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Classics for Book Groups
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October 2008
Compiled by Luann Phillipich
of the Dakota County Heritage Library (MN), updated by Bonnie Zeitlin of the Morton Grove (IL) Public Library from contributions by the members of Fiction_L
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
FICTION
Agee, James A Death in the Family
Alcott, Louisa May Little Women
Austen, Jane Persuasion
Austen, Jane Sense and Sensibility
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Buck, Pearl S. Good Earth
Camus, Albert The Plague
Cather, Willa My Antonia
Cather, Willa O Pioneers
Chopin, Kate The Awakening
Collins, Wilkie The Woman in White
Dickens, Charles David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles Great Expectations
Dumas, Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo
Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca
Elizabeth Enchanted April
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustav Madame Bovary
Forster, E. M. A Room With a View
Gaskell, Elizabeth Wives and Daughters
Grey, Zane Desert Crucible
Hardy, Thomas Far From the Madding Crowd
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Kerouac, Jack On the Road
Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
LeGuin, Ursula Left Hand of Darkness
Lewis, Sinclair Main Street
Mailer, Norman Executioner's Song
Maugham, W. Somerset Painted Veil
Maugham, W. Somerset The Razor's Edge
McCullers, Carson The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Mitchell, Margaret Gone With the Wind
Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country
Potok, Chaim The Chosen
Salinger, J. D. Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William Hamlet
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Stegner, Wallace Angle of Repose
Stegner, Wallace Crossing to Safety
Steinbeck, John East of Eden
Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
Stoker, Bram Dracula
Styron, William Sophie's Choice
Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo Death of Ivan Ilyich
Verne, Jules Journey to the Center of the Earth
Voltaire Candide
Warren, Robert Penn All the King's Men
Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisted
Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
NON-FICTION
Angelou, Maya I Know why the Caged Bird Sings
Baldwin James Notes of a Native Son
Brown, Dee Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
Capote, Truman In Cold Blood
Carson, Rachel Silent Spring
Dillard, Annie Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Fisher, M. F. K. The Art of Eating
Harr, Jonathan A Civil Action(a newer one, but a modern classic)
Markham, Beryl West With the Night
McCarthy, Mary Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mowat, Farley Never Cry Wolf
Read, Piers Paul Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (please note
the sensitive subject matter of cannibalism in this title)
Watson, James The Double Helix
West, Rebecca Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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