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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
Abandonment The Bean Trees Kingsolver, Barbara
A Complicated Kindness Toews, Miriam
The Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled
Lullabies for Little Criminals O’Neill, Heather
White Oleander Fitch, Janet
Abuse Affliction Banks, Russell
The Color Purple Walker, Alice
The Cure for Death by Lightning Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
Fall on your Knees MacDonald, Ann-Marie
The Glass Castle Walls, Jeannette
Kiss of the Fur Queen Highway, Tomson
I Know This Much Is True Lamb, Wally
A Map of the World Hamilton, Jane
The Orchard on Fire Mackay, Shena
The Rain Ascends Kogawa, Joy
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk
The Sweet Hereafter Banks, Russell
Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Way the Crow Flies MacDonald, Ann-Marie
Acceptance and An American Tragedy Dreiser, Theodore
Belonging Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, L.M.
The Bean Trees Kingsolver, Barbara
The Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D.
The Color Purple Walker, Alice
The Diviners Laurence, Margaret
Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Girls Lansens, Lori
In the Company of the Courtesan Dunant, Sarah
Kiss of the Fur Queen Highway, Tomson
Lullabies for Little Criminals O’Neill, Heather
A Map of the World Hamilton, Jane
Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset
Saint Joan Shaw, George Bernard
The Scarlett Letter Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Stones from the River Hegi, Ursula
Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott
This Side of Paradise Fitzgerald, F. Scott
White Oleander Fitch, Janet
Adventure 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Verne, Jules
Around the World in Eighty Days Verne, Jules
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan
The African Queen Forester, C.S.
The Celestine Prophesy Redfield, James
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
The Coral Island Ballantyne, R.M.
The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre
Daughter of Fortune Allende, Isabel
David Balfour Stevenson, Robert Louis
Don Quixote Cervantes, Miguel de
Frenchman’s Creek DuMaurier, Daphne
The Hound of Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hugo, Victor
A Journey to the Center of the Earth Verne, Jules
Kidnapped Stevenson, Robert Louis
Kim Kipling, Rudyard
Lost in the Barrens Mowat, Farley
The Man in the Iron Mask Dumas, Alexandre
Moby Dick Melville, Herman
Mutiny on the Bounty Nordhoff, C.
River Thieves Crummy, Michael
Rob Roy Scott, Sir Walter
Robinson Crusoe Caldwell, Ian
The Rule of Four Defoe, Daniel
The Scarlett Pimpernel Orczy, Baroness Emmuska
The Three Musketeers Dumas, Alexandre
Watership Down Adams, Richard
Africa The African Queen Forester, C.S.
A Bend in the River Naipaul, V.S.
Covenant Michener, James
Cry the Beloved Country Paton, Alan
Green Hills of Africa Hemingway, Ernest
Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph
I Dreamed of Africa Gallman, Kuki
The In-between World of Vikram Lall Vassanji, M.G.
The Kalahari Typing School for Men Smith, Alexander McCall
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Smith, Alexander McCall
Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass Blixen, Karen
The Poisonwood Bible Kingsover, Barbara
Possessing the Secret of Joy Walker, Alice
The Prophet’s Camel Bell Laurence, Margaret
Roots Haley, Alex
Sweetness in the Belly Gibb, Camilla
This Side Jordan Laurence, Margaret
The Temple of My Familiar Walker, Alice
The White Bone Gowdy, Barbara
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
Aging The Almost Moon Sebold, Alice
Death of a Salesman Miller, Arthur
The Fire Dwellers Laurence, Margaret
Joshua Then and Now Richler, Mordecai
The Kite Mitchell, W.O.
Moral Disorder Atwood, Margaret
The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar
The Stone Angel Laurence, Margaret
The Stone Diaries Shields, Carol
The Underpainter Urquhart, Jane
Who Has Seen the Wind Mitchell, W.O.
Alcoholism Angela’s Ashes McCourt, Frank
For One More Day Albom, Mitch
The Glass Castle Walls, Jeannette
Songs in Ordinary Time Morris, Mary McGarry
Alienation/ The Accidental Tourist Tyler, Anne
Loneliness Ballad of the Sad Café McCullers, Carson
The Cashier Roy, Gabrielle
Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D.
The Chrysalids Wyndham, John
A Clockwork Orange Burgess, Anthony
A Complicated Kindness Toews, Miriam
Darkness At Noon Koestler, Arthur
Dirt Music Winton, Tim
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Thompson, Hunter S.
For One More Day Albom, Mitch
Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph
Lord Jim Conrad, Joseph
The Lost Garden Humphreys, Helen
More Joy in Heaven Callaghan, Morley
The Night-Coloured Pearl Renivaro, Tzunami
The Outsider Camus, Albert
Plague Camus, Albert
Steppenwolf Hesse, Herman
Tar Baby Morrison, Toni
The Time In Between Bergen, David
The Trial Kafka, Franz
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
Allegory Animal Farm Orwell, George
(metaphorical tale) Candide Voltaire
Changing Heaven Urquhart, Jane
The Chrysalids Wyndham, John
How to Make an American Quilt Otto, Whitney
The Journey to the East Kafka, Franz
The Little Prince Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
Lord of the Flies Golding, William
The Magic Mountain Mann, Thomas
The Master and Margarita Bulgakov, Mikhail
Metamorphosis Bunyan, John
Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, Ernest
The Pearl Steinbeck, John
The Pilgrim’s Progress Kafka, Franz
Plague Camus, Albert
The Trial Hesse, Hermann
Watership Down Adams, Richard
Alternative Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
Society The Child Buyer Hersey, John
The Children of Men James, P.D.
A Clockwork Orange Burgess, Anthony
Foundation and Earth Asimov, Isaac
Foundation’s Edge Asimov, Isaac
Gulliver’s Travels Swift, Jonathan
The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret
Nineteen Eighty-four Orwell, George
Oryx and Crake Atwood, Margaret
The Time Machine Wells, H.G.
Ambition An American Tragedy Dreiser, Theodore
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Richler, Mordecai
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams Johnston, Wayne
Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Hamlet Shakespeare, William
MacBeth Shakespeare, William
Man and Superman Shaw, George Bernard
Othello Shakespeare, William
Small Ceremonies Shields, Carol
American Dream An American Tragedy Dreiser, Theodore
The Color Purple Walker, Alice
Death of a Salesman Miller, Arthur
A Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Thompson, Hunter S.
Glass Menagerie Williams, Tennessee
The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, John
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Jungle Sinclair, Upton
Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John
Anti-Hero Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell, George
Catch-22 Heller, Joseph
Don Quixote Cervantes, Miguel de
I Know This Much Is True Lamb, Wally
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kesey, Ken
Robin Hood Green, Simon
St. Urbain’s Horseman Richler, Mordecai
Arthurian Legend A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Twain, Mark
The Eagles’ Brood Whyte, Jack
Idylls of the King Tennyson, Alfred
The Eagles’ Brood Whyte, Jack
Mists of Avalon Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Morte d’Arthur Malory, Thomas
The Saxon Shore Whyte, Jack
The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis Whyte, Jack
The Sword in the Stone White, T.H.
Uther Whyte, Jack
Asia Anil’s Ghost Ondaatje, Michael
Family Matters Mistry, Rohinton
A Fine Balance Mistry, Rohinton
Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur
Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David
Australia Charades Hospital, Janette Turner
Cloudstreet Winton, Tim
The Conversations at Curlow Creek Malouf, David
Dirt Music Winton, Tim
Eucalyptus Bail, Murray
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Garimara, Doris Pilkington
For the Term of his Natural Life Clarke, Marcus
The Last Magician Hospital, Janette Turner
Jack Maggs Carey, Peter
Man Alone Mulgan, John
Oyster Hospital, Janette Turner
A Town Called Alice Shute, Nevil
True History of the Kelly Gang Carey, Peter
Beat Generation The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Wolfe, Tom
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Thompson, Hunter S.
On the Road Kerouc, Jack
Betrayal The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre
The Underpainter Urquhart, Jane
Biblical The DaVinci Code Brown, Dan
The Gilded Chamber Kohn, Rebecca
Our Lady of the Lost and Found Schoemperlen, Diane
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
The Red Tent Diamant, Anita
The Robe Douglas, Lloyd C.
