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62) Treasure Island
67) Charlotte's web
68) My Antonia
69) The outsiders
70) Atlas shrugged
Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why...
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.
75) Tortilla flat
Set in Monterey, California, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, and Sweet Thursday, have become classic fare for both students and aficionados of American literature. Inspired by Arthurian legend, Tortilla Flat became popular in its own time as an escape from the daily grind of the Great Depression. Danny and his friends are paisanos, people of mixed breed who claim pure Spanish descent, live by their own rules, and decline
...76) Animal farm
77) The long valley
The fiction of John Steinbeck has amassed generations of admirers since first making its mark on the literary landscape in the mid-20th century. The Long Valley is a collection of 12 short stories set in the author's birthplace of Salinas Valley, California. A must-read for Steinbeck fans and for all lovers of American literature, the collection includes "The Murder," "The Chrysanthemums," "The Vigilante," and the classic Red Pony tales.
...78) Catch-22
Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original.
It is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands
...79) Of mice and men
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.
Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence....
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