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George Orwell
Jules Verne
Arthur C. Clarke
Rick Yancey
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Tess Oliver
John Updike
William Faulkner
Sherman Alexie
John Green
Irene Hunt
George Eliot
Saul Bellow
Mark Twain
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mark Twain
Virgil
Aeschylus
Edith Wharton
J.M. Coetzee
Kenneth Oppel
Gennifer Choldenko
Tamora Pierce
Pat Frank
Ben Jonson
Paulo Coelho
James Patterson and Richard DiLallo
Judith Viorst
Lewis Carroll
Arthur Miller
Erich Maria Remarque
Jennifer Niven
Robert Penn Warren
Cormac McCarthy
William Shakespeare
Donna Jo Napoli
Henry James
Gene Luen Yang
Norman Mailer
Philip Roth
Henry James
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Agatha Christie
Andersen, Hans Christian
James Patterson
Frank McCourt
Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner
Louise Rennison
Barbara Kingsolver
George Orwell
Leo Tolstoy
L.M. Montgomery
Jamaica Kincaid
Ayn Rand
Sophocles
William Shakespeare
Tom Stoppard
Judy Blume
Jules Verne
Chinua Achebe
Sinclair Lewis
Eoin Colfer
William Faulkner
William Shakespeare
Bernard Malamud
M.T. Anderson
Ayn Rand
Benjamin Franklin
Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Walter Dean Myers
Kate Chopin
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Roald Dahl
Harry Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Euripides
Lemony Snicket
Eugene Ionesco
Carson McCullers
William Faulkner
Herman Melville
Dorothy Allison
Barbara Kingsolver
Libba Bray
Kate DiCamillo
Ann Patchett
Sylvia Plath
Ruth White
Toni Morrison
Herman Melville
Unknown
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Walter D. Edmonds
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Raymond Chandler
Jack Kerouac
Ernest Hemingway
Herman Melville
Anne Lamott
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anna Sewell
Richard Wright
Edgar Allan Poe
John Howard Griffin
Iris Murdoch
Charles Dickens
Rudolfo Anaya
Cormac McCarthy
Toni Morrison
Carol Plum-Ucci
Steve Sheinkin
Markus Zusak
Milan Kundera
Margery Kempe
Christine de Pizan
Michael Cadnum
Leila Ahmed
Mary Norton
Gertrude Chandler Warner
David Levithan
Aldous Huxley
Deborah Ellis
Ann Rinaldi
Truman Capote
Eugene Yelchin
Edwidge Danticat
Jane Yolen
Evelyn Waugh
Katherine Paterson
Annie Proulx
Nikki Grimes
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Christopher Paul Curtis
Francine Prose
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Jack London
Voltaire
John Steinbeck
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Edgar Allan Poe
Ernest Hemingway
Tennessee Williams
Kurt Vonnegut
Joseph Heller
J. D. Salinger
Raymond Carver
Theodore Taylor
Mark Twain
Leslie Marmon Silko
Laurie Halse Anderson
Eugene Ionesco
Roald Dahl
E. B. White
Anton Chekhov
Arthur C. Clarke
Franny Billingsley
Robert Cormier
Carl Hiaasen
Chaim Potok
Charles Dickens
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
John Steinbeck
Dave Eggers
Francisco Jiménez
Jeanne DuPrau
Samuel Richardson
Ernest Hemingway
Anthony Burgess
Caryl Churchill
Aristophanes
Elizabeth Wein
Chester Nez with Judith Schiess Avila
Charles Frazier
Alice Walker
William Shakespeare
Thomas Paine
Karl Marx
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Saint Augustine
Herman Melville
Mark Twain
O. Henry
Neil Gaiman
Don Freeman
William Shakespeare
Alexandre Dumas
Ellen Hopkins
Jerry Spinelli
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Avi
Arthur Miller
Alan Paton
Thomas Pynchon
Mary Stewart
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edmond Rostand
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Henry James
Han Nolan
Ray Bradbury
Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos
George Eliot
Laura McNeal
Susan Cooper
Karl Marx
Charles Dickens
Robert Newton Peck
J.D. Salinger
Jack Gantos
Sister Helen Prejean
Beverly Cleary
Willa Cather
Wole Soyinka
Thomas Mann
Sherwood Anderson
Leo Tolstoy
Arthur Miller
Giovanni Boccaccio
Sarah Rees Brennan
Erik Larson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Anne Frank
Nikolai Gogol
Cynthia Voigt
J.M. Coetzee
Flannery O'Connor
E. Lockhart
Christopher Marlowe
Boris Pasternak
Holly Black
Henrik Ibsen
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robert Louis Stevenson
Bram Stoker
Laurence Yep
Cristina García
William Faulkner
James Joyce
John Webster
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Nancy Farmer
Carolyn Mackler
John Steinbeck
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Rainbow Rowell
Sophocles
Sandra Cisneros
