“AMERICA ON A SHELF”
101 American Customs: Understanding Language and Culture Through Common Practices By Harry Collis McGraw-Hill, 1999
Across the River and Into the Trees By Ernest Hemingway Scribner 1998
The Accidental Tourist: A Novel By Anne Tyler
The Adventures of Augie March By Saul Bellow
The Age of Innocence By Edith Wharton Collector’s Library, 2004
Al Capone and His American Boys: Memoirs of a Mobster's Wife William J. Helmer Indiana University Press, 2011
All the Light We Cannot See By Anthony Doerr Scribner, 2014
America, the Story of Us: An Illustrated History By Kevin Baker, Prof. Gail Buckland (Photographer), Barack Obama (Introduction) History, 2010 American Civilization: An Introduction By David C. Mauk and John Oakland Routledge, 2009
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The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation By Jim Cullen Oxford University Press, 2004
American English: Dialects and Variation By Walt Wolfram Wiley-Blackwell, 2005
American Ways: A Cultural Guide to the United States By Gary Althen Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2011
American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture By Maryanne Kearny Datesman, JoAnn Crandall and Edward N. Kearny Pearson ESL, 2005
Amish Society By John A. Hostetler The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History By Norman Mailer Plume, 1995
As I Lay Dying By William Faulkner Vintage
The Assistant: A Novel By Bernard Malamud Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American DreamBy Barack Obama Three Rivers Press, 2007 The Ballad of the Sad Café and other stories By Carson McCullers Houghton Mifflin
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Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game National Geographic, 2005
Because of Winn-Dixie By Kate DiCamillo Candlewick, 2009
Believer: My Forty Years in Politics By David Axelrod Penguin Press, 2015
The Bell Jar (P.S.) By Sylvia Plath
Beloved By Toni Morrison
Big-Time Sports in American Universities By Charles T. Clotfelter Cambridge University Press, 2011
Billy Bathgate: A Novel By E.L. Doctorow Random House, 2010
The Blazing World: A Novel By Siri Hustvedt Simon & Schuster, 2014
Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories By Truman Capote The Modern Library
Breathing Lessons By Anne Tyler Ballantine Books, 2005
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The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama By David Remnick Alfred A. Knopf, 2010
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao By Junot Diaz Riverhead Books
Brown Girl Dreaming By Jacqueline Woodson Newbery Honor Book, 2014
Catch-22 By Joseph Heller Simon & Schuster, 2004
The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger Little Brown & Co, 2010
Cathedral By Raymond Carver Vintage, 1989
Citizen: An American Lyric By Claudia Rankine Graywolf Press, 2014
Close Range: Wyoming Stories By Annie Proulx Scribner, 2000
The Collected Stories By Grace Paley Farrar The Collected Stories By Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Collected Stories
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By Lydia Davis Picador, 2010
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter Harvest Book
The Complete Stories By Flannery O'Connor Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971
A Confederacy of Dunces By the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) Louisiana State U. Press
Democracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville Library of America, 2004
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant By Anne Tyler Ballantine Books, 1996
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance By Barack Obama Three Rivers Press, 2004
Ella Enchanted By Gail Carson Levine HarperCollins, 1997
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl: A Novel By Siri Hustvedt Picador, 2004
Encyclopedia of American Folklore By Linda S. Watts Checkmark Books, 2007
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Everyman By Philip Roth Vintage, 2007
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon By Brad Stone Back Bay Books, 2014
Evidence of Things Unseen By Marianne Wiggins Simon & Schuster
The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews By Eudora Welty Vintage, 1990
Facts About the States Joseph Nathan Kane, Janet Podell and Steven Anzovin, eds. H. W. Wilson, 1994
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury Simon & Schuster, 2012
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery By Eric Foner W.W. Norton & Company
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt By T.J. Stiles Vintage, 2010
The Fixer: A Novel By Bernard Malamud
Flags in the Dust By William Faulkner Vintage
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Fool on the Hill: A Novel By Matt Ruff Grove Press, 1997
Freedom: A Novel By Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
Friendship: A Novel By Emily Gould Picador, 2015
The Ghost Writer By Philip Roth Farrar
The Giver By Lois Lowry Houghton Mifflin, 1993
The Glass Room By Simon Mawer Other Press, 2009
Glengarry Glen Ross By David Mamet
Go Set a Watchman: A Novel By Harper Lee Harper, 2015
Go Tell It on the Mountain By James Baldwin
God Help the Child: A novel By Toni Morrison Knopf, 2015
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The Goldfinch: A Novel By Donna Tartt Back Bay Books, 2015
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner, 1999
Green Hills of Africa By Ernest Hemingway Scribner 1998
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter & The Member of the Wedding By Carson McCullers Houghton Mifflin, 2011
Holes By Louis Sachar Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America By Thomas L. Friedman Picador, 2009
The Hotel New Hampshire By John Irving Ballantine Books, 1997
The Hours By Michael Cunningham Farrar, Straus & Giroux
