hopefulClassics and historical fiction:
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Fantasy:
The NeverEnding Story by Michael Ende
Poison by Chris Wooding
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
#1 The Golden Compass (published overseas as Northern Lights)
#2 The Subtle Knife
#3 The Amber Spyglass
- Lyra's Oxford (short story)
- The Book of Dust (2010)
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- Rebel Angels
- The Sweet Far Thing
Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
#1 So You Want to Be a Wizard
#2 Deep Wizardry
#3 High Wizardry
#4 A Wizard Abroad
#5 The Wizard's Dilemma
#6 A Wizard Alone
#7 Wizard's Holiday
#8 Wizards at War
#9 Wizard on Mars (2008)
Uglies sequence by Scott Westerfeld
- Uglies
- Pretties
- Specials
- Extras
The Midnighters trilogy by Scott Westerfeld
- Secret Hour
- Touching Darkness
- Blue Noon
The Fallen quartet by Thomas E. Sniegoski
- The Fallen
- Leviathan
- Aerie
- Reckoning
Prowlers quartet by Christopher Golden
- Prowlers
- Predator and Prey
- Laws of Nature
- Wild Things
Drama:
The Alison Rules by Catherine Clark
Force Majeure by Christopher Golden and Thomas E. Sniegoski
Say Goodnight, Gracie by Julie Reece Deaver
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
Body of Evidence series by Christopher Golden and Rick Hautala
- Body Bags
- Thief of Hearts
- Soul Survivor
- Meets the Eye
- Head Games
- Skin Deep
- Burning Bones
- Brain Trust
- Last Breath
- Throat Culture
The Tillerman Cycle by Cynthia Voigt
- Homecoming
- Dicey's Song
- A Solitary Blue
- The Runner
- Come a Stranger
- Sons from Afar
- Seventeen Against the Dealer
Plays and poetry:
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
A collection of Emily Dickinson poems
The works of Sophocles
The works of William Shakespeare
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