Sarah Card, Orson Scott
Seven Days to The Sea Kohn, Rebecca
Testament Ricci, Nino
Bioethics Andromeda Strain Crichton, Michael
The Chrysalids Wyndham, John
Frankenstein Shelley, Mary
Black Experience Any Known Blood Hill, Lawrence
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman Gaines, Ernest
Beloved Morrison, Toni
Black Like Me Griffin, John Howard
The Book of Negroes Hill, Lawrence
The Color Purple Walker, Alice
Confessions of Nat Turner Styron, William
Possessing the Secret of Joy Walker, Alice
In the Heat of the Night Ball, John
Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph
Native Son Wright, Richard
The Polished Hoe Clarke, Austin
Roots Haley, Alex
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk
Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni
Sula Morrison, Toni
Tar Baby Morrison, Toni
The Temple of My Familiar Walker, Alice
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Cautionary Tales Nineteen Eighty-four Orwell, George
The Pearl Steinbeck, John
The Winter of Our Discontent Steinbeck, John
Censorship Ella Minnow Pea : A Novel in Letters Dunn, Mark
Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray
The Telling Le Guin, Ursula
Chivalry The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights Steinbeck, John
Beowulf Anonymous
Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand, Edmond
Don Quixote Cervantes, Miguel de
Ivanhoe Scott, Sir Walter
Man and Superman Shaw, George Bernard
Morte d’Arthur Malory, Thomas
Colonialism Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph
Lord Jim Conrad, Joseph
Passage to India Forster, E.M.
Petals of Blood Ngugi, Wa Thiong’O
Things Fall Apart Achebe, Chinua
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
Courage Kidnapped Stevenson, R.L.
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper
Lord Jim Conrad, Joseph
Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, Ernest
The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen
Schindler’s List Keneally, Thomas
Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles
Crime and Billy Bathgate Doctorow, E.L.
Criminals The Conversation at Curlow Creek Malouf, David
Crime and Punishment Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Darkness at Noon Koestler, Arthur
In Cold Blood Capote, Truman
Jack Maggs Carey, Peter
Les Miserables Hugo, Victor
No Country for Old Men McCarthy, Cormac
Perfume : The Story of a Murderer Suskind, Patrick
The Statement Moore, Brian
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Trial Kafka, Franz
True History of the Kelly Gang Carey, Peter
The White Tiger Adiga, Aravand
Culture Anna and the King of Siam Landon, Margaret
Family Matters Mistry, Rohinton
A Fine Balance Mistry, Rohinton
The Good Earth Buck, Pearl S.
The Infidel Ali, Ayan Hirsi
The Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled
The Last Promise Evans, Richard Paul
The Life of Pi Martell, Yann
Mandala Buck, Pearl S.
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Smith, Alexander McCall
Sweetness in the Belly Gibb, Camilla
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled
Under the Tuscan Sun Mayes, Frances
Death Adultery Wright, Richard B.
The Book Thief Zusak, Markus
Elizabeth and After Cohen, Matt
Eve Green Fletcher, Susan
Final Things Wright, Richard B
For One More Day Albom, Mitch.
I Heard the Owl Call My Name Craven, Margaret
Light of Snow Shreve, Anita
Loved One Waugh, Evelyn
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
A Map of the World Hamilton, Jane
The Night-Coloured Pearl Renivaro, Tzunami
Nights in Rodanthe Sparks, Nicholas
One True Thing Quindlen, Anna
The Stone Angel Laurence, Margaret
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Wroblewski, David
The Sweet hereafter Banks, Russell
The True and Outstanding Adventures of
the Hunt Sisters Robinson, Elisabeth
A Wedding in December Shreve, Anita
Year of Wonders Brooks, Geraldine
Deception/Secrets All He Ever Wanted Shreve, Anita
The Bad Seed March, William
Elizabeth and After Cohen, Matt
The Elusive Pimpernel Orczy, Baroness
Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte
Family Matters Mistry, Rohinton
Gentlemen and Players Harris, Joanne
The Judges Wiesel, Elie
The Last Magician Hospital, Janette Turner
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Edwards, Kim
The Navigator of New York Johnston, Wayne
Oyster Hospital, Janette Turner
Pilot’s wife Shreve, Anita
The Reader Schlink, Bernard
Rebecca DuMaurier, Daphne
The Rule of Four Caldwell, Ian
Sea Glass Shreve, Anita
Spadework Findley, Timothy
The Statement Moore, Brian
The Thirteenth Tale Setterfield, Diane
The Way the Crow Flies MacDonald, Ann-Marie
A Wedding in December Shreve, Anita
The Wildfire Season Pyper, Andrew
Divorce Accidental Tourist Tyler, Ann
A Handful of Dust Waugh, Evelyn
Larry’s Party Shields, Carol
Nights in Rodanthe Sparks, Nicholas
The Second Silence Goudge, Eileen
Songs in Ordinary Time Morris, Mary McGarry
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
Duty Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith
Family Matters Mistry, Rohinton
A Jest of God Laurence, Margaret
Vinegar Hill Ansay, A. Manette
Dystopia Nineteen Eighty-four Orwell, George
334 Disch, Thomas
Animal Farm Orwell, George
Anthem Rand, Ayn
Ape and Essence Huxley, Aldous
The Beach Garland, Alex
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
Camp Concentration Disch, Thomas
The Children of Men James, P.D.
The Chrysalids Wyndham, John
A Clockwork Orange Burgess, Anthony
Ecotopia Callenbach, Ernest
Farenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray
The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret
The Iron Heel London, Jack
It Can’t Happen Here: A Novel Lewis, Sinclair
Lord of the Flies Golding, William
Mara and Dann Lessing, Doris
Mosquito Coast Theroux, Paul
Oryx and Crake Atwood, Margaret
A Perfect Persecution Lucas, James R.
Player Piano Vonnegut, Kurt
The Sheep Look Up Brunner, John
Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut, Kurt
The Time Machine Wells, H.G.
Walden Two Skinner, B.F.
We Zamyatin, Yevgeni
Eastern Canada Barometer Rising MacLennan, Hugh
The Birth House McKay, Ami
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams Johnston, Wayne
Fall on your Knees MacDonald, Ann-Marie
Kit’s Law Morrissey, Donna
The Shipping News Proulx, E. Annie
Sylvanus Now Morrissey, Donna
Eating Disorders The Edible Woman Atwood, Margaret
She’s Come Undone Lamb, Wally
Centennial Secondary School - Books by Theme PAGE 10
April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
End of the World Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M.
Childhood’s End Clarke, Arthur C.
Crystal World Ballard, J.G.
Midwich Cuckoos Wyndham, John
On the Beach Shute, Nevil
The Road McCarthy, Cormac
Environment Crystal World Ballard, J.G.
