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Fiction Title Author Date
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1984 Orwell, George 1949
    The classic dystopian novel of a future society in which Big Brother is always w....
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Alexandria Quartet, The Durrell, Laurence 1957-1960
    The intertwined lives of a cosmopolitan group of people living in Alexandria, Eg....
Always Coming Home Le Guin, Ursula K. 1985
    Set approximately 10,000 years in the future in what used to be California, a gr....
American Tragedy, An Dreiser, Theodore 1925
    Based on a true story, this lengthy novel looks at social class, capitalism, ind....
Amos and Boris Steig, William 1971
    Wonderful children's book about a whale and a mouse finding unity in being mamma....
And Then There Were None Christie, Agatha 1939
    Ten strangers on a small island must come together before it is too late as, one....
Animal Farm Orwell, George 1945
    The major figures of the early Soviet Union are represented by animals in this s....
Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, Lucy Maud 1908
    An orphaned girl tries to fit into a small town community on Prince Edward's Isl....
Ant and the Elephant, The Peet, Bill 1972
    Well-told children's book about how an elephant befriending an ant surprisingly ....
Anthem Rand, Ayn 1938
    Equality 7-2521 lives in a world of no industry or technology, in which everyone....
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Richler, Mordecai 1959
    Growing up and learning how to hustle, survive, and thrive before World War II i....
As for Me and My House Ross, Sinclair 1941
    Uses the bleak Depression-era Canadian prairie to portray a story of isolation, ....
Asterix series Goscinny, René ...et al 1959-
    This series of comics about Roman-era Gauls who resist the invading armies of Ju....
At Home in Mitford Karon, Janet 1994
    The first book in a popular series about the residents of the fictional town of ....
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Babbitt Lewis, Sinclair 1922
    The story of George F. Babbitt, a conformist who will challenge society's expect....
Barchester Towers Trollope, Anthony 1857
    Key novel in Trollope's Barsetshire chronicles, the stories of life in an Englis....
Bell for Adano, A Hersey, John 1944
    U.S. soldiers occupy and administer an Italian town. The major in charge wins ov....
Best of Sholem Aleichem, The Aleichem, Sholem ...et al 1980
    Tales of the shtetlPolish Jewish ghetto before World War I and before the Hol....
Bonfire of the Vanities, The Wolfe, Tom 1987
    An arrogant investment banker living in Manhattan, New York City, makes a wrong ....
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous 1932
    The story of one man's struggle with a future society based on technology, in wh....
Buddha of Suburbia, The Kureishi, Hanif 1990
    An young man of Indian-English descent leaves the suburbs for city life in Londo....
Butter Battle Book, The Seuss, Dr. 1984
    Two communities battle over which side their bread should be buttered.
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Caine Mutiny, The Wouk, Herman 1951
    This novel about a mutiny aboard a U.S. naval vessel in World War II (later made....
Call It Sleep Roth, Henry 1934
    The community, just before World War I, of the poor Jewish tenement area of the ....
Call of the Wild, The London, Jack 1903
    Stolen from the home in which he lives, Buck is forced into service as a sled do....
Canterbury Tales, The Chaucer, Geoffrey 1385-1400
    A collection of tales told by a group of travellers as they make their pilgrimag....
Canticle for Liebowitz, A Miller, Walter 1959
    Monastic life described in the post-Holocaust United States, in which the sacred....
Carrie King, Stephen 1974
    Small-town New England as it really was: terrifying, not quaint or cozy.
Catch-22 Heller, Joseph 1961
    A network of airmen and their girlfriends in Italy forms a community that compri....
Catch-22 Heller, Joseph 1961
    Darkly comic novel about Captain John Yossarian and his U.S. Army Air Corps comm....
Changing Places Lodge, David 1975
    Two fish out of water: A Midlands English and a West Coast American professor sw....