House Made of Dawn (P.S.) By N. Scott Momaday
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne Houghton Mifflin
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Housekeeping By Marilynne Robinson Farrar
How the States Got Their Shapes By Mark Stein Harper, 2009
Humboldt's Gift By Saul Bellow Viking
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou
Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land Eds. Wesley Brown and Amy Ling Persea, 2003
In Cold Blood By Truman Capote Random House, 2002
In Country By Bobbie Ann Mason Harper Perennial, 2005
The Inner Circle By Brad Meltzer Grand Central Publishing, 2011
The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose By Woody Allen Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007 Intruder in the Dust By William Faulkner
Invisible Man
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Ironweed By William Kennedy
Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future By John Brockman Harper Perennial, 2011
Lancelot: A Novel By Walker Percy Picador, 1999
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper Collector’s Library
The Laughing Monsters: A Novel By Denis Johnson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA By Tim Weiner Anchor, 2008
Let the Great World Spin: A Novel By Colum McCann Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain Bantam Classics
Light in August By William Faulkner Vintage
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Lila: An Inquiry into Morals By Robert M. Pirsig Bantam Books
Living History By Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster, 2003
Living in the U.S.A. By Alison Lanier Intercultural Press, 2004
Lush Life: A Novel By Richard Price Picador, 2009
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love By Oscar Hijuelos Farrar
The March By E.L. Doctorow Random House
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home By Rhoda Janzen St. Martin's Griffin, 2010
Michelle Obama: An American Story David Colbert Houghton Mifflin Co, 2009
Middle School. The Worst Years of My Life By James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts Little, Brown and Company, 2012 Middlesex By Jeffrey Eugenides Farrar
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The Mindset Lists of American History: From Typewriters to Text Messages, What Ten Generations of Americans Think Is Normal By Tom McBride Wiley, 2011
Moby-Dick or the Whale By Herman Melville Penguin Books
The Moviegoer By Walker Percy Vintage, 1998
A Multitude of Sins By Richard Ford Vintage, 2003
Muslims in America: A Short History (Religion in American Life) By Edward E. Curtis IV Oxford University Press, USA, 2009
My Father's Tears: And Other Stories By John Updike Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
My Life By Bill Clinton Vintage, 2005
National Geographic Our Fifty States By Stephen F. Cunha National Geographic Children's Books, 2004
The National Parks: America's Best Idea By Dayton Duncan Knopf, 2009
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Native Son By Richard Wright Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2003
Netherland By Joseph O'Neill Vintage, 2009
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room By Paul Auster
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor By Ruth R. Wisse Princeton University Press, 2015
Nuts to You By Lynne Rae Perkins Greenwillow Books, 2014
The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family By Peter Firstbrook Crown, 2011
Of Mice and Men & the Moon is Down By John Steinbeck Penguin Classics
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters By Barack Obama Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2010
Off the Beaten Path: A Travel Guide to More Than 1000 Scenic and Interesting Places Still Uncrowded and Inviting Editors of Reader's Digest Readers Digest, 2009 On Beauty By Zadie Smith Penguin Press
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey
Operation Shylock: A Confession By Philip Roth Simon & Schuster
The Optimist's Daughter By Eudora Welty Random
The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father By Sally H. Jacobs PublicAffairs, 2011
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis By Robert D. Putnam Simon & Schuster, 2015
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 By Taylor Branch Simon & Schuster, 1989
The Pastures of Heaven By John Steinbeck Penguin Classics
Pigeon Feathers and other Stories By John Updike Random House
Plainsong By Kent Haruf Vintage, 2000
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction By Alan Jacobs Oxford University Press, 2011
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The Plot Against America By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin Company
The Portable Arthur Miller Penguin Classics
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James Penguin Classics
Postcards By Annie Proulx Scribner, 1996
The Post-American World By Fareed Zakaria W. W. Norton & Company, 2009
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York By Robert A. Caro Vintage, 1975
A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel By John Irving Ballantine Books, 1997
Purity: A Novel By Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015
Rabbit Novels Vol. 1 By John Updike Ballantine Books, 2003 Rabbit Novels Vol. 2 By John Updike
Ragtime: A Novel
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E.L. Doctorow Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition By James T. Kloppenberg Princeton University Press, 2010
The Religious History of America: The Heart of the American Story from Colonial Times to Today By Edwin S. Gaustad and Leigh Schmidt HarperOne, 2002
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt By Edmund Morris Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001
The Road to Wellville By T.C. Boyle Penguin, 1994
