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Harry Potter: Book 2

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

by J. K. Rowling

Harry is tired of the summer holidays, and tired of the Dursleys. Just before the long anticipated term at Hogwarts, Harry receives a strange visitor, who tells him he must not go back to Hogwarts, because there will be great trouble for him if he does. Harry, dismayed, shocked, and surprised... (learn more about this book)

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, the author accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking... (learn more about this book)

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

Original title: "O Alquimista"

"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in... (learn more about this book)

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

The proud and wealthy Mr. Darcy and spirited Elizabeth Bennet dislike each other at first sight. While Elizabeth's mother schemes for suitable husbands for her five daughters, his pride and her prejudice just might keep them apart.

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond... (learn more about this book)

Millennium Trilogy: Book 1

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

The Industrialist

Henrik Vanger, head of the dynastic Vanger corporation, is tormented by the loss of his niece decades earlier and convinced that a member of his family has committed murder.

The Journalist

Mikael Blomkvist delves deep into the Vangers' past to uncover the... (learn more about this book)

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

The satirical, allegorical fable of a revolution being corrupted by a wicked, greedy dictator and the blind faith of ignorant citizens, destroying the possibility of a democracy. Written during the rise of the USSR in the WWII, this book is hailed as a classic due to its powerful message and... (learn more about this book)

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties in West Egg, Long Island, at a time... (learn more about this book)

The Help

by Kathryn Stockett

Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...

There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is... (learn more about this book)

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later attends a charity school with a harsh regime, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at... (learn more about this book)