BY R. KOHUTE Take a 101 Great Books

WHY CAN’T WE JUST BE FRIENDS? OPPRESSED, A GROUP OF RABBITS STRUGGLE TO LIVE IN PEACE Adventure Watership Down

BEOWULF, THE ULTIMATE HERO, FIGHTS THE EVIL, “BORN IN SLIME” MONSTER SEEKING TO AVENGE HIS MONSTER MOTHER’S DEATH (WRITTEN IN VERSE) Adventure Beowulf

A SUDDEN DEATH DESTROYS A FAMILY EMOTIONAL AND POIGNANT GRAB YOUR TISSUES A Death in the Family

EMMA WRITTEN BY JANE AUSTEN SINGLE, NOT LOOKING FOR LOVE, EMMA TRIES TO BE THE MATCHMAKER FOR ALL HER FRIENDS… UNTIL SHE IS DRAWN IN TO THE WORLD OF ROMANCE. Romance Emma

IT WAS NOT LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, BUT WILL STRONG-WILLED ELISABETH AND THE WEALTHY MR. DARCY OVERCOME THEIR PRIDE AND BE A COUPLE? (MEANWHILE MOM ARRANGED OTHER ECONOMIC ADVANTAGEOUS MARRIAGES FOR THE OTHER DAUGHTERS. Romance Pride and Prejudice

CAN SISTERS EVER GET ALONG? WHEN ONE IS THE PRACTICAL SISTER AND ONE IS THE EMOTIONAL SISTER…. THE TWO ARE BOUND TO ARGUE Family Sense and Sensibility

EARTHLINGS HAVE ESCAPED A DYING EARTH TO COME TO MARS TO CONQUER SPACE AND COLONIZE THE PLANET. LIFE ON MARS IS NOT LIKE IT USED TO BE… Adventure… Sci-Fi Style The Martian Chronicles

A SHY GOVERNESS FINDS HERSELF FALLING IN LOVE WITH HER MYSTERIOUS EMPLOYER EDWARD Romance Jane Eyre

FLASHBACK AND FOLLOW THE UPS AND DOWNS OF THE TEMPETOUS LOVE AFFAIR BETWEEN HEATHCLIFF AND CATHERINE Romance Wuthering Heights

SET IN CHINA, A PEASANT OVERCOMES NATURE’S WRATH TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL LANDOWNER Historical Overcome the Odds The Good Earth

WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME A MAN IS CAUGHT UP IN A MURDER IN ANOTHER COUNTRY The Stranger

A MISSIONARY PRIEST TRAVELS TO THE NEW TERRITORIES TO WORK WITH THE CATHOLIC BELIEVERS OF THAT REGION. Historical & Enlightening Death Comes for the Archbishop

ARE WE THERE YET? TRAVELERS ON A TRIP TO CANTERBURY ENTERTAIN EACH OTHER BY TELLING STORIES… SOME FUNNY, SOME WITH A LESSON… Entertaining The Canterbury Tales

THE MURDER OF A COWBOY LEADS TO VIGILANTES FORMING A POSSE TO HUNT DOWN THE KILLER LYNCHING Western Adventure The Ox-Bow Incident

ADVENTURER MARLOWE TRAVELS THE CONGO. HE IS GREETED BY SAVAGES AND CANNABILISM AS HE IS LOOKING FOR A KURTZ, A COMPANY AGENT, WHO HAS GONE INSANE Adventure Heart of Darkness

LABELED AS A COWARD, A YOUNG MAN STRIVES TO REDEEM HIMSELF Adventure Lord Jim

Historical Adventure The Deerslayer

1757… FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR ERA A MAN AGREES TO ACCOMPANY TWO SISTERS THROUGH THE DANGEROUS, HOSTILE INDIAN TERRITORY TRIVIA: HAWKEYE FROM M*A*S*H* WAS NAMED AFTER THE MAIN CHARACTER The Last of the Mohicans

A YOUNG SOLDIER EXPERIENCES THE CONFUSION AND HORROR OF A CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELD War Red Badge of Courage

(INSERT LATIN ACCENT HERE) OH, YES, ADVENTURES OF THE LEGENDARY, CHIVALROUS, BRAVE KNIGHT… DON QUIXOTE… 16 TH CENTURY SPAIN Historical Adventure Don Quixote

