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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
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
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
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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