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The following is a list of classic and popular, contemporary books. This list may help you make some choices about books to read. Many of these books are student favorites. The books are not required readings; we just hope that taking some time out to read for fun sounds like a good idea to you. Most authors on this list have written several books. All are fiction unless otherwise indicated.

A
Adams, Douglas	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, Richard	Watership Down
Alcott, Louisa May	Little Women
Alexander, Lloyd	The Arkadians
Anderson, Rachel	The Bus People
Angelou, Maya	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings [biography]
Ash, Russell	Incredible Comparisons [nonfiction]
Asimov, Isaac	Fantastic Voyage
Austen, Jane	Pride and Prejudice
Avi	Romeo and Juliet Together [and Alive!] At Last
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Barrett, William	Lilies of the Field
Bauer, Marion Dane	On My Honor
Blatner, David	The Joy of Pi [nonfiction]
Bradbury, Ray	The Martian Chronicles
Brancato, Robin	Winning
Bronte, Charlotte	Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily	Wuthering Heights
Brooks, Bruce	Boys Will Be [nonfiction]
Bunting, Eve	SOS Titanic
Burleigh, Robert	Hoops [poetry]
Burnett, Frances Hodgson	The Secret Garden
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Canfield, Jack	Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II [nonfiction]
Capek, Michael	Artistic Trickery: The Tradition of Tromp l'oeil Art [nonfiction]
Carter, Forrest	The Education of Little Tree [biography]
Casey, Maude	Over the Water
Cassedy, Sylvia	M. E. and Morton
Childress, Alice	Rainbow Jordan
Choi, Sook Nyul	Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Christie, Agatha	Murder on the Orient Express
Cleaver, Vera	Where the Lilies Bloom
Cole, Brock	Celine
Cooney, Caroline	The Terrorist
Cooper, Susan	The Boggart
Cormier, Robert	The Chocolate War
Crane, Stephen	The Red Badge of Courage
Creech, Sharon	Walk Two Moons
Crew, Linda	Children of the River
Crichton, Michael	Jurassic Park
Crutcher, Chris	Ironman
Cushman, Karen	The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
D	- top -
Danziger, Paula	Thames Doesn't Rhyme With James
DeFoe, Daniel	Robinson Crusoe
Deuker, Carl	On the Devil's Court
Dickinson, Peter	Eva
Doyle, Arthur Conan	The Best of Sherlock Holmes
Dumas, Alexandre	The Three Musketeers
Duncan, Lois	Don't Look Behind You
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F	- top -
Fleischman, Paul	Bull Run [poetry]
Fox, Paula	The Western Wind
Freedman, Russell	Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor [nonfiction]
Fritz, Jean	Homesick: My Own Story
G	- top -
Gatti, Anne, reteller	The Magic Flute [nonfiction]
Glenn, Mel	Jump Ball [poetry]
Golding, William	Lord of the Flies
Greenberg, Jan	The Sculptor's Eye [nonfiction]
Greene, Bette	Summer of My German Soldier
H	- top -
Hamilton, Virginia	Plain City
Hamill, Pete	Snow in August
Hautzig, Esther	The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia [nonfiction]
Hayden, Torey	One child [nonfiction]
Helmer, Diana Star	Belles of the Ballpark [nonfiction]
Hemingway, Ernest	The Old Man and the Sea
Hentoff, Nat	The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
Herriott, James	All Creatures, Great and Small [nonfiction]
Hesse, Karen	Music of the Dolphins
Heyerdahl, Thor	Kon Tiki [nonfiction]
Highwater, Jamake	Eyes of Darkness
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D.	Farewell to Manzanar [biography]
Hughes, Langston	The Block [poetry]