THE ORIGINAL SURVIVOR CASTAWAY AN ENGLISHMAN IS THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF A SHIPWRECK. THIS IS HIS STORY OF HIS ADVENTURES TRYING TO SURVIVE FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS ON A DESERTED ISLAND. CULTURAL NOTE: THE PHRASE “MY MAN FRIDAY” ALLUDES TO THIS NOVEL Robinson Crusoe

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR MOTHER DIES AND YOUR STEPFATHER KICKS YOU OUT? READ TO FIND OUT HOW DAVID STRUGGLED THROUGH SCHOOL AND LIFE IN LONDON TRYING TO SURVIVE AND FIND HAPPINESS. David Copperfield

A MYSTERY WITH AN AMAZING CAST: PIP, THE ORPHAN MAGWITCH, THE CONVICT ESTELLA, THE BEAUTIFUL MISS HAVISHAM, THE SPITEFUL AND BEAUTIFUL MR. JAGGERS, THE AMBITIOUS LAWYER Great Expectations

AGAIN… A YOUNG ORPHAN… TRAINED FOR A LIFE OF CRIME… TRIES TO ESCAPE THAT LIFE AND THE WORKHOUSE Oliver Twist

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! SET DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, A Tale of Two Cities

A MONEYLENDER (LOANSHARK?) AND HER SISTER ARE MURDERED! AN INVESTIGATION ENSUES, AND A PROSTITUTE WITH A HEART OF GOLD CONVINCES THE MURDERER TO CONFESS Crime and Punishment

Frederick Douglass

SIR HENRY BASKERVILLE HAS BEEN WARNED. IF HE MOVES INTO THE CURSED FAMILY HOME THAT HE INHERITED, HE WILL DIE… CAN SHERLOCK HOLMES HELP HIM? Hound of the BAskervilles

POOR CLYDE GRIFFITHS. HE WANTED THE AMERICAN DREAM… AND HE SACRIFICES IT ALL TO GET TRY TO GET IT. An American Tragedy

EDMUND WANTS REVENGE… REVENGE FOR HIS UNJUST PUNISHMENT OF FOURTEEN YEARS IN PRISON Count of Monte Cristo

17 TH CENTURY FRANCE A TALE OF SWASHBUCKLING FOUR MEN TRY TO OUTWIT THE ENEMIES OF THE KING AND QUEEN (BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS THE THREE MUSKETEERS?) The Three Musketeers

AS THE FAMILY ATTEMPTS TO CARRY OUT ADDIE’S DYING WISH, THEY EXPERIENCE SETBACK AFTER TRAGIC SETBACK, INCLUDING A FIRE, A WASHED-OUT BRIDGE, A SEDUCTION, BROKEN LIMBS… (NOT IN THAT ORDER ) Family As I Lay Dying

FOUR NARRATORS SHARE WHAT HAPPENED THEIR VIEWS ON DIFFERENT EPISODES THAT SHOW THE DECLINE OF THE COMPTON FAMILY: BENJY: THE 33-YEAR-OLD MENTALLY RETARDED MAN QUENTIN: THE STUDENT WHO COMMITS SUICIDE JASON: THE BITTER, CYNICAL BROTHER DILSEY: THE FAMILY’S BLACK SERVANT Pyschological Fiction The Sound and the Fury

STAR-CROSSED LOVERS? ORPHAN TOM FALLS FOR WEALTHY LANDOWNER’S DAUGHTER…. Tom Jones

A PLAY SET IN ALABAMA WHERE THE “MIRCALE WORKER” ANNE SULLIVAN ATTEMPTS TO EDUCATED THE WILD, SIX- YEAR OLD HELEN KELLER WHO WAS RENDERED BLIND, DEAF, AND MUTE BY AN ILLNESS. Mircale Worker

YOUNG JOHNNY GUNTHER HAS A CANCEROUS BRAIN TUMOR. THIS IS THE STORY OF HIS STRUGGLE. Family Death be not proud

“WHAT HAPPENS TO A DREAM DEFERRED? DOES IT DRY UP LIKE A RAISIN IN THE SUN?” --LANGSTON HUGHES THE YOUNGER FAMILY DREAMS OF LEAVING THEIR CRAMPED CHICAGO APARTMENT TO MOVE TO A BETTER NEIGHBORHOOD A raisin in the sun

