Recommended Reading Summer 2011

A Death in the Family by James Agee
An Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker
Cold Vengeance by Preston & Child
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Flannery O'Connor edited by Sarah Gordon
Folly by Susan Minot
How the Water Feels by Paul Eggers
How to be Good by Nick Hornby
Middlesex byJeffrey Eugenides
Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray
My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
Rumors of Rain by Andre Brink
Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingslover
The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum
The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day
The Client by John Grisham
The English Major by Jim Harrison
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
The Final Martyrs by Shusaku Endo
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
The Shining by Stephen King
The White Album by Joan Didion
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Summer 2011 Featured Book

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot

FOSL Recommended Classic Reading
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400 Years of American Literature Classics

The Best of 20th Century Southern Literature

The Best of African American Literature

Prominent Works of Ancient Greek Literature

Prominent Works of Ancient Roman/Latin Literature

European Literature Classics: 4th-18th Century

The Best of 19th Century European Literature

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Award Winning Literature

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Banned and Challenged Classics
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National Book Award Winners
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National Book Critics Circle Award
Winners & Honor Roll
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Nobel Laureates in Literature

Powell's Books Consolidated Index of
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Poetry    Drama   History   Biography/Autobiography  
   

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