Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane (YA AUSTEN)
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the aristocratic suitor, Fitzwilliam Darcy, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray (YA BRADBURY)
A totalitarian regime has ordered all the books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit.

Jane Eyre
Bronte, Charlotte (YA BRONTE)
A Victorian Governess's love for her mysterious employer is threatened by a tragic secret in his mansion.

The Good Earth
Buck, Pearl S. (YA BUCK)
Wang Lung, a simple peasant farmer, grows rich with the help of his faithful wife. Tragedy follows as he betrays his family and neglects the earth he has worshipped.

Don Quixote
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (FIC CERVANTES)
The adventures of an eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion, who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil.

The Red Badge of Courage
Crane, Stephen (YA CRANE)
During his service in the Civil War a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel (YA DEFOE)
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.

Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles (YA DICKENS)
A young orphan, Pip, receives a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and travels to London in order to become “a gentleman.”

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir (YA DOYLE)
In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling and bizarre puzzles for him to solve.

The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre (YA DUMAS)
Sent to prison on a false accusation in 1815, Edmond Dantes escapes many years later and finds a treasure which he uses to exact his revenge.

The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (YA FITZGERALD)
A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married.

Lord of the Flies
Golding, William (YA GOLDING)
Thirty English schoolboys are stranded on an uninhabited island at the start of the “next” war. With no adults present, they quickly turn into savages.

The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (YA HAWTHORNE)
In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.

The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway, Ernest (YA HEMINGWAY)
Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who encounters a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream, and the battle for his catch becomes one of survival against a band of marauding sharks.

The Outsiders
Hinton, S.E. (YA HINTON)
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent’s death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor (YA HUGO)
Set in medieval Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.

Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous (YA HUXLEY)
Six hundred years into the future, humans are bred by cloning and “mother” and “father” are forbidden words.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Irving, Washington (YA IRVING)
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

A Separate Peace
Knowles, John (YA KNOWLES)
Against the backdrop of World War II, a conflict of loyalties between Gene and his fearless friend, Phineas, leads to tragedy.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Harper (YA LEE)
Two children in a small southern town are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father chooses to defend a black man unjustly accused of raping a white girl.

Call of the Wild
London, Jack (YA LONDON)
The story of Buck, who is a loyal family pet until cruel men forcibly take him to the Klondike gold fields, where he eventually becomes the leader of a ferocious wolf pack.

Moby Dick
Melville, Herman (YA MELVILLE)
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life — revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.

Death of a Salesman
Miller, Arthur (812 MIL)
An unsuccessful traveling salesman finally confronts, in his early sixties, his shattered dreams.

Animal Farm
Orwell, George (YA ORWELL)
Tired of their servitude to man, a group of farm animals revolt and establish their own society, only to be betrayed into worse servitude by their leaders, the pigs, whose slogan becomes: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

1984
Orwell, George (YA ORWELL)
A chilling portrait of a totalitarian society under the ever-watchful gaze of Big Brother—where love, individuality and privacy are banned.

Catcher in the Rye
Salinger, J. D. (YA SALINGER)
In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, 16-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City.

Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William (YA SHAKESPEARE)
A pair of young lovers are destroyed by the hatred of their rival families in what is perhaps the greatest tragic love story of all time.

Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (YA SHELLEY)
A monster, assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John (YA STEINBECK)
Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis (YA STEVENSON)
A kind and well respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation.

Dracula
Stoker, Bram (YA STOKER)
After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.

The Hobbit
Tolkien, J.R.R. (YA TOLKIEN)
Chronicles the adventures of the inhabitants of Middle-earth and Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit who brought home to The Shire the One Ring of Power.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark (YA TWAIN)
The adventures of a young boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi river together on a raft.

Around the World in 80 Days
Verne, Jules (YA VERNE)
An eccentric Englishman accepts a challenge to circle the globe with unprecedented speed in this fantastic blend of adventure, entertainment, and suspense.

The Time Machine
Wells, H. G. (YA WELLS)
A scientist invents a machine that transports him far into the future, where he discovers a changed world inhabited by two unusual races, the Eloi and the Morlocks.

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar (FIC WILDE)
An incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.

The Glass Menagerie
Williams, Tennessee (812.54 WIL 1999)
A strong willed woman attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life and personality of her shy, recluse daughter.