is a black maid... |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadHow shall we begin? This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen... |
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Inc.
Format: eBook
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Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . . In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts... |
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The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy - Naval Institute Press
Format: Hardcover
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Also Availble as an Audio Edition from Audible via Amazon Tom Clancy's rich imagination and his remarkable grasp of the capabilities of advanced technology give this novel an amazing ring of authenticity. It is a thriller with a new twist, a "military procedural" with an ingenious,... |
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The Intuitionist
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists, who work... |
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeRalph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal,... |
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The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club.Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter... |
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Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
Tim F LaHaye - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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When the trumpet sounds, where will you be? Passengers in an airborne Boeing 747 find out in this riveting novel by renowned Christian speaker Tim LaHaye and master storyteller Jerry Jenkins. Without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly... |
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Looking For Alaska
John Green - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist New York Times bestsellerFirst... |
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The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
J R R Tolkien - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him.... |
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The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this book, Susie is 14 years old and she has died and gone to Heaven. In the weeks following her death she watches life continuing without her: her friends discussing her disappearance, her family holding out that she will be found, her killing trying to cover his tracks. It is story... |
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The Martian
Andy Weir - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSix days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate... |
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Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel
Arthur Golden - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate,... |
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The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print Length
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Rediscover the unforgettable, heart-wrenching romance set in post-World War II North Carolina, about a young socialite who can't forget the boy who once stole her heart--now one of PBS's Top 100 "Great American Reads."Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes... |
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Outlander: A Novel
Diana Gabaldon - Dell
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon's work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured... |
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The Outsiders
S E Hinton - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks... |
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Pilgrims Progress (Parts One and Two)
John Bunyan - Digireads.com
Format: Hardcover
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Begun while John Bunyan was in Bedfordshire county jail serving time for holding religious services outside the auspices of the Church of England, Pilgrims Progress is considered one of the greatest works of the English language. "Pilgrims Progress" is a Christian allegory that... |
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The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.Everything readers expect... |
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Ready Player One: A Novel
Ernest Cline - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadThe worldwide bestseller - now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into... |
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Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A true classic of suspense in a beautiful new package for a whole new generation of readers. |
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The Shack (Special Hardcover Edition)
William P. Young - Windblown Media
Format: Audiobook
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Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation. Evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in the midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious... |
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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A bold translation of Nobel Prize-winner Herman Hesse's most inspirational and beloved work in a Penguin Classics deluxe edition Hesse's famous and influential novel, Siddartha, is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern... |
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The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition
Stephen King - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent... |
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's... |
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Tales of the city
Armistead Maupin - Harper-perennial
Format: Paperback
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For almost four decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture - from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of nine novels about the denizens of the mythic... |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots. |
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the deep south defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girlOne of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated... |
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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep... |
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's... |
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy's master epic.War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon's... |
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The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters.The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long... |
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls - Yearling
Format: Hardcover
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Read the beloved classic that captures the powerful bond between man and mans best friend. This edition also includes a special note to readers from Newbery Medal winner and Printz Honor winner Clare Vanderpool. Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two, dogs. So when hes finally... |
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Anne of Green Gables
L M Montgomery - Dalmatian Press
Format: Hardcover
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2004 Great Reads HB. Classic tale of spirited orphan Anne Shirley and how she changes the lives in a small village in Canada, especially the middle aged sister and brother who adopt her. |
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Beloved: Gift Edition
Toni Morrison - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--first published in 1987--brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order... |
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Bless Me Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English. Indeed, Anaya's tales fairly shimmer with the haunting beauty and richness of his culture. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel... |
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Charlotte's Web
E. B. White - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook
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Since its publication in 1952, Charlotte's Web has become one of America's best-loved children's books. For fifty years, this timeless story of the pig named Wilbur and the wise spider named Charlotte who saved him has continued to warm the hearts of readers everywhere. Now this... |
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The Clan of the Cave Bear : a novel
Jean M. Auel - Bantam Books
Format: Paperback
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The story of Ayla begins when, as a five-year-old orphan, she is adopted by the Clan, a group of Neanderthals. Initially, she inspires surprise, then wariness and finally acceptance by the Clan. She is cared for by its medicine woman, Iza, and its wise holy man, Creb. But she makes an implacable... |
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Doa Brbara
Romulo Gallegos - Editorial Espasa Calpe, S.A.
