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1984 Orwell, George 9

1000 Acres, A Knoph, Alfred A. 12

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The (BOE

Approved Apr 2016)Alexie, Sherman 10

Accidental Tourist, The Tyler, Anne 9

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark 9

Aeneid of Virgil Mandelbaum, Virgil and Allen 9

Ah, Wilderness & Two Other Plays O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone 9

Alas Babylon Frank, Pat 9

Alchemist, The (BOE Approved April 2015) Coelho, Paulo 9

Alice in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis 9

All American Boys

Kiely, Brendan, Reynolds,

Jason 10

All My Sons Miller, Arthur 9

All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, E. 9

All the King's Men Warren, R.P. 9

All the Light We Cannot See Doerr, Anthony 11

All Things Bright & Beautiful Herriot, James 9

All's Well That Ends Well Shakespeare, William 9

Amelia Earhart Parlin, John 9

American Dream, The Albee, Edward 9

American Dreams: Lost and Found Terkel, Studs 9

American Street Zoboi, Ibi 9

Americanah Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 11

An American Childhood Dillard, Annie 9

An Enemy of the People Ibsen, Henrik 9

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Androcles & the Lion Shaw, George Benard 9

Animal Dreams Kingsolver, Barbara 11

Another Orphan Kessel, John 9

Anthem Rand, Ayn 9

Antigone Sophocles 9

Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare, William 9

Arapaho Journeys: Photographs and Stories from the Wind

River Reservation (BOE Approved Nov 2014 )Wiles, Sara 9

Archy's Life of Mehitable Marquis, Don 9

Arrowsmith Lewis, Sinclair 9

As I Lay Dying Faulkner, William 9

As You Like It Shakespeare, William 9

Assistant, The Malamud, Bernard 9

Autobiography of Ben Franklin Franklin, Benjamin 9

Babbitt Lewis, Sinclair 9

Barefoot Gen: Volume 1 (Graphic Novel) (BOE Approved May 2018) Nakazawa, Keiji 9

Bean Trees, The Kingsolver, Barbara 9

Bearing an Hourglass Anthony, Piers 9

Becket Anouilh, Jean 9

Bedford Reader, The (4th Short Edition) Kennedy, X J 11

Bell Jar, The Plath, Sylvia 9

Beloved Marrison, Toni 11 H

Beowulf Anonymus 9

Between the World and Me Coates, Ta-Nehisi 11

Bhavagad-Gita Anonymus 9

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Bible, The 9

Billy Budd and Other Stories Melville, Herman 9

Birds, The Aristophanes 9

Birthday Party, The Pinter, Harold 9

Black Boy Wright, Richard 9

Black Elk Speaks Neihardt, John 9

Black Like Me Griffin, John Howard 9

Bless Me Ultima Anaya, Rudolfo 9

Bless the Beasts & the Children Swarthout, Glendon 9

Blessing Way Hillerman, Tony 9

Blue Highways: A Journey Into America Heat Moon, William Least 9

Bluest Eye, The * Morrison, Toni 11

Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, The (BOE Approved Nov 2014) Kamkwamba, William 9

Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American

WritingAppleman 11

Brave New World Huxley, Aldous 9

Brave New World Revisited Huxley, Aldous 9

Break with Charity, A: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials Rinaldi, Ann 10

Brian's Song Blinn, William 9

Bridge of San Luis Rey Wilder, Thornton 9

Bridges at Toko-Ri Michener, James 9

Bright Shadow Thomas, Joyce 9

Bronx Masquerade Nikki Grimes 9

Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky, Fyodor 9

Buffalo Robe Jensen, Millie 9

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Butterfly Revolution Butler, William 9

