Looking for great literature that wasn't written before your grandparents were born? Check out these more modern classics!
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Things fall apart
Achebe, Chinua. |
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The hitchhiker's guide to the
galaxy
Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001.
After Earth is demolished to make way for a new hyperspatial expressway, Arthur
Dent begins to hitch-hike through space.
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Watership Down [by] Richard
Adams.
Adams, Richard, 1920-
Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish
a new warren where they can live in peace.
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The handmaid's tale
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- |
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The house on Mango Street
Cisneros, Sandra. |
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A heartbreaking work of staggering
genius
Eggers, Dave. |
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A lesson before dying
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933- |
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Love in the time of cholera
García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-
The story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace,
her brothers' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples' refusal
to depart from routine.
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Neuromancer
Gibson, William, 1948- |
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The curious incident of the
dog in the night-time
Haddon, Mark. |
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Into the wild
Krakauer, Jon.
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Interpreter of maladies : stories
Lahiri, Jhumpa. |
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Life of Pi : a novel
Martel, Yann. |
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All the pretty horses
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- |
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Angela's ashes : a memoir
McCourt, Frank. |
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Lonesome Dove : a novel
McMurtry, Larry. |
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The crucible : a play in four
acts
Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005. |
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The bluest eye
Morrison, Toni.
The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose
love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for
her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at
her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at
the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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A separate peace
Knowles, John, 1926-2001.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War
II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence.
Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil
athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes
the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for more than thirty years,
A Separate Peace is John Knowles's crowning achievement and an undisputed American
classic.
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Stargirl
Spinelli, Jerry.
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and
the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High
School forever.
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The Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy.
In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting
in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call
their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for
more than three decades.
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Slaughterhouse-five, or, The
children's crusade : a duty-dance with death
Vonnegut, Kurt. |
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The color purple : a novel
Walker, Alice, 1944- |
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Night.
Wiesel, Elie, 1928- |
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The autobiography of Malcolm
X
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965. |