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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

I, Too, Am America

The Waste Land

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

A Raisin in the Sun

A Doll's House

A Rose for Emily

Recitatif

Pygmalion

The Twits

The Red Wheelbarrow and Other Poems

Poetics

Leaves of Grass

The Thing Around Your Neck

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The Souls of Black Folk

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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

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The Scarlet Ibis

The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries #2)

I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself

The Unknown Citizen

Mending Wall

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business (Junie B. Jones, #2)

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Hills Like White Elephants