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Fiction and Nonfiction Book Pairings for AP English Paper 2013/2014

|# |Call # |Author |Title |Genre |Description |

|1 |F ADA |Adams |Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |Fiction |Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman |

| | | | | |is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy. |

|2 |F ALL |Allende |The House of the Spirits |Fiction |The novel follows three generations of Trueba women—Clara, Blanca, and Alba—as they |

| | | | | |struggle to establish their independence from Esteban Trueba, the domineering family|

| | | | | |patriarch. |

|3 |F ALV |Julia Alvarez |How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents |Fiction |Yolanda left this home in the early 1960s when, for political reasons, her parents |

| | | | | |immigrated to the United States with their four young daughters. When the political |

| | | | | |climate cooled down in the Dominican Republic, the girls were allowed to return to |

| | | | | |spend summers with their extended family. |

| |BCCC |Print & Online ‘98|2 articles from the Journal of Social Issues on |Nonfiction | |

| | |to ‘07 |assimilation and ethnic identity [we do not own] | | |

| |814.54 ALV |Julia Alvarez |Something to Declare |Nonfiction/Memoir |24 autobiographical essays |

|4 |F ALV |Julia Alvarez |In the Time of the Butterflies. |Fiction |Gives a fictionalized account of four sisters in the Dominican Republic under the |

| | | | | |dictatorship of General Trujillo. |

| |PA Access |Alan Cambeira |Quisqueya LA Bella: The Dominican Republic in |Nonfiction |An overview of the historical and cultural development of the Dominican Republic |

| | | |Historical and Cultural Perspective | | |

|5 |811 |Angelou |"And Still I Rise," "Life Doesn't Frighten Me," and |Poetry |Confessional Poetry |

| |ANG | |other autobiographical poems by Angelou in the | | |

| | | |Collected Poetry | | |

|6 |F ATW |Atwood |The Handmaid's Tale |Fiction |In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? |

| | | | | |Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the |

| | | | | |Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now |

| | | | | |pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie |

| | | | | |on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in |

| | | | | |an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their |

| | | | | |ovaries are viable. |

| | 305.42 DEB |Simone de Beauvoir|The Second Sex |Nonfiction |Simone de Beauvoir weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology, and a |

| | | | | |host of other disciplines to show women's place in the world and to postulate on the|

| | | | | |power of sexuality. |

|7-9 |F |Austen |Sense and Sensibility or Pride and Prejudice or Emma |Fiction |Comedies of manners, in which the characters move inside a restrictive code of |

| |AUS | | | |conduct as they find romance. |

| |305.42 |Amanda Vickery |The gentleman's daughter : women's lives in Georgian |Nonfiction |What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? This lively |

| |VIC | |England | |book, based on letters, diaries, and account books of over one hundred middle class |

| | | | | |women, transforms our understanding of the position of women in Georgian England. |

|10 |F BAR |Barrie |Peter Pan |Fiction |The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the|

| | | | | |boy who would not grow up. |

| |PA Access |Wullschlager, |Inventing wonderland : Victorian childhood as seen |Nonfiction |The chapter on Barrie discusses Peter Pan, who in his refusal to grow up, mirrors |

| | |Jackie. |through the lives and fantasies of Lewis Carroll, | |his creator, James M. Barrie, an "emotional outsider" who idealized his mother, was |

| | | |Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame, and A.A. | |unable to relate to women and compulsively played with other people's children. |

| | | |Milne | | |

| | |Freud |The Interpretation of Dreams |Nonfiction |The Interpretation of Dreams outlined Freud's theory of unconscious forces in the |

| | | | | |context of dream analysis. Introducing the id, the superego, and the ego, Freud |

| | | | | |advanced scientific understanding of the mind immeasurably by exposing motivations |

| | | | | |normally invisible to our consciousness. |

| | |Kahn, Michael. |Basic Freud: Psychoanalysis for the 21st Century. |Nonfiction |A study of Freud's theory of the unconscious, explaining what he meant by the |

| | | | | |unconscious and looking at his teachings on the subject; exploring the repetition |

| | | | | |compulsion, and theories of sexual development, anxiety and guilt, defense |

| | | | | |mechanisms, dreams, and grief and mourning; and examining the unconscious aspects of|

| | | | | |the therapeutic relationship. |

|11 |F BEL |Bellow |The Adventures of Augie March |Fiction |Describes the life of Augie March, a poor Chicago boy growing up during the |

| | | | | |Depression, and his search for a career. |

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| |PA Access |Jenna Weissman |The wonders of America : reinventing Jewish culture, |Nonfiction/Sociology |Presents a study of Jewish American culture. |

| | |Joselit |1880-1950 | | |

| |PA Access |David Riesman |The Lonely Crowd, Revised edition: A Study of the |Nonfiction/Sociology |"This is a book about social character and about the differences in social character|

| | | |Changing American Character | |between men of different regions, eras, and groups." |