Gail Carson Levine
Jane Austen
Samuel Beckett
Henrik Ibsen
David Hume
Heather Dixon
Pam Muñoz Ryan
Edith Wharton
Aeschylus
Brodi Ashton
Alice Walker
Flannery O'Connor
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Brandon Mull
Edmund Spenser
Ray Bradbury
Edgar Allan Poe
Albert Camus
Walter Dean Myers
Jessica Sorensen
Rainbow Rowell
Thomas Hardy
Ernest Hemingway
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
Ivan Turgenev
John Green
Jacqueline Woodson
M.T. Anderson
J.R.R. Tolkien
Joanna Russ
August Wilson
Laurie Halse Anderson
Angela Johnson
Jean-Paul Sartre
Wendelin Van Draanen
Kate DiCamillo
Daniel Keyes
Sam Shepard
J.D. Salinger
Ernest Hemingway
Adam Bagdasarian
Isaac Asimov
Ayn Rand
Mary Shelley
J.D. Salinger
Rodman Philbrick
Chris Lynch
Jules Verne
E.L. Konigsburg
Asher, Jay and Mackler, Carolyn
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Jorge Luis Borges
Ernest J. Gaines
Henrik Ibsen
Ole Edvard Rölvaag
O. Henry
Zora Neale Hurston
Marilynne Robinson
Sinleqqiunninni
James Baldwin
Jamaica Kincaid
Lois Lowry
Shel Silverstein
Tennessee Williams
David Mamet
Anonymous, edited by Beatrice Sparks
William Faulkner
Harper Lee
James Baldwin
Arundhati Roy
Pete Hautman
Libba Bray
Philip Pullman
Flannery O'Connor
Pearl S. Buck
Flannery O'Connor
Philip Roth
Shannon Hale
Kristin Cashore
John Steinbeck
Neil Gaiman
John D. Fitzgerald
Charles Dickens
F. Scott Fitzgerald
M. H. Herlong
Libba Bray
John Gardner
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Jonathan Swift
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William Shakespeare
Margaret Atwood
Gabriel García Márquez
Samuel Beckett
Ellen Wittlinger
Charles Dickens
Kurt Vonnegut
Gary Paulsen
Shirley Jackson
Carson McCullers
Joseph Conrad
Margi Preus
Henrik Ibsen
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Dorothy Parker
Joseph Campbell
Saul Bellow
Ernest Hemingway
John Hersey
Lish McBride
Louis Sachar
Dave Eggers
Cynthia Voigt
Gloria Whelan
Carl Hiaasen
Joan Bauer
Jamie Ford
Arthur Conan Doyle
Clarice Lispector
Michael Cunningham
Virginia Hamilton
Edith Wharton
Nancy Farmer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Isabel Allende
Sandra Cisneros
Meg Rosoff
Julia Alvarez
E.M. Forster
Diana Wynne Jones
Victor Hugo
Franz Kafka
Becca Fitzpatrick
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Robert Cormier
Markus Zusak
Maya Angelou
Joanne Greenberg (originally published under the pseudonym Hannah Green)
Tillie Olsen
Jandy Nelson
Isaac Asimov
Eugene O’Neill
Oscar Wilde
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Carole Geithner
Italo Calvino
Homer
Rebecca Skloot
Oscar Wilde
Truman Capote
Nick Lake
John Steinbeck
Franz Kafka
Alvarez, Julia
Bette Bao Lord
Harriet Jacobs
Ernest Hemingway
Dante Alighieri
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Cornelia Funke
Thanhha Lai
Sigmund Freud
Jhumpa Lahiri
Brian Selznick
H.G. Wells
Ralph Ellison
H. G. Wells
Scott O'Dell
Sir Walter Scott
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Katherine Paterson
Charlotte Brontë
Toni Morrison
Melina Marchetta
Christopher Marlowe
Katherine Anne Porter
Dalton Trumbo
Esther Forbes
Henry Fielding
Amy Tan
Buchi Emecheta
Thomas Hardy
Jean Craighead George
William Shakespeare
Rita Williams-Garcia
Upton Sinclair
Sarah Dessen
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Mark Mathabane
Virginia Woolf
Robert Louis Stevenson
Michael Shaara
Ernest Hemingway
Rudyard Kipling
Octavia Estelle Butler
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Ralph Ellison
Patrick Ness
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D.H. Lawrence
Anton Chekhov
James Fenimore Cooper
Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Washington Irving
Marie Lu
Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Victor Hugo
Ernest J. Gaines
Scott Westerfeld
Aeschylus
Jorge Luis Borges
Edgar Allan Poe
William Faulkner
Laura Esquivel
C.S. Lewis
Laini Taylor
Cory Doctorow
Charles Dickens
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Louisa May Alcott
Walter Dean Myers
Vladimir Nabokov
Eugene O'Neill
Richard Peck
Ishmael Beah
John Green
Joseph Conrad
William Golding
Shirley Jackson
Louise Erdrich
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
William Shakespeare
Kingsley Amis
Jamaica Kincaid
Eleanor Catton
Julie Anne Peters
Aristophanes
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Virginia Hamilton
Edgar Allan Poe
William Shakespeare
Gustave Flaubert
Stephen Crane
Bernard Malamud
Harry Sinclair Lewis
George Bernard Shaw
Dashiell Hammett
Richard Wright
Philip K. Dick
Alexandre Dumas