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J	- top -
James, P. D.	The Black Tower
Jordan, Mildred	Proud to be Amish
K	- top -
Kaplow, Robert	Alessandra in Between
Kaufman, Bel	Up the Down Staircase
Kerr, M. E.	Gentlehands
King, Coretta Scott	My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. [biography]
Klause, Annette Curtis	Alien Secrets
Konigsburg, E. L.	The View From Saturday
Krementz, Jill	How It Feels to Fight for Your Life [nonfiction]
L	- top -
Laird, Elizabeth	Kiss the Dust
Lasky, Kathryn	Beyond the Burning Time
Lawlor, Laurie	Where Will This Shoe Take You? History of Footwear [nonfiction]
L'Engle, Madeleine	A House Like a Lotus
Levitin, Sonia	Silver Days Annie's Promise
Levoy, Myron	Alan and Naomi
Lipsyte, Robert	The Chemo Kid
Livingston, Myra Cohn	Call Down the Moon: Poems of Music [poetry]
London, Jack	White Fang
Lowry, Lois	The Giver
Lynch, Chris	Shadow Boxer
Lyons, Mary	Letters From a Slave Girl
M	- top -
Malam, John	Highest, Longest, Deepest: An Exploration of the World's Most Fantastic Features [nonfiction]
McCaffrey, Anne	Dragonsong
Menzel, Peter	Material World: A Global Family Portrait [nonfiction]
Montgomery, L. M.	Anne of Green Gables
Mowat, Farley	Never Cry Wolf [nonfiction]
Myers, Walter Dean	Malcolm X [biography]
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Nelson, Theresa	Earthshine
Nixon, Joan Lowery	Whispers from the Dead
Nordhoff, Charles	Mutiny on the Bounty
O	- top -
O'Brien, Robert	Z for Zachariah
O'Dell, Scott	Zia
Oneal, Zibby	A Formal Feeling
Ousseimi, Maria	Caught in the Crossfire [nonfiction]
P	- top -
Paterson, Katherine	Flip-Flop Girl
Paulsen, Gary	Woodsong [biogaphy]
Peck, Richard	Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death
Philbrick, Rodman	Freak the Mighty
Potok, Chaim	The Chosen
Pringle, Laurence	The Jackal Woman [nonfiction]
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R	- top -
Read, Piers Paul	Alive [nonfiction]
Reiss, Johanna	The Upstairs Room [biography]
Roosevelt, Theodore	Rough Riders [nonfiction]
Rylant, Cynthia	Something Permanent [poetry]
S	- top -
Sachar, Louis	Holes
Salinger, J. D.	The Catcher in the Rye
Sender, Ruth Minsky	The Cage [biography]
Shange, Ntozake	I Live in Music [poetry]
Sleator, William	Strange Attractors
Smithsonian Museum of Art	Celebrate America in Poetry and Art
Speare, Elizabeth George	Calico Captive
Sperry, Armstrong	Call It Courage
Spinelli, Jerry	Wringer
Steinbeck, John	The Red Pony
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Kidnapped
Strasser, Todd	How I Changed My Life
T	- top -
Taylor, Mildred	The Well
Temple, Frances	Taste of Salt
Tolkien, J. R. R.	The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Toll, Nelly	Behind the Secret Window [biography]
Twain, Mark	The Prince and the Pauper
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Uchida, Yoshiko	Journey Home
Uris, Leon	Exodus
V	- top -
van der Rol, Ruud and Verhoeven, Rian	Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance [biography]
Verne, Jules	Journey to the Center of the Earth
W	- top -
Walker, Lou Ann	Roy Lichtenstein: The Artist at Work [nonfiction]
Wells, H. G.	The Time Machine
White, Ryan and Cunningham, Ann Marie	Ryan White, My Own Story [biography]
Wiesel, Elie	Night [biography]
Wojciechowska, Maia	Shadow of a Bull
Wolff, Virginia Euwer	Probably Still Nick Swanson
Wouk, Herman	The Caine Mutiny
Wyss, J. D.	Swiss Family Robinson
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Y	- top -
Yolen, Jane	Sacred Places [poetry]
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Zindel, Paul	The Pigman and Me [biography]
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