|12 |769 |William Blake |Songs of Innocence and Experience |Poetry |The Songs of Innocence and Experience dramatize the naive hopes and fears that |

| |BLA | | | |inform the lives of children. Many of the poems draw attention to the positive |

| | | | | |aspects of natural human understanding prior to the corruption and distortion of |

| | | | | |experience. |

|13 |F BRA |Bradbury |Fahrenheit 451 |Fiction |In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen|

| | | | | |don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly |

| | | | | |painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place |

| | | | | |where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. |

|14 |832 BRE |Bertolt Brecht |The Threepenny Opera |Drama |Based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera is a vicious satire on |

| | | | | |the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian|

| | | | | |Soho. |

|15 |F BRO |Charlotte Bronte |Villette |Fiction |Charlotte Brontë’s last and most autobiographical novel is narrated by Lucy Snow, |

| | | | | |determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances. |

|16 |F BRO |Emily Bronte |Wuthering Heights |Fiction |A pair of narrators relate the story of the foundling Heathcliff's close-knit bond |

| | | | | |with his benefactor's daughter, Catherine Earnshaw. Although, one in spirit, they |

| | | | | |are social unequals. |

| |941.081 |Mitchell, Sally. |Daily life in Victorian England | |Recreates daily life in Victorian England, from urban slums to the estates of high |

| |MIT | | | |society, with information on the physical, social, economic, and legal aspects of |

| | | | | |the era, from 1837 to 1901. |

|17 |F BRO |Dan Brown |The Da Vinci Code |Fiction | A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister |

| | | | | |plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the |

| | | | | |days of Christ. Draws on the works of theologians, art historians, and other experts|

| | | | | |to explore the sources, ideas, and major themes of the novel "The Da Vinci Code." |

|18 |F CHA |Michael Chabon |The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay |Fiction |The story of two talented Jewish cousins--one a writer, the other an artist. At the |

| | | | | |beginning of WWII they collaborate and create comic book action heroes who battle |

| | | | | |Hitler and his minions. The novel reveals much about what happened to America in the|

| | | | | |middle of the twentieth century. |

| |B LEE |Jordan Raphael and|Stan Lee and the rise and fall of the American comic |Nonfiction |Traces the career of writer and editor Stan Lee, discussing how he helped promote |

| | |Tom Spurgeon. |book | |comic books to popularity in the United States. |

|19 |364.1 C |Truman Capote |In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and|Nonfiction novel |Recreates the slaying of the Clutter family of Kansas, and the capture, trial, and |

| | | |its consequences | |execution of their murderers. |

| |364.3 SAM |Samenow |Inside the Criminal Mind |Nonfiction |In 1984, this groundbreaking book presented a chilling profile of the criminal mind |

| | | | | |that shattered long-held myths about the sources of and cures for crime. Now, with |

| | | | | |the benefit of twenty years' worth of additional knowledge and insight, Stanton |

| | | | | |Samenow offers a completely updated edition of his classic work. |

|20 |F CAR |Orson Scott Card |Ender's Game |Fiction |In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, |

| | | | | |government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. young Ender is |

| | | | | |the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. |

| | | | | |Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the |

| | | | | |adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological |

| | | | | |battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he |

| | | | | |remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. |

|21 |F CAR |Lewis Carroll |Alice's adventures in Wonderland ; and, Through the |Fiction |A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and |

| | | |looking glass | |amusing characters. |

| | | | | |The 1872 sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll’s inquisitive |

| | | | | |heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. |

| |150.19 |Jung |The Basic Writings of Jung: Archetypes of the |Nonfiction/Psychology |This part of Jung's work is devoted to his concept of the collective unconscious and|

| |JUN | |Collective Unconscious | |its correlate, that of the archetypes. |

| |823.8 |Rackin |Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the |Nonfiction/Literary Criticism|A study of Carroll's masterpieces that address issues that concerned mid-Victorians |

| |RAC | |looking glass : nonsense, sense, and meaning | |on the brink of a new era. |

|22 |SC CHO |Kate Chopin |The Awakening |Fiction |The Awakening begins at a crisis point in twenty-eight year-old Edna Pontellier's |

| | | | | |life. Edna is a passionate and artistic woman who finds few acceptable outlets for |

| | | | | |her desires in her role as wife and mother of two sons living in conventional Creole|

| | | | | |society. |

| |305.42 |Betty Friedan |The Feminine Mystique |Nonfiction |Groundbreaking 1963 work in which Friedan defined the feminine mystique as "as the |

| | | | | |worthlessness women feel in roles that require them to be financially, |

| | | | | |intellectually and emotionally dependent upon their husbands. Through her findings, |

| | | | | |Friedan hypothesized that women are victims of a false belief system that requires |

| | | | | |them to find identity and meaning in their lives through their husbands and |

| | | | | |children. |

|23 |821 COL |Coleridge |The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |Poetry |A sailor tells about the terrible fate that befell his ship after he killed an |

