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The World According to Garp

John Irving

Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down

John Steinbeck, James Earl Jones

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff

Red at the Bone

Jacqueline Woodson

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

Boy Erased

Garrard Conley

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

Priestdaddy

Patricia Lockwood

The Incendiaries

R. O. Kwon

Fences

August Wilson

Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya, Erika L. Sánchez, Rudolfo Anaya

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain, Coralie Bickford-Smith

The Awakening and Selected Stories

Kate Chopin, Claire Vaye Watkins

Lady Chatterley's Lover

D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer, John Worthen

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce, Langdon Hammer

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

Animal Farm

George Orwell, Ann Patchett, Tea Obreht

1984

George Orwell, Thomas Pynchon

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Malia, Stephen Kotkin

The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories

Jack London, Alex Kershaw, Tobey Hiller

The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin, Barbara H. Solomon

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Erin Morgenstern, Jeffrey Meyers

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair, Alicia Mischa Renfroe, Barry Sears

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Brenda Wineapple, Regina Barreca

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene, Joost Elffers

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Robert Mighall, Robert Mighall, Robert Mighall

Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Kostova, Guillermo del Toro, Charles E. Robinson

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis, Lydia Davis, Lydia Davis

At Penguin Random House, we believe in the right to freedom of expression and protecting writers against censorship. Reading is indispensable in having an informed, engaged democracy, and the dramatic rise in efforts to ban books in public schools and libraries—many of them by BIPOC or LGBTQ voices—threatens the advancement of our society and culture. For more resources on how to help, visit Penguin Random House's Banned Books Resources Hub.