Caine Mutiny Wouk, Herman 9

Candide Voltaire 9

Cannery Row Steinback, John 9

Canterbury Tales Chaucer, Geoffrey 9

Canticle for Leibowitz, A Miller, Walter 9

Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D. 9

Cat's Cradle Vonnegut, Kurt 9

Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 9

Childhood's End Clarke, Arthur 9

Choice of Weapons Parks, Gordon 9

Chosen, The Potok, Chaim 9

Chosen, The Potok, Chaim 9

Chronicle of a Death ForetoldGarcia, Gabriel Marquez

Translated by: Gregory 11 H

Cider House Rules Irving, John 11

Citizen Rankine, Claudia 11

Cocktail Party, The Eliot, T.S. 9

Cold River Judson, William 9

Comedy of Errors, The Shakespeare, William 9

Coming onto the Country McPhee, John 9

Complete Persepolis, The (Graphic Novel) (BOE Approved May

2018) Satrapi, Marjane 9

Complete Plays of Sophocles, The Sophocles 9

Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Ct. Twain, Mark 9

Conrad, Joseph, Three Novels Conrad, Joseph 9

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Coriolanus Shakespeare, William 9

Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre 9

Crawlspace Lieberman, Herbert 9

Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky, Fyodor 9

Crucible, The Miller, Arthur 9

Cry, the Beloved Country Paton, Alan 9

Crying of Lot 49, The Pynchon, Thomas 9

Crystal Cave Stewart, Mary 9

Custer Died for Your Sins De Loria, Vine 9

Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand, Edmond 9

Dandelion Wine Bradbury, Ray 9

Darkness At Noon Koestler, Arthur 9

Davita's Harp Potok, Chaim 9

Daybreak Baez, Joan 9

Death Be Not Proud Gunther, John 9

Death of A Salesman Miller, Arthur 9

Death of Ivan Ilych Tolstoy, Leo 9

Demian Hesse, Hermann 9

Demolished Man Beste, Alfred 9

Desert Solitaire Abbey, Edward 9

Detective Story, The Hatherill, George 9

Devil's Advocate Shaw, G.B. 9

Dialogues of Plato Plato 9

Dispatches Herr, Michael 9

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Diving Bell and The Butterfly, The (BOE Approved April 2012) Bauby, Jean-Dominique 11

Doll's House, A Ibsen, Henrik 9

Dolphin Reader, The (Second Edition) Hunt, Douglas 11

Don Quixote deCervantes, Miguel 9

Don't Blame the Music Cooney, Caroline 9

Dove, The Graham, Robin 9

Dr. Faustus Marlowe, Chrstopher 9

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis 9

Dr. Zhivago Pasternak, Boris 9

Drive: The Surprising Truth about What

Motivates Us (BOE approved Jan 2011)Pink, Daniel H. 9

Dubliners, 1991 Joyce, James 11

Dune Herbert, Frank 9

Durango Kid 9

E Pluribus Unicorn Sturgeon, Theodore 9

Earthseed Sargent, Pamela 9

East of Eden Steinbeck, John 9

Ellen Foster Gibbons, Kaye 9

Ellery Queen's the Golden Thirteen Queen, Ellery 9

Emperor Jones O'Neill, Eugene 9

Endgame: A Play Beckett, Samuel 9

English Creek Doig, Ivan 9

Epic of Gilgamesh, TheGeorge, Andrew

Translation by)11

Eric Lund, Doris 9

Essays of E.B. White, The White, E.B. 9

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Estate, The Singer, Isaac Bashevis 9

Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith 9

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Safran, Jonathan 11

Face of A Hero Boulle, Pierre 9

Fade Cormier, Robert 9

Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray 9

Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (BOE Approved October

2013)Pullman, Philip 9

Family Maskot, The Singer, I. 9

Family, The Singer, I. 9

Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest 9

Farewell to Manzanar Wakasuki Houston, Jeanne 9

Fathers and Sons Turgenev, Ivan 9

Fences Wilson, August 9

Ficciones Borges, Jorge 11 H

Fiddler on the Roof Stein, Joseph 9

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter

of Cambodia Remembers (BOE Approvee October 2013)Ung, Loung 12

Fixer, The Malamud, Bernard 9

Flowering Judas & Other Stories Porter, Katherine Ann 9

Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel 9

Fools Crow Welch, James IB

For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest 9

Forty - Second Parallel (42nd) Dos Passos, J. 9

Foundation Trilogy, The Asimov, Isaac 9

Four Major Plays - IBSEN Ibsen, Henrik 12

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Fox, The Lawrence, D. H. 9

Frankenstein Shelley, Mary 9

Fried Green Tomatoes at the

Whistle Stop CafeFlagg, Fannie 11

Frogs, The Aristophanes 9

From Earth to Moon Verne, Jules 9

Ghosts Ibsen, Henrik 9

Giants in the Earth Rolvag, Ole Edvart 9

Glass Menagerie, The Williams, Tennesse 9

Go Tell It On The Mountain Baldwin, James 9

Gone With the Wind Mitchell, Margaret 9

Good Soldier, The Ford, Ford Madox 9

Grapes of Wrath, The Steinbeck, John 9

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles 9

Great Gatsby, The Fitzgerald, F.Scott 9

Great Santini, The Conroy, Pat 9

Great Taos Bank Robbery, The Hillerman, Tony 9

Greatest Slump of All Time Carbeet, David 9

Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan 9

Guns of Navarone McLean, Alistair 9

Hamlet Shakespeare, William 9

Hamlet and King Lear Shakespeare, William 9

Handmaid's Tale, The Atwood, Margaret IB

Hard Times Dickens, Charles 9

Haunting of Hill House, The Jackson, Shirley 9

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Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The McCullers, Carson 9

Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph 9

Heart of the Matter Greene, Graham 9

Hedda Gabler Ibsen, Henrik 9

Henry David Thoreau Thoreau, Henry David 9

Henry IV, Part I Shakespeare, William 9

Henry IV, Part II Shakespeare, William 9

Henry V Shakespeare, William 9

Henry VIII Shakespeare, William 9

Hiding Place TenBoom Corrie 9

History of Rasselas, The - Prince of Abissinia Johnson, Samuel 11

History of Tom Jones, A Foundling Fielding, Henry 9

Hollow Hills Stewart, Mary 9

Hondo L'Amour, Louis 9

Hound of the Baskervilles, The Doyle, Arthur Conan 9

House of Spirits Allende, Isabel 11 H

House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, Nathaniel 9

House on Mango Street, The Cisneros, Sandra 9

How Green Was My Valley Llewellyn, Richard 9

Howl Like the Wolves Von der Grun, Max 9

Human Comedy, The Saroyan, William 9

Humanoids, The Williamson, Jack 9

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Hugo, Victor 9

Hunger Games Trilogy, The (BOE Approved Oct 2012)

(The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay)Collins, Suzanne 9

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Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriquez Rodriquez, Richard 9

I Am a Star, Child of the Holocast Auerbacher, Inge 9

I am Alfonso Jones Medina, Tony 9

I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Sanchez, Erika 9

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya 11

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Greenberg, Joanne 9

I, Robot Asimov, Isaac 9

Ice People, The Barjavel, Rene 9

Idylls of the King Tennyson, Lord Alfred 9

Iliad, The Homer 9

Illustrated Man, The Bradbury, Ray 9

I'm Really Dragged…but Nothing Gets Me Down Hentoff, Nat 9

Importance of Being Earnest, The Wilde, Oscar 9

In This Sign Greenberg, Joanne 9

Indian Country: America's Sacred Land Hillerman, Tony 9

Inherit the Wind Lawrence, Jerome 9

Into the Wild Krakauer, Jon 9

Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph 9

Ishi Kroeber, Theodora 9

It's Kind of a Funny Story Vizzini, Ned 9

J.B.: A Play in Verse MacLeish, Archibald 9

Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte 9

John Brown's Body Benet, Stephen Vincent 9

Joseph Andrews Fielding, Henry 9

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Jude the Obscure Hardy, Thomas 9

Julius Caesar Shakespeare, William 9

Jungle, The Sinclaire, Upton 9

Kindred Butler, Octavia E. 10

King John Shakespeare, William 9

King Lear Shakespeare, William 9

Kiss the Clown Adler, Carole 9

Kite Runner, The * Hosseini, Khaled 10

Lake Woebegon Days Keillor, Garrison 9

Last Enchantment, The Stewart, Mary 9

Last of the Mohicans Cooper, James Fenimore 9

Late George Aply, The Marquand, John 9

Learning Tree, The Parks, Gordon 9

Leaves of Grass Whitman, Walt 9

Left Hand of Darkness, The LeGuin, Ursula 9

LeMorte D'Arthur Mallory,Thomas 9

Les Miserables Hugo, Victor 9

Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, F. Scott 9

Life Among the Savages Jackson, Shirley 9

Life of Pi Martel, Yann 12

Light in August Faulkner, William 9

Like Water for Chocolate Esquivel, Laura 12 H

Listening Woman Hillerman, Tony 9

Little Brother Doctorow, Corey 9

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Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Sillitoe, Alan 9