Charge of the Light Brigade, The Lord Tennyson, Alfred 1864
    Six hundred soldiers are immortalized after a historic and heroic battle. As a u....
Chronicle in Stone [Kronike ne Gur] Kadare, Ismail 1985, 1987
    Life in an Albanian villagebefore, during and after World War II.
Chrysalids, The Wyndham, John 1955
    Set years after a nuclear war has rendered much of the world uninhabitable, this....
Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean 1984
    A novel depicting prehistoric human communities, among Neanderthals in southern ....
Clockwork Orange, A Burgess, Anthony 1962
    A gang of violent youth run amok in a slightly futuristic England. The leader of....
Color Purple, The Walker, Alice 1982
    African-American woman growing up in the Deep South experiences segregation, lov....
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A Twain, Mark 1889
    The tale of a nineteenth-century American transported to sixth-century England, ....
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Daughters of Earth Merril, Judith 1985
    Communities of the future in this science-fiction collection, notable for their ....
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles
    This like all of Dickens' novels immerses readers in the communities of Victoria....
Day of the Locust, The West, Nathanael 1939
    The seedy underside of Hollywood is exposed in the network of characters depicte....
Dhalgren Delaney, Samuel R. 1975
    Community has largely been lost in the post-apocalyptic city of Bellona. Yet sma....
Dispossessed, The LeGuin, Ursula K. 1974
    This science fiction novel compares community in two worlds: an anarchic utopia ....
Diviners, The Laurence, Margaret 1974
    Morag Gunn faces survival and small town life on the Canadian prairies.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dick, Philip K. 1968
    A Japanese-influenced, neon and grunge California society in which people and hi....
Donna Flor and Her Two Husbands [Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos] Amado, Jorge 1969
    One of several novels by this author depicting life in a small Brazilian city be....
Down and Out in London and Paris Orwell, George 1933
    Street life, poverty, and homelessness in London and Paris; largely based on per....
Dune Herbert, Frank 1965
    In this science-fiction novel, desert people, the Freman, survive (and conserve ....
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Empire Falls Russo, Richard 2001
    With his protagonist, Miles Roby, Russo explores the power struggles and shared ....
Engineer of Human Souls, The Skvorecky, Josef 1977
    Young men growing up and meeting jazz and women in Czechslovakia under totalitar....
Erewhon Butler, Samuel 1872
    A communal utopia described.
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Fanny Jong, Erica 1980
    Ribald novel of an entrepreneurial English woman making merry with men. Set in e....
Farewell Anatolia Sotiriou, Dido 1962
    Biographical novel in which the author recounts her childhood in the village of ....
Flesh and Gold Gotlieb, Phyllis 1998
    One of the best novels to portray interspecies community, coupled to an intrigui....
Four-Gated City, The Lessing, Doris 1969
    Friendship community in London before and after the coming apocalypse.
Frog and Toad series Lobel, Arnold 1970-1979
    Wonderful series of four books for children (each with five separate stories) sh....
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Garlic Ballads, The Yan, Mo 1995
    Chinese peasants stage protest an official's decision not to buy any more garlic....
Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie Rolvaag, Ole Edvart 1924-1925
    First published as two books, it later became the first in a trilogy that treat ....
Giver, The Lowry, Lois 1993
    A boy who lives in a "perfect" community discovers the wonder of what life used ....
Golden Gate, The Seth, Vikram 1986
    A novel of San Francisco just before the AIDs epidemic, written entirely in vers....
Gone with the Wind Mitchell, Margaret 1936
    The basis for the famous movie, this novel tells of plantation life in the South....
Gone with the Wind Mitchell, Margaret 1936
    An epic novel turned into a sweeping film, the story of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhet....
Grapes of Wrath, The Steinbeck, John 1939
    Poor farmers in Oklahoma are forced off their land by bankers, the Depression an....
Group, The McCarthy, Mary 1963
    Eight Vassar College women graduate and support and fight with each other over t....
Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan 1726
    During his four voyages, Lemuel Gulliver visits a number of different societies,....
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Handmaid's Tale, The Atwood, Margaret 1985
    A fictional tale of the possible near future in the U.S. about communities where....
Hard Times Dickens, Charles 1854
    Even more than Dickens' novels set in London, this is about place and community,....
Harry Potter Series Rowling, J.K. 1997-
    Community among magic-endowed young wizards, mostly isolated from "Muggles" (ord....
Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The McCullers, Carson 1940
    Set in a small Southern town, the book tells the intertwined stories of several ....
Henry Huggins series Cleary, Beverly 1950-1962
    The adventures of Henry Huggins, who figures heavily in his neighborhood, as he ....
Herland Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1915
    Three male explorers stumble upon a society that is made up entirely of women.
High Rise Ballard, J.G. 1975
    This science-fictionish novel portrays the apocalyptic loss of community in a 40....
House of Mirth, The Wharton, Edith 1905
    Wealthy society in New York at the end of the nineteenth century. Amidst a backd....
House of the Spirits, The [Casa de los Espiritus] Allende, Isabel 1982
    Saga of Chilean community and family life, before and during the authoritarian-m....
Human Comedy, The Saroyan, William 1943
    This novel (and later film) of life in a small town during World War II centers ....
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I Don't Know How She Does It Pearson, Allison 2002
    Popular working mother novel that is all too revealing about contemporary human ....
I, Claudius Graves, Robert 1934
    Treats the ruling elite of the early Roman Empire (10 CE54 CE) as a community....
Iliad, The , Homer c. 700 BCE
    Life, love, jealousy and dealth among Greek and Trojan warriors. Focuses on male....
Instance of the Fingerpost, An Pears, Iain 1998
    A mystery novel set in seventeenth-century Oxford, England, that vividly portray....
Invisible Cities Calvino, Italo 1974
    In this fantasy, Marco Polo creates surreal stories about the cities in Kublai K....
Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph 1952
    Coming to terms with racism, community, and politics in Harlem and the Deep Sout....
Ironweed Kennedy, William 1983
    The laborers, bums, and well-to-do of Depression-era Albany, New York, are the ....
Island Huxley, Aldous 1962
    From the author of Brave New World, a vision of a utopian community on an isolat....
It Can't Happen Here Lewis, Sinclair 1935
    A tale of dictatorship, censorship, and resistance that, through the eyes of a s....
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Jolly Postman, The Ahlberg, Janet ...et al 1986
    A children's book about a postman who delivers letters between the characters an....
Joy Luck Club, The Tan, Amy 1989
    Intergenerational differences in the Chinese-American community are revealed in ....
Jungle Book, The Kipling, Rudyard 1894
    A collection of stories about jungle life, centered around a boy raised by the a....
Jury of Her Peers, A Glaspell, Susan 1917
    Set in rural Iowa in the early 1900s, two women hide the evidence of a neighbor'....
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Katie Morag series Hedderwick, Mairi 1984-
    A series of children's books about Katie Morag, whose parents own the general st....
King Rat Clavell, James 1962
    The British and American prisoners interned by the Japanese during World War II ....
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Landsmen, The Martin, Peter 1952
    Interconnected stories of the village of Golinsk, near Minsk (Byelorussia) at th....
Last Hurrah, The O'Connor, Edwin 1956
    A novel of Boston urban politics, focusing on how the deals and operations of an....
Last of the Mohicans, The Cooper, James Fenimore 1826
    Behind the simple adventure story, the book also tells the tale of the European ....
Left Hand of Darkness, The LeGuin, Ursula K. 1969
    Almost all species on earth are binary: male and female. This science fiction no....
Loitering With Intent Spark, Muriel 1981
    Members of the Autobiographical Association come together to write their memoirs....
Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985
    A detailed depiction of the waning days of the American West as cowboy country. ....
