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Monster, Walter Dean Myers
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

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Horror: Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Yann Martel
Male: Dale Brown, Tom Clancy, Michael Chrichton
Female: Nora Roberts, Sue Monk Kidd, Amy Tan, Helen Fielding, Barbara Kingsolver
Mystery: John Grisham, Michael Connelly
Advice: Rachel Simmons
Sci-Fi: Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, H. G. Wells

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		Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell Winston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, even his own home, the Party watches him through telescreens; everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party's seemingly omniscient leader, a figure known only as Big Brother. The Party controls everything in Oceania, even the people's history and language. Currently, the Party is forcing the implementation of an invented language called Newspeak, which attempts to prevent political rebellion by eliminating all words related to it. Even thinking rebellious thoughts is illegal. Such thoughtcrime is, in fact, the worst of all crimes.
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	Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
	Animal Farm, by George Orwell

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		Lord of the Flies by William Golding The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.
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	The Girl Who Owned a City, by O. T. Nelson

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		Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard Set in a small family-owned tea room in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1950, Hally learns that his crippled, alcoholic father is about to be released from the hospital.  Afraid, angry, and frustrated over the return of his father, Hally suddenly turns vicious toward Willie and Sam as he has never done before, uncovering his inherited racism.  "Master Harold and the Boys" speaks on many levels and helps us al understand how the realities of time and place can dominate who we are and what we do.
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	Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton

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		Beowulf, translated by John MacNamara Part history and part mythology, Beowulf opens in the court of the Danish king where a horrible demon named Grendel devours men in their sleep every night. The hero Beowulf arrives and kills the monster, but joy turns to horror when Grendel’s mother attacks the hall to avenge the death of her son. Ultimately triumphant, Beowulf becomes king himself and rules peacefully for fifty years until, one dark day, a foe more powerful than any he has yet faced is aroused—an ancient dragon guarding a horde of treasure. Once again, Beowulf must summon all his strength and courage to face the beast, but this time victory exacts a terrible price.
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	Sir Gawain and the Green Night, anonymous
	The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkein
	The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkein

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		Grendel by John Gardner & Emil Antonucci The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowilf, tells his own side of the story in a book William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."
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	Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

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