| | | | | |albatross |

|24 |851 |Dante Alighieri |The Inferno |Fiction |The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem describing Dante’s imaginary journey. Dante |

| |DAN | | | |passes through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Each part consists of a prologue and |

| | | | | |approximately 33 cantos. Since the narrative poem is in an exalted form with a hero |

| | | | | |as its subject, it is an epic poem. Dante and Virgil enter the wide gates of Hell |

| | | | | |and descend through the nine circles of Hell. In each circle they see sinners being |

| | | | | |punished for their sins on earth; Dante sees the torture as Divine justice. |

|25 |F DIC |Charles Dickens |David Copperfield |Fiction |David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own |

| | | | | |life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and |

| | | | | |happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains |

| | |Freud |Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex. In The Basic |Nonfiction |Landmark study examines sexual aberrations, infantile sexuality, and the |

| | | |Writings of Sigmund Freud Also online | |transformations of puberty. |

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| |155.3 BUS |David M. Buss |Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating |Nonfiction |Based on the most massive study of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more |

| | | | | |than ten thousand people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide, The |

| | | | | |Evolution of Desire is the first book to present a unified theory of human mating |

| | | | | |behavior |

|26 |F DIC |Charles Dickens |Oliver Twist |Fiction |In nineteenth-centry England, a young orphan runs away from a workhouse, is captured|

| | | | | |by a gang of thieves, and finally escapes. |

| |820.9 P |Daniel Pool |What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew |Nonfiction |Daily life in 19th century England |

|27 |F DOS |Fyodor Dostoevsky |Crime and Punishment |Fiction |A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable |

| | | | | |pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Raskolnikov, an |

| | | | | |impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, |

| | | | | |carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness |

| | | | | |and terror. |

|28 |F DUM |Daphne Du Maurier |Rebecca |Fiction |Rebecca is a novel of mystery and passion, a dark psychological tale of secrets |

| | | | | |and betrayal, dead loves and an estate called Manderley |

| |PA Access |Margaret Forster |Daphne Du Maurier |Nonfiction/Biography |This biography, previously published in England, explores the motivations behind |

| | | | | |du Maurier's spellbinding works. The picture that emerges is that of a woman at |

| | | | | |odds with herself. Du Maurier's literary achievements coupled with a drive to |

| | | | | |succeed conflicted with her role as a wife and mother. |

|29 |FELI |George Eliot |Middlemarch |Fiction |Dorothea Brooke, a young woman of impeccable character, marries the embittered Mr.|

| | | | | |Casaubon, who almost immediately dies. Eliot takes the reader through a labyrinth |

| | | | | |of nineteenth-century morals and conventions as Dorothea searches for fulfillment |

| | | | | |and happiness. circa 1830 |

|30 |F ELL |Ellison |Invisible Man |Fiction |Invisible Man chronicles the travels of its narrator, a young, nameless black man,|

| | | | | |as he moves through the hellish levels of American intolerance and cultural |

| | | | | |blindness. |

|31 |F ESQ |Esquival |Like Water for Chocolate |Fiction |A romantic and poignant tale of love and family life in turn-of-the-century |

| | | | | |Mexico. |

|32 |F FAU |William Faulkner |Absalom, Absalom! |Fiction |The story of the dissolution of the Sutpens, one of those august old Mississippi |

| | | | | |families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. |

| |616.85 FRE |Sigmund Freud |Totem and Taboo |Nonfiction |Landmark collection of essays explores the conflict between primitive feelings and|

| | | | | |the demands of civilization. Ground-breaking work, essential for teachers and |

| | | | | |students of psychology and readers interested in ethnology and folklore |

|33 |F Fit |Fitzgerald |Tender Is the Night |Fiction |Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic |

| | | | | |romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick |

| | | | | |and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick|

| | | | | |is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not |

| | | | | |his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound|

| | | | | |study of the romantic concept of character — lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly |

| | | | | |evocative. |

| |PA Access |Calvin Tomkins |Living Well Is the Best Revenge |Nonfiction |New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins re-creates the privileged world of Gerald and |

| | | | | |Sara Murphy, two American originals who found themselves at the center of a |

| | | | | |charmed circle of artists and expatriate writers in France in the 1920s. Their |

| | | | | |home in Antibes, Villa America, served as a gathering place for Picasso and Léger |

| | | | | |as well as Hemingway and Fitzgerald, who used the glamorous couple as models for |

| | | | | |Dick and Nicole Diver in |

| | | | | |Tender Is the Night. |

|34 |F FOR |E.M. Forster |A Passage to India |Fiction |The book portrays the relationship between the British and the Indians in India |

| | | | | |and the tensions that arise when a visiting Englishwoman, Adela Quested, accuses a|

| | | | | |well-respected Indian man, Dr. Aziz, of attacking her during an outing. |

