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Just in case you’re looking for a good read, these are some of our favourites here at HGP.

 

Across Five Aprils, Irene Hunt

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank

Alice’s Adventrues in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Caroll

All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

Anna Karenia, Leo Tolstoy

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley

The Awakening, Kate Chopin

  

The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Beowulf

Blue Highways, William Least Heat Moon

The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan

Brave New World, Aldous L. Huxley

Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

A Brief History of Time:  From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Stephen Hawking

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Alexander Brown

   

The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk

The Cancer Ward, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Che Guevara, John Lee Anderson

Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke

Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett

Cold Mountain, Charles Fraizer

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx

The Complete Stories, Flannery O’Connor

Crime and Punishment, Fydor Dostoyevsky

  

Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick

A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen

Don Quixote, Cervantes

Dracula, Bram Stoker

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

Fail Safe, Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler

Feirce Invalids Home from Hot Climes, Tom Robbins

The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov

The Four Million, O. Henry

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

   

The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams

Go, Dog. Go!, P.D. Eastman

Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd

Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Suess

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift

   

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Hiroshima, John Hersey

   

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Laura Joffe Numeroff and Felicia Bond

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

Ideas and Opinions, Albert Einstein

Invisible Man, Robert Ellison

   

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton

  

King Lear, William Shakespeare

  

Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

Little Big Man, Thomas Berger

Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein

  

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States, Bill Bryson

Meditations, René Descartes

Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris

Metamorphoses, Ovid

Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

My Antonia, Willa Cather

My Life and Hard Times, James Thurber

   

1984, George Orwell

Native Son, Richard Wright

  

The Odyseey, Homer

Oedipus Rex, Sophocles

Of Human Bondage, William Somerset Maugham

One Day in the Live of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

On the Beach, Nevil Shute

The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin

  

Paradise Lost, John Milton

Polar Star, Martin Cruz Smith

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli

The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

The Republic, Plato

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

The Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd

  

The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selected Poems, Langston Hughes

Slaughterhouse-five, Kurt Vonnegut

Smedge, Andrew Sharmat

The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Dubois

The Stranger, Albert Camus

Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein

   

Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

   

Walden, Henry D. Thoreau

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells

Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls

The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck