No Fear Literature
The original text of classic works side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation. No Fear Literature is available online and in book form at barnesandnoble.com.
- Beowulf
- The Canterbury Tales
- Heart of Darkness
- The Scarlet Letter
- A Tale of Two Cities
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Study Guides
Thorough summaries and insightful critical analyses of classic and contemporary literature. Our most popular guides include quick quizzes, so you can test your retention before the test.
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Achebe, Chinua
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Adams, Douglas
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Adams, Richard
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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
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Aeschylus
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Agee, James
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Ahmed, Leila
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Aidoo, Ama Ata
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Albee, Edward
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Albom, Mitch
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Alcott, Louisa May
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Alexander, Michelle
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Alexie, Sherman
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Alighieri, Dante
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Allende, Isabel
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Alvarez, Julia
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Amis, Kingsley
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Anaya, Rudolfo A.
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Anderson, Laurie Halse
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Anderson, Sherwood
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Angelou, Maya
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Anonymous
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Anouilh, Jean
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Aristophanes
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Armstrong, William
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Asher, Jay
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Atwood, Margaret
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Austen, Jane
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Babbitt, Natalie
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Baldwin, James
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Barker, Pat
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Baum, L. Frank
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Beah, Ismael
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Beals, Melba Patillo
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Beauvoir, Simone de
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Beckett, Samuel
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Bellamy, Edward
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Bellow, Saul
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Bennett, Brit
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Bennett, Judith
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Bierce, Ambrose
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Blume, Judy
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Bois, W.E.B. Du
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Bolt, Robert
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Boom, Corrie ten
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Borland, Hal
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Boyne, John
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Bradbury, Ray
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Brashares, Ann
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Brecht, Bertolt
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Brontë, Charlotte
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Brontë, Emily
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Brown, Dan
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Brown, Rita Mae
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Buck, Pearl S.
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Bunyan, John
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Burgess, Anthony
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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Burns, Olive Anne
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Butler, Octavia
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Camus, Albert
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Capote, Truman
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Card, Orson Scott
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Carroll, Lewis
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Carver, Raymond
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Cass, Kiera
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Cather, Willa
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Cervantes, Miguel de
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Chandler, Raymond
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Chbosky, Stephen
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Cheever, John
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Chekhov, Anton
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Chopin, Kate
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Christie, Agatha
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Churchill, Caryl
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Cisneros, Sandra
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Clarke, Arthur C.
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Cline, Ernest
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Coates, Ta-Nehisi
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Coelho, Paulo
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Collier, Christopher & James Lincoln Collier
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Collins, Suzanne
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Collins, Wilkie
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Connell, Richard
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Conrad, Joseph
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Cooper, James Fenimore
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Cormier, Robert
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Cortázar, Julio
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Courtenay, Bryce
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Crane, Stephen
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Creech, Sharon
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Crichton, Michael
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Cunningham, Michael
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Curtis, Christopher Paul
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Dahl, Roald
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Dangarembga, Tsitsi
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Danticat, Edwidge
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Dashner, James
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Robin DiAngelo
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DeLillo, Don
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Defoe, Daniel
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Diamant, Anita
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Díaz, Junot
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Dick, Philip K.
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Dickens, Charles
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Didion, Joan
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Dinesen, Isak
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Doctorow, E. L.
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Doerr, Anthony
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Dorris, Michael
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor
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Douglass, Frederick
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Doyle, Arthur Conan
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Draper, Sharon M.
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Dreiser, Theodore
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Dumas, Alexandre
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DuPrau, Jeanne
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Eisenberg, Deborah
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Eliot, George
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Ellison, Ralph
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Emecheta, Buchi
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Erauso, Catalina de
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Erdrich, Louise
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Esquivel, Laura
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Eugenides, Jeffrey
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Euripides
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Faulkner, William
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Fielding, Henry
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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Flaubert, Gustave
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foer, jonathan safra
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Forbes, Esther
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Ford, Ford Madox
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Forster, E. M.
