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| *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?pride+and+prejudice '''Pride and Prejudice'''] by Jane Austen | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?pride+and+prejudice '''Pride and Prejudice'''] by Jane Austen | ||
| + | :This popular novel is also on the list of [[Top 100 Beach Books]] | ||
| *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?the+good+earth '''The Good Earth'''] by Pearl S. Buck | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?the+good+earth '''The Good Earth'''] by Pearl S. Buck | ||
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| *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?fahrenheit+451 '''Fahrenheit 451'''] by Ray Bradbury | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?fahrenheit+451 '''Fahrenheit 451'''] by Ray Bradbury | ||
| - | :In the future, firemen don't put out fires, they create them to burn books. This is a good example of dystopian literature. | + | :In the future, firemen don't put out fires, they create them to burn books. This is a good example of dystopian literature, and it's on the list of [[Top 100 Science Fiction Novels]]. |
| *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?jane+eyre '''Jane Eyre'''] by Charlotte Bronte | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?jane+eyre '''Jane Eyre'''] by Charlotte Bronte | ||
| *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?wuthering+heights '''Wuthering Heights'''] by Emily Bronte | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?wuthering+heights '''Wuthering Heights'''] by Emily Bronte | ||
| + | :Another popular [[Romance]] novel, this also made the list of [[Top 100 Beach Books]] | ||
| *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?the+stranger '''The Stranger'''] by Albert Camus | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?the+stranger '''The Stranger'''] by Albert Camus | ||
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| *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?the+great+gatsby '''The Great Gatsby'''] by F. Scott Fitzgerald | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?the+great+gatsby '''The Great Gatsby'''] by F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| - | :Fitzgerald's novel observes the lives of society folks on Long Island during the Roaring 20's. This was a Big Read Selection in 2007. [[Typically Gatsby]] | + | :Fitzgerald's novel observes the lives of society folks on Long Island during the Roaring 20's. This was the Big Read Selection in 2007. For more information, see [[Typically Gatsby]] |
| *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?room+with+a+view '''A Room With a View'''] by E.M. Forster | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?room+with+a+view '''A Room With a View'''] by E.M. Forster | ||
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| *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?their+eyes+were+watching+god '''Their Eyes Were Watching God'''] by Zora Neale Hurston | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?their+eyes+were+watching+god '''Their Eyes Were Watching God'''] by Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| - | :Janie Crawford reflects on the relationships she's had with different men in her life in Florida during the early part of the 20th century. [[Their Eyes Were Watching God]] was a Big Read selection in 2009. | + | :Janie Crawford reflects on the relationships she's had with different men in her life in Florida during the early part of the 20th century. [[Their Eyes Were Watching God]] was the Big Read selection in 2009. |
| *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?brave+new+world '''A Brave New World'''] by Aldous Huxley | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?brave+new+world '''A Brave New World'''] by Aldous Huxley | ||
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Article in Adult Fiction, and Historical categories.
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- This popular novel is also on the list of Top 100 Beach Books
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize, this book chronicles several years in the life of a Chinese farming family during the early 20th century.
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- In the future, firemen don't put out fires, they create them to burn books. This is a good example of dystopian literature, and it's on the list of Top 100 Science Fiction Novels.
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Another popular Romance novel, this also made the list of Top 100 Beach Books
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Fitzgerald's novel observes the lives of society folks on Long Island during the Roaring 20's. This was the Big Read Selection in 2007. For more information, see Typically Gatsby
- A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
- Lucy Honeychurch begins to see the world differently after meeting some other English travelers while staying at a pensione in Florence, Italy.
- Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Best Short Stories by O. Henry
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Janie Crawford reflects on the relationships she's had with different men in her life in Florida during the early part of the 20th century. Their Eyes Were Watching God was the Big Read selection in 2009.
- A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Three children during the 1930's observe the goings-on in their Mississippi town, including their reclusive neighbor and the trial of a black man accused of rape. To Kill a Mockingbird was the Big Read selection in 2008.
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Epic story of Scarlett O'Hara's life and loves in Georgia during the American Civil War and postwar years.
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Joad family travels to California to search for work and a better life during the Great Depression.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- Native Son by Richard Wright