Long Day's Journey Into Night O'Neill, Eugene 9

Long Way Gone, A: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Beah, Ishmael 9

Look Homeward Angel Wolfe, Thomas 9

Lord Jim Conrad, Joseph 9

Lord of the Flies Golding, William 9

Lost Horizon Hilton, James 9

Loved One, The Waugh, Evelyn 9

Lovely Bones, The Sebold, Alice 11

Love's Labor Lost Shakespeare, William 9

Luck of Roaring Camp and Others Harte, Bret 9

Lucky Jim Amis, Kingsley 9

Macbeth Shakespeare, William 9

Macbeth and The Emperor Jones Shakespeare, William 9

Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave 9

Main Street Lewis, Sinclair 9

Main Travelled Roads Hamlin, Garland 9

Major Barbara Shaw, George Benard 9

Major of Caterbridge, The Hardy, Thomas 9

Maltese Falcon, The Hammett, Dashiell 9

Man and Superman Shaw, George Benard 9

Man for All Seasons Bolt, Robert 9

Man in the High Castle Dick, Phillip 9

Man of Property Galsworthy, John 9

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Man Who Never Was, The Montagu, Ewen 9

Man Who Would Be King, The Kipling, Rudyard 9

Manchild in the Promised Land Brown, Claude 9

Manor, The Singer, Isaac Bashevis 9

Martian Chronicles Bradbury, Ray 9

Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary 9

Master Builder Ibsen, Henrik 9

Maus I: A surviors Tale - My Father Bleeds History Spielgelman, Art 11

Maus II: A Survivors Tale - And Here My Troubles Began Spielgelman, Art 11

Measure for Measure Shakespeare, William 9

Member of the Wedding McCullers, Carson 9

Merchant of Venice Shakespeare, William 9

Merry Wives of Windsor Shakespeare, William 9

Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare, William 9

Milagro Beanfield War Nicholas, John 9

Mindset Dweck PhD., Carol S. 9

Miracle Worker, The Gibson, William 9

Moby Dick Melville, Herman 9

Moby Dick-Adapt. Melville, Herman 9

Moll Flanders DeFoe, Daniel 9

Monkey Ch’eng-en, Wu 12

Mother Courage and Her Children Brecht, Bertolt 9

Mousetrap & Other Plays, The Christie, Agatha 9

Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare, William 9

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Murder in the Cathedral Eliot, T.S. 9

Murders in the Rue Morgue Poe, Edgar Allan 9

My Antonia Cather, Willa Sibert 9

My Father Left Me Ireland Dougherty, Michael Brendan 9

My Life and Hard Times Thurber, James 9

My Name is Asher Lev Potok, Chaim 9

My Shadow Ran Fast Sands, Bill 9

Mysterious Stranger Twain, Mark 9

Native Son Wright, Richard 9

Necessary NoiseMichael Cart and Charlotte

Noruzi9

Nectar in a Sieve Markandaya, Karmala 9

Nickel and Dimes: On (NOT) Getting By in America Ehrenreich, Barbara 11

Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The Lawrence, Jerome & Lee, R. 9

