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Rory Reads Book List The Hickory Stick Bookshop ∗Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac ∗The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy ∗Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky ∗Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky ∗The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber ∗Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Presents ∗The Crucible by Arthur Miller ∗The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford ∗Cujo by Stephen King ∗The Gospel According to Judy Bloom ∗The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Had- ∗The Graduate by Charles Webb don ∗The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck oRory Reads” ∗Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende ∗The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ∗David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D ∗Great Expectations by Charles Dickens ∗David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ∗The Group by Mary McCarthy ∗The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown ∗Hamlet by William Shakespeare ∗1984 by George Orwell ∗Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol ∗Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling ∗Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ∗Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ∗Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling ∗Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ∗Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller ∗A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers ∗The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ∗Deenie by Judy Blume ∗Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ∗An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser ∗The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair ∗Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent ∗Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt that Changed America by Erik Larson Bugliosi and Curt Gentry ∗Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy ∗The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by ∗Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare ∗The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx ∗Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare ∗The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan ∗The Divine Comedy by Dante ∗Henry V by William Shakespeare ∗The Art of Fiction by Henry James ∗The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells ∗High Fidelity by Nick Hornby ∗The Art of War by Sun Tzu ∗Don Quixote by Cervantes ∗The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward ∗As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner ∗Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv Gibbon ∗Atonement by Ian McEwan ∗Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ∗Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris ∗Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy ∗Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe ∗The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton ∗The Awakening by Kate Chopin ∗Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook ∗House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III ∗Babe by Dick King-Smith ∗The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe ∗The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende ∗Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susa ∗Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn ∗How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer Faludi ∗Eloise by Kay Thompson ∗How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss ∗Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie ∗Emily the Strange by Roger Reger ∗How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland ∗Bel Canto by Ann Patchett ∗Emma by Jane Austen ∗Howl by Allen Ginsberg ∗The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath ∗Empire Falls by Richard Russo ∗The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo ∗Beloved by Toni Morrison ∗Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol ∗The Iliad by Homer ∗Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney ∗Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton ∗I'm With the Band by Pamela des Barres ∗The Bhagava Gita ∗Ethics by Spinoza ∗In Cold Blood by Truman Capote ∗The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the ∗Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves ∗Inferno by Dante Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter ∗Eva Luna by Isabel Allende ∗Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Duffy ∗Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer ∗Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel ∗Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy ∗Extravagance by Gary Krist ∗It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton ∗A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy ∗Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ∗Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ∗Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ∗Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore ∗The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan ∗Brick Lane by Monica Ali ∗The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan ∗Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner ∗ Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare ∗Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by ∗The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain ∗C27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Greg Critser ∗Brick Lane by Monica Ali ∗The Jungle by Upton Sinclair ∗Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson ∗Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito ∗Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner ∗The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien ∗Candide by Voltaire ∗The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander ∗Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein ∗Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by An- ∗The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer ∗The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom thony Bourdain ∗Carrie by Stephen King ∗Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce ∗The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ∗Catch-22 by Joseph Heller ∗Fletch by Gregory McDonald ∗Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D. H. Lawrence ∗The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger ∗Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes ∗The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal ∗Charlotte's Web by E. B. White ∗The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem ∗Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman ∗The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman ∗The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand ∗The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield ∗Christine by Stephen King ∗Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ∗Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis ∗A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens ∗Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger ∗Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke ∗A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess ∗Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers ∗Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken ∗The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse ∗Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut ∗Life of Pi by Yann Martel ∗The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty ∗Gender Trouble by Judith Butler ∗Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens ∗A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare ∗George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wis- ∗The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway ∗Complete Novels by Dawn Powell dom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg ∗The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen ∗The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton ∗Gidget by Fredrick Kohner ∗Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ∗Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker ∗Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen ∗Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton ∗A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole ∗The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels ∗Lord of the Flies by William Golding ∗The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas ∗The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo ∗The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson ∗The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold ∗Peyton Place by Grace Metalious ∗Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by ∗The Love Story by Erich Segal ∗The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Julia de Burgos ∗Macbeth by William Shakespeare ∗Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington ∗The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker ∗Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ∗Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi ∗Songbook by Nick Hornby ∗The Manticore by Robertson Davies ∗Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and ∗The Sonnets by William Shakespeare ∗Marathon Man by William Goldman Gillian McCain ∗Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ∗The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov ∗The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby ∗Sophie's Choice by William Styron ∗Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughte r by Simone de Beauvoir ∗The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker ∗The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner ∗Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman ∗The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche ∗Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov ∗Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris ∗The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the ∗Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach ∗The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind ∗The Story of My Life by Helen Keller ∗Mencken's Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken ∗Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ∗A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams ∗The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare ∗Property by Valerie Martin ∗Stuart Little by E. B. White ∗The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ∗Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. 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