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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker
Paperback, 2003
Tags
American Literature, African American Literature, American South, 20th Century, Poverty, Women, African Americans, Racism, Domestic abuse, Historical fiction, Feminism
Series
The Color Purple Collection (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf
Paperback, 1989
Tags
English Literature, 20th Century, Stream of consciousness, Modernism
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
Non-Fiction, Evolution, Popular science, Science, Humor, Biology, Chemistry, Astronomy, Physics, History
Status
Available
Call number
500

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley
Paperback, 1969
Tags
Science Fiction, Dystopian, Totalitarianism, English Literature, 20th Century, Politics
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Outsider (Everyman's Library Classics)

by Albert Camus
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
French Literature, Philosophy, Country - France, Existentialism, Country - Algeria, 20th Century, Absurdism, Murder
Series
Cycle of the Absurd (1)
Status
Available
Call number
843.914

Beloved

by Toni Morrison
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Contemporary Fiction, Gothic, Southern gothic, Ghosts, Black American Literature, American Literature, Slavery, Historical fiction, Magical realism, 20th Century
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison
Paperback, 1995
Tags
American Literature, Black Americans, Black American Literature, 20th Century, Racism, Race, 20th Century - 1950s, USA - New York - New York City
Collection
Classics
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Great Gatsby

by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Paperback, 1993
Tags
20th Century - 1920s, Modernism, 20th Century, American Literature, USA - New York, Jazz age, American Dream, Romance
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner
Paperback, 1990
Tags
American Literature, Southern gothic, American South, 20th Century, Modernism, USA - Mississippi, Stream of consciousness
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Disgrace

by J. M. Coetzee
Paperback, 2000
Tags
African Literature, Apartheid, Country - South Africa, Contemporary Fiction, 20th Century, Rape, Violence, Crime, South African Literature
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
Non-Fiction, Survival stories, Mountains, Adventure, Mountaineering, Country - Nepal, Memoir, Disasters, Nature
Status
Available
Call number
796.522092

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

by Dee Brown
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Non-Fiction, American history, Native Americans, American West, 19th Century, Indian Wars, Wounded Knee
Status
Available
Call number
978.00497

The Joy Luck Club: A Novel

by Amy Tan
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Chinese Americans, Families, Immigrants, Historical fiction, Women, 20th Century, Asian Americans, Games, Country - China
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

White Noise

by Don DeLillo
Paperback, 2009
Tags
American Literature, Postmodernism, Consumerism, 20th Century, Death, Satire, Families
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois
Paperback, 2016
Tags
American Literature, Black American Literature, Black studies, Black Americans, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Race, Race relations, Essays, Sociology, Racism — 4 more, Civil rights, American history, 20th Century, Politics
Status
Available
Call number
973.0496073

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

by Maxine Hong Kingston
Paperback, 1989
Tags
American Literature, Asian Americans, Asian American Literature, Chinese Americans, Memoir, Immigrants, Feminism, 20th Century
Status
Available
Call number
979.4053092

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Latino Literature, Latin American Literature, Latin America, Magical realism, Colombian Literature, Country - Colombia, Family, 20th Century
Status
Available
Call number
863.64

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin
Paperback, 2016
Tags
American Literature, Founding Fathers, Autobiography, American history, Memoir, Non-Fiction, 18th Century, American Revolution, Politics
Status
Available
Call number
973.3092

Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Paperback, 1984
Tags
Russian Literature, 19th Century, Crime, Murder, Psychology, Country - Russia, Existentialism
Status
Available
Call number
891.733

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Latino Literature, Magical realism, Latin America, Country - Colombia, 20th Century, Colombian Literature, Romance, South America
Status
Available
Call number
863

The Scarlet Pimpernel (Modern Library Classics)

by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Paperback, 2002
Tags
English Literature, Country - France, French Revolution, Romance, Historical fiction, Adventure, 18th Century
Series
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1), The Scarlet Pimpernel, French Publication Order (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