My Petition for more Space Hersey, John
Oryx and Crake Atwood, Margaret
Existentialism Metamorphosis Kafka, Franz
The Outsider Camus, Albert
The Plague Camus, Albert
The Trial Kafka, Franz
Exploitation Lullabies for Little Criminals O’Neill, Heather
Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur
Faith Chocolat Harris, Joanne
The Heart of the Matter Greene, Graham
The Life of Pi Martel, Yann
Lives of the Saints Ricci, Nino
Mercy Among the Children Richard, David Adams
The Pilgrim’s Progress Bunyan, John
Sweetness in the Belly Gibb, Camilla
Vinegar Hill Ansay, A. Manette
Family - The Almost Moon Sebold, Alice
Dysfunctional Atonement McEwen, Ian
Black Dogs McEwen, Ian
The Book of Ruth Hamilton, Jane
Cloudstreet Winton, Tim
A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews
Crow Lake Lawson, Mary
A Cure for Death by Lightning Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
Dirt Music Winton, Tim
Divisadero Ondaatje, Michael
Elizabeth and After Cohen, Matt
Fall on Your Knees MacDonald, Anne Marie
Falling Angels Gowdy, Barbara
Family Matters Mistry, Rohinton
The Fire Dwellers Laurence, Margaret
The Glass Castle Walls, Jeannette
The Great Santini Conroy, Pat
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
I Know This Much is True Lamb, Wally
Larry’s Party Shields, Carol
Lullabies for Little Criminals O’Neill, Heather
A Map of the World Hamilton, Jane
Metamorphosis Kafka, Franz
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffrey
The Orchard on Fire Mackay, Shena
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Doyle, Roddy
The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver, Barbara
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk
The Shipping News Proulx, Annie
Songs in Ordinary Time Morris, Mary McGarry
Spadework Findley, Timothy
A Spot of Bother Haddon, Mark
The Stone Angel Laurence, Margaret
The Sound and the Fury Faulkner, William
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Smith, Betty
Vinegar Hill Ansay, A. Manette
Where the Heart Is Letts, Billie
White Oleander Fitch, Janet
You Went Away Findley, Timothy
A Widow for One Year Irving, John
Family - Away Urquhart, Jane
Saga/Chronicle Brideshead Revisited Waugh, Evelyn
East of Eden Steinbeck, John
The House of the Spirits Allende, Isabel
How Green Was my Valley Llewellyn, Richard
Howard’s End Forster, E.M
Little Women Alcott, Louisa May
Love Medicine Erdrich, Louise
Murther & Walking Spirits Davies, Robertson
The Rainbow Lawrence, D.H.
Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni
The Sound and the Fury Faulkner, William
Two Solitudes MacLennan, Hugh
Winds of War Wouk, Herman
The Years Woolf, Virgina
Family - Barometer Rising MacLennan, Hugh
Retrospective Crow Lake Lawson, Mary
Duet for Three Barfoot, Joan
Moral Disorder Atwood, Margaret
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk
The Stone Angel Laurence, Margaret
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
The Stone Diaries Shields, Carol
To the Lighthouse Woolf, Virginia
We were the Mulvaneys Oates, Joyce Carol
Family - Mental The Bell Jar Plath, Sylvia
Illness The Book of Ruth Hamilton, Jane
Cloudstreet Winton, Tim
A Cure for Death by Lightning Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
Finding Alice Carlson, Melody
I Know This Much is True Lamb, Wally
Family - Adultery Wright, Richard B.
Tragedy/Crisis Atonement McEwen, Ian
Cloudstreet Winton, Tim
Crowe Lake Lawson, Mary
Falling Angels Gowdy, Barbara
Gap Creek Morgan, Robert
A Good House Burnard, Bonnie
Light of Snow Shreve, Anita
The Lovely Bones Sebold, Alice
Lucky Sebold, Alice
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Edwards, Kim
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffrey
Ordinary People Guest, Judith
Saturday McEwan, Ian
Sylvanus Now Morrissey, Donna
The Tenth Circle Picoult, Jodi
The Time In Between Bergen, David
We Were the Mulvaneys Oates, Joyce, Carol
A Widow for One Year Irving, John
The Wildfire Season Pyper, Andrew
The Wizard’s tide : a story Buechner, Frederick
Family - Sisters The Blind Assassin Atwood, Margaret
Clara Callan Wright, Richard B.
Dark Quartet : The Story of the Brontes Banks, Lynne Reid
Divisadero Ondaatje, Michael
Fall on Your Knees MacDonald, Anne, Marie
Falling Angels Gowdy, Barbara
One Last Dance Goudge, Eileen
Little Women Alcott, Louisa May
The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver, Barbara
Relative Happiness Crewe, Leslie
A Student of Weather Hay, Elizabeth
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
The True and Outstanding Adventures of Robinson, Elisabeth
the Hunt Sisters Lawrence, D.H.
Women in Love
Family - Brothers Affliction Banks, Russell
The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky, Fyodor
East of Eden Steinbeck, John
No Great Mischief MacLeod, Alistair
The Other Tryon, Thomas
Family - Atonement McEwen, Ian
Brothers/Sisters Crow Lake Lawson, Mary
A Good House Burnard, Bonnie
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall Vassanji, MG
The Mill on the Floss Eliot, George
The Rainbow Lawrence, D.H.
The Stone Carvers Urquhart, Jane
Family - Father- The Chosen Potok, Chaim
Son Relationship Cry the Beloved Country Paton, Alan
Dombey and Son Dickens, Charles
East of Eden Steinbeck. John
The Great Santini Conroy, Pat
Mosquito Coast Thereux, Paul
A Perfect Night To Go To China Gilmour, David
River Thieves Crummey, Michael
The Road McCarthy, Cormac
Rosshalde Hesse, Herman
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Wroblewski, David
Family - Father- The Birth of Venus Dunant, Sarah
Daughter Charades Hospital, Janette Turner
Relationship A Complicated Kindness Toews, Miriam
Elizabeth and After Cohen, Matt
Domby and Son Dickens, Charles
Eucalyyptus Bail, Murray
Fall on Your Knees MacDonald, Anne Marie
The Glass Castle Walls, Jeannette
The Illuminator Vantrease, Brenda Rickman
Light on Snow Shreve, Anita
Lullabies for Little Criminals O’Neill, Heather
Nights in Rodanthe Sparks, Nicholas
The Piano Man’s Daughter Findley, Timothy
The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver, Barbara
The Rain Ascends Kogawa, Joy
Relative Happiness Crewe, Lesley
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk
The Shipping News Proulx, Annie
Silas Marner Eliot, George
A Spot of Bother Haddon, Mark
The Tenth Circle Picoult, Jodi
The Time In Between Bergen, David
The Way the Crow Flies MacDonald, Ann-Marie
The Wildfire Season Pyper, Andrew
Family - Mother- The Birth of Venus Dunant, Sarah
Son Relationship For One More Day Albom, Mitch
The Illuminator Vantrease, Brenda Rickman
Lives of the Saints Ricci, Nino
The Penelopiad Atwood, Margaret
Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D.H.
The Stone Angel Laurence, Margaret
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Wroblewski, David
The World According to Garp Irving, John
Family - Mother- The Almost Moon Sebold, Alice
Daughter The Bad Seed March, William
Relationship The Bean Trees Kingsolver, Barbara
The Bonesetter’s Daughter Tan, Amy
Chocolat Harris, Joanne
A Complicated Kindness Toews, Miriam
Deafening Itani, Francis
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Wells, Rebecca
Duet for Three Barfoot, Joan
Eve Green Fletcher, Susan
Falling Angels Chevalier, Tracy
Finding Alice Carlson, Melody
The Glass Castle Walls, Jeannette
Graven Images Thomas, Audrey
How to Make an American Quilt Otto, Whitney
A Jest of God Laurence, Margaret
Jewel Lott, Bret
The Joy Luck Club Tan, Amy
Kit’s Law Morrissey, Donna
The Kitchen Gods’s Wife Tan, Amy
The Lady and the Unicorn Chevalier, Tracy
Ladybug, Ladybug... Mitchell, W.O
The Mermaid Chair Kidd, Sue Monk
Nights in Rodanthe Sparks, Nich
One True Thing Quindlen, Anna
Relative Happiness Crewe, Lesley
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi Park, Jacqueline
The Tenth Circle Picoult, Jodi
Unless Shields, Carol
White Oleander Fitch, Janet
Family - The Amateur Marriage Tyler, Anne
Grandparent- Deafening Itani, Frances
Grandchild Eve Green Fletcher, Susan
Relationship Goldengrove Unleaving Walsh, Jill Paton
Kit’s Law Morrissey, Donna
Portrait in Sepia Allende, Isabelle
Fantasy Chocky Wyndham, John
The Chronicles of Narnia Lewis, C.S.
Gulliver’s Travels Swift, Johathan
Harry Potter series Rowling, J.K.
That Hideous Strength Lewis, C.S.
The Hobbit Tolkien, J.R.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J.R.
The Silmarillion Tolkien, J.R.
Wicked Maguire, Gregory
Fate and Free Will An American Tragedy Dreiser, Theodore
The Ash Garden Bock, Dennis
Camp Concentration Disch, Thomas M.
Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Englishman’s Boy Vanderhaeghe, Guy
Free Fall Golding, William
The Last Time They Met Shreve, Anita
The Lovely Bones Sebold, Alice
Map of the World Hamilton, Jane
The Pilot’s Wife Shreve, Anita
The Sweet Hereafter Banks, Russell
Timequake Vonnegut, Kurt
Twist of Fate Saul, John
Female Afterimage Humphreys, Helen
Protagonists Alias Grace Atwood, Margaret
Anil’s Ghost Ondaatje, Michael
Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, L.M.
Away Urquhart, Jane
The Blind Assassin Atwood, Margaret
Bodily Harm Atwood, Margaret
Cat’s Eye Atwood, Margaret
The Cure for Death by Lightning Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
The Diviners Laurence, Margaret
The Edible Woman Atwood, Margaret
Eight Cousins Alcott, Louisa May
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
Emma Austen, Jane
Fall on Your Knees MacDonald, Ann-Marie
Felicia’s Journey Trevor, William
Graven Images Thomas, Audrey
The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret
The Hours Cunningham, Michael
How to Make an American Quilt Otto, Whitney
In the company of the Courtesan Dunant, Sarah
Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte
The Joy Luck Club Tan, Amy
Lady Oracle Atwood, Margaret
Life Before Man Atwood, Margaret
Little Women Alcott, Louisa May
Lives of Girls and Women Munro, Alice
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Moore, Brian
Mansfield Park Austen, Jane
Mrs. Dalloway Woolf, Virginia
Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon Gibbons, Kaye
One True Thing Quindlen, Anna
The Orchard on Fire Mackay, Shena
Our Lady of the Lost and Found Schoemperlen, Diane
The Penelopiad Atwood, Margaret
Persuasion Austen, Jane
The Polished Hoe Clarke, Austin
Possessing the Secret of Joy Walker, Alice
Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
The Red Tent Diamant, Anita
The Robber Bride Atwood, Margaret
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk
Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane
She’s Come Undone Lamb, Wally
Shirley Bronte, Charlotte
The Stone Angel Laurence, Margaret
The Stone Diaries Shields, Carol
The Story of Lucy Gault Trevor, William
A Student of Weather Hay, Elizabeth
Sula Morrison, Toni
Surfacing Atwood, Margaret
To the Lighthouse Woolf, Virginia
White Oleander Fitch, Janet
Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys, Jean
Wives and Daughters Gaskell, Elizabeth
Year of Wonders Brooks, Geraldine
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April 2009
THEME TITLE AUTHOR
Feminism Alias Grace Atwood, Margaret
Anil’s Ghost Ondaatje, Michael
The Blind Assassin Atwood, Margaret
Cat’s Eye Atwood, Margaret
The Cure for Death by Lightning Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
The Diviners Laurence, Margaret
The Edible Woman Atwood, Margaret
Fall on Your Knees MacDonald, Ann-Marie
A Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret
The Mists of Avalon Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Lady Oracle Atwood, Margaret
Life Before Man Atwood, Margaret
Lives of Girls and Women Munro, Alice
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk
The Robber Bride Atwood, Margaret
A Room of One’s Own Woolf, Virginia
Surfacing Atwood, Margaret
Unless Shields, Carol
Forbidden Love Adultery Wright, Richard B.
Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
Bridges of Madison County Waller, Robert James
Daughter of Fortune Allende, Isabel
Doctor Zhivago Pasternak, Boris
The End of the Affair Greene, Graham
Fortune’s Rocks Shreve, Anita
The Heart of the Matter Greene, Graham
The Illuminator Vantrease, Brenda Rickman
A Jest of God Laurence, Margaret
Jude the Obscure Hardy, Thomas
The Last Promise Evans, Richard Paul
Life Before Man Atwood, Margaret
Lives of the Saints Ricci, Nino
Love Morrison, Toni
Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave
The Mermaid Chair Kidd, Sue Monk
Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell, George
The Pilot’s Wife Shreve, Anita
Resistance Shreve, Anita
A Room with a View Forster, E.M.
The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi Park, Jacqueline
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend Waller, Robert James
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Spadework Findley, Timothy
Sweetness in the Belly Gibb, Camilla
Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Water for Elephants Gruen, Sara
We Zamyatin, Yevgeni
Where or When Shreve, Anita
Year of Wonders Brooks, Geraldine
You Went Away Findley, Timothy
Forgiveness Adultery Wright, Richard B.
Atonement McEwen, Ian
Adam Bede Eliot, George
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Wells, Rebecca
Light of Snow Shreve, Anita
Saturday McEwan, Ian
Silas Marner Eliot, George
The Story of Lucy Gault Trevor, William
The Time In Between Bergen, David
A Wedding in September Shreve, Anita
Freedom Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
Ella Minnow Pea : A Novel in Letters Dunn, Mark
The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret
Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell, George
Friendship The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Afterimage Humphreys, Helen
As For Me and My House Ross, Sinclair
Atonement McEwan, Ian
Barney’s Version Richler, Mordecai
The Bean Trees Kingsolver, Barbara
Chocolat Harris, Joanne
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Wells, Rebecca
How to Make an American Quilt Otto, Whitney
In the Company of the Courtesan Dunant, Sarah
The Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled
A Lesson Before Dying Gaines, Ernest J.
The Last Magician Hospital,JanetteTurner
The Lost Garden Humphreys, Helen
Lost in the Barrens Mowat, Farley
A Map of the World Hamilton, Jane
Mercy Among the Children Richard, David Adams
Mystic River Lehane, Dennis
Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John
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April 2009
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The Orchard on Fire Mackay, Shena
Our Lady of the Lost and Found Schoemperlen, Diane
The Outsiders Hinton, S.E.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Doyle, Roddy
A Prayer for Owen Meany Irving, John
The Prince and the Pauper Twain, Mark
The Robber Bride Atwood, Margaret
The Rule of Four Caldwell, Ian
Rumblefish Hinton, S.E.
The Saving Graces Gaffney, Patricia
The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson
A Separate Peace Knowles, John
Sula Morrison, Toni
Summer Sisters Blume, Judy
Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Tenth Circle Picoult, Jodi
The Three Musketeers Dumas, Alexandre
The Trade Mission Pyper, Andrew
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper
A Wedding in September Shreve, Anita
Frontier Blood Meridien or the Evening
Redness in the West McCarthy, Cormac
The Deerslayer Cooper, James Fenimore
Daughter of Fortune Allende, Isabel
Gap Creek Morgan, Robert
Ines of My Soul Allende, Isabel
The Last of the Mohicans Cooper, James Fenimore
My Antonia Cather, Willa
O Pioneer! Cather, Willa
The Pathfinder Cooper, James Fenimore
The Pioneers Cooper, James Fenimore
Futurism 334 Disch, Thomas
Anthem Rand, Ayn
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
The Children of Men James, P.D.
Cities in Flight Blish, James
A Clockwork Orange Burgess, Anthony
Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray
Foundation and Earth Asimov, Isaac
Foundation’s Edge Asimov, Isaac
The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret
Mara and Dann Lessing, Doris
Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell, George
Oryx and Crake Atwood, Margaret
Centennial Secondary School - Books by Theme PAGE 20
April 2009
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Player Piano Vonnegut, Kurt
The Telling LeGuin, Ursula
The Time Machine Wells, H.G.
God/Religion Angels & Demons Brown, Dan
The Brothers Karamazov Dosdoevsky, Fyodor
A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews
The Da Vinci Code Brown, Dan
In the Company of the Courtesan Dunant, Sarah
Knights of the Black and White Whytle, Jack
The Mermaid Chair Kidd, Sue Monk
Sweetness in the Belly Gibb, Camilla
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled
Good and Evil The Bad Seed March, William
Billy Budd Melville, Herman
Caine Mutiny Wouk, Herman
The Castle of Otranto Walpole, Horace
A Clockwork Orange Burgess Anthony
The Crystal World Ballard, J.G.
Darkness at Noon Koestler, Arthur
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, R.L.
