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Toni Morrison, “Beloved”

September 11, 2019 Talia Buksbazen

Set in Ohio after the American Civil War, Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved is based on the true story…

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Anthony Burgess, “A Clockwork Orange”

Eliana Cohen

Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange paints a dystopian view of a world desensitized to violence. The book focuses…

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JK Rowling, The Harry Potter Series

Maddie Headrick

The Harry Potter series is a collection of seven books about a ‘wizarding’ world hidden in modern day Britain. The…

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Lois Lowry, “The Giver”

Arabella Reece

The acclaimed novel The Giver by Lois Lowry was first published in 1993 by Houghton Mifflin. This book tells the…

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Alice Walker, “The Color Purple”

Isabel Joyce

The Color Purple was first published in 1982 by Alice Walker. It tells the story of a poor, young, uneducated…

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Madeleine L’Engle, “A Wrinkle in Time”

September 10, 2019 Carolyn Ku

Madeleine L’Engle’s award winning children’s novel A Wrinkle in Time follows 13-year-old Meg Murry on her journey to rescue her…

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