BATHSHEBA HAS THE BEAUTY AND PRIDE TO TOY WITH THREE MEN’S AFFECTIONS. BUT THE STORY PLAYS LIKE A SOAP OPERA… WILL ANYONE FIND TRUE LOVE? Far from the madding crowd

OVERWHELMED BY POVERTY, TESS PRETENDS TO BE KIN WITH THE WEALTHY D’URBERVILLES… Tess of the d’urbervilles

THE HOUSE ITSELF IS A CHARACTER WITH ITS FRAUDULENT AND WITCHCRAFT HISTORY. THE STORY: HEPZIBAH OPENS A SMALL SHOP IN THE GLOOMY FAMILY MANSION TO HELP SUPPORT HER BROTHER JUST RELEASED FROM PRISON AFTER 30 YEARS FOR MURDER. A MYSTERY UNFOLDS ABOUT THE HOUSE. Mystery House of the seven gables

NEAR THE END OF WWII…MAIN CHARACTER: YOSSARIAN OF THE U.S. ARMY FIGHTING SQUADRON 256 “THE CASE AGAINST CLEVINGER WAS OPEN AND SHUT. THE ONLY THING MISSING WAS SOMETHING TO CHARGE HIM WITH”CLEVINGER War (and Satire) Catch 22

LNT. HENRY, AN AMERICAN AMBULANCE DRIVER DURING WWI, EXPERIENCES BATTLES, INJURY, TREACHERY, LOVE, AND DEFEAT ON THE ITALIAN FRONT War and Romance A Farewell to arms

SPANISH CIVIL WAR ROBERT JORDAN IS AN EXPLOSIVES EXPERT SENT TO BLOW UP A BRIDGE. HE AND THE OTHER GUERRILLAS FACE DEATH. War For whom the bell tolls

1920’S EXPATRIATE AMERICAN, JAKE BARNES, ATTEMPTS TO FULFILL HIS LIFE WITH DISTRACTING BEHAVIOR WITH HARD WORK, DRINKING, AND BULLFIGHTING IN EUROPE Adventure The sun also rises

All creaturues great and small

AFTER A PLANE CRASH, THE SURVIVORS STUMBLE UPON A UTOPIA, SHANGRI-LA, WHERE LIFE IS ETERNAL. Fantasy Adventure Lost Horizon

HEROES ENGAGE IN BATTLE, GODS AND GODDESSES INTERFERE TO HELP AND HURT.. AND WHY? BECAUSE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD… HELEN OF TROY… (THE FACE THAT LAUNCHED A THOUSAND SHIPS) The iliad

ODYSSEUS, THE ULTIMATE LADIES MAN AND ULTIMATE HERO, TRAVELS ON A TEN-YEAR JOURNEY TO GET BACK HOME. SOME OF HIS ADVENTURES ALONG THE WAY, HE ENCOUNTERS CIRCE… WHO TURNS MEN INTO PIGS AND THE DREADED CYCLOPS The odyssey

MEDIEVAL PARIS, THE DISFIGURED QUASIMODO, BELLRINGER, SAVES THE GYPSY DANCER, ESMERELDA FROM EXECUTION Romance & Adventure Hunchback of Notre Dame

VALJEAN, THE EX-CONVICT, FIGHTS AGAINST THE ODDS (AND THE CRAZED POLICE INSPECTOR WHO WANTS TO RECAPTURE HIM) TO RISE FROM SLAVE TO MAYOR. Adventure Les miserables

NOT ONLY DOES THE NEW GOVERNESS NEED TO DEAL WITH TWO YOUNG CHILDREN, BUT ALSO WITH THE GHOSTS OF TWO EVIL SERVANTS DISTURB A REMOTE COUNTRY ESTATE The turn of the screw

NAVAJO INDIANS, LAUGHING BOY AND SLIM GIRL FALL IN LOVE, MARRY, AND TRY TO LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER. WHAT LAUGHING BOY DOESN’ T KNOW IS THE SECRET LIFE SLIM GIRL LIVES. Adventure & Love Laughing boy

SENIOR DEMON SCREWTAPE WRITES LETTERS TO YOUNGER DEMON WORMWOOD DESCRIBING HOW TO TEMPT AND PROMOTE SIN AMONG MAN. FROM THE DEMON’S POINT OF VIEW… Satire The Screw-tape letters

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