To Say Nothing of the Dog (Thorndike Mini-Collections)

by Connie Willis
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Science Fiction, Time travel, Historical fiction, Series - Oxford Time Travel, Victorian England, World War II, Alternative history, Humor, Mystery
Series
Oxford Time Travel (2)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza

by Gloria Anzaldúa
Paperback, 2012
Tags
American Literature, Feminism, Sociology, Queer Literature, Women, Race, Country - Mexico, Latino Literature, Immigration, Memoir, Poetry — 5 more, Sexuality, Homosexuality, Gender studies, Chicana studies, Cultural studies
Status
Available
Call number
811.54

Regeneration

by Pat Barker
Paperback, 2004
Tags
World War I, 20th Century, English Literature, War, Historical fiction, Historical figures, Shell shock, Mental institutions, Psychology, Mental illness
Series
Regeneration (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut
Paperback, 1991
Tags
American Literature, 20th Century, Science Fiction, World War II, Satire, Time travel, Country - Germany - Dresden, Historical fiction, Humor
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet)

by Orson Scott Card
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Science Fiction, Space travel, Space, Aliens, Coming of age, Military, War, Young Adult
Series
Ender Saga (1), Ender's Game (1), Enderverse (8)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho
Paperback, 1993
Tags
Contemporary Fiction, Magical realism, Fables, Fantasy, Inspirational, Philosophy, Country - Spain, Country - Egypt, Dreams, Allegory, Alchemy — 5 more, Adventure, Spirituality, Gypsies, Brazilian Literature, Travel
Status
Available
Call number
869.342

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Canadian Literature, Dystopian, Religion, Feminism, Post-apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Women
Series
The Handmaid's Tale (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

by Mohsin Hamid
Paperback, 2008
Tags
Contemporary Fiction, September 11th, Middle East, Country - Pakistan, Fundamentalism, Islam, Terrorism, Fiction, Unreliable narrator, 21st Century, Immigrants — 4 more, Pakistani Literature, Religion, English Literature, United States
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding
Paperback, 2003
Tags
Dystopian, Young Adult, Children, Allegory, Coming of age, Survival stories, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Adventure, English Literature
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger
Paperback, 2001
Tags
Young Adult, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, American Literature, Adolescence, Coming of age, 20th Century, USA - New York - New York City, Bildungsroman
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe
Paperback, 1994
Tags
African Literature, Country - Nigeria, Colonialism, Historical fiction, Postcolonialism, 20th Century, Religion, Missionaries
Series
African Trilogy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823

I, ROBOT

by Isaac Asimov
Paperback, 1970
Tags
Science Fiction, Robots, Short stories, 20th Century, American Literature, Artificial intelligence
Series
Asimov's Universe (1), Foundation Expanded Universe (1), Isaac Asimov's Robot Series (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Ready Player One: A Novel

by Ernest Cline
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Science Fiction, Video games, Dystopian, 20th Century - 1980s, Pop culture, Virtual reality, Adventure
Collection
Book of the Month
Series
Ready Player One (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
Science Fiction, Video games, Dystopian, 20th Century - 1980s, Pop culture, Virtual reality, Adventure
Series
Ready Player One (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Fifth Season

by N. K. Jemisin
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Fantasy, Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Magic
Series
The Broken Earth (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Historical fiction, Country - Germany, World War II, French Resistance, Blindness, Country - France, Coming of age
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

by Min Jin Lee
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Families, Historical fiction, Immigrants, Country - Japan, Country - Korea, Saga, Racism
Collection
Book of the Month
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Abandonment, Coming of age, Historical fiction, Loneliness, Murder, Mystery, USA - North Carolina, Wetlands and marshes, Nature
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Racism, Race, Black studies, Non-Fiction, Social history, Social justice, Sociology, African Americans, Black Americans, Anti-racism, Race relations — 1 more, White privilege
Status
Available
Call number
305.800973

Interior Chinatown: A Novel

by Charles Yu
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Chinese Americans, Asian Americans, Immigrants, Racism, Actors, Identity, USA - California
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

by Michelle Zauner
Hardcover, 2021
Collection
Book of the Month
Status
Available
Call number
782.42166092

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson
Hardcover, 2020
Collection
Book of the Month
Status
Available
Call number
305.5

Klara and the Sun: A novel

by Kazuo Ishiguro
Hardcover, 2021
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Harlem Shuffle: A Novel

by Colson Whitehead
Hardcover, 2021
Series
Harlem Saga (1), Ray Carney (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54
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