Joan Aiken

LADY CATHERINE'S NECKLACE, 2000, 172 pp.
Takes up the story of Pride and Prejudice where Jane Austen left off; Lady Catherine is involved in a series of upsetting events, beginning with a blizzard that strands her at a country estate.

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Morley Callaghan

MORE JOY IN HEAVEN, 1937, 190 pp.
A bank-robber receives early parole and is welcomed back into society with open arms, but he soon begins to doubt the motivation of those around him.

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Albert Camus

THE STRANGER, 1942, 160 pp.
Who is Meursault, why has he killed a man he hardly knows, and why doesn't he seem to care? Is life absurd, or is it just us?

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Truman Capote

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, 1950, 105 pp.
Meet Holly Golightly, a young woman making her way in New York City in the 1940s.

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Michael Chabon

THE FINAL SOLUTION: A STORY OF DETECTION, 2004, 131 pp.
Sussex, England, 1944 – an “old man” becomes involved in the mystery of a young Jewish refugee and his talking parrot.

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Joseph Conrad

HEART OF DARKNESS, 1902, 83 pp.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Marlow knows: his journey up the Congo river in search of the exceptional Mister Kurtz inspired the film 'Apocalypse Now.'

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Tahar Djaout

THE LAST SUMMER OF REASON, 2001, 145 pp.
A bookseller fights totalitarianism in a country being taken over by conservative forces.

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Fannie Flagg

REDBIRD CHRISTMAS, 2004, 176 pp.
Dreading another winter in Chicago, an elderly man moves to Alabama and triggers events that transform a town in this heart-warming tale.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD, 1983, 120 pp.
Latin American story of a fantastic wedding and the resulting social turmoil

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Ernest Hemingway

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, 1952, 140 pp.
Honorable battle between man and fish in this classic of plain-spoken fiction.

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Hermann Hesse

SIDDHARTA, 1951, 122 pp.
Fictional depiction of the life and growing awareness of a Buddha-like figure.

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Andrew Holleran

GRIEF, 2006, 150 pp.
A sensitive, thoughtful depiction of a lonely professor coming to terms with grief by reading the letters of Mary Todd Lincoln.

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Helen Humphreys

THE LOST GARDEN, 2002, 183 pp.
A coming-of-age story of a young woman who volunteers for the Women’s Land Army during WWII, and falls in love with a Canadian soldier.

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Franz Kafka

THE METAMORPHOSIS, 1946, 98 pp.
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." So begins the creepiest philosohical classic ever written.

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Naguib Mahfouz

ADRIFT ON THE NILE, 1966, 167 pp.
The emptiness of secular Cairo is depicted in this novel of society, circa 1966.

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Thomas Mann

DEATH IN VENICE, 1928, 71 pp.
How far will a man go in his quest for perfection, and his silent struggle with forbidden desire?

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Colleen McCullough

THE LADIES OF MISSALONGHI, 1987, 189 pp.
Describes the transformation of a drab Australian spinster

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Toni Morrison

SULA, 2004, 174 pp.
A friendship between childhood pals is threatened when one of them leaves the neighbourhood.

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Gloria Naylor

THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE, 1982, 192 pp.
7 women living in a ghetto evoke the energy, brutality and compassion of urban America.

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George Orwell

ANIMAL FARM, 1945, 113 pp.
George Orwell ANIMAL FARM, 113 pp. Rebellious livestock abolish the dominion of their two-legged masters, only to find that "All Animals Are Equal, but Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others."

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C. S. Richardson

THE END OF THE ALPHABET, 2007, 139 pp.
When Ambrose Zephyr is told he has one month left to live, he spends it in a whirlwind of visits to countries around the world. His wife spends it trying to adjust to the idea of life without Zephyr.

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Carol Shields

SMALL CEREMONIES, 1996, 181 pp.
The life of a seemingly ordinary Canadian is shaken by an unexpected plot twist.

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John Steinbeck

OF MICE AND MEN, 1938, 186 pp.
Friendship, loneliness, loss and hope as two unlikely friends come together in Depression-era America.

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John Steinbeck

THE RED PONY, 1945, 131 pp.
A boy’s journey to manhood after his father gives him a pony to care for.

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Ngugi wa Thiongo

WEEP NOT CHILD, 1964, 184 pp.
A young Kenyan boy comes of age during the Mau Mau rebellion

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Leo Tolstoy

THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH, 1960, 60 pp.
Leo Tolstoy We're all going to die, but who of us is ready? Ivan Ilych most certainly is not. Find out what he learns on this once-in-a-lifetime journey.

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Yvonne Vera

THE STONE VIRGINS, 2003, 184 pp.
Two sisters struggle during civil unrest in Zimbabwe in the 1980s.

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H. G. Wells

THE TIME MACHINE, 1895, 115 pp.
A Victorian scientist visits the future in a time-travel device.

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Thornton Wilder

THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, 1927, 148 pp.
Examines the theological meaning of a fatal bridge collapse in 18th Peru

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John Wyndham

DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, 1951, 191 pp.
A grotesque and homicidal form of plant life terrorizes humanity.

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