No Blade of Grass Christopher, John 9

No Exit and Three Other Plays Sartre, Jean -Paul 9

Nova Delaney, Samuel R. 9

O, Pioneers Cather, Willa 9

Odyssey, The Homer 9

Oedipus Plays, The Sophocles 9

Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset 9

Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John 9

Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford, William 9

Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, Ernest 9

On the Come Up Thomas, Angie 9

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On Writing King, Stephen 11

Once & Future King, The White, T.H. 9

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 9

One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez, Gabriel Garcia 9

Optimist's Daughter, The Welty, Eudora 9

Ordinary People Guest, Judith 9

Orphans in the Sky Heinlein, Robert 9

Othello Shakespeare, William 9

Other, The Tryon, Thomas 9

Out of Africa Dineson, Isak 9

Ovid Ovid 9

Ox-Bow Incident, The Clark, Walter Van Tilburg 9

Paradise Lost Milton, John 9

Passage to India Forster, E.M. 9

Peace Breaks Out Knowles, John 9

Peace Like a River Enger, Leif 9

Pearl, The Steinbeck, John 9

Pedro ParamoRulfo, Juan Translated by

Margaret Sayers Peden11 H

Pentimento: A Book of Portraits Hellman, Lillian 9

Pere Goriot de Balzac, Honore' 9

Phoenix Too Frequent Fry, Christoper 9

Piano Lesson, The (BOE Approved October 2011) Wilson, August 9

Pickwick Papers Dickens, Charles 9

Picture of Dorian Gray, The Wilde, Oscar 9

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Dillard, Annie 9

Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan, John 9

Plague, The Camus, Albert 9

Playbody of the Western World Synge, John Millington 9

Pocket Aristotle Kaplan, Justin 9

Pocket Bible 9

Portable Dorthy Parker, The Parker, Dorothy. 9

Portrait of A Lady James, Henry 9

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Joyce, James 9

Possessed, The Dostoevsky, Fyodor 9

Power and the Glory, The Greene, Graham 9

Pride Zoboi, Ibi 9

Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane 11

Prince, The Machiavelli, Niccolo 9

Profiles in Courage Kennedy, John F. 9

Prometheus Bound Aeschylus 9

Proof: a play (BOE Approved October 2011 Auburn, David 9

Puddin'head Wilson Twain, Mark 9

Puppet Masters Heinlein, Robert 9

Pygmalion Shaw, George Bernard 9

Quartzsite Trip Hogan, William 9

Quiet American Greene, Graham 9

R.U.R. Capek, Karel 9

Rabbit Hole: a play (BOE Approved October 2011) Lindsay-Abaire, David 9

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Raisin in the Sun, A Hansbury, Lorraine 9

Ramayana, The Narayan, R.K. 12

Rebecca du Maurier, Daphne 9

Red Badge of Courage, The Crane, Stephen 9

Red Sky at Morning Bradford, Richard 9

Red Son (Graphic Novel) (BOE Approved May 2018) Millar, Mark 9

Refugees, The Nguyen, Viet Thanh 9

Return of the Native Hardy, Thomas 9

Rhinoceros and other Plays Ionesco, Eugene 9

Richard II Shakespeare, Willliam 9

Richard III Shakespeare, William 9

Riders of the Purple Sage Gray, Zane 9

Riders to the Sea Synge, John Millington 9

Rivals, The Congreve, William 9

Robinson Crusoe DeFoe, Daniel 9

Romance of Tristan and Iseult, The Bedier, M. Joseph 9

Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story Shakespeare, William 9

Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare, William 9

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Stoppard, Tom 9

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Fitzgerald, Edward 9

Running in the Family Ondaatje, Michael 11

Saint Joan Shaw, G.B. 9

Scarlet Letter, The Hawthorne, Nathanial 9

Schwa was Here, The Shusterman, Neal 9

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Sea Around Us, The Carson, Rachel 9

Sea Runners, The Doig, Ivan 9

Sea Wolf London, Jack 9

Secret Life Of Bees, The Monk Kidd, Sue 9

Secret Sharer, The Conrad, Joseph 9

Selected Short Stories of Hawthorne Hawthorne, Nathaniel 9

Sense & Sensibility Austen, Jane 9

Separate Peace, A Knowles, John 9

Shattered Chain Bradley, Marion Zimmer 9

She Stoops to Conquer Goldsmith, Oliver 9

Siddartha Hesse, Hermann 9

Silas Marner Eliot, George 9

Silent Spring Carson, Rachel 9

Sister Carrie Drieser, Theodore 9

Six Characters in Search of An Author Pirandello, Luigi 9

Six Plays Hellman, Lillian 9

Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut, Kurt 9

Snows of Killmanjaro Hemingway, Ernest 9

Solo Alexander, Kwame &Hess Mary Rand9

Something Wicked This Way Comes Bradbury, Ray 9

Sophocles I - Three Tragedies Sophocles 9

Soul of A New Machine Kidder, Tracy 9

Sound and the Fury, The Faulkner, William 9

Sound of Waves Mishima, Yukio 9

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Stand on Zanzibar Brunner, John 9

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Cruther, Chris 9

Stitches (Graphic Novel) (BOE Approved May 2018) Small, David 9

Story of an African Farm, The Schreiner, Olive H

Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein, Robert 9

Stranger, The Camus, Albert 9

Sun Also Rises, The Hemingway, Ernest 9

Sundiata: An Epic Of Old Mali Niani, D.T. 12

Swiftwater Loring, E. 9

Sword in the Stone, The White, Terence Hanbury 9

Tale of Two Cities, A Dickens, Charles 9

Tales from a Troubled Land Paton, Alan 9

Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare, William 9

Tears of a Tiger Draper, Sharon 9

Tempest, The Shakespeare, William 9

Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott 9

Tess of the D'Urbervilles Hardy, Thomas 9

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time Haddon, Mark 9

Their Eyes were Watching God Hurston, Zora Neale H

Things Fall Apart Achebe, Chinua 9

Thirteen Stories of Eudora Welty Welty, Eudora 9

This Family of Women Peck, Richard 9

This Side of Paradise Fitzgerald, F. Scott 9

Thread That Runs So True, The Stewart, Jesse 9

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Three Cups of Tea (BOE approved Jan 2011)Mortenson, Greg and Relin,

David9

Three Faces of Eve, TheThigpen, Corbett &

Cleckly,Hervey9

Titus Andronicus Shakespeare, William 9

To A God Unknown Steinbeck, John 9

To The Lighthouse Wolfe, Viginia 9

Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Twain, Mark 9

Too Late the Phalarope Paton , Alan 9

Tortilla Curtain, The Boyle, T. Coraghessan 9H

Tracks Erdrich, Louise H

Trustee From the Toolroom Shute, Nevil 9

Turn of the Screw & Daisy Miller James, Henry 9

Twelfth Night Shakespeare, William 9

Twelve Angry Men Rose, Reginald 9

Two for Survival Roth, Arthur 9

Two Gentlemen From Verona Shakespeare, William 9

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and

Redemption (BOE approved Nov 2015)Hillenbrand, Laura 9

Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beechar 9

Underground Railroad, The Whitehead, Colson 11

Understanding Comics (Graphic Novel) (BOE Approved May 2018) McCloud, Scott 9

Unvanquished, The Faulkner, William 9

Up From Slavery Washington, Booker T. 9

Up the Down Staircase Kaufman, Bel 9

Vanity FairThackerey, William

Makepeace9

Victory Conrad, Joseph 9

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Virgin and the Gypsy, The Lawrence, D.H. 9

Waiting for Godot Becket, Samuel 9

Walden and Civil Disobedience Thoreau, Henry David 9

Walden and Other Writings Thoreau, Henry David 9

Walk Across America, A Jenkins, Peter 9

Wapshot Chronicles, The Cheever, John 9

War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo 9

War of the Worlds, The Wells, Herbert George 9

Wasteland & Other Poems Eliot, T.S. 9

Way of the Peaceful Warrior Millman, Dan 9

Way to Rainy Mountain, The (BOE Approved November 2014) Momaday, N. Scott 9

We Have Always Lived in a Castle Jackson, Shirley 9

Web of Life, The Storer, John H. 9

Welcome to the Monkey House Vonnegut, Kurt 9

Wellspring Hawkins, Edward 9

When Michael Calls Farris, John 9

When the Emperor Was Divine Otsuka, Julie 9

When the Legends Die Borland, Hal 9

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Wilhelm, Kate 9

Whereas Soldier, Layli Long 10

Whole Nine Yards, The Malmgren, Dallin 9

Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys, Jean 12

Winter of Our Discontent, The Steinbeck, John 9

Winter's Tale, The Shakespeare, William 9

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Wit: a play (BOE Approved October 2011) Edson, Margaret 9

Word Weaving: A Creative Approach to Teaching and

Writing PoetryJohnson, David M 9

Wuthering Heights Bronte, Emily 9

Year of Decision, 1846 DeVoto, Bernard 9

You Can't Go Home Again Wolfe, Thomas 9

You Don't Need a Title to be a Leader (BOE approved Nov 2015) Sanborn, Mark 10

Zoo Story, The (BOE Approved October 2011) Albee, Edward 9

Zorba, The Greek Kazantzakis, Nikos 9

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