Wendy Mass
Jerry Spinelli
Jane Austen
Francisco X. Stork
Joyce Carol Thomas
P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Ray Bradbury
Edgar Allan Poe
Athol Fugard
Ally Condie
Roald Dahl
Art Spiegelman
Thomas Hardy
William Shakespeare
Euripides
Marcus Aurelius
William Shakespeare
Alice Walker
William Shakespeare
Ovid
Franz Kafka
James Patterson & Chris Tebbetts
George Eliot
Salman Rushdie
William Shakespeare
Marcus Sedgwick
George Eliot
Molière
Molière
Cynthia Rylant
Herman Melville
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
W.W. Jacobs
Patrick Ness
Walter Dean Myers
Rick Yancey
Clare Vanderpool
Robert Heinlein
Wilkie Collins
Theodore Hamilton Sturgeon
Sir Thomas Malory
Richard Connell
Bertolt Brecht
Kurt Vonnegut
Helena Maria Viramontes
Eugene O'Neill
Virginia Woolf
Robert C. O'Brien
William Shakespeare
Agatha Christie
Edgar Allan Poe
James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Garret Freymann-Weyr
Gary Paulsen
Chaim Potok
Willa Cather
Ann Radcliffe
Trenton Lee Stewart
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Frederick Douglass
Richard Wright
Bernard Malamud
Jean-Paul Sartre
Guy de Maupassant
Kamala Markandaya
Aristotle
Elie Wiesel
Jean-Paul Sartre
Chinua Achebe
Elizabeth Gaskell
Jane Austen
Jennifer Donnelly
Nikolai Gogol
Joseph Conrad
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Janne Teller
Lois Lowry
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Willa Cather
Joy Kogawa
Ambrose Bierce
D.H. Lawrence
Homer
Sophocles
Sophocles
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Dickens
Derek Walcott
Jack Kerouac
T.H. White
Amy Timberlake
Rita Williams-Garcia
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ken Kesey
Gabriel García Márquez
Judith Clarke
Katherine Applegate
Stephen Crane
Paul Griffin
Virginia Woolf
William Shakespeare
Truman Capote
Charles Dickens
Thornton Wilder
Isak Dinesen
Karen Hesse
S.E. Hinton
Nikolai Gogol
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Samuel Richardson
Vince Vawter
Octavia E. Butler
John Milton
Dante Alighieri
Victor Martinez
E.M. Forster
Alice Munro
Willa Cather
John Steinbeck
Juan Rulfo
Virginia Hamilton
J.D. Salinger
Ellen Hopkins
Marjane Satrapi
Jane Austen
Norton Juster
August Wilson
Herman Melville
Oscar Wilde
Paul Zindel
Annie Dillard
John Bunyan
Astrid Ericsson Lindgren
Edgar Allan Poe
Albert Camus
Amy Sarig King
Vladimir Nabokov
Henry James
James Joyce
A.S. Byatt
Aidan Chambers
Graham Greene
Bryce Courtenay
John Irving
C.S. Lewis
Mark Twain
Niccolò Machiavelli
Shannon Hale
Aeschylus
Mark Twain
Adam Rapp
Dante Alighieri
Edgar Allan Poe
George Bernard Shaw
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Graham Greene
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Karel Čapek
John Updike
E.L. Doctorow
Vernor Vinge
J.D. Salinger
Lorraine Hansberry
O. Henry
Maggie Stiefvater
Daphne du Maurier
Stephen Crane
Dashiell Hammett
John Steinbeck
H.G. Wells
Ji Li Jiang
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
Catherine Jinks
William Faulkner
Kazuo Ishiguro
A. M. Jenkins
Plato
Vladimir Nabokov
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
J.R.R. Tolkien
Thomas Hardy
Christine Hinwood
Thomas Middleton, previously attributed to Cyril Tourneur
Ernest Hemingway
Marcus Sedgwick
Eugène Ionesco
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Rudyard Kipling
William L. Shirer
Stephen King
Richard Peck
Daniel Defoe
D. H. Lawrence
Mildred D. Taylor
Béroul
William Shakespeare
Virginia Woolf
E.M. Forster
Alex Haley
Peter Dickinson
William Faulkner
Tom Stoppard
Nancy Werlin
Amy Tan
Vladimir Nabokov
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Garth Nix
George Bernard Shaw
Oscar Wilde
John Milton
Patricia MacLachlan
Ingrid Law
James Hurst
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anton Chekhov
Joseph Conrad
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sue Monk Kidd
James Thurber
Jorge Luis Borges
Joseph Conrad
Richard Peck
Paul Fleischman
Saul Bellow
Jane Austen
Gustave Flaubert
John Knowles
Gregory David Roberts
Bobbie Ann Mason
Paolo Bacigalupi
Frances O'Roark Dowell
Ernest Hemingway
Hermann Hesse
Louis Sachar
Elizabeth George Speare
George Eliot
C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis
Gustave Flaubert
Anonymous
Theodore Dreiser
Brashares, Ann
Kathleen Duey
Jandy Nelson
Nick Hornby
Kurt Vonnegut
Jamaica Kincaid
David Guterson
Ezra Jack Keats
Stanislaw Lem
Patricia McCormick
Joseph Heller
Ray Bradbury
Unknown but perhaps contributed to or altered by Turoldus, the scribe of the Oxford Manuscript (c. 1140-70 C.E.)
