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1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir by Anne Roiphe

A Mind of Her Own

A & P by John Updike

Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are

Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner

New American Worlds

After Columbus: The Smithsonian Chronicle of North American Indians by Herman J. Viola

Sovereign Worlds

Aghwee the Sky Monster by Ōe Kenzaburō

Contemporary Japanese Literature

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

A Mind of Her Own

American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century by Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal, eds.

End of the World or World Without End

Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Exploring the West…Whose West

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

A Mind of Her Own

Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead

The Journey Inward

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya

Being Ethnic, Becoming American

Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas by A. G. Mojtabai

End of the World or World Without End

Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography by Robert B. Stepto

Long Gone

The Boy Who Wrote Poetry by Mishima Yukio

Contemporary Japanese Literature

Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

A Mind of Her Own

The Bridge of Dreams by Tanizaki Junichiro

Contemporary Japanese Literature

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Not For Children Only

The Centaur in the Garden by Moacyr Scliar

Between Two Worlds

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Not For Children Only

China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Nation That Works

Christopher Columbus, Mariner, by Samuel Eliot Morison

Seeds of Change

Classic Fairy Tales by Iona Opie and Pete Opie

Not For Children Only

Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy

Making a Living, Making a Life

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

The Many Realms of King Arthur

Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

Individual Rights and Community in America

The Crown of Columbus by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich

Seeds of Change

Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Sovereign Worlds

The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert

Liberty and Violence

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Making a Living, Making a Life

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Individual Rights and Community in America

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

Long Gone

The Devil in Texas by Aristeo Brito

One Vision, Many Voices

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin

End of the World or World Without End

The Dogs of Paradise by Abel Posse

Seeds of Change

Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas

One Vision, Many Voices

Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

Not For Children Only

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

One Vision, Many Voices

During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase

Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are

Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston

The Journey Inward

The Dybbuk by S. Ansky

Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Destruction or Redemption

End of the Line: Auto Workers and the American Dream by Richard Feldman and Michael Fetzold, eds.

The Nation That Works

The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin

The Nation That Works

Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson

End of the World or World Without End

The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever

Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are

The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles

Destruction or Redemption

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera

Isabella’s Sisters

Friends, a play by Abe Kôbô

Contemporary Japanese Literature

From Here to Eternity by James Jones

What America Reads

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Not For Children Only

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Being Ethnic, Becoming American

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

What America Reads

Growing Up by Russell Baker

Making a Living, Making a Life

Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories by Harold Augenbraum and Ilan Stavans, eds.

One Vision, Many Voices
The Nation That Works

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

New American Worlds

A History of Women in America by Carol Hymowitz and Michaele Weissman

The Nation That Works

Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez

The Nation That Works

Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Many Realms of King Arthur

If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes

Long Gone

In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alva

One Vision, Many Voices

Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World by Jack Weatherford

Sovereign Worlds

The Indian Lawyer by James Welch

Sovereign Worlds

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

New American Worlds

Isabella of Castille: The First Renaissance Queen by Nancy Rubin

Isabella’s Sisters

Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time by Phyllis Rose

Isabella’s Sisters

Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman

Between Two Worlds

The Journal of Christopher Columbus translated by Cecil Jane

Seeds of Change

Keeping in Touch by Ellen Goodman

The Nation That Works

Kokoro by Natsume Sôseki

Contemporary Japanese Literature

Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog

Isabella’s Sisters

Last Refuge: The Environmental Showdown in the American West by Jim Robbins

Exploring the West…Whose West

Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West by Patricia Limerick

Exploring the West…Whose West

Lemon Swamp by Mamie Garvin Fields

The Nation That Works

Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

The Journey Inward

The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley

Your Heart’s Desire

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Not For Children Only

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

New American Worlds

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy

End of the World or World Without End

Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman

Between Two Worlds
Isabella’s Sisters

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Sovereign Worlds

The Lover by A.B. Yehoshua

Your Heart’s Desire

The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies

The Many Realms of King Arthur

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Destruction or Redemption

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks

The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein

Your Heart’s Desire

Morgan’s Passing by Ann Tyler

Destruction or Redemption

Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

The Many Realms of King Arthur

A Mother and Two Daughters by Gail Godwin

Destruction or Redemption

Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow

Between Two Worlds

My Life by Isadora Duncan

The Journey Inward

On Gold Mountain: The 100-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family by Lisa See

Exploring the West…Whose West

Once and Future King by T. H. White

The Many Realms of King Arthur

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

New American Worlds

One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty

The Journey Inward

Ordeal by Fire, Volume II: The Civil War by James M. McPherson

Rebirth of a Nation

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are

An Orphan in History by Paul Cowan

Being Ethnic, Becoming American

Out of Egypt by Andre Aciman

Between Two Worlds

Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories edited by James Moffett and Kenneth McElheny

Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

Your Heart’s Desire

Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall

Long Gone

The Private Mary Chestnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries edited by C. Vann Woodward

Rebirth of a Nation

The Professor's House by Willa Carter

Making a Living, Making a Life

The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick

Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are

Reconstruction: After the Civil War by John Hope Franklin

Rebirth of a Nation

Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke

Liberty and Violence

The Republic by Plato

Individual Rights and Community in America

Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

Exploring the West…Whose West

Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

Liberty and Violence

Satan in Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Individual Rights and Community in America

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Not For Children Only

Seeds of Change: A Quincentennial Commemoration edited by Herman Viola

Seeds of Change

Shane by Jack Schaefer

What America Reads

A Simple Story by S.Y. Agnon

Your Heart’s Desire

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Individual Rights and Community in America

The Stone Boy by Gina Berriault

Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are

The Street by Ann Lane Petry

Long Gone

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Liberty and Violence

A Tan and Sandy Silence by John D. MacDonald

What America Reads

Tevye the Dairyman by Sholem Aleichem

A Mind of Her Own

This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig

Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are

This Song Remembers by Jane Katz

The Nation That Works

Thousand Cranes  by Kawabata Yasunari

Contemporary Japanese Literature

Tokyo Story, a filmscript by Ozu Yasujiro

Contemporary Japanese Literature

Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution by R.R. Palmer

Liberty and Violence

Two Roads to Sumter by William and Bruce Catt

Rebirth of a Nation

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Rebirth of a Nation
What America Reads

The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday

Being Ethnic, Becoming American

Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

Being Ethnic, Becoming American

Working by Studs Terkel

Making a Living, Making a Life
The Nation That Works