Looking Backward Bellamy, Edward 1888
    Bellamy's depiction of Boston in the year 2000. Under the auspices of the Indust....
Lord of the Flies Golding, William 1954
    The story of a group of English schoolboys stranded on a desert island. An initi....
Lord of the Rings, The Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954-1955
    Seventeen years after The Hobbit, Tolkien published the first two volumes of his....
Lost Horizon Hilton, James 1933
    After a plane crash in Tibet, a British diplomat and his fellow passengers find ....
Lottery, The Jackson, Shirley 1948
    The downside of community is depicted in this tale of a village ritual.
Luke and the Van Zandt County War Alter, Judith MacBain 1984
    Residents of Van Zandt County, Texas, push for secession from the state and fede....
Lure, The Picano, Felice 1979
    A murder mystery set in the milieu of New York City's gay community, pre-AIDS.
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Main Street Lewis, Sinclair 1920
    Carol Kendicott arrives in the small town home of her new husband and resolves t....
Mammoth Hunters, The Auel, Jean 1985
    Community among early homo sapiens in Ice Age Europe.
Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The Twain, Mark 1899
    A town's honesty and moral incorruptability is put to the test.
Masters, The Snow, C.P.
    Intrigue and community among the senior academics at a Cambridge University coll....
Mating Rush, Norman 1991
    Community life in Botswana is affected when a young American woman anthropologis....
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The Pyle, Howard 1883
    The classic story of Robin Hood and his Merry Men. A band of outlaws takes actio....
Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995
    The community of software hackers and Internet entrepeneurs: at Microsoft and th....
Middlemarch Eliot, George 1871-1872
    One of the greatest novels of interpersonal community and support every written.
Midnight's Children Rushdie, Salman 1981
    Community life in India during the 1940s (with flashbacks), set in the context o....
Midwich Cuckoos, The Wyndham, John 1957
    A quiet English village is transformed when the town's women become pregnant on ....
Moo Smiley, Jane 1995
    Rivalry, ambition, and love in a Midwestern college.
Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Heinlein, Robert 1966
    A science fiction tale, set on the moon colony, that presents a number of diffe....
Mr Midshipman Hornblower Forester, C. S. 1950
    Chronologically the first in a series that detailed hierarchical community among....
Mrs. Miniver Struther, Jan 1939
    The heroine of this novel (later a film), a British wife and mother deeply invol....
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Naked and the Dead, The Mailer, Norman 1948
    A classic novel of men forming a community in a combat platoon. Set during the U....
Naked Sun, The Asimov, Issac 1957
    The norm on the planet Solaria is that no one ever has in-person contact. All co....
Name of the Rose, The Eco, Umberto 1980
    Community in a monastery, but who is killing the monks? Along the voyage of disc....
Native Son Wright, Richard 1940
    Race relations and conflict in Chicago come to the surface when a black man kill....
Neuromancer Gibson, William 1984
    The science-fiction novel that developed the term cyberspace and showed what it ....
New Atlantis Bacon, Francis 1627
    On an island in the South Sea, a group of lost soldiers discover an ideal societ....
News from Nowhere Morris, William 1890
    In the Middle Ages, the inhabitants of a socialist community live in a society b....
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids Oe, Kenzaburo 1958
    Boys from a reform school are evacuated to a remote village during wartime. When....
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O Pioneers Cather, Willa 1913
    This story of a pioneer woman and her family in late-nineteenth-century Nebraska....
Obasan Kogawa, Joy 1981
    It's World War II, and Japanese Canadians have been forcibly moved from their Br....
Old Neighborhood, The Corman, Avery 1981
    A successful middle-aged professional working in Manhattan, New York City, has a....
On the Road Kerouac, Jack 1958
    The author and "Dean Moriarty" travel across the U.S. in the time before interst....
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kesey, Ken 1962
    Goffman did the asylum as community wondrously, but Kesey did it better still.
