African Queen - C.S. Forester
Alice's' Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Amos Fortune: Free Man - Elizabeth Yates
A Bell for Adano - John Hersey
The Big Sky - A. B. Guthrie
The Bridge Over the River Kwai - Pierre Boulle
The Bridges at Toko-Ri - James Michener
Cimarron - Edna Ferber
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
Death Be Not Proud - John Gunther
Drums Along the Mohawk - Walker D. Edmonds
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
A High Wind In Jamaica - Richard Hughes
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
The King Must Die - Mary Renault
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Copper
Le Morte D'Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory
Life With Father - Clarence Day
Little Men; Little Women; Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
Men of Iron - Howard Pyle
Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Nordhoff and J. N. Hall
Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
A Night to Remember - Walter Lord
The Ox-Bow Incident - Walter Clark
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Ring of Bright Water - Gavin Maxwell
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emma Orczy
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Shane - Jack Schaefer
The Thirty-nine Steps - John Buchan
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Dana
Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
The Virginian - Owen Wister
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