Dracula Stoker, Bram
East of Eden Steinbeck, John
Felicia’s Journey Trevor, William
Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph
House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hugo, Victor
The Judges : a Novel Wiesel, Elie
Lord of the Flies Golding, William
The Man in the Iron Mask Dumas, Alexandre
The Master and Margarita Bulgakov, Mikhail
Mutiny on the Bounty Nordhoff, C. & J.N. Hall
No Country for Old Men McCarthy, Cormac
The Other Tryon, Thomas
Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar
The Screwtape Letters Lewis, C.S.
Separate peace Knowles, John
That Hideous Strength Lewis, C.S.
The Thirteenth Tale Setterfield, Diane
The Trade Mission Pyper, Andrew
Turn of the Screw James, Henry
Wicked Maguire, Gregory
The Wildfire Season Pyper, Andrew
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April 2009
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Gothic Literature The Castle of Otranto Walpole, Horace
Dracula Stoker, Bram
Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte
The Mysteries of Udolpho Radcliffe, Ann
Northanger Abbey Austin, Jane
Rebecca Du Maurier, Daphne
Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys, Jean
Wuthering Heights Bronte, Emily
Great Depression A Student of Weather Hay, Elizabeth
As for Me and My House Ross, Sinclair
Cabbagetown Garner, Hugh
The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, John
Man Alone Mulgan, John
Sea Glass Shreve, Anita
The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke Hayward, Steven
The Tin Flute Roy, Gabrielle
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper
The Wizard’s tide : a story Buechner, Frederick
Water for Elephants Gruen, Sara
You Can’t Go Home Again Wolfe, Thomas
Grief/Loss Adultery Wright, Richard B.
The Almost Moon Sebold, Alice
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Wilder, Thornton
Cabbagetown Garner, Hugh
Eve Green Fletcher, Susan
Final Things Wright, Richard B.
For One More Day Albom, Mitch
The Lovely Bones Sebold, Alice
A Map of the World Hamilton, Jane
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Edwards, Kim
The Night-Coloured Pearl Renivaro, Tzunami
Nights in Rodanthe Sparks, Nicholas
One Last Dance Goudge, Eileen
Ordinary People Guest, Judith
A Perfect Night To Go To China Gilmour, David
River Thieves Crummey, Michael
The Road McCarthy, Cormac
The Shipping News Proulx, E. Annie
The Stone Angel Laurence, Margaret
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Wroblewski, David
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April 2009
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The Sweet Hereafter Banks, Russell
The Time In Between Bergen, David
The Underpainter Urquhart, Jane
Year of Wonders Brooks, Geraldine
Growing Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, L.M.
Up/Coming of Age The Bean Trees Kingsolver, Barbara
- Female The Bell Jar Plath, Sylvia
Billy Bathgate Doctorow, E.L.
The Birth House McKay, Ami
The Book Thief Zusak, Markus
Burning Bright Chevalier, Tracy
Cat’s Eye Atwood, Margaret
A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews
The Cure for Death by Lightning Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
Deafening Itani, Francis
Eucalyptus Bail, Murray
Eve Green Fletcher, Susan
Falling Angels Chevalier, Tracy
Fortune’s Rocks Shreve, Anita
Franny and Zooey Salinger, J.D.
Gap Creek Morgan, Robert
Girl with the Pearl Earring Chevailier, Tracy
Girlfriend in a Coma Coupland, Douglas
The Girls Lansens, Lori
The Glass Castle Walls, Jeannette
Goldengrove Unleaving Walsh, Jill Paton
I am Charlotte Simmons Wolfe, Tom
Lighthousekeeping Winterson, Jeanette
Little Women Alcott, Louisa May
Lives of Girls and Women Munro, Alice
Lullabies for Little Criminals O’Neill, Heather
Middlesex Atwood, Margaret
Moral Disorder Eugenides, Jeffrey
My Antonia Cather, Willa
Obasan Kogawa, Joy
The Orchard on Fire MacKay, Shena
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk
The Red Tent Diamant, Anita
She’s Come Undone Lamb, Wally
Silent Words Slipperjack, Ruby
A Student of Weather Hay, Elizabeth
The Sweet Hereafter Banks, Russell
Tin Flute Roy, Gabrielle
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Smith, Betty
White Oleander Fitch, Janet
The Way the Crow Flies MacDonald, Ann-Marie
A Widow for One Year Irving, John
Growing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark
Up/Coming of Age The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark
- Male Affliction Banks, Russell
All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, Erich Maria
All The Pretty Horses McCarthy, Cormac
Angela’s Ashes McCourt, Frank
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Richler, Mordecai
The Basketball Diaries Carroll, Jim
Burning Bright Chevalier, Tracy
Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D.
The Chosen Potok, Chaim
The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-time Haddon, Mark
Demian : the Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth Hesse, Hermann
Empire of the Sun Ballard, J.G.
Fifth Business Davies, Robertson
Franny and Zooey Salinger, J.D.
Funny Boy Selvadurai, Shyam
Gentlemen and Players Harris, Joanne
Goodbye, Columbus Roth, Philip
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Hotel New Hampshire Irving, John
How I Spent My Summer Holidays Mitchell, W.O
Keep the Aspidistra Flying Orwell, George
Kiss of the Fur Queen Highway, Tomson
The Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled
Larry’s Party Shields, Carol
The Magic Mountain Mann, Thomas
Mercy Among the Children Richard, David Adams
Nicholas Nickleby Dickens, Charles
Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset
Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Doyle, Roddy
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James
A Prayer for Owen Meany Irving, John
The Reader Schlink, Bernard
Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen
Self Mattel, Yann
A Separate Peace Knowles, John
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Small Mercies Hillen, Ernest
Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Wroblewski, David
This Side of Paradise Fitzgerald, F. Scott
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper
The Wars Findley, Timothy
Guilt Adultery Wright, Richard B.
Atonement McEwan, Ian
Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Final Things Wright, Richard B.
The Judges : A Novel Wiesel, Elie
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Edwards, Kim
Mercy Among the Children Richard, David Adams
A Separate Peace Knowles, John
Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David
The Story of Lucy Gault Trevor, William
The Third Policeman O’Brien, Flann
The Time In Between Bergen, David
The Way the Crow Flies MacDonald, Ann-Marie
Heroes The Black Arrow Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Elusive Pimpernel Orczy, Baroness
A Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest
For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hugo, Victor
A Lesson Before Dying Gaines, Ernest J
Les Miserables Hugo, Victor
Nostromos Conrad, Joseph
The Penelopiad Atwood, Margaret
A Prayer for Owen Meany Irving, John
Rob Roy Scott, Sir Walter
Tuesdays with Morrie Albom, Mitch
Holocaust/Jewish/ The Book Thief Zusak, Markus
Concentration The Cage Sender, Ruth Minsky
Camps/Germany The Deputy Hochhuth, Rolf
During WWII Fugitive Pieces Michaels, Anne
Night Wiesel, Elie
Schindler’s List Keneally, Thomas
Sophie’s Choice Styron, William
The Statement Moore, Brian
Stones From the River Hegi, Ursula
Suite Francaise Nemirovsky, Irene
Homosexuality Funny Boy Selvadurai, Shyam
Maurice Forster, E.M.
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Hope Felicia’s Journey Trevor, William
Sweetness in the Belly Gibb, Camilla
To Life Sender, Ruth Minsky
Identity/Self- About a Boy Hornby, Nick
Discovery Anil’s Ghost Ondaatje, Michael
Anthem Rand, Ayn
Beloved Morrison, Toni
Black Dogs McEwan, Ian
The Bonesetter’s Daughter Tan, Amy
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time Haddon, Mark
Dancer McCann, Colum
Deafening Itani, Frances
Demian:The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth Hesse, Herman
The Diviners Laurence, Margaret
Emma Austen, Jane
The Girls Lansens, Lori
The Glass Castle Walls, Jeannette
High Fidelity Hornby, Nick
How I Spent My Summer Holidays Mitchell, W.O.
I am Charlotte Simmons Wolfe, Tom
The Judges : A Novel Wiesel, Elie
Larry’s Party Shields, Carol
Last of the Crazy People Findley, Timothy
A Lesson Before Dying Gaines, Ernest J.