Toni Morrison
James Baldwin
David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence
William Faulkner
Thomas Kyd
Vladimir Nabokov
Laurie Halse Anderson
Tim Tharp
Anne Fadiman
Laura Amy Schlitz
Vladimir Nabokov
Jerry Spinelli
An Na
Hermann Hesse
David Small
Lucy Christopher
Kate Chopin
Mohandas K. Gandhi, aka Mahatma Gandhi
Sara Zarr
Kate Chopin
Robert A. Heinlein
Albert Camus
Tennessee Williams
Tomie dePaola
Toni Morrison
Ernest Hemingway
Walter Dean Myers
Cormac McCarthy
Margaret Atwood
Sonya Hartnett
Primo Levi
Zora Neale Hurston
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Kate DiCamillo
Charles Dickens
Judy Blume
John Barnes
William Shakespeare
Edward Bloor
Toni Morrison
Faith Ringgold
Molière
Sharon M. Draper
J.D. Salinger
Edgar Allan Poe
William Shakespeare
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas Hardy
Sholem Aleichem
William Faulkner
Zora Neale Hurston
Meg Rosoff
Chinua Achebe
Andrew Clements
Tim O'Brien
Jay Asher
Tobias Wolff
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alexandre Dumas
Anton Chekhov
Sheila Turnage
Bertolt Brecht
Émile Zola
H.G. Wells
Gregory Benford
Günter Grass
William Shakespeare
Jack London
Harper Lee
Virginia Woolf
Henry Fielding
John Marsden
John Steinbeck
Ben Mikaelsen
John Steinbeck
Robert Louis Stevenson
Betty Smith
Franz Kafka
Susan Glaspell
Laurence Sterne
William Shakespeare
Henry Miller
Avi
Adam Rex
Sam Shepard
Sarah Dessen
Natalie Babbitt
Henry James
Jennifer L. Holm
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
J.R.R. Tolkien
Herman Melville
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Scott Westerfeld
James Joyce
Milan Kundera
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Anton Chekhov
Unknown Author
Joyce Maynard
Thomas More
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Ray Bradbury
Margery Williams
Gabriel García Márquez
E. L. Konigsburg
Arthur Miller
Mary Wollstonecraft
Jeffrey Eugenides
C.S. Lewis
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Samuel Beckett
Henry David Thoreau
Sharon Creech
Anthony Burgess
Leo Tolstoy
H.G. Wells
Alan Moore
Richard Adams
Christopher Paul Curtis
Todd Strasser
Virginia Woolf
Dan Millman
E. Lockhart
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Adam Smith
Terry Pratchett
Ellen Raskin
Lloyd Alexander
Sarah Dessen
Judy Blundell
Henry James
Raymond Carver
E. M. Forster
Joyce Carol Oates
John Corey Whaley
Wilson Rawls
Maurice Sendak
Geraldine McCaughrean
John Webster
Jack London
Sarah Orne Jewett
Don DeLillo
Zadie Smith
Edward Albee
Raymond Carver
Daniel Handler
Jean Rhys
Felice Holman
John Green and David Levithan
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry James
A. A. Milne
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Shakespeare
James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
Elizabeth George Speare
Roald Dahl
Maxine Hong Kingston
Susan Hill
Wilkie Collins
Marge Piercy
R.J. Palacio
L. Frank Baum
Eudora Welty
Madeleine L'Engle
Emily Brontë
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Richard Peck
Kevin Henkes
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Alice Walker
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Edward Albee