The following comprises the reading list for Liberty Christian Junior High students. While, of course, we cannot endorse every concept of every book, we do believe that these are among the books to choose in order to be widely read. Many can be found in the school library.
Book Author
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Jo's Boys |
Alcott, Louisa May |
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Little Men |
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Andersen's Fairy Tales
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Anderson, Hans
Christian |
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Crispin: The Cross of Lead |
Avi |
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The True Confessions of Charlotte
Doyle |
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Peter Pan |
Barrie, James Matthew |
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Hope Was Here |
Bauer, Joan |
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Wizard of Oz |
Baum, Frank L. |
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Mist Over The Mountains |
Bial, Raymond |
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The Bridge Over The
River Kwai |
Boulle, Pierre |
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The Martian Chronicles |
Bradbury, Ray |
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Clotel |
Brown, William Wells |
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The President's
Daughter |
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All Men Are Brothers |
Buck, Pearl S. |
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Dragon Seed |
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The Pilgrim's Progress |
Bunyan, John |
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The Adventures of
Reddy Fox |
Burgess, Thornton W. |
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A Little Princess |
Burnett, Frances
Hodgson |
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Little Lord Fauntleroy |
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The Secret Garden |
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Tarzan of the Apes |
Burroughs, Edgar Rice |
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Ender's Game |
Card, Orson Scott |
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Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland |
Carroll, Lewis |
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Through the
Looking-Glass |
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Al Capone Does My Shirts |
Choldenko, Gennifer |
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The Murder on the Links |
Christie, Agatha |
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Murder on the Orient Express |
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Dear Mr. Henshaw |
Cleary, Beverly |
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Andromeda Strain |
Crichton, Michael |
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The Chocolate War |
Cormier, Robert |
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The Grey King |
Cooper, Susan |
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Getting Near to Baby |
Couloumbis, Audrey |
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Walk Two Moons |
Creech, Sharon |
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The Wanderer |
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Madame Curie: A
Biography |
Curie, Eve |
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Bud, Not Buddy |
Curtis, Christopher Paul |
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 |
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The Midwife's Apprentice |
Cushman, Karen |
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James & The Giant Peach |
Dahl, Roald |
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26 Fairmount Avenue |
dePaola, Tomie |
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A Christmas Carol |
Dickens, Charles |
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Nicholas Nickleby |
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The Old Curiosity Shop |
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Oliver Twist |
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I'm Nobody! Who Are
You? |
Dickinson, Emily |
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The Robe |
Douglas, Lloyd |
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Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes |
Doyle, Sir Arthur
Conan |
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Lost World |
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White Company |
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The Three Musketeers |
Dumas, Alexander |
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Twenty Years After |
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Whites and the Blues |
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Master of Ballantree |
Eliot, George |
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Middlemarch |
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Silas Marner |
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A Girl Named Disaster |
Farmer, Nancy |
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The House of the Scorpion |
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The Whipping Boy |
Fleischman, Sid |
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Washington, The
Indispensable Man |
Flexner, James Thomas |
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The African Queen |
Forrester, C.S. |
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Joey Pigza Loses Control |
Gantos, Jack |
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Lily's Crossing |
Giff, Patricia Reilly |
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Pictures of Hollis Woods |
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Death Be Not Proud |
Gunther, John |
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King Solomon's Mines |
Haggard, H. Rider |
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The Man Without a
Country |
Hale |
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A Raisin in the Sun |
Hansberry, Lorraine |
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Old Man & The Sea |
Hemingway, Ernest |
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Olive's Ocean |
Henkes, Kevin |
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Out of the Dust |
Hesse, Karen |
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Lost Horizon |
Hilton, James |
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Our Only May Amelia |
Holm, Jennifer L. |
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Everything on a Waffle |
Horvath, Polly |
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Farewell to Manzanar |
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and
James D. |
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History of New York |
Irving, Washington |
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The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow |
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Legends of The
Alhambra |
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The Road Unseen |
Jenkins, Peter & Barbara |
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The Walk West |
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The Story of My Life |
Keller, Helen |
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Profiles in Courage |
Kennedy, John F. |
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Captains Courageous |
Kipling, Rudyard |
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The Jungle Book |
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Just So Stories |
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Kim |
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Peace Breaks Out |
Knowles, John |
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The View from Saturday |
