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The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games • Book 1

by Suzanne Collins

Collins weaponizes reality TV into a chilling portrait of inequality, where teenagers fight to the death for entertainment and bread.

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Collins weaponizes reality TV into a chilling portrait of inequality, where teenagers fight to the death for entertainment and bread.

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird • Book 1

by Harper Lee

Lee uses a child's perspective to expose how adults rationalize evil, making racism's casual cruelty in 1930s Alabama feel immediate and devastating.

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Lee uses a child's perspective to expose how adults rationalize evil, making racism's casual cruelty in 1930s Alabama feel immediate and devastating.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jesmyn Ward - introduction

Fitzgerald dissects American optimism through Gatsby's doomed pursuit of a woman who represents everything money can't actually buy.

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Fitzgerald dissects American optimism through Gatsby's doomed pursuit of a woman who represents everything money can't actually buy.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter • Book 3

by J.K. Rowling

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Orwell's farmyard revolution starts with noble ideals about equality, then demonstrates exactly how power corrupts even the most well-intentioned movements.

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Orwell's farmyard revolution starts with noble ideals about equality, then demonstrates exactly how power corrupts even the most well-intentioned movements.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter • Book 4

by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter • Book 5

by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter • Book 6

by J.K. Rowling

Lord Of The Flies

by Raymond Wilson

Schoolboys crash-land on a paradise island, but their attempt at civilization quickly dissolves into tribal warfare and murder. Golding strips away social veneer to reveal the beast lurking in human nature.

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Schoolboys crash-land on a paradise island, but their attempt at civilization quickly dissolves into tribal warfare and murder. Golding strips away social veneer to reveal the beast lurking in human nature.

Of Mice and Men Novella

by John Steinbeck

George and Lennie, two Depression-era farmhands, dream of owning their own ranch while Lennie's mental disability makes their friendship both touching and tragic. Steinbeck examines loneliness and broken dreams in under 200 pages.

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George and Lennie, two Depression-era farmhands, dream of owning their own ranch while Lennie's mental disability makes their friendship both touching and tragic. Steinbeck examines loneliness and broken dreams in under 200 pages.

The Giver

Giver Quartet • Book 1

by Lois Lowry

Jonas lives in a world without pain, war, or choice until he's selected to receive all of humanity's suppressed memories. Lowry creates a deceptively simple dystopia that questions whether safety is worth sacrificing humanity.

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Jonas lives in a world without pain, war, or choice until he's selected to receive all of humanity's suppressed memories. Lowry creates a deceptively simple dystopia that questions whether safety is worth sacrificing humanity.

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

Murdered teenager Susie Salmon narrates from heaven, watching her family struggle with grief while her killer remains at large. Sebold explores how violence ripples through families and communities with devastating precision.

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Murdered teenager Susie Salmon narrates from heaven, watching her family struggle with grief while her killer remains at large. Sebold explores how violence ripples through families and communities with devastating precision.

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë Collection 1)

Jane Eyre • Book 1

by Charlotte Brontë

Orphaned Jane becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls for the mysterious Edward Rochester despite his dark moods and terrible secret. Brontë creates a heroine who demands equality in love and life.

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Orphaned Jane becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls for the mysterious Edward Rochester despite his dark moods and terrible secret. Brontë creates a heroine who demands equality in love and life.

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë, Jennifer Donnelly

What begins as a foundling's mistreatment evolves into a masterpiece of calculated revenge spanning two generations on the moors.

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What begins as a foundling's mistreatment evolves into a masterpiece of calculated revenge spanning two generations on the moors.

The Picture of Dorian Gray Novel

by Oscar Wilde

Dorian Gray trades his soul for eternal youth, watching his hidden portrait bear the physical marks of every sin he commits.

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Dorian Gray trades his soul for eternal youth, watching his hidden portrait bear the physical marks of every sin he commits.

Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

Garmus imagines a brilliant female scientist who transforms daytime television by treating cooking as chemistry and viewers as capable minds.

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Garmus imagines a brilliant female scientist who transforms daytime television by treating cooking as chemistry and viewers as capable minds.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

Hosseini traces Afghanistan's tumultuous history through Mariam and Laila, whose friendship becomes their lifeline through Taliban rule and personal tragedy.

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Hosseini traces Afghanistan's tumultuous history through Mariam and Laila, whose friendship becomes their lifeline through Taliban rule and personal tragedy.

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

Vonnegut blends his Dresden bombing experience with science fiction elements as Billy Pilgrim becomes "unstuck in time," witnessing his life's moments non-linearly.

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Vonnegut blends his Dresden bombing experience with science fiction elements as Billy Pilgrim becomes "unstuck in time," witnessing his life's moments non-linearly.

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin

Zevin traces the complicated bond between two game designers whose creative partnership produces both groundbreaking art and personal destruction across decades of technological change.

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Zevin traces the complicated bond between two game designers whose creative partnership produces both groundbreaking art and personal destruction across decades of technological change.

The Old Man And The Sea Novel

by Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway distills his spare prose style into this tale of an aging Cuban fisherman's ultimate battle with a massive marlin and the sharks that steal his prize.

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Hemingway distills his spare prose style into this tale of an aging Cuban fisherman's ultimate battle with a massive marlin and the sharks that steal his prize.

Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen's Timeless Romance for Teens About Sisterhood, Passion, and Love

by Jane Austen

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

What starts as a widow's late-night cleaning job at an aquarium becomes something unexpectedly profound when she connects with a giant Pacific octopus who might hold clues to her son's disappearance.

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What starts as a widow's late-night cleaning job at an aquarium becomes something unexpectedly profound when she connects with a giant Pacific octopus who might hold clues to her son's disappearance.

My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

Anna was born to be a genetic match for her cancer-stricken sister, but at 13, she sues her parents for the right to her own body.

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Anna was born to be a genetic match for her cancer-stricken sister, but at 13, she sues her parents for the right to her own body.