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| |954.03 |C. A. Bayly |Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire |Nonfiction |This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge |

| |BAY | | | |from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the period of India's |

| | | | | |transition to colonialism and seeks to reassess the role of Indians in the |

| | | | | |politics and economics of early colonialism. |

| | PA Access |Said, Edward |Orientalism |Nonfiction |This is the classic (originally published in 1978) work analyzing the origins and |

| | | | | |pervasiveness of Western attitudes toward and beliefs (mostly misfounded) about |

| | | | | |the "Orient," principally the Middle East. |

|35 |F FOR | E.M. Forster |A Room with a View |Fiction |A classic tale of British middle-class love, this novel displays Forster's skill |

| | | | | |in contrasting British sensibilities with those of foreign cultures, as he |

| | | | | |portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy. One of |

| | | | | |Forster's earliest and most celebrated works. |

|36 |F FRA |Frazier |Cold Mountain |Fiction |Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a |

| | | | | |Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge|

| | | | | |mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His trek across the disintegrating South |

| | | | | |brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, |

| | | | | |bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, the |

| | | | | |intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to |

| | | | | |survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it |

| | | | | |interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, |

| | | | | |hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving. |

|37 |F GAR |Gabriel Garcia |Love in the Time of Cholera |Fiction |Dr. Juvenal Urbino and his proud, stately wife Fermina Daza, respectively past 80 |

| | |Marquez | | |and 70, are in the autumn of their solid marriage. . We meet Florentino Ariza, |

| | | | | |more antihero than hero, a mock Don Juan with an undertaker's demeanor, at once |

| | | | | |pathetic, grotesque and endearing, when he seizes the memorably unseemly occasion |

| | | | | |of Urbino's funeral to reiterate to Fermina the vow of love he first uttered more |

| | | | | |than 50 years before. With the fine detailing of a Victorian novel, the narrative |

| | | | | |plunges backward in time to reenact their earlier, youthful courtship of furtive |

| | | | | |letters and glances. |

| |B GAR |Gene H. |Garcia Marquez: The Man and His Work |Nonfiction |Part one is background on Colombia, the writer's life and his politics. Part two |

| | |Bell-Villada | | |is a stimulating history of Macondo and a strong examination of the works. |

|38 |F GOL |William Golding |Lord of the Flies |Fiction |William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are |

| | | | | |plane-wrecked on a deserted island. |

|39 |955 SAT |Marjane Satrapi |Persepolis |Graphic Novel |Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the author shares the story |

| | | | | |of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she lived from ages six to fourteen while the |

| | | | | |country came under control of the Islamic regime. |

|40 |F HEL |Joseph Heller |Catch 22 |Fiction |At the heart of Catch-22 is Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes |

| | | | | |to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. If he makes the necessary |

| | | | | |formal request to be relieved of missions, the very act of making the request |

| | | | | |proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. |

| | |Chris Hedges |War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning |Nonfiction |This book examines the continuing appeal of war to the human psyche. Veteran New |

| |355.02 HED | | | |York Times correspondent Hedges argues that, to many people, war provides a |

| | | | | |purpose for living; it seems to allow the individual to rise above regular life |

| | | | | |and perhaps participate in a noble cause. Having identified this myth, Hedges then|

| | | | | |explodes it by showing the brutality of modern war, using examples taken from his |

| | | | | |own experiences as a war correspondent. |

|41 |812 HEL |Lillian Hellman |The Children’s Hour in Six plays by Lillian Hellman |Drama |Concerning a scandal at a private girl's school, Hellman bravely dramatizes the |

| | | | | |scars and cycles of abuse which result not only from lying but also from ignorance|

| | | | | |and cowardice. |

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| | |Lawrence Kohlberg |Moral development, moral education, and Kohlberg : |Nonfiction |Review of Kohlberg.Includes essay Stages of moral development as a basis for moral|

| | | |basic issues in philosophy, psychology, religion, and | |education by Lawrence Kohlberg |

| | | |education | | |

| |345.411 |Lillian Faderman |Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods V. Dame |Nonfiction |The true-life story of two 19th-century Scottish school mistresses accused of |

| | | |Cumming Gordon | |having a lesbian affair--the historical basis of Lillian Hellman's famous play, |

| | | | | |The Children's Hour. |

|42 |F HES |Hermann Hesse |Siddhartha |Fiction |This classic novel of self-discovery has inspired generations of seekers. With |

| | | | | |parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse’s Siddhartha is the story of a|

| | | | | |young Brahmn’s quest for the ultimate reality. |

| |PA Access |Madhu Bazaz Wangu |Buddhism |Nonfiction |Presents the story of Buddhism's origins and growth through the centuries, |

| | | | | |discussing its basic philosophy and the evolution of the three major schools of |

| | | | | |Buddhist thought. |

|43 |F HES |Hermann |Steppenwolf |Fiction |With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesse’s best- |

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| | |Weaver, Rix |Spinning on a dream thread |Nonfiction |Hermann Hesse: his life and work, and his contact with C.G. Jung |

|44 |883 |Homer |Homer's The Iliad |Fiction/Epic |Tales of Troy and its heroes Achilles and Hector |