One Hundred Years of Solitude [Cien Anos de Soledad] Garcia Marquez, Gabriel 1967
    An epic, somewhat fantasical tale of how a Colombian community experiences a cen....
Outsiders, The Hinton, S.E. 1967
    The portrayl of Poneyboy Curtiss, a teenage boy being raised by his older brothe....
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Pandora Fraser, Sylvia 1972
    One of the few books that successfully portrays the community of small children,....
Passage to India, A Forster, E. M. 1924
    Colonial India in the 1920s is the setting for this book about the life of middl....
Pattern Recognition Gibson, William 2003
    The heroine is part of an Internet discussion community that strives to find mea....
Peanuts Schulz, Charles 1950-2000
    Community, support, conflict, loneliness, love, ambition, and defeat all seen....
Peyton Place Metalious, Grace 1956
    An eye-opener for those nostalgic pastoralists who believe that small towns are ....
Planet of the Apes [La Planete des Singes] Boulle, Pierre 1963
    Before any of the movies, Planet of the Apes was La Planete des Singes, a short ....
Player Piano Vonnegut, Kurt 1952
    Vonnegut's take on the "one man rebels against a technocratic future society" th....
Poor White Anderson, Sherwood 1920
    Aa agrarian community is transformed by the time- and labor-saving inventions o....
Prospering, The Speare, Elizabeth George 1967
    Five families move to western Massachusetts and attempt to develop a town by liv....
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Quaker City, The Lippard, George 1846
    A neglected American classic, and a searing portrait of American upper-class lif....
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Rabbit Novels Updike, John 1960-1990
    Over the years, through the four books, we see a small Pennsylvania city progres....
Red Sorghum [Hong gao liang] Yan, Mo 1986
    The community at a sorghum winery in 1930s China rises up to resist the invasion....
Red Tent, The Diamant, Anita 1997
    Focusing on Dinah, daughter of Jacob and a minor figure in the book of Genesis, ....
Remedy for Treason Roe, Caroline 1998
    The first (and arguably the best) of a series of murder mysteries set in the Jew....
Remembrance of Things Past [A la Rechereche du Temps Perdu] Proust, Marcel 1913-1927
    A Parisian moves among friends and relatives, past and present. A splendid evoca....
Republic, The , Plato c. 1340 BC
    A philosophical treatise and a work of literature, The Republic deals with eleme....
Return to Laughter Bowen, Elenore Smith 1964
    A fictionalized account of an anthropologist doing field work in West Africa, de....
Richard Corey Robinson, Edward Arlington 1897
    Social class, and social envy, as "the people on the pavement" watch the wealthy....
Rite of Passage Panshin, Alexei 1968
    A fully-contained community-civilization exists on a huge space ship that travel....
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Samurai of Gold Hill Uchida, Yoshiko 1972
    Nineteenth-century Japanese immigrants to the United States establish a colony i....
Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane 1811
    As in all of Jane Austen's novels, this finely portrays the intertwining of elit....
Smiley's People Le Carre, John 1980
    The culmination of Le Carre's series of novels about the British secret service ....
Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David 1995
    An island community in Puget Sound during the 1950s, haunted by the incarceratio....
Snowcrash Stephenson, Neal 1992
    This science-fiction novel shows a world linked by the Internet, with people hud....
Sometimes a Great Notion Kesey, Ken 1964
    Hippies find community and use psychedlic drugs in 1950s Oregon. A celebration o....
Spire, The Golding, William 1964
    The story of the construction of a cathedral spire, the dream of one man, but th....
Spoon River Anthology Masters, Edgar Lee 1916
    In a collection of post-mortem autobiographical "epitaphs," former citizens of t....
St. Urbain's Horseman Richler, Mordecai 1966
    Comic and serious novel of community and growing up among the Jewish minority in....
Stand, The King, Stephen 1978,1990
    Republished 12 years after the original with the restoration of hundreds of page....
