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The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

Some authors to consider...

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
 

If you enjoyed...
		The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn became an instant success in the year of its publication, 1884, but was seen by some as unfit for children to read because of its language, grammar, and "uncivilized hero." The book has sparked controversy ever since, but most scholars continue to praise it as a modern masterpiece, an essential read, and one of the greatest novels in all of American literature. Twain’s satiric treatment of racism, religious excess, and rural simplicity and his accuracy in presenting dialects mark Huck Finn as a classic. His unswerving confidence in Huck’s wisdom and maturity, along with the well-rounded and sympathetic portrayal of Jim draw readers into the book, holding them until Huck’s last words rejecting all attempts to "sivilize" him.
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	Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain
	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain

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		The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne As she emerges from the prison of a Puritan New England town, Hester Prynne defies the dark gloom much as the rose blooms against the prison door. With her illegitimate baby, Pearl, clutched in her arms and the letter A—the mark of an adulteress—embroidered in scarlet thread on her breast, Hester holds her head high as she faces the malice and scorn of the townsfolk. Her powerful, bittersweet story is an American classic that continues to touch the hearts of modern readers with its timeless themes of guilt, passion and repentance.
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	The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
	Hobomok, by Lydia Maria Child

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		The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, "a wonder." It remains one of the most widely read, translated, admired, imitated and studied twentieth-century works of American fiction.  This deceptively simple work, Fitzgerald's best known, was hailed by critics as capturing the spirit of the generation. In Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald embodies some of America's strongest obsessions: wealth, power, greed, and the promise of new beginnings.
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	The Last Tycoon, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
	The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

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		Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin He trudged southern streets searching for a place where he could eat or rest, looking vainly for a job other than menial labor, feeling the "hate stare." He was John Griffin, a white man who darkened the color of his skin and crossed the line into a country of hate, fear, and hopelessness--the country of the American Black man.
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	Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko
	Going to Meet the Man, by James Baldwin

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