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Moore, Brian
Lord Jim Conrad, Joseph
The Magic Mountain Mann, Thomas
Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur
The Mermaid Chair Kidd, Sue Monk
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffrey
Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell, George
On the Road Kerouac, Jack
The Outsiders Hinton, S.E.
Pilgrim Findley, Timothy
A Prayer for Owen Meany Irving, John
The Prince and the Pauper Twain, Mark
Razor’s Edge Maugham, Somerset
The Red Tent Diamant, Anita
Rosshalde Hesse, Hermann
Sea Glass Shreve, Anita
Self Martel, Yann
A Separate Peace Knowles, John
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April 2009
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She’s Come Undone Lamb, Wally
Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni
St. Urbain’s Horseman Richler, Mordecai
The Stone Angel Laurence, Margaret
Stones from the River Hegi, Ursula
Sylvanus Now Morrissey, Donna
The Third Policeman O’Brien, Flann
‘Tis McCourt, Frank
To Sir With Love Braithwaite, E.R.
To the Lighthouse Woolf, Virginia
Tom Jones Fielding, Henry
Tuesdays with Morrie Albom, Mitch
Under the Tuscan Sun Mayes, Frances
Vinegar Hill Ansay, A. Manette
White Oleander Fitch, Janet
Who Has Seen the Wind Mitchell, W.O.
Immigration Accordian Crimes Proulx, E. Annie
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Richler, Mordecai
Angela’s Ashes McCourt, Frank
Away Urquhart, Jane
House of Sand and Fog Dubus, Andre, III
In the Skin of a Lion Ondaatje, Michael
The Joy Luck Club Tan, Amy
The Jungle Upton, Sinclair
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffrey
My Antonia Cather, Willa
No Great Mischief MacLeod, Alister
O Pioneers! Cather, Willa
Obasan Kogawa, Joy
The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke Hayward, Steven
Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David
The Stone Carvers Urquhart, Jane
Sweetness in the Belly Gibb, Camilla
‘Tis McCourt, Frank
Individuality Anthem Rand, Ayn
Atlas Shrugged Rand, Ayn
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn
In the Skin of a Lion Ondaatje, Michael
Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell, George
Industrialism Hard Times Dickens, Charles
/Labour In the Skin of a Lion Ondaatje, Michael
Sea Glass Shreve, Anita
Shirley Bronte, Charlotte
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Irish Angela’s Ashes McCourt, Frank
Away Urquhart, Jane
Felicia’s Journey Trevor, William
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James
The Princes of Ireland Rutherfurd, Edward
A Star Called Henry Doyle, Roddy
The Story of Lucy Gault Trevor, William
Trinity Uris, Leon
Islam The Infidel Ali, Ayan Hirsi
The Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled
The Swallows of Kabul Khadra, Yasmina
Sweetness in the Belly Gibb, Camilla
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled
Italy A Bell for Adano Hersey, John
In the Company of the Courtesan Dunant, Sarah
The Last Promise Evans, Richard Paul
Lives of the Saints Ricci, Nino
The Secret Life of Grazia dei Rossi Park, Jacqueline
Under the Tuscan Sun Mayes, Frances
Jewish The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Richler, Mordecai
Barney’s Version Richler, Mordecai
The Chosen Potok, Chaim
Joshua Then and Now Richler, Mordecai
The Judges : A Novel Wiesel, Elie
The Secret Life of Grazia dei Rossi Park, Jacqueline
The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke Hayward, Steven
St. Urbain’s Horseman Richler, Mordecai
Justice Billy Budd Melville, Herman
The Bonfire of the Vanities Wolfe, Tom
Cabbagetown Garner, Hugh
Caine Mutiny Wouk, Herman
The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, John
House of Sand and Fog Dubus, Andre III
A Lesson Before Dying Gaines, Ernest J.
Lost Girls Pyper, Andrew
A Map of the World Hamilton, Jane
The Progress of Love Munro, Alice
Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David
Love Adam Bede Eliot, George
Anil’s Ghost Ondaatje, Michael
Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo
Barney’s Version Richler, Mordecai
The Bean Trees Kingsolver, Barbara
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Bell for Adano Hersey, John
Changing Heaven Urquhart, Jane
Chocolat Harris, Joanne
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams Johnston, Wayne
Daniel Deronda Eliot, George
Daughter of Fortune Allende, Isabel
Dirt Music Winton, Tim
Doctor Zhivago Pasternak, Boris
Emma Austen, Jane
The End of the Affair Greene, Graham
The English Patient Ondaatje, Michael
Erewhon Butler, Samuel
Far from the Madding Crowd Hardy, Thomas
A Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest
For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest
French Lieutenant’s Woman Fowles, John
Frenchman’s Creek DuMaurier, Daphne
Girlfriend in a Coma Coupland, Douglas
Gone with the Wind Mitchell, Margaret
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Illuminator Vantrease, Brenda Rickman
Ivanhoe Scott, Sir Walter
Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte
Joseph Andrews Eliot, George
Kamouraska Hébert, Anne
Keep the Aspidistra Flying Orwell, George
The Last Promise Evans, Richard Paul
The Last Time They Met Shreve, Anita
Love Morrison, Toni
The Loved One Waugh, Evelyn
The Man Who Ate the 747 Sherwood, Ben
Mansfield Park Austen, Jane
Middlemarch Eliot, George
Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane
Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon Gibbons, Kaye
One Last Dance Goudge, Eileen
Phantom of the Opera LeRoux, Gaston
Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
The Rainbow Lawrence, D.H.
The Republic of Love Shields, Carol
A Room with a View Forster, E.M.
The Secret Life of Grazia dei Rossi Park, Jacqueline
The Shipping News Proulx, E. Annie
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April 2009
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Shirley Bronte, Charlotte
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend Waller, Robert James
Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David
The Story of Lucy Gault Trevor, William
A Student of Weather Hay, Elizabeth
Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein, Robert A.
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway, Ernest
A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles
Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott
A Town Called Alice Shute, Nevil
Villette Bronte, Charlotte
Wuthering Heights Bronte, Emily
Male/Female Roles The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, L.M.
The Birth House McKay, Ami
The Blind Assassin Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
Cat’s Eye Atwood, Margaret
The Cure for Death by Lightning Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
The Diviners Laurence, Margaret
The Edible Woman Atwood, Margaret
Eight Cousins Alcott, Louisa May
Emma Austen, Jane
Fall on Your Knees MacDonald, Ann-Marie
The French Lieutenant’s Woman Fowles, John
A Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret
Happenstance Shields, Carol
The Infidel Ali, Ayan Hirsi
Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte
Jest of God Laurence, Margaret
Lady Oracle Atwood, Margaret
Left Hand of Darkness Le Guin, Ursula
Life Before Man Atwood, Margaret
Little Women Alcott, Louisa May
Lives of Girls and Women Munro, Alice
Mansfield Park Austen, Jane
Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur
Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane
Persuasion Austen, Jane
Possessing the Secret of Joy Walker, Alice
Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk
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April 2009
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The Red Tent Diamant, Anita
The Robber Bride Atwood, Margaret
Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane
Shirley Bronte, Charlotte
Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David
The Stone Diaries Shields, Carol
Surfacing Atwood, Margaret
Sweetness in the Belly Gibb, Camilla
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled
Vinegar Hill Ansay, A. Manette
Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys, Jean
The World According to Garp Irving, John
Wuthering Heights Bronte, Emily
Male Protagonists The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Richler, Modecai
Barney’s Version Richler, Mordecai
Bleak House Dickens, Charles
Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D.
A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles
Dombey and Son Dickens, Charles
Empire of the Sun Ballard, J.G.
Go Tell it on the Mountain Baldwin, James
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Hatchet Paulsen, Gary
Martin Chuzzlewit Dickens, Charles
Nicholas Nickleby Dickens, Charles
Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles
Outsider Camus, Albert
The Outsiders Hinton, S.E.
Pickwick Papers Dickens, Charles
A Prayer for Owen Meany Irving, John
The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen
St. Urbain’s Horseman Richler, Mordecai
A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles
Marriage Adultery Wright, Richard B.
The Amateur Marriage Tyler, Anne
The Birth of Venus Dunant, Sarah
Black Dogs McEwan, Ian
Gap Creek Morgan, Robert
A Handful of Dust Waugh, Evelyn
Happenstance Shields, Carol
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Jude the Obscure Hardy, Thomas
Larry’s Party Shields, Carol
Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave
The Mermaid Chair Kidd, Sue Monk
Moral Disorder Atwood, Margaret
The Notebook Sparks, Nicholas
The Penelopiad Atwood, Margaret
Sea Glass Shreve, Anita
Slyvanus Now Morrissey, Donna
Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Tenth Circle Picoult, Jodi
The Wedding Sparks, Nicholas
The Weight of Water Shreve, Anita
Mental Illness The Bell Jar Plath, Sylvia
Collector Fowles, John
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Haddon, Mark
Finding Alice Carlson, Melody
Headhunter Findley, Timothy
I Know This Much Is True Lamb, Wally
I Never Promised you a Rose Garden Green, Hannah
Misery King, Stephen
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kesey, Ken
The Piano Man’s Daughter Findley, Timothy
Pilgrim Findley, Timothy
Sophie’s Choice Styron, William
A Spot of Bother Haddon, Mark
Stones from the River Hegi, Ursula
Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys, Jean
Mythology The Night-Coloured Pearl Tzunami, Renivaro
Not Wanted on the Voyage Findley, Timothy
The Penelopiad Atwood, Margaret
Native Animal Dreams Kingsolver, Barbara
The Black Robe Moore, Brian
Blood Meridian McCarthy, Cormac
Charades Hospital, Janette Turner
Dance Me Outside Kinsella, W.P.
The Deerslayer Cooper, James Fenimore
Kiss of the Fur Queen Highway, Tomson
The Last of the Mohicans Cooper, James Fenimore
Lost in the Barrens Mowat, Farley
Love Medicine Erdrich, Louise
The Pathfinder Cooper, James Fenimore
The Pioneers Cooper, James Fenimore
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River Thieves Crummey, Michael
Silent Words Slipperjack, Ruby
Windflower Roy, Gabrielle
Obsession All He Ever Wanted Shreve, Anita
All the Names Saramago, Jose
Daughter of Fortune Allende, Isabel
Eucalyptus Bail, Murray
Gentlemen and Players Sherwood, Ben
The Man Who Ate the 747 Harris, Joanne
Perfume : The Story of a Murderer Suskind, Patrick
The Phantom of the Opera LeRoux, Gaston
The Rule of Four Caldwell, Ian
The Third Witch Reisert, Rebecca
Orphans Dark Quartet Banks, Lynne Reid
Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte
Lighthousekeeping Winterson, Jeanette
The Man Who Ate the 747 Sherwood, Ben
The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Politics All the King’s Men Warren, Robert Penn
Bel Canto Patchett, Ann
The Birth of Venus Dunant, Sarah
Black Dogs McEwan, Ian
Darkness at Noon Koestler, Arthur
Famous Last Words Findley, Timothy
The House of the Spirits Allende, Isabel
Midnight’s Children Rushdie, Salman
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Power and the Glory Greene, Graham
A Prayer for Owen Meany Irving, John
The Quiet American Greene, Graham
Shame Rushdie, Salman
Prejudice/Racism Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark
Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark
Any Known Blood Hill Lawrence
Beloved Morrison, Toni
The Bluest Eye Morrison, Toni
The Color Purple Walker, Alice
Cry, the Beloved Country Paton, Alan
Elizabeth and After Cohen, Matt
Go Tell it on the Mountain Baldwin, James
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers, Carson
I am Charlotte Simmons Wolfe, Tom
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya
In the Heat of the Night Ball, John
Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph
A Lesson Before Dying Jordan, Hillary
Mudbound Gaines, Ernest J.
The Nigger of the Narcissus Conrad, Joseph
Obasan Kogawa, Joy
A Passage to India Forster, E.M.
Ragtime Doctorow, E.L.
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk
The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi : A Novel Park, Jacqueline
Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David
Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni
Sula Morrison, Toni
Sweetness in the Belly Gibb, Camilla
Strange Fruit Smith, Lillian
Tales from a Troubled Land Paton, Alan
This Side Jordan Laurence, Margaret
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper
To Sir With Love Braithwaite, E.R.
Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys, Jean
Quebec Barney’s Version Richler, Mordecai
Enchanted Summer Roy, Gabrielle
Return of the Sphinx MacLennan, Hugh
Thirty Acres Ringuet
The Tin Flute Roy, Gabrielle
Two Solitudes MacLennan, Hugh
Voices in Time MacLennan, Hugh
Where the River Narrows Laberge, Aimee
Quest The Alchemist Coelho, Paul
Anil’s Ghost Ondaatje, Michael
The Black Arrow Stevenson, Robert Louis
Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D.
The Celestine Prophesy Redfield, James
The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean
Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time Haddon, Mark
The Dark Room Seiffert, Rachel
Harry Potter series Rowling, J.K.
Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph
The Hobbit Tolkien, J.R.R.
In the Skin of a Lion Ondaatje, Michael
Jack Maggs Carey, Peter
The Journey to the East Hesse, Hermann
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Lord of the Flies Golding, William
Lord Jim Conrad, Joseph
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Man Who Ate the 747 Sherwood, Ben
Moby Dick Melville, Herman
The Narnia series Lewis, C.S.
Pilgrim’s Progress Bunyan, John
The Razor’s Edge Maugham, W. Somerset
Silent Words Slipperjack, Ruby
The Silmarillion Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Third Policeman O’Brien, Flann
Tales of Land and Sea Conrad, Joseph
Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis
Victory Conrad, Joseph
The Voyage Out Woolf, Virginia
Watership Down Adams, Richard
Reality v. Illusion The Life of Pi Martel, Yann
Lost Girls Pyper, Andrew
Magic Time Kinsella, W.P.
Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur
Pilgrim Findley, Timothy
The Robber Bride Atwood, Margaret
Rebellion Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
Nineteen Eighty-four Orwell, George
Rural v. Urban Blind Assassin Atwood, Margaret
The Book of Ruth Hamilton, Jane
Clara Callan Wright, Richard B
A Complicated Kindness Toews, Miriam
In the Skin of a Lion Ondaatje, Michael
Magic Time Kinsella, W.P.
The Man Who Ate the 747 Sherwood, Ben
The Robber Bride Atwood, Margaret
Stones Findley, Timothy
A Student of Weather Hay, Elizabeth
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Leacock, Stephen
Thirty Acres Ringuet
Satan Doctor Faustus Marlowe, Christopher
Fifth Business Davies, Robertson
Paradise Lost Milton, John
The Screwtape Letters Lewis, C.S.
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Science Fiction 20,000 Leagues under the Sea Verne, Jules
2001 : A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur C.
Around the World in 80 Days Verne, Jules
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut, Kurt
Camp Concentration Disch, Thomas M.
The Children of Men James, P.D.
The Chrysalids Wyndham, John
The Crystal World Ballard, J.G.
The Day of the Triffids Wyndham, John
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis
Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray
Foundation and Earth Asimov, Isaac
Foundation’s Edge Asimov, Isaac
Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret
The Invisible Man Wells, H.G.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth Verne, Jules
Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael
The Kraken Wakes Wyndham, John
Lord of Light Zelazny, Roger
The Lost World Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
The Martian Chronicles Bradbury, Ray
The Midwich Cuckoos Wyndham, John
More than Human Sturgeon, Theodore
News from Nowhere Morris, William
Nineteen Eighty-four Orwell, George
Oryx and Crake Atwood, Margaret
The Time Machine Wells, H.G.
The Trouble with Lichen Wyndham, John
The War of the Worlds Wells, H.G.
We Zamyatin, Yevgeny
Sexual Assault The Blind Assassin Atwood, Margaret
The Cure for Death by Lightning Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
Fall on Your Knees MacDonald, Anne Marie
The Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled
Kiss of the Fur Queen Highway, Tomson
Lives of Girls and Women Munro, Alice
The Lovely Bones Sebold, Alice
A Passage to India Forster, E.M.
