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  The Bluest Eye

  by Toni Morrison

  The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty.
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  Johnny Got His Gun

  by Dalton Trumbo

  Few American novels are genuine classics, with a permanent place in our literature. This is one of them. First published in 1939, the story of an average American youth who survives World War I with serious injuries was an immediate bestseller. Its anti-war message had a profound effect on Americans during the Vietnam era, and is now being reissued.