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Required Reading Worldwide – “Effi Briest” Johann Wolfgang Goethe – “Faust” [832 Goe] Students are heading back to school – both high school and college – and are about to tackle some intense Mexico reading lists. Here are some examples of some of the Carlos Fuentes – “Aura” types of books – both fiction and non-fiction – which Gabriel Garcia Marquez – “One Hundred Years of show up on some international “required reading” lists. Solitude” Patrick Suskind – “Perfume” U.S. and Canada Jose Emilio Pacheco – “Las Batallas en el Desierto” Pearl S. Buck – “The Good Earth” Homer – “The Odyssey” [883 Hom] Truman Capote – “In Cold Blood” [364.152 Cap] William Shakespeare – “Julius Caesar” [822.33 Sha] Philippines William Shakespeare – “The Tempest” [822.33 Sha] George Orwell – “Animal Farm” Harper Lee – “To Kill a Mockingbird” J.D. Salinger – “Catcher in the Rye” Mark Twain – “The Adv. Of Huckleberry Finn” Arthur Miller – “Death of a Salesman” [812.08 Mil] Herman Melville – “Billy Budd” Jose Rizal – “El Filibusterismo” John Steinbeck – “The Grapes of Wrath” Jose Rizal – “Noli Me Tangere” J.R.R. Tolkien – “The Hobbit” John Steinbeck – “Of Mice and Men” Russia Herman Hesse – “Siddhartha” Leo Tolstoy – “Anna Karenina” Mordecai Richter – “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” Fyodor Dostoevsky – “Crime and Punishment” John Wyndham – “The Chrysalids” Mikhail Bulgakov – “Heart of a Dog” Joseph Heller – “Catch 22” – “A Hero of Our Time” William Shakespeare – “Hamlet” [822.33 Sha] Leo Tolstoy – “War and Peace” Margaret Atwood – “The Handmaid’s Tale” John Marlyn – “Under the Ribs of Death” [NIL] United Kingdom – “All Quiet on the Western Front” Barry Hines – “A Kestrel for a Knave” John Knowles – “A Separate Peace” Thomas Hardy – “Return of the Native” Ken Kesey – “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” Clive King – “Stig of the Dump” S.E. Hinton – “The Outsiders” Morton Rhue – “The Wave” William Shakespeare – “Romeo and Juliet” [822.33 Sha] Cynthia Harnett – “The Woolpack” Willa Cather – “Death Comes for the Archbishop”

William Faulkner – “The Sound and the Fury”

Alexander Pushkin – “Eugene Onegin” Belgium Nikolai Gogol – “The Government Inspector” Andre Malraux – “Man’s Fate” Nikolai Gogol – “The Overcoat and Other Stories” Maurice Druon – “Les Rois Maudits” Taras Shevchenko – “Selected Poems” Marguerite Yourcenar – “Memories of Hadrian” Fyodor Dostoevsky – “The Idiot” Emile Zola – “Theresa Raquin”

Louis F. Celine – “Voyage au Bout de la Nuit” Venezuela

Miguel de Cervantes – “Don Quixote de la Mancha” France Anne Frank – “The Diary of Anne Frank” [940.548 Fra] Marguerite Duras – “The North China Lover” Julio Cortazar – “Hopscotch” Charles Juliet – “Lambeaux” – “Maria” Moliere – “La Malade Imaginaire” Pedro Paramo – “Juan Rulfo” Voltaire – “L’Ingenu”

Arthur Rimbaud – “Collected Poems” This list was modified and expanded slightly from a list that appeared on AbeBooks.com. Not all titles may be in the libraries’ collection – take advantage of our InterLibrary Loan Max Frisch – “” service. List compiled to accompany a “Back to School Reading” Peter Harting – “Das War der Hirbel” book display at Bennett Martin Public Library in August 2010. Friedrich Durrenmatt – “Der Besuch der alten Dame” Lincoln City Libraries – Lincoln, Nebraska