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk
The Tenth Circle Picoult, Jodi
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Hardy, Thomas
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Sin and A Complicated Kindness Toews, Miriam
Redemption The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hugo, Victor
Les Miserables Hugo, Victor
Social Class Adam Bede Eliot, George
Angela’s Ashes McCourt, Frank
Atonement McEwen, Ian
The Bean Trees Kingsolver, Barbara
The Birth of Venus Dunant, Sarah
Bleak House Dickens, Charles
The Bostonians James, Henry
Brideshead Revisited Waugh, Evelyn
Burning Bright Chevalier, Tracy
Cabbagetown Garner, Hugh
Daniel Deronda Eliot, George
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles
Dark Quartet Banks, Lynne Reid
Falling Angels Chevalier, Tracy
A Fine Balance Mistry, Rohinton
Gentlemen and Players Harris, Joanne
The Ghost Road Barker, Pat
Girl With a Pearl Earring Chevalier, Tracy
Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, John
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott
A Handful of Dust Waugh, Evelyn
Hard Times Dickens, Charles
Howard’s End Forster, E.M.
I am Charlotte Simmons Wolfe, Tom
The Illuminator Vantrease, Brenda Rickman
The Informers Ellis, Brett Easton
Joseph Andrews Fielding, Henry
The Lady and the Unicorn Chevalier, Tracy
Middlemarch Eliot, George
The Mill on the Floss Eliot, George
Mrs. Dalloway Woolf, Virginia
Nicholas Nickleby Dickens, Charles
Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane
Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles
The Pearl Steinbeck, John
Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
The Prince and the Pauper Twain, Mark
The River King Hoffman, Alice
A Room With a View Forster, E.M.
The Secret Life of Grazia dei Rossi Park, Jacqueline
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Shamela Eliot, George
Shirley Bronte, Charlotte
Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni
Suite Francaise Nemirovsky, Irene
Sula Morrison, Toni
Sweetness in the Belly Gibb, Camilla
Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Tess of the D’Ubervilles Hardy, Thomas
The Time Machine Wells, H.G.
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper
Vanity Fair Thackeray, William Makepeace
Vile Bodies Waugh, Evelyn
The White Tiger Adiga, Aravind
The Years Woolf, Virginia
Sports Bleachers Grisham, John
The Great Santini Conroy, Pat
I am Charlotte Simmons Wolfe, Tom
Magic Time Kinsella, W.P.
The Natural Malamud, Bernard
Shoeless Joe Kinsella, W.P.
Stream of Barney’s Version Richler, Mordecai
Consciousness Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D.
The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-Time Haddon, Mark
Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur
Mrs. Dalloway Woolf, Virginia
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Doyle, Roddy
Self Martel, Yann
Small Mercies Hillen, Ernest
The Sound and the Fury Faulkner, William
A Spot of Bother Haddon, Mark
The Stone Diaries Shields, Carol
To the Lighthouse Woolf, Virginia
Ulysses Joyce, James
Suicide The Bell Jar Plath, Sylvia
Ordinary People Guest, Judith
Pilgrim Timothy Findley
The Sound and the Fury Faulkner, William
The Tenth Circle Picoult, Jodi
Supernatural/ Dragonflight McCaffrey, Anne
Paranormal For One More Day Albom, Mitch
The Thirteenth Tale Setterfield, Diane
Turn of the Screw James, Henry
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Survival The Coral Island Ballantyne, R.M.
(Physical and/or Dark Quartet Banks, Lynne Reid
Emotional) A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Day of the Triffids Wyndham, John
Deliverance Dickey, James
The Glass Castle Walls, Jeannette
Hatchet Paulsen, Gary
Into Thin Air Krakauer, Jon
The Life of Pi Martel, Yann
Lord of the Flies Golding, William
Lost in the Barrens Mowat, Farley
The Road McCarthy, Cormac
Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel
Schindler’s List Keneally, Thomas
The Sea Wolf London, Jack
Sophie’s Choice Styron, William
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Wroblewski, David
Survival Atwood, Margaret
To Life Sender, Ruth Minsky
The Trade Mission Pyper, Andrew
The White Bone Gowdy, Barbara
The Wildfire Season Pyper, Andrew
Year of Wonders Brooks, Geraldine
Taboos Fortune’s Rocks Shreve, Anita
Lives of the Saints Ricci, Nino
Possessing the Secret of Joy Walker, Alice
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen
Technology 3001 : The Final Odyssey Clarke, Arthur C.
Andromeda Strain Crichton, Michael
The Boys from Brazil Levin, Ira
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
Clockwork Orange Burgess, Anthony
The Experiment Darnton, John
Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Nineteen Eighty-four Orwell, George
Player Piano Vonnegut, Kurt
Stepford Wives Levin, Ira
The Third Twin Follet, Ken
Time Travel The Eyre Affair Fforde, Jasper
The Journey to the East Hesse, Hermann
Making History Fry, Stephen
Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut, Kurt
Sphere Crichton, Michael
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Timeline Crichton, Michael
The Time Machine Wells, H.G.
The Time Traveller’s Wife Niffennager, Audrey
Timequake Vonnegut, Kurt
Totalitarianism Animal Farm Orwell, George
Anthem Rand, Ayn
Darkness at Noon Koestler, Arthur
Ella Minnow Pea : A Novel in Letters Dunn, Mark
Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn
The Iron Heel London, Jack
The Master and Margarita Bulgakov, Mikhail
Nineteen Eighty-four Orwell, George
O-Zone Theroux, Paul
That Hideous Strength Lewis, C.S.
The Trial Kafka, Franz
Utopia The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights Steinbeck, John
The Coral Island Ballantyne, R.M.
Erewhon Butler, Samuel
Idylls of the King Tennyson, Alfred
Island Huxley, Aldous
Mists of Avalon Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Utopia More, Thomas
War - Napoleonic War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo
War - Civil War Anil’s Ghost (Sri Lanka) Ondaatje, Michael
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Spanish) Hemingway, Ernest
Gone With the Wind (US) Mitchell, Margaret
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon (US) Gibbons, Kaye
The Red Badge of Courage (US) Crane, Stephen
War - World War I All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, Erich Maria
Barometer Rising MacLennan, Hugh
The Dark Room Seiffert, Rachel
Deafening Itani, Francis
East of Eden Steinbeck, John
A Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest
The Ghost Road Barker, Pat
A Soldier of the Great War Helprin, Mark
The Stone Carvers Urquhart, Jane
The Wars Findley, Timothy
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War - World War The Ash Garden Bock, Dennis
II Atonement McEwan, Ian
A Bell for Adano Hersey, John
The Book Thief Zusak, Markus
Catch-22 Heller, Joseph
The English Patient Ondaatje, Michael
Famous Last Words Findley, Timothy
Hiroshima Hersey, John
Into the Valley Hersey, John
The Lost Garden Humphreys, Helen
Obasan Kogawa, Joy
Officers and Gentlemen Waugh, Evelyn
The Reader Schlink, Bernard
A Separate Peace Knowles, John
Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut, Kurt
Small Mercies Hillen, Ernest
Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David
The Statement Moore, Brian
Suite Francaise Nemirovsky, Irene
The Tenth Man Greene, Graham
The Thin Red Line Jones, James
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil
You Went Away Findley, Timothy
War - Anti War Catch-22 Heller, Joseph
Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut, Kurt
Western Canada The Englishman’s Boy Vanderhaeghe, Guy
The Stone Diaries Shields, Carol
Who Has Seen the Wind Mitchell, W.O.
Wilderness The Beach Garland, Alex
The Call of the Wild London, Jack
The Deerslayer Cooper, James Fenimore
Enchanted Summer Roy, Gabrielle
How I Spent My Summer Holidays Mitchell, W.O.
Into the Wild Krakauer, Jon
Into Thin Air Krakauer, Jon
The Island Paulsen, Gary
The Jungle Book Kipling, Rudyard
Kamouraska Hébert, Anne
The Last of the Mohicans Cooper, James Fenimore
Lost in the Barrens Mowat, Farley
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My Antonia Cather, Willa
O Pioneers! Cather, Willa
The Pathfinder Cooper, James Fenimore
The Pioneers Cooper, James Fenimore
Walden Thoreau, Henry David
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