Format: Paperback
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Dona Barbara, en la que la llanura venezolana es el personaje central, es su obra de mayor exito. En ella dramatiza el conflicto entre civilizacion y barbarie que a su parecer definia el ser de Venezuela y su realidad. El final feliz simboliza un futuro esperanzador para el pais. |
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Foundation and Earth
Isaac Asimov - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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By Isaac Asimov Foundation and Earth (1st First Edition) [Hardcover] |
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The Annotated Frankenstein
Mary Shelley - Clarkson N. Potter
Format: Hardcover
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A reprint of the first-edition text of the classic novel is accompanied by detailed notes on all relevant mythic, scientific, biographical, and historical topics and by more than one hundred photographs, drawings, maps, and charts |
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The Giver
Lois Lowry - Bantam Books for Young Readers
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Lois Lowry's The Giver is the quintessential dystopian novel, followed by its remarkable companions, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person... |
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The Godfather
Mario Puzo - G K Hall & Co
Format: Large Print
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An inside look at the operations of the Cosa Nostra focuses on Mafia leader Vito Corleone, his family, and his underworld domain |
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The Grapes Of Wrath
John Steinbeck - Turtleback Books
Format: Library Binding
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Penguin celebrates the centennial of John Steinbeck's birth with stunning commemorative editions of his essential works. |
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens - Toby Pr
Format: Hardcover
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Great Expectations follows the life of the orphan, Pip. We first meet him as a tiny, terrified child in a village churchyard. Years later, through the help of an anonymous benefactor, Pip will travel to London, full of expectations to become a gentleman. But his life is already inextricably... |
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gulliver's Travels (1726) is one of the most compelling satires ever written, rated by George Orwell among the six most indispensable books in world literature. Lemuel Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and in the country of the Houyhnhnms exposes the absurdity and hypocrisy... |
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The Teddy Bear Lover's Companion
Theodore Menten - Courage Books
Format: Hardcover
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Covers everything from bear fashions to collectibles, with hints on caring for antique bears, lists of bear conventions and speciality stores, and photographs of one-of-a kind bears created especially for this book |
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Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton - Paw Prints
Format: Library Binding
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On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. Drawing on all his bestselling talent and scientific brilliance, Michael Crichton has, in "Jurassic Park", written the most electrifying techno-thriller of our time. |
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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Perfection Learning
Format: Library Binding
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Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard's new translation of the beloved classic-published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's birth-beautifully reflects Saint-Exupery's... |
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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Louisa May Alcott's beloved tale about Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy is presented in a beautiful Everyman's Library Children's Classics edition. The story of the four sisters' dreams, quarrels, and romances are brought to vivid life in this edition that features full cloth binding in bold, bright... |
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Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry - Turtleback
Format: School & Library Binding
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Set in the late 19th century, this novel chronicles a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade |
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The Archon Conspiracy
Dave Hunt - Harvest House Pub
Format: Paperback
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In a race against time, CIA agents and Soviet leaders scramble for the ultimate weapon...psychic power. Locked into the international intrigue is computer genius Ken Inman whose goal to contact mysterious entities turns into a nightmare when Archons attempt to take over his mind. Famed... |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde - Barnes & Noble Classics
Format: Hardcover
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The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.... |
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen - Oneworld Classics
Format: Paperback
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Pride and Prejudice is one of the most cherished love stories in English literature, delighting generations of readers with its high comedy, social observation, and compelling romance, and spawning an entire industry of spin-off books, film adaptations, and works of literary criticism.... |
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte - Puffin
Format: Paperback
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Against a background of English moors in the 18th century, the lives of two families become intertwined through marriage, passion, and the dominating force of a man called Heathcliff |
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