 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 (Spring 1993) - Racism, legal maneuverings and rural childhood, all in one novel.
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 | A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Buy used from: $0.01 (Spring 1994) - Coming of age against the backdrop of World War II.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy used from: $0.19 (Spring 1995) - A family's westward exodus, compelling and powerful.
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 | The Crucible (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $0.01 (Spring 1995) - Colonial witch hunts as allegory for McCarthyism.
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 | Animal Farm (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.05 (Fall 1995) - A "children's book" that is far superior to its "adult" equivalent, "1984."
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 | The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Penguin Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy used from: $0.01 (Fall 1995) - The best works from my favorite author.
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 | The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.00 (Fall 1996) - An outsider's view of a typical American childhood.
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 | Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $2.87 (Spring 1998) - A varied collection of modern short stories from China and Taiwan.
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 | The Rubáyát of Omar Khayyám : First and Fifth Editions (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edward FitzGerald
Buy used from: $0.01 (Fall 2000) - The ultimate in uplifting secular poetry.
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 | Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.94 (Fall 2000) - Another book that, while intended for children, is powerfully political and entertaining.
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 | The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.27 (Fall 2000) - As touching as it is stylish.
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 | Waiting: A Novel by Ha Jin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 (Spring 2001) - A moving love story that paints a compelling picture of Chinese life.
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