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|45 |F HOS |Khaled Hosseini |The Kite Runner |Fiction |Follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, |

| | | | | |and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. |

|46 |F HUR |Hurston |Their Eyes Were Watching God |Fiction |An African-American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two |

| | | | | |loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant |

| | | | | |laborer and gambler. |

|47 |F GAR |John Gardner |Grendel |Fiction | Grendel, the monster from Beowulf, tells his side of the Beowulf story, and |

| | | | | |compares his values with the chief values of human beings. |

|48 |F JAM |James |Portrait of a Lady |Fiction |When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her |

| | | | | |wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, |

| | | | | |resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible |

| | | | | |suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath|

| | | | | |his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. A story of intense |

| | | | | |poignancy, Isabel's tale of love and betrayal still resonates with modern |

| | | | | |audiences. |

|49 |SC |Joyce. |Dubliners. |Fiction |Each story stands on its own, but read straight through, they provide a powerful |

| |JOY | | | |narrative of Edwardian Dublin as lived by its lower and middle classes. |

| |PA Access |Richard M. Kain |Dublin in the Age of William Butler Yeats and James |Nonfiction |Dublin during the time of James Joyce. |

| | | |Joyce | | |

| |PA Access |Joseph V. O'Brien |Dear, Dirty Dublin |Nonfiction |Dublin in the early 20th Century |

|50 |F KAF |Franz Kafka |The Trial |Fiction |The terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and |

| | | |. | |inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can |

| | | | | |get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy |

| | | | | |of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, |

| | | | | |Kafka's nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers |

|51 |F KAP |Robert Kaplow |Me and Orson Welles |Fiction |The irresistible story of a stagestruck boy coming of age in the golden era of |

| | | | | |Broadway-with some very famous supporting characters-Me and Orson Welles is a |

| | | | | |romantic farce that reads like a Who's Who of the classic American theater. |

| |B WEL |David Thomson |Rosebud : the story of Orson Wells | |Biography of actor, director and producer, Orson Wells, with discussion of his |

| | | | | |life, career and accomplishments. |

|52 |F KAZ |Nikos Kazantzakis |Zorba the Greek |Fiction |The unnamed narrator is a scholarly, introspective writer who opens a coal mine on|

| | | | | |the fertile island of Crete. He is gradually drawn out of his ascetic shell by an |

| | | | | |elderly employee named Zorba, an ebullient man who revels in the social pleasures |

| | | | | |of eating, drinking, and dancing. |

|53 |F KER |Jack Kerouac |On the Road |Fiction |On The Road is the soul of the Beat movement and literature, a thinly |

| | | | | |fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life |

| | | | | |friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's |

| | | | | |alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey |

| |PA Access |Charter |Beat Down to Your Soul |Nonfiction |In this wide-ranging anthology, Beat scholar Ann Charters brings together more |

| | | | | |than seventy-five essays, reviews, memoirs, poems, and sketches that evoke the |

| | | | | |credos and the controversies surrounding the Beat generation writers of the 1950s.|

| |PA ACCESS |Jack Kerouac |Windblown world : the journals of Jack Kerouac, |Nonfiction |Journal entries chronicle the life of author Jack Kerouac from 1947 to 1954. |

| | | |1947-1954 | | |

|54 |F KES |Ken Kesey |One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |Fiction |Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially |

| | | | | |the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, |

| | | | | |fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the |

| | | | | |eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and |

| | | | | |understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that |

| | | | | |keep them all imprisoned. |

|55 |PA Access |Arthur Koestler |Darkness at Noon |Fiction |This splendid novel is set in the tumultuous Soviet Union of the 1930s during the |

| | | | | |treason trials. Rubashov, the protagonist and a hero of the revolution, is |

| | | | | |arrested and jailed for things he has not done, though there is much about the |

| | | | | |current Soviet state that veered from his ideals as a revolutionary. |

|56 |F LE |LeGuin, Ursula |The Left-hand of Darkness |Fiction |A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the |

| | | | | |story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can |

| | | | | |change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing |

| | | | | |intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own |

| | | | | |views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters. Embracing|

| | | | | |the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left |

| | | | | |Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual |

| | | | | |science fiction. |

|57 |F MAL |Malamud |The Natural |Fiction |Roy Hobbs, the protagonist of The Natural, makes the mistake of pronouncing aloud |

| | | | | |his dream: to be the best there ever was. Such hubris, of course, invites divine |

| | | | | |intervention, but the brilliance of Bernard Malamud's novel is the second chance |

| | | | | |it offers its hero, elevating him--and his story--into the realm of myth. |

|58 |F MAN |Mann |The Magic Mountain |Fiction |First published in 1929, Mann's novel tells the story of Hans Castorp, a modern |

| | | | | |everyman who spends seven years in an Alpine sanatorium for tuberculosis patients,|

| | | | | |finally leaving to become a soldier in World War I. Isolated from the concerns of |