Rock Springs By Richard Ford
Rodin’s Debutante By Ward Just Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
Sarah, Plain and Tall By Patricia MacLachlan HarperCollins, 1985
Satire and Dissent: Interventions in Contemporary Political Debate By Amber Day Indiana University Press, 2011
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Collector’s Library
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Shadow Country By Peter Matthiessen Modern Library, 2008
The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves By Siri Hustvedt Picador, 2010
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains By Nicholas Carr W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
The Shipping News By E. Annie Proulx Scribner, 1994
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother By Janny Scott Riverhead Hardcover, 2011
Smart About the Fifty States By Jon Buller, Susan Saunders, Maryann Cocca-Leffler, Joan Holub and True Kelley Grosset & Dunlap, 2003
The Snow Queen By Michael Cunningham Picador, 2015
Snow White By Donald Barthelme Touchstone, 1996
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and other Stories By Ernest Hemingway Publisher: Scribner 1995
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The Sound and the Fury By William Faulkner Vintage
Speak American: A Survival Guide to the Language and Culture of the U.S.A. By Dileri Borunda Johnston Random House Reference, 2000
Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster, 2011
The Stories of John Cheever By John Cheever
Strange But True, America: Weird Tales from All 50 States By John Hafnor Lone Pine Productions, 2009
The Summer Without Men By Siri Hustvedt Picador, 2011
Swamplandia! By Karen Russell Vintage, 2011
Tales from Facebook By Daniel Miller Polity, 2011
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Kearns Goodwin Simon & Schuster, 2006 Television and American Culture By Jason Mittell Oxford University Press, , 2009
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Tender is the Night By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston HarperCollins
To a God Unknown By John Steinbeck Penguin Classics
To Have and Have Not By Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 1998
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee HarperCollins
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Wordsworth Classics
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) By Betty Smith Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe Barnes & Noble Classics Series
Understanding the Americans: A Handbook for Visitors to the United States By Yale Richmond Hippocrene Books, 2009 Underworld By Don DeLillo Scribner
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A Visit from the Goon Squad By Jennifer Egan Anchor, 2011
Walden By Henry David Thoreau Everyman’s Library
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson Random House, 2010
Washington Square By Henry James Signet Classics
The Way Home By George Pelecanos Back Bay Books, 2011
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers By Henry David Thoreau Princeton University Press
What Is the What By Dave Eggers Vintage, 2007
White Noise By Don DeLillo
The World According to Garp By John Irving Ballantine Books, 1997
World's End By T.C. Boyle Penguin, 1990
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A Wrinkle in Time By Madeleine L’Engle Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1962
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AUDIO BOOKS
1. The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler 2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain 4. The Arthur Miller Audio Collection - Arthur Miller 5. Beloved - Toni Morrison 6. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote 7. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 8. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 9. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama 10. Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert 11. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury 12. Glengarry Glen Ross – David Mamet 13. Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee 14. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin 15. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 16. Hard Choices – Hillary Clinton 17. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers 18. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou 19. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote 20. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison 21. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper 22. Mark Twain Audio CD Collection - Mark Twain 23. Middlesex: A Novel - Jeffrey Eugenides 24. Moby Dick – Herman Melville 25. Native Son - Richard Wright 26. No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy 27. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 28. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway 29. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey 30. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving 31. A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry 32. Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne 33. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut 34. The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway 35. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner 36. A Spool of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler 37. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams 38. Tender is the Night – Tennessee Williams
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39. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston 40. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 41. Travels with Charley in Search of America - John Steinbeck 42. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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