Konigsburg, E.L. |
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Anna and the King of Siam |
Landan, Margaret |
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Stories from the Thousand &
One Nights |
Lane, Edward |
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The Arabian Nights
Entertainments |
Lang, Andrew |
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Armageddon |
LaHaye, Tim |
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Assassins |
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Desecration |
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The Glorious Appearing |
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The Indwelling |
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Left Behind |
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The Mark |
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Nicolae |
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The Remnant |
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The Rising |
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Soul Harvest |
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Tribulation Force |
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Inherit the Wind |
Lawrence |
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Mr. Revere and I |
Lawson, Robert |
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Meet the Austins |
L'Engle, Madelaine |
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A Wrinkle in Time |
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Ella Enchanted |
Levine, Gail Carson |
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Space Trilogy |
Lewis. C.S. |
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The Call of the Wild |
London, Jack |
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Martin Eden |
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The Sea Wolf |
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White Fang |
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Gathering Blue (Companion book to
The Giver) |
Lowry, Louis |
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Gooney Bird Greene |
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Messenger |
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Number the Stars |
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Sarah, Plain and Tall |
MacLachlan, Patricia |
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Christy |
Marshall, Catherine |
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A Corner of The Universe |
Martin, Ann M. |
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Moorchild |
McGraw, Eloise |
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The Hero and the Crown |
McKinley, Robin |
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Shiloh |
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds |
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Mutiny on the Bounty |
Norhoff and Hall |
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Rascal |
North, Sterling |
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The Scarlet Pimpernell |
Orczy, Baroness Emma |
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Pearl |
Osgood, Charles |
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A Single Shard |
Park, Linda Sue |
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Eragon |
Paolini, Christopher |
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Bridge to Terabithia |
Paterson, Katherine |
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Jacob Have I Loved |
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A Long Way from Chicago |
Peck, Richard |
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A Year Down Yonder |
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The Chosen |
Potok, Chaim |
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The Yearling |
Rawlings, Marjorie |
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The Light In The Forest |
Richter, Conrad |
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Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s
Stone |
Rowling, J.K. |
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince |
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Wild Horses I Have Known |
Ryden, Hope |
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Missing May |
Rylant, Cynthia |
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The Little Prince |
Saint-Exupery,
Antoinne |
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster
Boy |
Schmidt, Gary D. |
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Talisman |
Scott, Sir Walter |
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Black Beauty |
Sewell, Anna |
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Maniac Magee |
Spinelli, Jerry |
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Wringer |
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Heidi |
Spyri, Johanna |
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Michelangelo |
Stanley, Diane |
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The Pearl |
Steinbeck, John |
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The Red Pony |
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Tortilla Flat |
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The Black Arrow |
Stevenson, Robert
Louis |
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Kidnapped |
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Prince Otto |
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Treasure Island |
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Once a Wolf |
Swinburne, Stephen R. |
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
Taylor, Mildred D. |
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Surviving the Applewhites |
Tolan, Stephanie S. |
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The Hobbit |
Tolkien, J.R.R. |
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Nikolenka's Childhood |
Tolstoy, Leo |
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The Thief |
Turner, Megan Whalen |
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Twain, Mark |
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The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer |
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Life on the
Mississippi |
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The Prince and the
Pauper |
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20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea |
Verne, Jules |
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Around the Moon |
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Around the World in
Eighty Days |
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Eight Hundred Leagues
on the Amazon |
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Five Weeks in a
Balloon |
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From the Earth to the
Moon |
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Journey to the Center
of the Earth |
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The Master of the
World |
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Michael Strogoff |
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The Mysterious Island |
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Robur the Conqueror |
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The Survivors of the
Chancellor |
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Island Of Dr. Moreau |
Wells, H. G. (George) |
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The Time Machine |
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Ethan Frome |
Wharton, Edith |
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Belle Prater's Boy |
White, Ruth |
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The Bridge of San Luis
Rey |
Wilder, Thornton |
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Our Town |
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The Swiss Family
Robinson |
Wyss, Johann |