Stones for Ibarra Doerr, Harriet 1984
    Two Americans begin a life among the people of a remote Mexican village to reope....
Stones from the River Hegi, Ursula 1994
    Communities in a small German town during the Weimar and Nazi eras, as seen thro....
Story of a Country Town Howe, Edgar Watson 1885
    One of the first realistic novels of small-town life in the American midwest, in....
Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein, Robert 1961
    Valentine Michael Smith, offspring of the first manned mission to Mars, but rais....
Suitable Boy, A Seth, Vikram 1993
    Set in recent India, a novel of community networks, with a modern young woman's ....
Summer of My German Soldier Greene, Bette 1973
    A young Jewish girl in Arkansas harbors a German who has escaped from a local pr....
Sun Also Rises, The Hemingway, Ernest 1926
    A group of American expatriates during the 1920s drink their way from France to ....
Sweet Hereafter. The Banks, Russell 1991
    A small town in the Adirondacks is transformed as its inhabitants try to come to....
Swimmy Lionni, Leo 1973
    Colorful children's story about how Swimmy get together lots of small fish scare....
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Tale of Two Cities, A Dickens, Charles 1859
    The development of revolutionary fervor, and the conflicts it creates in an impo....
Tales of the City Maupin, Armistead 1976
    Supportive networks linking homosexual and heterosexual friends in San Francisco....
Taps Morris, Willie 2001
    A portrait of 1950s Mississippi as seen through the eyes of Swayze Barksdale, a ....
Territory, The Kuvayev, Oleg 1982
    Geological exploration workers in an isolated Siberian wilderness work together ....
Things Fall Apart Achebe, Chinua 1958
    A latter-day version of the transition from gemeinschaft to gesellschaft, with a....
Time Machine, The Wells, H. G. 1895
    Many, many years in the future, a time traveller discovers two distinct societie....
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper 1960
    In a rural Southern town, a young girl experiences the prejudices of the local c....
Tom Jones Fielding, Henry 1749
    Life, lust, love, crime, and community in the countryside and big city (London) ....
Tom Sawyer Twain, Mark
    Community in pre-Civil War Missouri, as seen through the eyes of a young boy and....
Tropic of Cancer Miller, Henry 1934
    This erotic novel portrays the intertwined lives of American expatriate intellec....
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Ulysses Joyce, James 1922
    Dubliners in the early twentieth century in this rich, but difficult-to-read nov....
Utopia More, Thomas 1516
    The classic work about an ideal society; so influential that its name entered th....
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Walden Two Skinner, B.F. 1962
    A famous behavioral scientist describes a fictional utopia based on positive ope....
Walk the World's Rim Baker, Betty 1965
    In the sixteenth century, four survivors of a Spanish expeditionthree Spaniar....
Wall, The Hersey, John 1950
    Rich depiction of the Jewish community of the Warsaw Ghetto, under siege by the ....
War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo 1869
    War and peace and community, set around the time of the Napoleonic invasion of R....
War of the Worlds, The Wells, H. G. 1898
    Humanity must come together to face hostile invaders from another planet.
Watership Down Adams, Richard 1972
    A warren of rabbits flee the imminent destruction of their home and search for a....
Wave, The Rhue, Morton 1981
    A teacher's experiment with the forces of social exclusion and group identity cr....
Where The Heart is Letts, Billie 1995
    The story of Novalee Nation, a pregant 17-year-old who stows away for months in ....
Wind in the Willows, The Grahame, Kenneth 1908
    The community of animals from many different species, who live along the banks o....
Winesburg, Ohio Anderson, Sherwood 1919
    A tender evocation of lives of quiet desperation in a midwestern small-town.
Winnie-the-Pooh Milne, A. A. 1926
    The adventures of a community of animals (and one human) who inhabit the Hundred....
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Young Goodman Brown Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1835
    When Goodman Brown ventures from his village into the neighboring woods, he enco....


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