| | | | | |the everyday world, he is exposed to the wide range of ideas that shaped a world |

| | | | | |on the verge of explosion. Considering what was to follow, the most poignant |

| | | | | |moment comes when Naphta, a Jewish-born Jesuit, defends the use of terror and the |

| | | | | |taking of life for the sake of an all-encompassing idea. |

|59 |F MAS |Bobbie Ann Mason |In country |Fiction |Sam Hughes lives in Hopewell, Kentucky with her Uncle Emmett who is a Vietnam |

| | | | | |veteran. Sam's father was killed in Vietnam and, in an effort to understand about|

| | | | | |him and the war, she embarks on a pilgrimage with Emmett and her grandmother to |

| | | | | |the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, the "Wall", in Washington. |

|60 |812 |Miller |Death of a Salesman |Drama |Miller won a Pulitzer Prize for this work, which he described as "the tragedy of a|

| |MIL | | | |man who gave his life, or sold it" in pursuit of the American Dream. After many |

| | | | | |years on the road as a traveling salesman, Willy Loman realizes he has been a |

| | | | | |failure as a father and husband. His sons, Happy and Biff, are not successful--on |

| | | | | |his terms (being "well-liked") or any others. His career fading, Willy escapes |

| | | | | |into reminiscences of an idealized past. |

| |PA Access |Jim Cullen |The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that |Nonfiction |The American Dream is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our |

| | | |Shaped a Nation | |national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history,|

| | | | | |or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores |

| | | | | |the meaning of the American Dream. |

|61 |F MIT |Margaret Mitchell |Gone with the Wind |Fiction |Gone With the Wind is a sweeping, romantic story about the American Civil War from|

| | | | | |the point of view of the Confederacy. In particular it is the story of Scarlett |

| | | | | |O'Hara, a headstrong Southern belle who survives the hardships of the war and |

| | | | | |afterwards manages to establish a successful business by capitalizing on the |

| | | | | |struggle to rebuild the South. |

| |973.7 |Faust, Drew |Mothers of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South |Nonfiction |Discusses the situation of white women in slave-holding families during the Civil |

| |FAU |Gilpin. |in the American Civil War | |War, showing how they responded to their new responsibilities as heads of |

| | | | | |households, loss of prosperity, and a changing society |

|62 |F MOR |Toni Morrison |Beloved |Fiction |Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the |

| | | | | |unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep |

| | | | | |Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off |

| | | | | |the legacy of her past. |

|63 |F NAB |Nabokov |Lolita |Fiction |The story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion |

| | | | | |for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized |

| | | | | |European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it|

| | | | | |is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and |

| | | | | |transformation. |

|64 |F ORW |George Orwell |1984 |Fiction |Published in 1949 as a warning about the menaces of totalitarianism |

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| | |Bloom, ed. |Modern Critical Views George Orwell |Nonfiction |This title examines the major works of George Orwell through full-length critical |

| | | | | |essays by expert literary critics. |

|65 |F PAL |Chuck Palahniuk |Invisible Monsters |Fiction |She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best |

| | | | | |friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable |

| | | | | |of speech, she is transformed from the beautiful center of attention to an |

| | | | | |invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter |

| | | | | |Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, |

| | | | | |who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up|

| | | | | |something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you'll ever want to |

| | | | | |look. |

| |142 BAS |Gordon Marino |Basic writings of existentialism |Nonfiction |Basic Writings of Existentialism presents the writings of key nineteenth- and |

| | |(Editor) | | |twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no|

| | | | | |inherent meaning that humans can discover, we must determine meaning for |

| | | | | |ourselves. This anthology brings together into one volume the most influential and|

| | | | | |commonly taught works of existentialism |

|66 |F PAS |Boris Pasternak |Doctor Zhivago |Fiction |This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a |

| | | | | |bourgeois family |

| |947.084 |Sheila |The Russian Revolution |Nonfiction |Chronicles the key events of the Russian Revolution from 1917 to 1937 and |

| |FIT |Fitzpatrick. | | |discusses how it changed Russian society and government. |

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|67 |F PAT |Alan Paton |Cry, the Beloved Country |Fiction |Accused of murdering a white man, a young black South African turns to his |

| | | | | |minister father and a white attorney for help, but the racial problems of the |

| | | | | |country prevent justice from being served. |

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|68 |F PLA |Sylvia Plath |The Bell Jar |Fiction |The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning |

| | | | | |during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in |

| | | | | |the early 1950s. |

| |616.85 |Andrew Solomon |The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression |Nonfiction |The author uses his own experiences with depression to examine the illness in |

| |SOL | | | |personal, cultural, and scientific terms. |

| |B PLA |Paul Alexander |Rough Magic : a Biography of Sylvia Plath |Nonfiction |Based on exclusive interviews and extensive archival research, Rough Magic probes |

| | | | | |the events of Plath's life-including her turbulent marriage to the English poet |

