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//Things Fall Apart // by **Chinua Achebe** //Half of a yellow sun//  by **Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie** //My father’s notebook// by **Kader Abdolah** //Brick lane//  **Monica Ali** //I’m not scared // **Niccolo Ammaniti** //The clan of the cave bear // **Jean M. Auel** //The boy who dared // **Susan Campbell Bartoletti** //Home boys // **Bernard Beckett** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//Three day road// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">by **Joseph Boyden** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Cry, Freedom: A Story of Friendship //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **John Briley** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Black Rabbit Summer //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **Kevin Brooks** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Kissing the rain //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Kevin Brooks ** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Lucas //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Kevin Brooks **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Kevin Brooks **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"> //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The road of the dead //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Kevin Brooks **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//The outsider// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">by **Albert Camus** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Street boys //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **Lorenzo Carcatera** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The last Masai Warrior //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **Frank Coates** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">A promised land? //**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Alan Collins ** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The power of one //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **Bryce Courtenay** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Christopher Paul Curtis ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//Amy Foster// From //Typhoon and other stories// by **Joseph Conrad** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//The inheritance of loss// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> by **Kiran Desai** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//Great expectations// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> by **Charles Dickens** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//Crime and punishment// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">by **Fyodor Dostoyevsky** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The shark net //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"> by **Robert Drew** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Zoo station by //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">**David Downing** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//The Horse whisperer// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> by **Nicholas Evans** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//Howards End// by **E.M. Forster** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Sparring with Shadows by //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">**Achimede Fusillo** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">A lesson before dying //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">By **Ernest J. Gaines** //North and south by// **Elizabeth Gaskell** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//Lord of the flies// by **William Golding** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The firm //by **John Grisham** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith //by **Thomas Keneally** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">A spot of bother //by **Mark Haddon** //Jude the obscure by// **Thomas Hardy** //The scarlet letter by// **Nathaniel Hawthorne** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The kite runner by //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">**Khaled Hosseini** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">A thousand splendid suns //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">**Khaled Hosseini** //Wolf totem by// **Rong Jiang** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Let one hundred flowers bloom //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **Feng Jicai** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//Mister Pip// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">by **Lloyd Jones** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//Spiral road// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">by **Adib Khan** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//The Poisonwood Bible// by **Barbara Kingsolver** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//I know this much is true// by **Wally Lamb** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">American youth //by **Phil LaMarche** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The boat //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **Nam Le** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Looking for Alibrandi //by **Melina Marchetta** //Birdwing// by **Rafe Martin** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The fall //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **Simon Mawer** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//The Heart is a Lonely Hunter// by **Carson McCullers** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Saturday //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"> by **Ian McEwan** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">No Other Life //by **Brian Moore** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Cricket kings //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **William McInnes** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Twilight series //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **Stephanie Meyer** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//This rock: a novel// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">by **Robert Morgan** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Monster //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Walter **Dean Myers** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//The Time Traveler's Wife// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> by **Audrey Niffenegger** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The December boys //by **Michael Noonan** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Outcast //by **Michelle Paver** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The pact //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **Jodi Picoult** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">My name is Ashev Lev //by **Chaim Potok** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//Wide Sargasso Sea// by **Jean Rhys** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Ali and Nino //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">By **Kurban Said** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The pure land //by **Alan Spence** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//Perfume: the story of a murderer// by **Patrick Suskind** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">//Exodus// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">by **Leon Uris** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The book thief //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">by **Marcus Zusak**

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