Books I've taught

this list includes books i've taught in courses since i began as a full-time college literature and film/video teacher in 1983. my predilection has always been to teach novels, long poems, feature films, and full seasons of television series. You know, long stuff.
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Absalom, Absalom (Faulkner)
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Air, or Have Not Have (Ryman)
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Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)
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All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare)
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The Ambassadors (James)
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The Amber Spyglass (Pullman)
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Ancillary Justice (Lecke)
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Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
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As You Like It (Shakespeare)
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Vargas Llosa)
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Barber of Seville & The Marriage Of Figaro (Beaumarchais)
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Beloved (Morrisson)
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Betrothed (Manzoni)
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The Birds (Aristophanes)
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Bleak House (Dickens)
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Blood Music Bear)
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The Bloody Chamber (Carter)
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The Bone People (Hulme)
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Camus stories (Camus)
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Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
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A Case of Conscience (Blish)
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The Castle (Kafka)
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The Centaur (Updike)
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The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare)
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The Conference of the Birds (Attar)
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Crash (Ballard)
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Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
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Dangerous Liaisons (Laclos)
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The Day Last More Than a Hundred Years (Aitmatov)
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The Diamond Age (Stephenson)
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Dien Cai Dau(Yusuf Komunyakaa)
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The Dispossessed (LeGuin)
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Distraction (Sterling)
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Dick)
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A Doll’s House (Ibsen)
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Don Quixote (Cervantes)
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Dr. Bloodmoney (Dick)
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Dr. jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)
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Dracula (Stoker)
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Duel (Chekhov)
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Earth Abides (Stewart)
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Edgar Allan Poe, Tales and Stories (Poe)
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El Senor Presidente (Asturias)
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Embassytown (Mieville)
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The Embedding (Watson)
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Emma (Austen)
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Ender’s Game (Card)
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The Epic of Sundiata
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Et tu, Babe (Leyner)
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The Farthest Shore (LeGuin)
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Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)
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The Female Man (Russ)
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Fiasco (Lem)
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The Fifth Season (Jemison)
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A Fire On the Deep (Vinge)
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Flatland (Abbott)
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Foe (Coetzee)
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Forever War (Haldeman)
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Frankenstein (Shelley)
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The Futurological Congress (Lem)
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Collected Stories
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Galatea 2.2 (Powers)
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Galaxy 999 (Leiji Matsumoto)
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The Gambler (Dostoyevsky)
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The German Ideology (Marx and Engels)
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God’s Bits of Wood (Sembene)
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Golden Ass (Apuleius)
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The Golden Compass (Pullman)
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Great Expectations (Dickens)
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Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)
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Hamlet (Shakespeare)
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Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
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The Heights of Macchu Picchu (Neruda)
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His Master’s Voice (Lem)
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A History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (de Lery)
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The Hobbit (Tolkien)
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The Hungry Tide (Ghosh)
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Hyperion (Simmons)
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The Idiot (Dostoyevsky)
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In the Arms of the Beloved (Rumi)
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Inferno (Dante)
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Interview with the Vampire (Rice)
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Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)
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The Iron Dragon’s Daughter (Swanwick)
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The Island of Doctor Moreau (Wells)
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The Italian (Radcliffe)
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Jane Eyre (C. Bronte)
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Jazz (Morrison)
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Joseph Andrews (Fielding)
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The Jungle Book (Kipling)
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The Kabir Book
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King Lear (Shakespeare)
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King Solomon's Mines (Haggard)
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Kiss of the Spider Woman (Puig)
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Kokoro (Soseki)
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Krik? Krak! (Danticat)
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The Left hand of Darkness (LeGuin)
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The Life and Loves of a She Devil (Weldon)
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Lost in the Funhouse (Barth)
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The Lost Steps (Carpentier)
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Love’s Labours Lost (Shakespeare)
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Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
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Macbeth (Shakespeare)
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Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
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The Maltese Falcon (Hammett)
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The Man in the High Castle (Dick)
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Man's Fate (Malraux)
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Mansfield Park (Austen)
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Maria or The Wrongs of Woman (Wollstonecraft)
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Measure for Measure (Shakespeare)
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Medea (Euripides)
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Menaechmi (Plautus)
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The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
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Michael Kohlhaas (Kleist)
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Micromégas (Voltaire)
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)
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The Misanthrope (Moliere)
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Moby Dick (Melville)
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The Monk (Lewis)
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Monkey (Wu)
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The Mount (Emshwiller)
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Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)
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My Soul to Keep (Due)
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Mythologies (Barthes)
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (Poe)
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Native Tongue (Elgin)
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Neuromancer (Gibson)
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Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell)
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Northanger Abbey (Austen)
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No Sweetness Here (Aidoo)
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Gaiman)
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The Odyssey (Homer)
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Omeros (Walcoot)
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On Lies Secrets and Silence (Rich)
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One Hundred Love Sonnets (Neruda)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez)
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Othello (Shakespeare)
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Our Mutual Friend (Dickens)
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Pale Fire (Nabokov)
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Tutuola)
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The Parable of the Sower (Butler)
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The Passion of New Eve (Carter)
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Pattern Recognition (Gibson)
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Perdido Street Station (Mieville)
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Permutation City (Egan)
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A Physician In Spite of Himself (Moliere)
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Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
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The Princess of Cleves (Lafayette)
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The Queen of Spades (Pushkin)
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The Radiance of the King (Laye)
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Ragtime (Doctorow)
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Ramayana (Valmiki)
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The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
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Red Mars (Robinson)
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The Return of the Native (Hardy)
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Riddley Walker (Hoban)
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Ring of Swords (Arnason)
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Roadside Picnic (B. & A. Strugatsky)
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Robinson Crusoe (Defoe)
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A Room of One's Own (Woolf)
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A Scanner Darkly (Dick)
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The Scar (Mieville)
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A Season of Migration to the North (Salih)
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The Satanic Verses (Rushdie)
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Secrets (Farrah)
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She (Haggard)
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Shikasta (Lessing)
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Silence (Endo)
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Sirius (Stapledon)
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Snow Crash (Stephenson)
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Solaris (Lem)
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The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)
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The Space Merchants (Kornbluth and Pohl)
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Stand on Zanzibar (Brunner)
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Star Maker (Stapledon)
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The Subtle Knife (Pullman)
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Symmetries (Valenzuela)
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The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)
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The Time Machine (Wells)
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Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
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The Three-Body Problem (Lu)
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Timescape (Benford)
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To the Lighthouse (Woolf)
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Tom Jones (Fielding)
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The Tombs of Atuan (LeGuin)
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Towing Jehovah (Morrow)
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Triton (Delany)
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Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Neruda)
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The Ugly Swans (B. & A. Strugatksy)
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Utopia (More)
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A Voyage to Arcturus (Lindsay)
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Vurt (Noon)
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Waiting for the Barbarians (Coetzee)
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War and Peace (Tolstoy)
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War of the Worlds (Wells)
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War With the Newts (Capek)
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Waverley (Scott)
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We (Zamyatin)
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Fowler)
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White Man's Grave (Dooling)
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White Noise (DeLillo)
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White Queen (Jones)
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Who Fears Death (Okorafor)
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Wild Seed (Butler)
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Wind-Up Girl (Bacigalupi)
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The Wizard of Earthsea (LeGuin)
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Woman at Point Zero (Al Sadaawi)
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Woman in the Dunes (Abe)
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Wuthering Heights (E. Bronte)
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig)