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1	To Kill a Mockingbird more books like this by Harper Lee TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is about the crisis of human behavior and conscience arising from the racism and prejudice that exist in the small Southern town during the Depression. Scout Finch, age 8, who lives with her brother, Jem, and their lawyer father, Atticus, in Maycomb, Alabama, tells the story of her father's defense of Tom Robinson, a young ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Grapes of wrath more books like this by John Steinbeck John Steinbeck lived and worked with a group of migrant workers in California, from whom he drew the material for his great Dust Bowl saga of a wandering Okie family, the Joads. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel awakened the American reading public to the plight of migrant workers and made Steinbeck famous worldwide. One of the most popular novels ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Catcher in the Rye more books like this by J D Salinger J. D. Salinger's famous and enduring chronicle of Holden Caulfield's journey from innocence to experience is the quintessential coming-of-age novel--though it's an unusual one, in which the hero tries to cling to the simplicity of childhood, achieving a kind of maturity almost in spite of himself. As the novel begins, Holden runs away from his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Catch-22 more books like this by Joseph L Heller Joseph Heller's manic, bleak, blackly humorous, and brilliant novel has become a classic of American literature, and "Catch-22" has entered the language as a term describing a no-win situation. Set during the last months of World War II, the novel tells the story of an Air Force bombardier, the hapless Yossarian, who is convinced--quite rightly, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Handmaid's Tale more books like this by Margaret Atwood In this futuristic fantasy, the Republic of Gilead--formerly the United States--is a fundamentalist regime that has reduced women to a state of servitude and suppressed all civil rights. The protagonist, a woman called Offred, becomes the Handmaid of the Commander, expected to bear him a child in exchange for her freedom. Old enough to remember ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Brave New World more books like this by Aldous Huxley A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness is assuaged through drugs and pornography. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.34! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Of Mice & Men more books like this by John Steinbeck Steinbeck tells the classic story of three days in the lives of two migrant workers, Lennie Small and George Milton. Lennie, a simple-minded giant who doesn't know his own strength, wants only to settle down with his friend on a small farm where he will be allowed to feed the animals. When he inadvertently kills first a puppy, then a woman--the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Gone with the wind more books like this by Margaret Mitchell Published in 1936, GONE WITH THE WIND sold 50,000 copies on its first day, and two million after a year. Even though it is 1,037 pages long, readers all over the world snatched up the book; by 1937 it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the movie rights had been sold to David O. Selznick. Mitchell prided herself on the historical accuracy of her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Joy Luck Club more books like this by Amy Tan When June's mother dies, she is invited to join a long-standing club of Chinese women who urge her not only to take her mother's place at the mah-jongg table, but also to carry the news of her mother's death to her step-sisters in China. Through the stories of the women and their daughters, the values of different generations are articulated. June ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.34! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Bluest Eye more books like this by Toni Morrison In this novel about the nature of black identity, narrated by Pecola's friend Claudia, we learn that Pecola was raped by her father, and is plagued with a desire to be white. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Farewell to Arms more books like this by Ernest Hemingway Hemingway's second full-length novel, published in 1929, calls on his own experiences during World War I, when he worked for the Red Cross in Italy, was wounded after only six weeks on duty, and recuperated in a hospital in Milan, where he had a romance with a nurse. The blend of fact and imagination in A FAREWELL TO ARMS, however, is artful; ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	East of Eden more books like this by John Steinbeck John Steinbeck's last significant work of fiction (1952), a huge family saga based on the book of Genesis, is set in the Salinas Valley of the author's youth. Beginning with the purchase of a parcel of rich California farmland by Samuel Hamilton, who comes from Ireland with his wife, EAST OF EDEN traces the turbulent lives of the Hamilton and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Mrs Dalloway more books like this by Woolf Influenced by Joyce's ULYSSES, Virginia Woolf's novel takes place within a 24-hour period and includes a stroll through the London streets that resembles Leopold Bloom's walk around Dublin. Woolf's narrative is structured out of the internal thoughts of characters Septimus Smith, the young, shell-shocked World War I veteran, and Clarissa Dalloway, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Heart of Darkness more books like this by Joseph Conrad Conrad's only spy novel, THE SECRET AGENT is set in the filthy and depraved city of London of the 1880s. Adolf Verloc, a bumbling police informer and the undercover agent for an unnamed European embassy, is recruited to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. Horrified and afraid, he fools his wife (who married him only so he would support her) into ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Sun Also Rises more books like this by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway's great post-World War I novel, his first major work and the classic novel of the "lost generation," is a vivid exploration of the moral wasteland of Europe in the Twenties, and of the sterility and despair of postwar life. His hero, Jake Barnes, has suffered a war injury that has left him impotent. Hopelessly in love with the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	For Whom the Bell Tolls more books like this by Ernest Hemingway In FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, published in 1940, Hemingway explores his own conflicting emotions about heroism, the futility of war, and the value of human life--a theme that is exemplified by the book's title, which is taken from the 17th-century poet John Donne's famous sermon that begins "No man is an island" and goes on to say one should not ask ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Separate Peace more books like this by John Knowles At a New England boarding school during World War II, a group of boys discover the depths of human nature among themselves, and the evil that even the most innocent is capable of. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Color Purple more books like this by Alice Walker Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	House on Mango Street more books like this by Sandra Cisneros In this novel about coming of age in Chicago, Esperanza Cordero grows up in its inner-city slums and resolves to transcend her background. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Invisible Man more books like this by Ralph Waldo Ellison Ellison's classic 1952 novel is about a black man from the South who travels to New York City in the 1930s. He becomes involved with the Communist Party, but is soon disillusioned: the Communists see him not as a person but as a symbol of oppressed humanity, as does the Black Nationalist Group he encounters. This inability of a blind and hostile ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest more books like this by Ken Kesey Published in 1962, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST can be seen as a battle between the conventions of mainstream society and the anarchy of the counterculture. As a satirical critique of repressive authority figures, it pointedly spoke to the concerns of the day. Found guilty of statutory rape, Randall Patrick McMurphy agrees to be committed to a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Pearl more books like this by John Steinbeck A diver stakes everything on finding a pearl that will bring wealth to his impoverished family in Steinbeck's 1947 novel. Although it didn't fare well with the critics, THE PEARL was a popular success. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	To the Lighthouse more books like this by Virginia Woolf In TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (1927) Virginia Woolf chooses a three-part structure and an elegiac, ode-like form to reveal the complexities of family politics. The autobiographical plot--which Woolf claimed finally "laid to rest" her conflicted feelings about her parents--begins in St. Ives, where Woolf's family, the Stephens, spent summers when she was a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.09! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Bean Trees more books like this by Barbara Kingsolver Taylor Greer, from rural Kentucky, buys a 1955 Volkswagen and drives west. Along the way, she picks up an abandoned 3-year-old Native American girl named Turtle, and by the time she pulls up at the Jesus Is Lord Used Tire Auto Repair Shop, Taylor is well on her way towards establishing an adventurous new life in the desert land of the Southwest. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Cold Sassy Tree more books like this by Olive Ann Burns Early in the 20th century, the town of Cold Sassy is scandalized when Will Tweedy's grandfather recklessly marries, just three weeks after the death of his wife, a young Yankee milliner named Miss Love. Olive Ann Burns's beloved novel is not only a poignant and comic coming-of-age story but a shrewd picture of an insular community gradually ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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