The Big Read: September 2008-June 2009
The Big Read Library
A collection of poems and short fiction by Edgar Allan Poe*
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Our Town by Thornton Wilder*
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich*
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Old School by Tobias Wolff
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien*
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Washington Square by Henry James
*These titles will be available for the 2009-2010 grant cycle.
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