| | | | | |Ted Hughes-in the first biography to take a compassionate view of this fiercely |

| | | | | |talented, deeply troubled artist. |

|69 |822 POM |Bernard Pomerance |The Elephant Man: A Play |Drama | A play about a horribly deformed young man in 19th century England who becomes a |

| | | | | |favorite among the aristocracy and literati. |

|70 |F POT |Chaim Potok |The Chosen |Fiction |In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders |

| | | | | |together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an |

| | | | | |intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a |

| | | | | |Hasidic rebbe), the young men form a deep, if unlikely, friendship. |

| | | | | |Potok. |

|71 |F POT |Chaim Potok |My Name is Asher Lev. |Fiction |Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and |

| | | | | |believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an |

| | | | | |artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when |

| | | | | |it leads him to blasphemy. |

|72 |F RAN |Ayn Rand |Atlas Shrugged |Fiction |A satire on the follies and dangers of collectivism in which the United States is |

| | | | | |faced with the prospect of economic collapse when the country's leading innovators|

| | | | | |and industrialists go into hiding. |

|73 |F RAN |Ayn Rand |The Fountainhead |Fiction |On the surface, The Fountainhead is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his |

| | | | | |struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a |

| | | | | |newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of |

| | | | | |universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, |

| | | | | |the threat of fascism. |

|74 |F RHY |Rhys |Wide Sargasso Sea |Fiction |Wide Sargasso Sea is Jean Rhys's answer to Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë's book had |

| | | | | |long haunted her, mostly for the story it did not tell--that of the madwoman in |

| | | | | |the attic, Rochester's terrible secret. Antoinette is Rhys's imagining of that |

| | | | | |locked-up woman, who in the end burns up the house and herself. Wide Sargasso Sea |

| | | | | |follows her voyage into the dark, both from her point of view and Rochester's. |

|75 |822 |George Bernard |Man and Superman |Drama |In this caustic satire of romantic conventions, Shaw provides a wonderfully |

| |SHA |Shaw | | |original twist on the Don Juan myth. A finely tuned combination of intellectual |

| | | | | |seriousness and popular comedy, Man and Superman (1905) articulates a recurrent |

| | | | | |theme in Shaw's writing: the notion that man is the spiritual creator and woman, |

| | | | | |the biological life force that inevitably triumphs in the eternal battle of the |

| | | | | |sexes. |

|76 |940.53 |Art Spiegelman |Maus I and II |Graphic Novel |Told with chilling realism in an unusual comic-book format, this is more than a |

| |SPI | | | |tale of surviving the Holocaust. Spiegelman relates the effect of those events on |

| | | | | |the survivors' later years and upon the lives of the following generation. Each |

| | | | | |scene opens at the elder Spiegelman's home in Rego Park, N.Y. Art, who was born |

| | | | | |after the war, is visiting his father, Vladek, to record his experiences in |

| | | | | |Nazi-occupied Poland. The Nazis, portrayed as cats, gradually introduce |

| | | | | |increasingly repressive measures, until the Jews, drawn as mice, are |

| | | | | |systematically hunted and herded toward the Final Solution. |

| |940.53 DAU |Mindy Weisel, |Daughters of absence : transforming a legacy of loss |Nonfiction |A group of creative young women discuss what it was like to grow up in the shadow |

| | |editor | | |of their parents' Holocaust ordeal and how they incorporated that legacy into |

| | | | | |their work. |

|77 |Various Call |Shakespeare |Any work |Drama or Poetry | |

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|78 |821 SPE |Spenser |The Faerie Queen |Fiction/Epic |The central poem of the Elizabethan period , a celebration of Protestant |

| | | | | |nationalism, it represents infidels and papists as villains, King Arthur as the |

| | | | | |hero, and married chastity as its central value. The plan was for 12 books (of |

| | | | | |which six were completed), focusing on 12 virtues exemplified in the quests of 12 |

| | | | | |knights from the court of Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, a symbol for Elizabeth I |

| | | | | |herself. |

|79 |F STE |Steinbeck |The Grapes of Wrath |Fiction |Set during the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath traces the migration of an |

| | | | | |Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant |

| | | | | |farm workers. |

|80 |F STE |Robert Louis |The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |Fiction |Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by is based on the story of Edinburgh's infamous Deacon |

| | |Stevenson | | |Brodie, who was discovered to have been living a double life, coupled with a dream|

| | | | | |Stevenson had one night, what he called "a fine bogey tale," about a man who |

| | | | | |drinks a potion made from a white powder and subsequently transforms into a |

| | | | | |devilish creature. |

|81 |F STO |Harriet Beecher |Uncle Tom’s Cabin |Fiction |Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's |

| | |Stowe | | |Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for |

| | | | | |its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American |

| | | | | |fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains|

| | | | | |a shocking, controversial, and powerful work. |

|82 | |J.M. Synge |Playboy of the Western World |Drama |The Playboy of the Western World deals with its young hero’s progress, in the eyes|

