Coming of Age in Mississippi (autobiography) by Anne Moody
The Conquest by Oscar Micheaux
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Diary of Anne Frank
Dust Tracks on the Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Klone and I by Danielle Steel
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Mama by Terry McMillan
The Man She Thought She Knew by Shari Shattuck
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Night by Elie Wiesel
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Othello by William Shakespeare
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Rich Woman by Kim Kiyosaki
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Short Stories:
America and I by Anzia Yezierska
Armistice by Bernard Malamud
Brigid by Mary Lavin
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Charles by Shirley Jackson
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Everyday Use by Alice Walker
The Grandfather by Gary Soto
Hostage by Joyce Carol Oates
In the American Society by Gish Jen
Initiation by Sylvia Plath
Lalla by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Leap by Louise Erdrich
The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O'Connor
Love Must Not Be Forgotten by Zhang Jie
The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko
The Man Who Was Almost a Man by Richard Wright
Marriage Is a Private Affair by Chinua Achebe
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
No Witchcraft for Sale by Doris Lessing
The Opportunity by John Cheever
The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury
The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst
Seventeen Syllables by Hisaye Yamamoto
The Son from America by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Story-Teller by Saki (H.H. Munro)
Sweet Potato Pie by Eugenia Collier
Teenage Wasteland by Anne Tyler
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Thank You, M'am by Langston Hughes
Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Witness For the Prosecution by Agatha Christie
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality."
- - E.E. Cummings, American poet
Recommended Poets:
Julia Alvarez
James Baldwin
Anne Bradstreet
Gwendolyn Brooks
Sandra Cisneros
E.E. Cummings
Emily Dickinson
Rita Dove
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Robert Frost
Nikki Giovanni
Francis Ellen Watkins Harper
Robert Hayden
Garrett Hongo
Langston Hughes
Juan Ramon Jimenez
D.H. Lawrence
Pat Mora
Naomi Shihab Nye
Mary Oliver
Octavio Paz
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Carl Sandburg
William Shakespeare (sonnets)
Cathy Song
Phillis Wheatley
Walt Whitman
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Also:
The Official Agatha Christie Web site
Sherlockian.net
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