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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani Perry
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
Angie Thomas
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
We the Animals
Justin Torres
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
Nikki Giovanni
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende
All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
Lois Lowry
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
Howard Zinn
Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
Armistead Maupin
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
Robert M. Pirsig
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday
Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech
Martin Luther King Jr.
Selected Poems
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
The Street
Ann Petry
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
Native Son
Richard Wright
Our Town
Thornton Wilder
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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