| | | | | |of others, from timid weakling to paragon of bravery. |

|83 |F TAN |Amy Tan |The Joy Luck Club |Fiction |by In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting |

| | | | | |to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and |

| | | | | |hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they |

| | | | | |choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. |

| |B KIN |Maxine Hong |The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts |Nonfiction |A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of |

| | |Kingston | | |her California childhood that have shaped her identity. |

|84 |F TOL |J.R.R. Tolkien |The Lord of the Rings |Fiction |The trilogy is the saga of a group of sometimes reluctant heroes who set forth to |

| | | | | |save their world from consummate evil. |

|85 |F TOL |Leo Tolstoy |Anna Karenina |Fiction |In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses |

| | | | | |her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a |

| | | | | |passionless marriage. |

| |920 |Edited by Sheila |In the shadow of revolution : life stories of Russian |Nonfiction |A collection of writings in which Russian women describe what it was like to live |

| |IN |Fitzpatrick |women from 1917 to the second World War | |in Russia in the first half of the twentieth century. |

|86 |F TUR |Ivan Turgenev |Fathers and Sons |Fiction | Fathers and Sons concerns the inevitable conflict between generations and between|

| | | | | |the values of traditionalists and intellectuals. The physician Bazarov is a |

| | | | | |nihilist, denying the validity of all laws save those of the natural sciences. |

| | | | | |Uncouth and forthright in his opinions, he is nonetheless susceptible to love and |

| | | | | |by that fact doomed to unhappiness. In sociopolitical terms he represents the |

| | | | | |victory of the revolutionary nongentry intelligentsia over the gentry |

| | | | | |intelligentsia. |

|87 |SC |Francois M. |Candide |Fiction |Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every |

| |VOL |Voltaire | | |direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of |

| | | | | |all possible worlds." A savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that |

| | | | | |proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic |

| | | | | |plan |

| |193 |Paul Strathern |Leibniz in 90 minutes |Nonfiction |An exploration of Leibniz's theories. |

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| |PA Access |edited by Nicholas|The Cambridge companion to Leibniz |Nonfiction |The most comprehensive account of the full range of Leibniz's thought |

| | |Jolley | | | |

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|88 |F VON |Vonnegut |The Sirens of Titan |Fiction |The richest and most depraved man on Earth takes a wild space journey to distant |

| | | | | |worlds, learning about the purpose of human life along the way. |

|89 |F VON |Vonnegut |Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a |Fiction |Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the |

| | | |duty-dance with death | |infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects |

| | | | | |the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we |

| | | | | |are afraid to know. |

| |940.54 BLU |Roscoe Blunt | Foot Soldier |Nonfiction |What was daily life like for a lowly infantryman during the last year of World War|

| | | | | |II in the European theater? Foot Soldier, Roscoe C. Blunt's memoir, tells us with |

| | | | | |unadorned candor. |

|90 |F WAL |Alice Walker |The Color Purple |Fiction |Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, |

| | | | | |beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and |

| | | | | |attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the |

| | | | | |course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. |

|91 |F WAR |Robert Penn Warren|All the King's Men |Fiction |This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of |

| | | | | |Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men |

| | | | | |tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds support by|

| | | | | |appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with the best of the |

| | | | | |back-room deal-makers. |

|92 |F WAU |Evelyn Waugh |Brideshead revisited |Fiction |The story of the wealthy Roman Catholic Marchmain family as told by Charles Ryder,|

| | | | | |a friend of the family |

|93 |F WHA |Wharton |The Age of Innocence |Fiction |Welcome to the New York of the 1870's, where everyone in the upper crust fits into|

| | | | | |the mold or is ostracized for nonconformity. In spite of having married the |

| | | | | |socially suitable May, Weland Archer wishes to be unconventional and sees the |

| | | | | |Countess Olenska as a role model at the same time that he falls in love with her. |

|94 |811 WHI |Whitman |"Song of Myself" in Whitman Poetry and Prose |Poetry |"Song of Myself" is a sprawling combination of biography, sermon, and poetic |

| | | | | |meditation. |

|95 |F WOO |Woofe |To the Lighthouse |Fiction |The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, together |

| | | | | |with their children and assorted guests are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From |

| | | | | |the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia |

| | | | | |Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and |

| | | | | |allegiances of family life, and the conflict between male and female principles. |

|96 |F WOL |Woolff |Make Lemonade |Fiction |In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a |

| | | |OR | |teenage mother. |

|97 |F WRI |Wright |Native Son |Fiction |Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, |

| | | | | |prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension. As|

| | | | | |a young black man in the Chicago of the '30s, he has no way out of the walls of |

| | | | | |poverty and racism that surround him, and after he murders a young white woman in |

| | | | | |a moment of panic, these walls begin to close in. |

|98 |F ZOL |Emile Zola |Germinal |Fiction |Based on an actual French mining disaster, it tells the story of a young miner and|

| | | | | |his rise from a humble laborer to a revolutionary. |

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