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Forster, E.M.
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Frank, Anne
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Frank, Pat
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Franklin, Benjamin
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Frazier, Charles
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Frey, James
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Gaarder, Jostein
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Gaiman, Neil
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Gaines, Ernest J.
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Gardner, John
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Genet, Jean
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Gibbons, Kaye
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
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Ginzburg, Eugenia
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Ginzburg, Eugenia
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Gladwell, Malcolm
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Golding, William
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Goldman, William
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Gratz, Alan
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Green, John
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Greenberg, Joanne
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Greene, Brian
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Greene, Graham
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Griffin, John Howard
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Guest, Judith
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Gunther, John
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Guterson, David
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Haddon, Mark
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Haley, Alex & Malcolm X
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Hamid, Mohsin
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Hamilton, Edith
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Hansberry, Lorraine
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Hardy, Thomas
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Harper, Frances
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Hayslip, Le Ly
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Hearth, Delany, Delany,
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Heinlein, Robert A.
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Heller, Joseph
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Hemingway, Ernest
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Herbert, Frank
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Hersey, John
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Hesse, Hermann
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Hinton, S. E.
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Homer
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Hosseini, Khaled
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Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
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Hugo, Victor
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Hunt, Irene
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Hurston, Zora Neale
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Huxley, Aldous
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Ibsen, Henrik
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Ionesco, Eugène
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Irving, John
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Ishiguro, Kazuo
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Jackson, Shirley
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Jacobs, Harriet
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Jacobs, W. W.
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James, Henry
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Jesus, Carolina Maria de
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Jonson, Ben
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Joyce, James
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Juster, Norton
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Kafka, Franz
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Kamkwamba, Willium
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Kaysen, Susanna
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Kempe, Margery
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Kennedy, William
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Kerouac, Jack
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Kesey, Ken
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Keyes, Daniel
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Kidd, Sue Monk
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Kincaid, Jamaica
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King, Stephen
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Kingsolver, Barbara
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Kingston, Maxine Hong
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Kinney, Jeff
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Klein, Gerda Weissmann
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Knowles, John
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Kogawa, Joy
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Krakauer, Jon
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Kundera, Milan
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Kushner, Tony
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Kyd, Thomas
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L'Engle, Madeleine
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Laclos, Pierre Ambroise
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Lahiri, Jhumpa
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Lamott, Anne
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Larsen, Nella
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Larsson, Stieg
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Larsson, Stieg
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Lawrence, D.H.
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Lee, Chang-rae
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Lee, Harper
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Lee, Robert E. & Jerome Lawrence
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Lewis, C. S.
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Lewis, Sinclair
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Lipsyte, Robert
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Lockhart, E.
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London, Jack
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Lowry, Lois
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Machiavelli, Niccolò
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Mafi, Tahereh
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Magawese, Richard
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Malamud, Bernard
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Mamet, David
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Mandel, Emily St. John
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Mann, Thomas
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Markandaya, Kamala
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Marlowe, Christopher
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Márquez, Gabriel García
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Martel, Yann
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Martin, George R. R.
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Mason, Bobbie Ann
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Maupassant, Guy de
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Maurier, Daphne du
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McBride, James
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McCarthy, Cormac
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McCourt, Frank
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McCullers, Carson
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McManus, Karen M.
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Melville, Herman
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Menchu, Rigoberta
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Meyer, Stephanie
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Miller, Arthur
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Miller, Madeline
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Milton, John
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Mitchell, Margaret
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Molière
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Momaday, N. Scott
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Montgomery, L. M.
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Moody, Anne
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Moore, Alan
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Moore, Wes
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Morrison, Toni
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Mortenson, Greg & David Oliver Relin
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Murakami, Haruki
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Murdoch, Iris
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Myers, Walter Dean
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Nabokov, Vladimir
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V.S. Naipaul
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Naylor, Gloria
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Ng, Celeste
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Niven, Jennifer
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Noah, Trevor
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Novik, Naomi
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Oates, Joyce Carol
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Obama, Michelle
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O’Brien, Tim
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O’Connor, Flannery
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O’Dell, Scott
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Olsen, Tillie
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Ondaatje, Michael
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O’Neill, Eugene
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Orange, Tommy
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Orwell, George
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Otsuka, Julie
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Owens, Delia
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Paine, Thomas
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Palacio, R.J.
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Park, Linda Sue
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Pasternak, Boris
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Patchett, Ann
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Paterson, Katherine
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Paton, Alan
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Paulsen, Gary
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Peck, Robert Newton
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Philbrick, Rodman
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Picoult, Jodi
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Pinter, Harold
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Pirandello, Luigi
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Pizan, Christine de
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Plath, Sylvia
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Plato
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Poe, Edgar Allan
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Porter, Katherine Ann
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Potok, Chaim
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Prejean, Sister Helen
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Priestley, J. B.
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Proulx, E. Annie
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Proust, Marcel
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Pullman, Philip
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Pynchon, Thomas
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Julia Quinn
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Rand, Ayn
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Raskin, Ellen
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Rawls, Wilson
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Remarque, Erich Maria
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Renault, Mary
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Reynolds, Jason
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Rhys, Jean
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Richardson, Samuel
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Richter, Conrad
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Riordan, Rick
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Rifaat, Alifa
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Roberts, Nora
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Rooney, Sally
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Rostand, Edmond
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Roth, Philip
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Roth, Veronica
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Rowell, Rainbow
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Rowlandson, Mary
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Rowling, J. K.
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Rushdie, Salman
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Rölvaag, O. E.
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Ryan, Pam Muñoz
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Saadawi, Nawal El
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Sachar, Louis
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Saedi, Sara
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Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
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Salinger, J. D.
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Sartre, Jean-Paul
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Satrapi, Marjane
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Schaefer, Jack
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Scott, Sir Walter
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Shaara, Michael
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Shakespeare, William
- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VIII
- Henry VI Part 1
- Henry VI Part 2
- Henry VI Part 3
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labours Lost
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Winter's Tale
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Shaw, George Bernard
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Shelley, Mary
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Shepard, Sam
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Shetterly, Margot Lee
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Shostak, Marjorie
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Shute, Nevil
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Silko, Leslie Marmon
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Sinclair, Upton
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Skinner, B. F.
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Skloot, Rebecca
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Slater, Dashka
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Smith, Betty
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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
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Sophocles
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Art Spiegelman
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Spinelli, Jerry
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Spinelli, Jerry
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Staples, Suzanne Fisher
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Steinbeck, John
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Stendhal
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Stevenson, Bryan
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Sterne, Laurence
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Stoker, Bram
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Stone, Nic
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Stoppard, Tom
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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Strindberg, August
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Styron, William
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Swarthout, Glendon
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Swift, Jonathan
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Tan, Amy
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Taylor, Mildred D.
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Thomas, Angie
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Thoreau, Henry David
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Thunberg, Greta
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Tolkien, J. R. R.
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Tolstoy, Leo
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Towles, Amor
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Trumbo, Dalton
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Twain, Mark
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Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
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Updike, John
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Walker, Alice
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Walls, Jeannette
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Warren, Robert Penn
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Waugh, Evelyn
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Wells, H. G.
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Welty, Eudora
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West, Nathanael
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Westover, Tara
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Wharton, Edith
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White, E.B.
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White, T. H.
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Whitehead, Colson
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Wiesel, Elie
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Wilde, Oscar
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Wilder, Thornton
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Williams, Tennessee
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Wilson, August
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Winterson, Jeanette
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Woolf, Virginia
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Woolff, Tobias
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Wouk, Herman
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Wright, Richard
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Yezierska, Anzia
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Yoon, Nicola
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Yousafzai, Malala
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Zusak, Marcus